Stylistic Phraseology
Questions and tasks
Task 1
Define the basic stylistic effect achieved by the violation of the following set phrases and idioms in the sentences below:
1. “Can Mr. Herring swim? – Like several fishes! (To swim like a fish).” (Woodehouse)
2. “He who laughs last, takes too long to get the joke” (O.Wilde)
3. “Time is the waste of money” (H.)
4. Dorothy, at my statement, had clapped her hand over mouth to hold down laughter and chewing gum. (Jn.B.)
5. “Some fly East, some fly West, some fly over the cuckoo’s nest”. (L.Keisy:The Fly Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
Task 2
Analyze the story and indicate what meanings of a word participate in violation of Ph. U. and restoration of their direct, dictionary meaning:
RED HERRING
Once upon a time there lived an old herring, who happened to be in love with a white elephant. When the yellow press, always nosing around, learned of the affair, they screamed blue murder because everyone thought it was a disgrace for the white elephant, who was rumored to be of the blue blood, to have a romantic involvement with the plebian red herring. Some guessed, however, that the red herring was just a red herring and the white elephant was in fact carrying on with a black sheep who was of an aristocratic origin. The white elephant’s father turned grey overnight, saw red in the morning, was about to beat his son black and blue but showed white feather, went and painted the town red instead.
If only the interested parties had used their grey matter, they could have easily seen that there was a strong attachment between the white elephant and the pretty white crow with delicate green fingers.
Soon another sensation came as a bolt from the blue and in a week no one remembered the poor red herring who was always in a blue mood, always dressed in black and severely tortured by the green-eyed monster.
[op. cit. Г.Г.Молчанова. Pp. 327-328]
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