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ASSIGNMENTS TO THE ANALYSIS OF STYLE

1. 
   1. How influential a part does the TV play in children’s lives? Do recollections of TV programmes provide the most part of the majority of young people’s childhood memories? 2. Why do you think people often refer to “the media” when talking about television? 3. Why do the electronic media tend to cause more problems than the print media? 4. Are the additional implications of the word “mass" accurate? 5. How do you think watching television can become ad­dictive? 6. Comment on the meaning of “global village” and how it’s connected with the TV. 7. How is it known that some attitudes are absorbed indirectly from the television and then retained? 8. Does the television always achieve its intended predetermined response from its audience? Is it more successful than the other forms of me­dia? 9. How independent are those people working for the television companies? 10. In the last sentence the pros and cons of television are put rather bluntly. Which outweigh the other?
   

2. 
   The text under discussion is an essay, a short literary prose com­position in which a subject is discussed in a personal manner. The word essay was coined by Montaigne, whose Essais (1580) are informal and intimate discussions. Behind the essay lie the traditions of oratory and debate. From them all essays inherit their persuasion tech­niques. The essay may usually be identified by certain characteristics of tone, language, and structure. Keeping all above mentioned in mind, study the text and providing illustrations from it discuss the main characteristics of the essay: 1) tone: personal and conversational or highbrow and formal; 2) language: informal and colloquial or official and stylized; 3) structure: loose, flexible or strictly and logically or­ganized; 4) lexical and syntactical devices aimed to persuade: repeti­tion, parallel constructions, homogeneous members of the sentence, rhetorical questions, asyndeton, inversion.
   

What persuasion techniques does the author use?