Adjectives, stylistic function of degrees of comparison

Adjectives possess a single grammatical category of comparison, meant to portray the degrees of intensity with the help of comparative and superlative degrees contributing to the expressive stylistic function: ‘a most valuable idea, the newest fashion of all, a foolish, foolish wife, my wife is a foolishness herself, Is she as foolish as that?’.

The usage of the comparative degree with other than qualitative adjectives makes them foregrounded due to their expressiveness: ‘ “You cannot be deade r than the dead ” (E.Hemingway).Polysyllabic adjectives form degrees of comparison with more and most, but in case of the synthetic forms – er and – est the utterancesounds expressive and stylistically relevant: ‘ Curiouser and curiouser! Cried Alice (she was so much surprised that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English’ (L.Carrol). This device is used in the language of advertising thus breaking the valency of the incompatible elements joined together: “the orangemostest drink in the world”. There are several structural combinations with adjectives that are very expressive: A duck of a boy. A devil of a fellow. Good and strong. Nice and warm. Most happy. Much of a lad. More of a realist; very happy; most happy; the greatest pleasure.

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