Find examples of inversion and detachment in W. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
Analyze cases of inversion and detachment. Make the sentences sound neutral by restoring the word order
1. She narrowed her eyes a trifle at me and said I looked exactly like Celia Briganza’s boy. Around the mouth. (S.)
2. He observed it all with a keen quick glance, not unkindly, and full of rather of amusement than of censure. (V.W.)
3. She was crazy about you. At the beginning. (R.W.)
4. I have been accused of bad taste. This disturbed me not so much for my own sake (since I am used to the slights and arrows of outrageous fortune) as for the sake of criticism in general. (S.M.)
4. On, on he wandered, night and day, beneath the blazing sun, and the cold pale moon; through the dry heat of noon, and damp cold of night; in the grey light of morn, and the red glare of eve. (D.)
5. Benny Collan, a respected guy, Benny Collan wants to marry her. An agent could ask for more? (T.C.)
6. Women are not made for attack. Wait they must. (J.C.)
7. Out came the chase – in went the horses – sprang the boys – in got the travelers. (D.)
8. Then he said: “You think so? She was mixed up in this lousy business? (J.B.)
9. And she saw that Gopher Prairie was merely an enlargement of all the hamlets which they had been passing. Only to the eyes of a Kennicot was it exceptional.
Paper 11
1. What group do ellipsis, aposiopesis and represented speech belong to?
2. What SDs are based on the stylistic use of interrogative and negative constructions?
3. What is the difference between ellipsis and aposiopesis?
4.Find examples of represented speeh,rhetorical questionsin W. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
Discuss different types of stylistic devices dealing with the completeness of the sentences
1. In manner, close and dry. In voice, husky and low. In face, watchful behind a blind. (D.)
2. His forehead was narrow, his face wide, his head large, and his nose all on one side. (D.)
3. A solemn silence: Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the gentleman cautious and Mr. Miller timorous. (D.)
4. He, and the falling light and dying fire, the time-worn room, the solitude, the wasted life, and gloom, were all in fellowship. Aches, and dust, and ruin! (D.)
5. I am a horse, doctor, animal man. Do some farming, too. Near Tulip, Texas.
6. This is a story how a Baggins had an adventure. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained – well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end. (A.T.)
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7. “People liked to be with her. And - ” She paused again. “ – and she was crazy about you”. (R.W.)
8. “He was shouting out that he’d come back, that his mother had better have the money ready for him. Or else! That is what he said : “Or else! It was a threat.”
9. “Listen, I’ll talk to the butler over that phone and he’ll know my voice. Will that pass me in or do I have to ride on your back?”
“I just work here,” he said softly. “If I didn’t - ” he let the rest hang in the air, and kept on smiling. (R.Ch.)
10. “Well, they’ll get a chance now to show - ” (Hastily): “I don’t mean – But let’s forget that”. (O’N.)
11. And it was unlikely that anyone would trouble to look there – until – well.
Analyze the structure and the functions of litotes
1. “To be a good actress, she must always work for the truth in what she’s playing” the man said in a voice not empty of selflove.
2. “Yeah, what the hell”. Anne said and looking at me, gave that not unsour smile”. (R.W.)
3. It was not unnatural if Gilbert felt a certain embarrassment. (E.W.)
4. The idea was not totally erroneous. The thought did not displease me. (I.M.)
5. I was quiet, but not uncommunicative; reserved, but not reclusive; energetic at times, but seldom enthusiastic. (Jn.B.)
6. He had all the confidence in the world, and not without reason. (J. O’H)
7. Kirsten said not without dignity: “Too much talking is unwise”. (Ch.)
8. “No, I’ve had a profession and then a firm to cherish,” said Ravenstreet, not without bitterness. (P.)
Paper 12
1. What are the types of climax?
2. What is anticlimax?
3. What is the function of anticlimax?
4. What is suspense and how is it technically organized?
Find and analyze cases of suspense and climax. Indicate the type of climax
1. “Is it shark?” said Brody. The possibility that he at last was going to confront the fish – the beast, the monster, the nightmare – made Brody’s heart pound.
2. We were all in all to one another, it was the morning of life, it was bliss, it was frenzy, it was everything else of that sort in the highest degree.(D.)
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3. How many pictures of new journeys over pleasant country, of resting places under the free broad sky, of rambles in the fields and woods, and paths not often trodden – how many tones of that one well-remembered voice, how many glimpses of the form, the fluttering dress, the hair that waved so gaily in the wind – how many visions of what had been and what he hoped was yet to be – rose up before him in the old, dull, silent church!
4. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside. (D.)
5. “I shall be sorry, I shall be truly sorry to leave you, my friend.” (D.)
6. “Of course it is important. Incredibly, desperately important.” (D.S.)
7. “I’ve never told you about the letter Jane Crofut got from her minister when she was sick. He wrote Jane a letter and on the envelope the address was like this: Jane Crofut, The Crofut Farm; Grover’s Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States of America.” “What’s funny about it?” “But listen, it’s not finished: the United States of Americe; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God – that’s what it said on the envelope.” (Th.W.)
8. It was not the monotonous days unchecked by variety and uncheered by pleasant companionship, it was not the dark dreary evenings or the long solitary nights, it was not the absence of every slight and easy pleasure for which young hearts beat high or the knowing nothing of childhood but its weakness and its easily wounded spirit, that, had wrung such tears from Nell. (D.)
9. For that instant there was no one else in the room, in the house, in the world, besides themselves. (M.W.)
10. This was appalling – and soon forgotten. (G.)
11. If all my old association, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me. (D.)
12. In moments of utter crises my nerves act in most extraordinary way. When utter disaster seems imminent my whole being is simultaneously braced to avoid it. I size up the situation in flash, set my teeth, contract my muscles, take a firm grip of myself, and without a tremor always do the wrong thing. (B.Sh.)
13. “You have heard of Jefferson, of Jefferson Brick, I see, sir,” said the Colonel with a smile. “England has heard of Jefferson Brick. Europe has heard of Jefferson Brick.” (D.)
Paper 13
1. What is antithesis?
2. What is the difference between antithesis and oxymoron?
3. What are the types of repetition?
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