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The paper describes the tropes that are based on the contrast (antiphrasis, antiphrasis, oxymoron), and their functions, exercises for students to develop the ability to analyze the tropes. Contrast-based tropes give rich opportunities for designing bright, attention-grabbing, expressive expressions for creation satirical descriptions and characteristics, as they are based on opposition of the lexical content and meaning.
The article deals with the stylistic and content analysis of Bon Jovi song lyrics. A small number of most popular songs of the iconic American rock band are viewed within the context of acute social and inter-personal problems they raise and cultural associations they evoke. The role and functions of emotionally colored syntactic and lexical devices frequently used by the songwriters are also in the focus of the given paper.