LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES

Abstract

One kind of designating phenomenon that contributes to the creation of extra expressive, subjective, and evaluative meanings is the lexical stylistic device. In actuality, we deal with the deliberate replacement of the names that are currently in use, accepted by extensive usage, and established in dictionaries, motivated by the speaker's subjective initial assessment and opinion of the matter. Every kind of deliberate replacement produces a trope, which is another term for a stylistic device.  This process of replacing one object with another is called transference; it arises from the similarity (of form, color, function, etc.) or proximity (of material existence, cause/effect, instrument/result, part/whole relations, etc.) of the two objects.