On Stylistic Values o f the Aprosdoketon Structures
Miloš Kovačević
Abstract
The Greek term a p rosdoketon has as original meaning a „sudden, surprising realization o f some element in the utterance.” Few authors that use this term consider it to be synonymous with the term paradox. Are there any aprosdoketon utterances that are not paradox at the same time? That’s the question to be answered here. There is an affirmative answer to this question in this paper. Having performed a linguostylistic analysis of a type of entertaining and humoruos poems and naming them erotic betrayals -th e author concludes it is their structure that the term aprosdoketon is most suitable for. Erotic betrayals are most frequently found in the form of distich or quatrain, and their dominant feature, to which all other elements o f the poem are subordinated, is the unfulfilled expectation o f the realization o f the lascivious erotic lexeme in the final position o f the last line. Erotic betrayals represent the most unfulfilled expectation. It is the erotic betrayals that the author considers to be the aprosdoketon structures par exellence thusallowing the term aprosdoketon to become different from paradox by getting its independant place in the system o f terms in linguostylistics.
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