Special literary vocabulary
СБОРНИК МАТЕРИАЛОВ ДЛЯ СЕМИНАРСКИХ ЗАНЯТИЙ
ПО СТИЛИСТИКЕ АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА
SEMINARS IN STYLE
SEMINAR 1
STYLISTIC DIFFERENTIATION OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY
SPECIAL LITERARY VOCABULARY
I. State the type and the functions of archaisms.
1. I was surprised to see Heathcliff there also. He stood by the fire, his back towards me, just finishing a stormy scene to poor Zillah, who ever and anon interrupted her labour to pluck up the corner of her apron, and heave an indignant groan...
"Thou art the Man!" cried Jabes, after a solemn pause, leaning over his cushion. "Seventy times seven times didst thou gapingly contort thy visage – seventy times seven did I take council with my soul – Lo! this is human weakness: this also may be absolved! The first of the seventy-first is come. Brethren – execute upon him the judgement written. Such honour have all His saints!" (E. Br.)
2. Anon she murmured, "Guido" – and bewhiles a deep sigh rent her breast... She was begirt with -a flowing kirtle of deep blue, bebound with a belt, bebuckled with a silvern clasp, while about her waist a stomacher of point lace ended in a ruffled farthingale at her throat. On her head she bore a sugar-loaf hat shaped like an extinguisher and pointing backward at an angle of 45 degrees.
"Guido," she murmured, "Guido." And erstwhile she would wring her hands as one distraught and mutter, "He cometh not." (L.)
3. "Odd Bodikins!" he roared, "but the tale is as rare as it is new! and so the waggoner said to the Pilgrim that sith he had asked him to pull him off the wagon at that town, put him off he must, albeit it was but the small of the night by St. Pancras! whence hath the fellow so novel a tale? – nay, tell it me but once more, haply I may remember it" – and the Baron fell back in a perfect paroxysm of merriment. (L.)
4. He kept looking at the fantastic green of the jungle and then at the orange-brown earth, febrile and pulsing as though the rain were cutting wounds into it. Ridges flinched before the power of it. The Lord giveth and He taketh away, Ridges thought solemnly. (N. M.)
5. If manners maketh man, then manner and grooming maketh poodle. (St.)
6. Anthony clapped him affectionately on the back. "You're a real knight-errant, Jimmy," he said. (Ch.)
|
|
|
7. "He of the iron garment," said Daigety, entering, "is bounden unto you, MacEagh, and this noble lord shall be bounden also." (W. Sc.)
8. "He had at his back a satchel, which seemed to contain a few necessaries, a hawking gauntlet on his left hand, though he carried no bird, and in his right hand a stout hunter's pole." (W. Sc.)
II. Give the English equivalents, state the origin and stylistic purpose of barbarisms and foreign words. Pay attention to their interrelation with the context.
1. She caught herself criticizing his belief that, since his joke about trying to keep her out of the poorhouse had once been accepted as admirable humor, it should continue to be his daily bon mot. (S. L.)
2. Nevertheless, despite her experience, she hadn't yet reached the stage of thinking all men beastly; though she could readily sympathize with the state of mind of any woman driven to utter that particular cri de coeur. (St. B.)
3. Then, of course, there ought to be one or two outsiders – just to give the thing a bona fide appearance. I and Eileen could see to that – young people, uncritical, and with no idea of politics. (Ch.)
4. "Tyree, you got half of the profits!" Dr. Bruce shouted. "You're my de facto partner." "What that de facto mean, Doc?" "Papa, it means you a partner in fact and in law," Fishbelly told him. (Wr.)
5. Yates remained serious. "We have time, Herr Zippmann, to try your schnapps. Are there any German troops in Neustadt?"
"Nо, Herr Qffizier, that's just what I've to tell you. This morning, four gentlemen in all, we went out of Neu-stadt to meet the Herren Amerikaner." (St. H.)
6. And now the roof had fallen in on him. The first shock was over, the dust had settled and he could now see that his whole life was kaput. (J. Br.)
7. "I never sent any telegram. What did it say?" "I beieve it is still on the table la-bas." Elise retired, pounced upon it, and brought it to her mistress in triumph. "Voila, madame!" (Ch.)
8. When Danny came home from the army he learned that he was an heir and owner of property. The viejo, that is the grandfather, had died leaving Danny the two small houses on the Tortilla Flat. (St.)
|
|
|
III. Slate the nature and role of the terms.
1. "don't you go to him for anything more serious than a pendectomy of the left ear or a strabismus of the cardiograph." No one save Kennicott knew exactly what this meant, but they laughed. (S. L.)
2. "Good," Abbey said suddenly. He took up a specimen—it was an aneurism of the ascending aorta—and began in a friendly manner to question Andrew... "Do you know anything of the history of aneurism?" "Ambroise Pare," Andrew answered, and Abbey had already begun iiis approving nod, "is presumed to have first discovered the condition." (A. C.)
3. Philip Heatherhead, – whom we designate Physiological Philip—as he strolled down the lane in the glory of early June, presented a splendid picture of young manhood. By this we mean that his bony framework was longer than the average and that instead of walking like an ape he stood erect with his skull balanced on his spinal column in a way rarely excelled even in a museum. The young man- appeared in the full glory of perfect health: or shall we say, lo be more exact, that his temperature was 98, his respiration normal, his skin entirely free from mange, erysipelas and prickly heat...
