Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

Euphemism is used to avoid some unpleasant things, or taboo things. 
Hyperbole is deliberate overstatement or exaggeration, the aim of which is to intensify 
one of the features of the object in question to such a degree as to show its utter absurdity. 
Antonomasia. It is the result of interaction between logical and nominal meaning of a 
word. 
Oxymoron is a combination of two words in which the meaning is opposite in sense.
e. g. speaking silence, cold fire, living death. 
The epithet is based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in an attributive word, 
phrase or even sentence, used to characterize an object and pointing out to the reader some of 
the properties or features of the object with the aim of giving an individual perception and 
evaluation of these features or properties. 

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based affective potential functions for several aspects of the general affective 
meaning. These innovative insights may also compensate methodological 
disadvantages of our statistical approach using a large number of predictors in 
stepwise multiple regression.
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While we opted for this specific method as it seems 
optimal when screening for the most influential ones among a wide range of 
possible candidate measures, future studies may apply more fine grained methods 
to disentangle the details concerning the interplay of a restricted number of 
variables according to more specific research questions. 
Future studies should, in particular, extend our investigations to (i) the works 
of other writers—as some of our findings may in theory result from an 
idiosyncratic writing style of H. M. Enzensberger, (ii) (non-) literary texts or even 
everyday speech—in different languages, and (iii) affective ratings from different 
types of reader groups including expert readers.