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3.2. The Category of Implication

1. 
   To formulate the conceptual information of the extract under analysis, say what and who are exposed to the author’s ridicule? What vices and defects of the representatives of the New York aristocracy are subjected to Dickens’s biting criticism?
   
2. 
   How is the Norrises’ admiration for the general brought out stylistically?
   
3. 
   Is the general’s portrait painted in full accord with his inner properties? What stylistic devices serve to depict his conceit and pomposity?
   
4. 
   Is the general’s character shaped mainly through the description of his actions or his speech?
   
5. 
   How are his views voiced in his remarks concerning Europe? What stylistic impact does spacing of graphemes, namely, hyphenation of the words ‘a-mazing’, ‘Eu-rope’ and ‘ex-clusiveness’ produce?
   
6. 
   What syntactical stylistic devices in the general’s remarks are representative of his high-flown manners of speech and his narrow-mindedness?
   
7. 
   What lexical stylistic device(s) in the general’s speech is based on the image of a card game? What is the author’s implication in this case?
   
8. 
   Comment on the stylistically relevant language means used in the concluding logical part rendering the general’s social prejudices.
   
9. 
   What syntactic and lexical stylistic devices serve to depict the Norrises’s willingness to flatter the general and to share his critical opinion of Europe and Europeans?
   
10. 
    What stylistic function does the stylistic device of chiasmus play in unfolding the narration?
    
11. 
    What role does the abundant use of the -ing forms and the predicative complexes with them play in the depiction of the main characters’ behaviour?
    
12. 
    How is the intonation of spoken language kept throughout the text? What is the role of one-member and elliptical sentences in this case?
    
13. 
    And now that you have carefully analyzed the stylistic devices and expressive means employed in the extract as a whole, dwell on the author’s implications in the most conspicuous stylistic means.