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Literary Devices in Pride and Prejudice
Bishkek Humanities University named after K. Karasaev
The Faculty of European Civilizations
The English Language Department

“Peculiarities of the Lexical Stylistic devices
(Metaphor, metonymy, irony, simile, epithet) in the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen”

DIPLOMA PAPER

Scientific Supervisor:
E. B. Jumakeeva
Done by:
Satarova Rahat, group: A08-2

Contents: Pages:
Introduction
Chapter I. General survey of Stylistic Devices
I.1 Historical background of Style and Stylistics Devices
I.2 Types of Stylistic Devices

Chapter II. Peculiarities of the lexical Stylistic devices (metaphor, metonymy, irony, simile, epithet) in the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

II. 1. The use of Irony in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”
II. 2. The use of Hyperbole in the novel ‘”Pride and Prejudice”
II. 3. The use of Metonymy in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”
II. 4. The use of Simile in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”
II. 5. The use of Repetition in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”
II. 6. The use of Metaphor in the novel “Pride and Prejudice”

Conclusion
Bibliography

Introduction
The literature is immortal.
We learn English and English literature to get to know more about English people, their culture, traditions and values. And to enlarge our background and moral values and principles we read books of not only the English or Russian greatest writers but American writers as well. Any language plays a great role in the life of society and the problems existing in the languages still preserve attention of different psychologists, ethno graphs, linguists and grammarians. Society’s need in communication and science, the development of linguistics and that change that occurred in men’s life have led to the progress in the usage of language, in particular the English language. As a result, it became an international language and

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