Answer the questions in writing

1. He went about her room, alter his introduction, looking at her pictures, her bronzes and clays, asking after the creator of this, the painter of that, where a third thing came from. (Dr.)

2. She wanted to have a lot of children, and she was glad that things were that way, that the Сhurch approved. Then the little girl died. Nancy broke with Rome, the day her baby died. It was a secret break, but no Catholic breaks with Rome casually.

3. "Evelyn Clasgow, get up out of that chair this minute." The girl looked up from her book. "What's the matter?" "Your satin. The skirt'll be a mass ofwrinkles in the back."

4. Except for a lack of youth, the guests had no common theme, they seemed strangers among strangers; indeed, each face, onentering, had struggled to conceal dismay at seeing others there.

6. Dinah, a slim, fresh, pale eighteen, was pliant and yet fragile.

7. The man looked a rather old forty - five, for he was already going grey. (K.P.)

8. The delicatessen owner was a spry and jolly fifly. (T.R.)

9. "It was easier to assume a character without having to tell too many lies and you brought a fresh eye and mind to the job."

10. "Some remarkable pictures in this room, gentlemen. A Holbein, two Van Dycks and if I am not mistaken, a Velasquez. I am interested in pictures." (Ch.)

    11."You have nobody to blame but yourself."

 "The saddest words of tongue or pen." (I.Sh.)

12. For several days he took an hour after his work to make inquiry taking with him some examples of his pen and inks.            

13. There you are at your tricks again. The rest of them do earn their bread; you live on my charity. (E.Br.)     

14. I crossed a high toll bridge and negotiated a no man's land and came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack. (J. St.)

15. The praise was enthusiastic enough to have delighted any common writer who earns his living by his pen. (S.M.)

16. He made his way through the perfume and conversation. (I.Sh.)

17. His mind was alert and people asked him to dinner not for old times' sake, but because he was worth his salt. (S.M.)

18.Up the Square, from the corner of King Street, passed a woman in a new bonnet with pink strings, and a new blue dress that sloped at the shoulders and grew to a vast circumference at the hem. Through the silent sunlit solitude of the Square this bonnet and this dress floated northwards in search of romance (A.B.).

19. Two men in uniforms were running heavily to the Administration building. As they ran. Christian saw them throw away their rifles. They were portly men who looked like advertisements for Munich beer, and running came hard to them. The first prisoner stopped and picked up one of the discarded rifles. He did not fire it, but carried it, as he chased the guards. He swung the rifle like a club, and one of the beer advertisements went down. (I. Sh.)

Paper 3

1. What are the main groups of lexical stylistic devices?

2. What is irony?

3. What lexical meaning is employed in its formation?

4. What types of irony do you know? Give examples.

Give examples of irony and sarcasm.

Contentedly Sam Clark drove off in the heavy traffic of three Fords and the Minnie mashie House Free Bus.

1. What are the two diametrically opposite meanings realized within the word “heavy”?

2. Is the word “heavy” contextually evaluative? Is it objective or subjective? Can the traffic of 3 cars and a bus be called “heavy”?

3. What facts about Sam Clark do you come to know on reading the sentence? Was he an experienced driver? Why was he pleased?

6. Translate and analyze the sentences. Explain what conditions made the realization of the opposite evaluation possible. What part of speech is used in irony?

1. When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hang it in the men-servants’ lavatory; it was her one combative action (E.W.).

2. From her earliest infancy Gertrude was brought up by her aunt. Her aunt had carefully instructed her to Christian principles. She also taught her Mohammedanism, to make sure (L.).

3. She is a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she washed her hair since Coolidge’s second term, I’ll eat my spare tire, rim and all (R.Ch.).

4. Sonny Grosso was a worrier who looked for and frequently managed to find the dark side of most situations.

5. Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war.

6. But every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. As the great champion of freedom and national independence he conquers and annexes half the world and calls it Colonization.

7. Bookcases covering one wall boasted of a half-shelf literature.     

Paper 4

1. What stylistic devices are based on the interaction of primary and derivative meanings?

2. What is included into a group of SDs known as “play of words”?

5. Describe the difference between put and zeugma.

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