STYLISTIC FIGURES AS MEANS OF LOGICAL ALLOCATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE TEXT IN THE ORATORICAL DISCOURSE OF ANCIENT GREEK

Abstract

The article deals with the most used stylistic figures in the language of political speeches of the famous ancient Greek speaker Demosthenes. The article reviews the frequency of usage of different stylistic figures: parallelism, ellipsis, rhetorical appeal, rhetorical question, repetition, pleonasm, alliteration, assonance, asyndeton and polysyndeton. It has been determined that stylistic figures are important means of stylistic expressiveness and emotionality of oratory discourse.