Style-creating means of artistic expressiveness

The style of fiction has its own specifics. It serves the emotional and aesthetic field of the personality. The main properties of the artistic style are:

A) aesthetic;

B) influence on emotions: with the help of artistic images, the feelings and thoughts of the readers are affected;

C) communicative: the ability to evoke a response in the mind of the reader, through which thoughts are transferred from one person to another.

Styling elements in literary works often are means of artistic expressiveness. They are many and they are diverse. Often they serve to enhance the expressiveness and imagery of the text.

Means of artistic expressiveness are divided into lexical or general means, on paths and on syntactic constructions or figures of speech.

To lexical or general means are: antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, paronyms. It is impossible to distinguish one style of fiction from another without such lexical elements as dialectisms, jargon, professionalisms, terms. Actively involved in the creation of styles are also neologisms and archaisms, borrowings and phraseological units, bookish, common and expressive and emotional vocabulary.

Trails are words and lexical constructions that are used figuratively to achieve artistic effect and create an image. The mechanism of influence of tropes is based on the correlation of two concepts having different semantic plans. Two values acquire a new implementation, for example, the literal meaning is compared with the allegorical, situational, referring only to this situation. The image is created by shifting in the meaning of the word - from the general language (direct) to the portable, figurative value, which allows to increase the significance, to strengthen the expressiveness and representativeness of the text.

In other words, trails are means of artistic expressiveness that can enhance the image's visual properties. They allow you to clearly convey visibility, depicting an object or phenomenon, and thus affect the feelings, causing emotions. At the same time, the question inevitably arises: are all words can be paths? Any words possessing such qualities as imagery, ambiguity or two-dimensionality and expressiveness, can act as paths.

How many tropes should be in the literary text? It is believed that an artistic text in which there are no trails (it is called autologous) is opposed to a text that is saturated with them (meta-logical).

The trails include comparisons, metaphors and metonymy, as well as personifications, synecdotes, paraphrases, epithets, hyperbolas and oxymorons. The authors also use grotesque, pathos, irony, paradox and litoto.

Syntactic figures authors use when they want to highlight, emphasize, oppose or strengthen the impression. These include: the antithesis, gradation, repetition, period, anaphora, epiphany and hypophore, as well as rhetorical constructions: exclamation, question and treatment. In addition, means of artistic expressiveness include allegory and parcellation, polysyndeton and asyndeton, ellipsis and silence, grotesque and pathos.

As for the style-forming features of the artistic style, they include a figurative image of reality, the artistic specifics of the author's intention, expressed through a system of images, expressiveness, emotionality and appraisal. Individual author's handwriting and speech characteristics of characters are also mandatory.

It should be noted that the theme of the work of art dictates and limits the use of linguistic means, subordinating their choice to the author's intention and including them in the system of images.