Types of rhetorical figures in modern church epistles
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- Volgograd State University
Abstract
In this article the rhetorical figures used in modern church epistles are considered on the material of the texts of modern church epistles. It is revealed that rhetorical figures are used to the greatest extent within the framework of the edifying and interpreting part of spiritual epistles. The types of rhetorical figures functioning in church epistles have been established: lexical repetitions, syntactic parallelism, antithesis, comparisons. It is determined that the functional features of rhetorical figures consist in strengthening the expressiveness of certain provisions of the message of the church hierarchy, in creating an emotional mood in the readers.
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(Archived) Rhetorical classics and the contemporary status of rhetoric
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