At a turn of path Philip suddenly became aware of a young girl advancing to meet him. Her spinal column though shorter than his, was elongated and erect, and Philip saw at once that she was not a chimpanzee. She wore no hat and the thick capillary growth that covered her cranium waved in the sunlight and fell low over her eyesockets. The elasticity of her step revealed not the slightest trace of apendicitis or locomotor alaxia, while all thought of eczema, measles or spotty discoloration was precluded by the smoothness and homogeneity of her skin. At the sight of Philip the subcutaneous pigmentation of the girl's face underwent an intensification. At the same time the beating of the young man's heart produced in his countenance also a temporary inflammation due to an un-deroxydization of the tissues of his face.
|
|
|
They met, and their hands instinctively clasped by an interadjustment of the bones known only in mankind and the higher apes but not seen in the dog...
Philip drew the girl's form towards him till he had it close to his own form, and parallel to it, both remaining perpendicular, and then bending the upper verterbrae of his spinal column forwards and sideways he introduced his face into a close proximity with hers. In this attitude, difficult to sustain for a prolonged period, he brought his upper and lower lips together, protruded them forward, and placed them softly against hers in a movement seen also in the orang-outang but never in the hippopotamus. (L.)
4. At noon the hooter and everything died. First, the pulley driving the punch and shears and emery wheels stopped its lick and slap. Simultaneously the compressor providing the blast for a dozen smith-fires went dead. Finally old Peter was left standing dead struck—as if it had never happened to him before, as if he wasn't an old miser for work—specifically, piece-work, always trying to knock the extra piece before the power went. (S. Ch.)
5....he rode up to the campus, arranged for a room in the graduate dormitory and went at once to the empty Physics building. (M. W.)
6. "They're real!" he murmured, "My God, they are absolutely real!"
Erik turned. "Didn't you believe that the neutron existed?"
"Oh, I believed," Fabermacher shrugged away the phrase. "To me neutrons were symbols, n with a mass of mn =1.008. But until now I never saw them." (M.W.)
IV. Define the pattern of creation and the function of the following individual neologisms.
1. She was a young and unbeautiful woman. (I. Sh.)
2. I'll disown you, I'll disinherit you, I'll unget you! and damn me, if ever I call you back again! (Sh.)
3. She was waiting for something to happen. Or for everything to unhappen. (Т.Н.)
4. She was doing duty of her waitresshood. (T. H.)
5. Every man in his hours of success, tasted godhood. (M.W.)
6. …tiny balls of fluff (chickens) passed on into semi-naked pullethood and from that into dead henhood. (Sh. A.)
|
|
|
7. His youngness and singlemindedness were obvious enough. (S.)
8. But Miss Golightly, a fragile eyeful, appeared relatively unconcerned. (T. C.)
9. For a headful of reasons I refuse. (T. C.)
10. It is the middle of a weekday morning with a state-ful of sand and mountains around him. (A.M.)
11. His father … installed justly to make little boys feel littler and stupid boys aware of their stupidity. (St.)
12. You are becoming tireder and tireder. (H.)
13. "I love you mucher." "Plenty mucher? Me tooer." (J. Br.)
14. Oh, it was the killingest thing you ever saw. (K.A.)
15. "Mr. Hamilton, you haven't any children, have you?"
"Well, no. And I'm sorry about that, I guess. I'm sorriest about that." (St.)
16. Sometimes we are sleepy and fall asleep together in a corner, sometimes we are very hungry, sometimes we are a little frightened, but what is oftenest hard upon us is the cold. (D.)
17. You're goddamndest boy. (I. Sh.)
18. She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. (St.)
19. I've been asked to appear in Rostand's wonderful fairy play. Wouldn't it be nice if you Englished it for us? (K.)
20. So, I'm not just talented. I'm geniused. (Sh. D.)
21. There were ladies too… some of whom knew Trilby, and thee'd and thou'd with familiar and friendly affection while others'mademoiselle'd her with distant politeness and were mademoiselle'd and madame'd back again. (G. du M.)
22. Mrs. Tribute "my deared" everybody, even ihings inanimate, such as the pump in the dairy. (W. D.)
23. …the country became his Stepfatherland. (E.)
V. Compare the neutral and the literary modes of expression.
1. "My children, my defrauded, swindled infants!" cried Mrs. Renwigs. (D.)
2. He turned round and encountered the joyous face of Mr. Lipman, the serene countenance of Mr. Winkle, and the intellectual lineaments of Mr. Shodgrass. (D) 3. "I am Alpha and Omega, – the first and the last," the solemn voice would announce. (D. du M.)
4. Twenty miles west of Tueson the "Sunset Express" stopped at a tank to take on water. Besides the aqueous addition the engine of that famous flyer acquired some other: things ithat were not good for it. (О. Н.)
5. …the famous Alderman who objected to the phrase in Canning's inscription for a Pitt Memorial "He died poor" and wished to substitute "He expired in indigent circumstances." (Luc.)
6. He is always in extremes; perpetually in the superlative degree. (D.)
SEMINAR 2
Дата добавления: 2016-01-04; просмотров: 156; Мы поможем в написании вашей работы! |
Мы поможем в написании ваших работ!