Stylistic devices based on the syntactic peculiarities of the spoken language (ellipsis, aposiopesis)

_Ellipsis

_{Ellipsis is a typical phenomenon in conversation, arising out of the situation.}

_{But this typical feature of the spoken language assumes a new quality when used in the written language. Itbecomes a stylistic device in as much as it supplies}

_information.

_{An elliptical sentence in direct intercourse is not a stylistic device. It is simply a norm of the spoken language.}

_{Ellipsis, when used as a stylistic device, always imitates the common features of colloquial language, where the situation predetermines not the omission of but their absence. It would perhaps be adequate to call sentences lacking certain members "incomplete-sentences", leaving the term ellipsis to specify structures where we recognize a digression from the traditional literary sentence structure.}

_{However, when the reader encounters such structures in literary texts, even though they aim at representing the lively norms of the spoken, language, he is apt to regard them as bearing some definite stylistic function. This is due to a psychological effect produced by the relative rarity of the construction, on the one hand, and the non-expectancy of any strikingly colloquial expression in literary narrative.}

_{It must be repeated here that the most characteristic feature of the written variety of language is amplification, which by. its very nature is opposite to ellipsis. Amplification generally demands expansion of the ideas with as full and as exact relations between the parts of the utterance as possible. Ellipsis, on the contrary, being the property of colloquial language, does not express what can easily be supplied by the situation. This is perhaps the reason that elliptical sentences are rarely used as stylistic devices. Sometimes the omission of a link-verb adds emotional colouring and makes the sentence sound more emphatic}

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