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IV. SYNTACTIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS AND STYLISTIC DEVICES
1. Analyse the following examples. Point out various types of syntactic and
lexical-syntactic stylistic devices in them; dwell upon their structural/logical-semantic
peculiarities and functions.
2.
Read carefully the extracts from poems given after the passages from prose
works. Here, besides doing the tasks set above, try to determine the type of rhyme and
record the rhyming scheme. Scan the passages and describe the metres employed,
determine the verse form (if possible). Find deviations in metre (if there are any).
1. He needed rest, tranquillity, reassurance, companionship, he got uneasiness,
anxiety, uncertainty, and loneliness.
(from
Meditations on a German Grave
by R. Aldington)
2. An awful thing had happened. Quite suddenly, at the theatre last night, when
she and Jimmy were seated side by side in the dress-circle, without a moment’s
warning - in fact, she had just finished chocolate almond and passed the box to him
again - she had fallen in love with an actor. But - fallen - in love.
(from
Taking the Veil
by K. Mansfield)
3. She has a speaking voice not unlike Anna’s, only with the husky note made
more metallic. Not chestnut husks but rusty iron.
(from
Under the Net
by I. Murdoch)
4. It is a city which I never fail to approach with expectation and leave with
disappointment. (ibid.)
5. Why should I waste time transcribing his writings instead of producing my
own? I would never translate
Nous Les Vainqueurs.
Never, never, never.(ibid.)
6. No use telling you much about that. Paths, paths, everywhere; a stamped-in
network of paths spreading over the empty land, through long grass, through burnt
grass, through thickets, down and up chilly ravines, up and down stony hills ablaze
with heat, and a solitude, a solitude, nobody, not a hut.
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(from
Heart of Darkness
by J. Conrad)
7. Flames glided in the river, small green flames, red flames, white flames,
pursuing, overtaking, joining, crossing each other – then separating slowly or hastily.
(ibid.)
8. So we hurried down the hillside until we reached the little bay, empty, silent,
asleep under the brilliant shower of sunlight.
(from
My family and Other Animals
by G.Durrell)
9. There is nothing does irritate me more than seeing other people sitting about
doing nothing when I ’m working.
(from
Three Men in a Boat
by J.K. Jerome)
10. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip, a trip takes us.
(from
Travels with Charley in Searchof America
by J. Steinbeck)
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As a matter of fact, she loved parties. She liked sitting down to supper in a
noisy room, she liked dance music and gossip /.../, and she liked drinks and having
things brought to her by men in pink evening coats.
(from
Bella Fleace Gave a Party
by E. Waugh
)
12. “For God’s sake, tell me some more,” I said.
“More about Appleby?”
“More about anything. Tell me about all the chaps in the Wimpole.
Tell me their names one by one and exactly what they look like.
Tell me your family history. Tell me the full details of every job you have ever
lost. Tell me all the funny stories you have ever heard. Tell me my fortune. Don’t you
see, I want to be told?”
(from
Work Suspended
by E. Waugh)
13. Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son was about eight-and-
forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome, well-
made man, too stem and pompous in appearance, to be prepossessing. Son was very
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bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine infant, somewhat
crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet.
(from
Dombey and Son
by Ch. Dickens)
14. The speaker’s square forefinger emphasized his observations by
underscoring every sentence with a line on the schoolmaster’s sleeve. The emphasis
was helped by the speaker’s square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its
base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by
the wall. /.../ the speaker’s obstinate carriage, square coat, square legs, square
shoulders - nay, his very neck cloth, trained to take him by the throat with an
unaccommodating grasp, like a stubborn fact, as it was - all helped the emphasis.
(from
Hard Times
by Ch. Dickens)
15. The possessive instinct never stands still. Through florescencc and feud
frosts and fires, it followed the laws of progression even.
16. In the Forsyte family which had believed it fixed for ever. Nor can it be
dissociated from environment any more than the quality of potato from the soil.
(from
In Chancery
by J. Galsworthy)
17. But I was young and had my dreams, and something within always told me that
this would not, could not, should not last - should some day get into a better position.
(from
How I Served My Apprenticeship
by A- Carnegie)
18. I sympathize with the rich man’s boy and congratulate the poor man’s boy. (ibid.)
19. They were gay, they were hilarious, they were roaring with laughter.
(from
Babylon Revisited
by F.S. Fitzgerald)
20. “You must come over and have dinner with us one evening “Love to. Thank you
very much, sir. Good night.” Carteret walked down the road. Very touching, the sir
business. Very illuminating and nice. Very typical. It was touches like that which
counted.
(from
Go, Lovely Rose
by H.E. Bates)
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21. It was cold in the street. There was a wind like ice. People went flitting by,
very fast; the men walked like scissors; the women trod like cats. And nobody knew -
nobody cared.
(from
Life of Ma Parker
by K. Mansfield)
22. Although it was so brilliantly fine - the blue sky powered with gold and the great
spots of light like white wine splashed over the Jardins Publiques - Miss Brill was
glad that she had decided on her fur.
(from
Miss Brill
by K. Mansfield)
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