Stylistic devices

Within the language as a system there establish themselves certain [definite types of relations between words, word-combinations, sentences and also between larger spans of utterances. The branch of language science, which studies the types of relations between the units enumerated, is called syntax.
In the domain of syntax, as has been justly pointed out by L. A. Bulakhovsky, it is difficult to distinguish between what is purely grammatical, i. e. marked as corresponding to the established norms, and what is stylistic, i. e. showing some kind of vacillation of these norms. This is particularly evident when we begin to analyse larger than the sentence units.