repetition

The article deals with the study of the narrative aspect of the cycle of stories by A. Slapovsky Foggy Alleys. The author uses narratological method of analysis developed by the Russian and foreign specialists in literature. The research is aimed at studing different types of narrators in A. Slapovsky’s cycle. The typology is based on the binary opposition: there are non-diegetic and diegetic narrators in the cycle. The non-diegetic narrator of A. Slapovsky’s stories is characterized by implicitness, by the focus on the character’s point of view.

The article addresses rhetorical devices used by F. D. Roosevelt in his public speeches: antitheses and their role in creating contrast, the device of repetition as a means of enhancing logical and emotional impact on the listeners, question and answer speech structure, its meaning and expressive functions.