Rhetorical Question
I. Discuss the nature and functions of the following rhetorical questions.
1. Gentleness in passion! What could have been more seductive to the scared, starved heart of that girl? (J. C.)
2. Why do we need refreshment, my friends? Because we are but mortal, because we are' but sinful, because we are but of the earth, because we are not of the air? Can we fly, my friends? We cannot. Why can we not fly? Is it because we are calculated to walk? (D.)
3. What courage can withstand the everduring and all besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? (W. I.)
4. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him? (D.)
5. Dark Sappho! could not verse immortal save That breast imbued with such immortal fire? Could she not live who life eternal gave? (B.)
6. How should a highborn lady be known from a sunburnt milk-maid, save that spears are broken for the one, and only hazelpoles shattered for the other? (W. Sc.)
7....but who would scorn the month of June, because December, with his breath so hoary, must come? (B.)
8. Who will be open where there is no sympathy, or has call to speak to those who never can understand? (Th.)
9. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? (Gr. Gr.)
Represented Speech
I. Classify the following examples of represented speech into represented inner and represented uttered speech. Indicate characteristic features (lexical and grammatical phenomena) of represented inner and represented uttered speech.
1. He looked at the distant green wall. It would be a long walk in this rain, and a muddy one. He was tired and he was depressed. His toes squelched in his shoes. Anyway, what would they find? Lot of trees. (J.)
2. Angela, who was taking in every detail of Eugene's old friend, replied in what seemed an affected tone that no, she wasn't used to studio life: she was just from the country, you know – a regular farmer girl – Blackwood, Wisconsin, no less!.. (Dr.)
3. "...You ought to make a good mural decorator some day, if you have the inclination," Boyle went on, "You've got the sense of beauty." The roots of Eugene's hair tingled. So art was coming to him. This man saw his capacity. He really had art in him. (Dr.)
4. He held the cigarette in his mouth, tasting it, feeling its roundness, for a long time before he lit it. Then with a sigh, feeling, well, I've earned it, he lit the cigarette. (I.Sh.)
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5. He kept thinking he would write to her—he had no other girl acquaintance now; and just before he entered art school he did this, penning a little note saying that he remembered so pleasantly their ride; and when was she coming? (Dr.)
6. "... So I've come to be servant to you." "How much do you want?"
"I don't know. My keep, I suppose." Yes, she could cook. Yes, she could wash. Yes, she could mend, she could darn. She knew how to shop a market. (D. du M.)
7. She hadn't wanted to marry him or anyone else, for that matter, unless it was someone like her father. But there was no one like her father. No one she had ever seen. So, oh, well, what's the diff! You have to get married some time. (E.F.)
8. … the servants summoned by the passing maid without a bell being rung, and quick, quick, let all this luggage be taken down into the hall and let one of you call a cab. (J.C.)
9. I then found a couple of stale letters to reread, one from my wife... and one from my mother-in-law, asking me to please send her some cashmere yarn. (S.)
10. Then he would bring her back with him to New-York—he, Eugene Witla, already famous in the East. Already the lure of the big eastern city was in his mind, its palaces, its wealth, its fame. It was the great world he knew, this side of Paris and London. He would go to it now, shortly. What would he be there? How great? How soon? So he dreamed. (Dr.)
11. Angela looked at him with swimming eyes. He was really different from anything she had ever known, young, artistic, imaginative, ambitious. He was going out into a world which she had longed for but never hoped to see – that of art. Here one was telling her of his prospective art studies, and talking of Paris. What a wonderful thing! (Dr.)
12. Rosita sniffed and in her well-bottom voice declared that yes, it was better that they stay out of the sun, as it seemed to be affecting Ottilie's head. (Т. С.)
13. Oh, love, love! Edward! Edward! Oh, he would not, could not remain away. She must see him – give him a chance to explain. She must make him understand that it was not want of love but fear of life – her father, everything, everybody – that kept her so sensitive, aloof, remote. (D.)
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