Methodology of Investigation of the English Fanfiction

plete classification of tropes and figures of speech but even nowadays this classification remains the most controversial stylistic issue [16].Tropes are such figurative usage of word as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, irony, periphrasis, etc. Figures of speech are such syntactic structures as inversion, rhetoric question, parallel constructions, contrast, etc [8].Conclusion.Perspectives for further investigations.The term style is widely used in literature to signify literary genre: the style of classicism, realistic style, the style of romanticism, etc. the term is also used to denote the way the plot is dealt with, the arrangement of the parts of literary composition to form the whole, the place and the role of the author in describing and depicting events.The stylistic devices brighten the literary text, the stylistic analysis helps reader better understand and interpret the work of art.It goes back to the ancient times of classical rhetoric and embraces the realm of language and stylistics itself.In the modern linguistics, two solid schools of stylistics opened new perspectives for the more detailed investigation of the stylistic analysis as well as the stylistic devices.