Grammatical and stylistic means of creating Oscar Wilde’s literary style

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of grammatical and stylistic means that Oscar Wilde used to create his unique literary style. The key features of Wilde’s language, such as inversion, anaphora, polysyndeton, rhetorical questions and others were explored in the article. The applied research methods, such as analysis, contextual method, descriptive method, allowed us to identify the influence of these means on creating the effect of paradox, wit, irony and memorable style in Wilde’s works.