Group: 402 Xoliqova Farangiz

Group: 402

Xoliqova Farangiz

Midterm on Stylistics
Find stylistic devices in the following sentences. Comment on them.

1. 
   And silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of each purple curtain.
   

Alliteration

2. 
   The hall applauded.
   

Metonymy: The relation between a container and the thing contained.

3. 
   The long arm of the law will catch him in the end.
   

Personification

4. 
   Stoney smiled the sweet smile of an alligator.
   

It is irony. Here irony in the word “sweet” is realised within a sentence.

5. 
   Mr. Stiggins ... took his hat and his leave.
   

Zeugma based on interaction of independent and connected meanings of the word

6. 
   In private I should call him a liar. In the press you should use the words “Reckless disregard for truth”
   

Euphemism

7. 
   He has a tongue like a sward and a pen like a dagger.
   

Simile

8. 
   He earns his living by his pen.
   

Metonymy

9. 
   Money burns a hole in my pocket.
   

It is a metaphor expressed by verb.

1. 
   . to the to the place where the where the Stars and the Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack.
   

Metonymy

11. 
    A fly and a flee in the flue were imprisoned.
    

Said the fly: ‘Let us flee’,

Said the flee: ‘Let us fly’...

Alliteration

11. 
    The laugh in her eyes died and was replaced by something else.
    

Metaphor

11. 
    The earth is made for Dombey and Son to trade in and the sun and the moon were made to give them light.
    

Hyperbola

11. 
    Every Caesar has his Brutus.
    

Antonomasia: Proper nouns are used as national words:

11. 
    There are three doctors in an illness like yours ... Dr. Rest, Dr. Diet and Dr. Fresh air.
    

Antonomasia

11. 
    Whether the Nymph shall stain her honor or her new brocade or lose her heart or necklace at a ball.
    

Zeugma

11. 
    The money she had accepted was two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills.
    

Simple Epithet

11. 
    She possessed two false teeth and a sympathetic heart.
    

Zeugma

11. 
    A good generous prayer it was.
    

Inversion

11. 
    In he got and away they went.
    

INVERSION

11. 
    Calm and quiet below me in the sun and shade lay the old house.
    

Inversion

11. 
    One may see by their footprints that they have not walked arm in arm; that they have not walked in a straight track, and that they have walked in a moody humour.
    

Repetition

1. 
   I looked at the gun, and the gun looked at me.
   

Chiasmus

24. 
    The hospital was crowded with the surgically interesting products of the fighting in Africa.
    

Periphrasis

24. 
    The pulsating motion at Malay Camp at night was everywhere. People sang. People cried. People fought. People loved. People hated.
    

Anaphora

24. 
    “You have heard of Jefferson Brick 1 see, Sir,” — quoth the Colonel with a smile. “England has heard of Jefferson Brick. Europe has heard of Jefferson Brick”
    

Anaphora

24. 
    The mechanics were unpaid, and underfed, and overworked.
    

Alliteration

24. 
    “What has my life been? Fag and grind, fag and grind. Turn the wheel, turn the wheel.”
    

Repetition

24. 
    The laugh in her eyes died and was replaced by something else.
    

Metaphor

24. 
    For every look that passed between them, and the word they spoke, and every card they played, the dwarf had eyes and ears.
    

Gradation