Means of expressive syntax in A. P. Chekhov's short story "The Black Monk"

The article is devoted to the expressive syntactic means used by A. P. Chekhov in the story "The Black Monk" (1893). The syntax of the Russian language is characterized by inexhaustible possibilities for expressing the expressiveness of speech, in conveying the emotional shades of utterances. The expressiveness of syntactic constructions is manifested in the ability of various units to add brightness, imagery and expressiveness to the text, to enhance the emotional-influencing effect of speech. In the course of the work, an analysis of the syntactic constructions of A. P. Chekhov's work "The Black Monk" was carried out, contributing to an increase in the expressiveness of the narrative. As a result of the research, expressive syntax techniques were identified and described, among which the most pronounced in the text of the story are rhetorical exclamations, questions and appeals, parcellation, introductory and insertion constructions, repetitions, gradation. The article pays special attention to the expressive function of punctuation marks.  Theoretical and practical methods were used in the course of the research.  In the theoretical part, typological and descriptive methods were used, while the practical part was created using a continuous sampling of expressive syntactic constructions from the text of A. P. Chekhov's novella "The Black Monk". The scientific novelty of the research lies in the identification of expressive syntax techniques that are most characteristic of Chekhov's prose works. An analysis of the syntactic features of the story "The Black Monk" allowed us to draw a number of conclusions: 1) contrasting constructions significantly enhance the expressivity of the narrative, especially homogeneous terms with conjunctions "a", "but" and compound opposites; 2) the most common means of expressive syntax in the text of the story are rhetorical exclamations, questions and addresses, parcellation, introductory and insertion constructions, repetitions, gradation; 3) syntactic constructions in In Chekhov's prose, they are not only structural and compositional elements of the narrative, but also increase the expressiveness of statements; 4) punctuation marks, in particular dashes and ellipsis, are of great importance in enhancing expressivity.

syntax, syntactic construction, expressiveness, proposal, stylistic figure, intonation, punctuation mark, emotionality, speech, sentence member