12. Study the phrases given below and characterize the fiction written by Dawe Shackleford.

• to have an original plot

• to have a good construction

• to have some weak points

• to have a style

• to work up to the climax like an artist

• fleeting glimpse of truth

• to spoil every denouement

• to rise to the literary highest point of the dramatic scenes

• to fly into heroic and blank verse at the emotional crises

• to evoke a corresponding expression of feeling

• a subconscious dramatic sense

• express emotions in an appropriate language

• to prove sb's point of view

• to speak stiltedly

• true-to-life words of the character

• a theory of true-to-life fiction

13. Complete the sentences..

1. Spring winked at

2. Editor Westbrook was in a good mood because _______________ 3.In the park he met ______________

3. Dawe Shackleford earned his living ____________

4. They talked about ________

5. Westbrook analyzed ______________

6. They discussed _____

7. The two men decided _____________

8. A theory of true-to-life fiction _____________

9. The two experimenters ________

10. When they reached Dawe’s place ___________

11. In the room they saw ___________

12. Westbrook and Shackleford found out that ___________

13. Dawe cried out in a deep vibrating voice _________

14. Editor Westbrook blurted between his pale lips _________

14. Say the same in Ukrainian.

1. The color of the grass between the walks was poisonous green.

2. The sky above was of that pale aquamarine tint that poets rhyme with 'true' and 'Sue' and 'coo.'

3. He gave her a compliment on her voice and she hugged him for joy at his praise.

4. Suspecting that he was about to be begged he turned a cold face and saw that it was - Dawe – Shackleford Dawe, dingy, almost ragged and shabby.

5. Dawe snapped at the cigar as a girl pecks at a chocolate cream.

6. Now don't put on that embarrassed, friendly-but-honest look and ask me why I don't get a job as a wine agent or a cab-driver.

7. Editor Westbrook gazed through his nose-glasses with a sweetly sorrowful, sympathetic, skeptical expression - the copyrighted expression of the editor.

8. 'My dear Shack,' said he 'if I know anything of life I know that very deep, sudden and tragic emotion in the human heart evokes a corresponding expression of feeling.'

9. Absurdly inappropriate words,' said Westbrook, 'they mirror life falsely.'

10. No human being ever said such words when he meets with sudden tragedy.

15. Put the verbs in brackets into the proper tense form.

And now I __________(tell) you my scheme. When I ________(be ) about to leave home after breakfast Louise ________(tell) me that she ________(be going) to visit her aunt in Eighty-ninth Street. She _________ (say) (return) home at three o'clock. She ________(be) always on time to a minute. We________ (go) to my flat at once. I________ (write) a note to her and leave it on the table where she ______(see) it as she _______(enter) the door. You and I _________(hide) in the dining-room. In the note I _________ (say) that I ________ (go) from her forever with a woman who_________ (understand) the needs of my artistic soul as she never ________(do). When she ________ (read) it we (observe) her actions and hear her words. Then we _________(know) which theory _________ (be) the correct one -

yours or mine.