Give your examples of different types of epithet

2. Across the ditch Doll was having an entirely different reaction. With all his heart and soul, furiously, jealously, vindictively, he was hoping Queen would not win. (J.)

3. During the past few weeks she had become most sharply conscious of the smiling interest of Hauptwanger. His straight lithe body - his quick, aggressive manner - his assertive, seeking eyes. (Dr.)

4. He's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned - nosed peacock. (D.)

5. The Fascisti, or extreme Nationalists, which means black-shirted, knife-carrying, club-swinging, quick-stepping, nineteen-year-old-pot-shot patriots, have worn out their welcome in Italy. (H.)

6. Where the devil was heaven? Was it up? Down? There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. (Js.H.)

7. She has taken to wearing heavy blue bulky shapeless quilted People's Volunteers trousers rather than the tight tremendous how-the-West-was-won trousers she formerly wore. (D.B.)

8. Harrison - a fine, muscular, sun-bronzed, gentle-eyed, patrician-nosed, steak-fed, Gilman-Schooled, soft-spoken, well-tailored aristocrat was an out-and - out leaflet-writing revolutionary at the time. (Jn.B.)

9. In the cold, gray, street-washing, milk-delivering, shutters-coming-off-the-shops early morning, the midnight train from Paris arrived in Strasbourg. (H.)

10. Her painful shoes slipped off. (U.)

11. She was a faded white rabbit of a woman. (A.C.)

12. And she still has that look, that don't - you - touch - me look, that women who were beautiful carry with them to the grave. (IB.)

13. Ten - thirty is a dark hour in a town where respectable doors are locked at nine.

14. He loved the afterswim salt-and-sunshine smell of her hair.

15. I was to secretly record, with the help of a powerful long-range movie-camera lens, the walking-along-the-Battery-in-the-sunshine meeting between Ken and Jerry.

16."Thief!" Pilon shouted. "Dirty pig of an untrue friend!"(J.St.)

16. She spent hausfrau afternoons hopping about in the sweatbox of her midget kitchen.

18. He acknowledged an early - afternoon customer with a be-with-you-in-a-minute nod. (D.U.)

19. He thoroughly disliked this never - far - from - tragic look of a ham Shakespearian actor. (H.)

20.A branch, cracking under his weight, sent through the tree a sad cruel thunder.

21. There was none of the Old - fashioned Five-Four-Three-Two-One-Zero business, so tough on the human nervous system. (A.C.)

22. The children were very brown and filthily dirty. (W.V.)

23. His shriveled head bobbed like a dried pod on his frail stick of a body.

24. Liza Hamilton was a very different kettle of Irish. Her head was small and round and it held small and round convictions.

26. He sat with Daisy in his arms for a long silent time. (Sc.F.)

27. From the Splendid Hotel guests and servants were pouring in chattering bright streams. (R.Ch.)

Paper 7

1. What stylistic devices are based on the interaction between the logical and emotive meanings?

2. What is hyperbole?

3. What stylistic device has the same mechanism as hyperbole?

4. What is oxymoron?

5. What is the usual pattern of oxymoron? 

Give your own examples of hyperbole, understatement and oxymoron.

In the following examples concentrate on cases of hyperbole and understatement. Translate the sentences.

1. I was scared to death when he entered the room. (S.)

2. The girls were dressed to kill. (J.Br.)

3. Newspapers are the organs of individual men who have jockeyed themselves to be party leaders, in countries where a new party is born every hour over a glass of beer in the nearest cafe. (J.R.)

4. I was violently sympathetic as usual. (Jn. B.)

5. The car which picked me up on that particular guilty evening was a Cadillac limousine about seventy - three blocks long. (IB.)

6. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. (Sc.F.)

7. She was a giant of a woman. Her bulging figure was encased in a green crepe dress and her feet overflowed in red shoes. She carried a mammoth red pocketbook that bulged throughout as if it were stuffed with rocks. (Fl. O'C).

8. She was very much upset by the catastrophe that had befallen the Bishops, but it was exciting, and she was tickled to death to have someone fresh to whom she could tell all about it. (S.M.)

9. The little woman, for she was of pocket size, crossed her hands solemnly on her middle. (G.)

10. She wore a pink hat, the size of a button. (J.R.)

11.    And if either of us should lean toward the other, even a fraction of an inch, the balance would be upset.(O.W.)

12. He smiled back, breathing a memory of gin at me. (W.G.)

13. She busied herself in her midget kitchen. (T.C.)

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