German and Ukrainian Baroque Poetics and Rhetorics: the Definition of Style in Comparison

Abstract

The article deals with interpretation of the definition of style in the Ukrainian and German baroque poetics and rhetorics. The theory of style and its main components, namely levels of style, tropes and figures of speech in the interpretations by Mytrofan Dovhalevs’kyi, Feofan Prokopovich, Martin Opitz and Johann Christoph Gottsched were comparatively researched.

Keywords

• style
• poetic
• rhetoric
• style levels
• trope
• figures