Чет тиллар факультети инглиз тили ўҚитиш методикаси кафедраси

From The Blue Note by Charlotte Bingham
1. Read the extract below and say what it is about. What was it that made the characters happy? What stylistic device introduces the characters’ realization of their remaining alive?
2. What figures of speech used in the first paragraph represent hardships which the characters had to overcome in the wartime?
3. What does the author mean by ‘the Yellow Peril” and “the Red Peril”? Name the trope used here.
4. What stylistic device links the two paragraphs? Is its usage advantageous? Give your reasons.
5. What expressive means make the second paragraph sound even more optimistic?
6. Analyze the cases of parallel constructions and insertion in the second paragraph and explain their purpose.
7. Comment on the use of italics in the extract.
8. What kind of repetitions does the author use in the extract? How do they render his message? What is the message?
Afterwards they said there was never to be a time quite like it again. It was not just the exuberance, and not just the fun of it either; it was the sudden realization that they were actually alive. That despite the war, doodlebugs, rationing, dreary clothes and even drearier food, despite the A-bomb and the H-bomb, despite Korea and Malaya, despite Russia and the Berlin Wall, despite the terrible treat of Communism and Marxism, the Yellow Peril and the Red Peril, despite almost everything they knew or had been told about the doom of days gone past, and the doom of days yet to come, despite all that – they were still living, and on the earth.
And what was more, and what was better, they were young, and some of them were not just young, but beautiful. Not that it mattered, beautiful or not beautiful, pretty or not pretty, handsome or not handsome; it did not matter a single, solitary little damn not once they came to and realized that after all that – all those dead people, all those fathers that had not come back, uncles who had never returned, mothers whom they had never known – they were actually alive.
But first – they had to grow up.