5. Translate the following examples of the oxymoron

Cruel to be kind; abundant poverty; old news; alone together; living dead; sweet sorrow; accurate estimate; sad smile; act naturally; permanent change; same difference; desirable calamity; holy war; wicked good; wise fool; hellish paradise; terribly popular; diet ice cream; organized mess; eloquent silence; cheerful pessimist; despairing hope; poor millionaire; jumbo shrimp

Analyzing a poem

1. What do you see in the pictures?

2. Why is a boy looking out of the window? What has happened?

3. What can you tell about his house? Where is it situated?

4. What happened to his parents?

Read a poem written by H.W.Longfellow, answer the questions:

1. What is the poem about? What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel?

2. What did the author want to tell us? Why is a poem called The Twilight?

3. What are the epithets used in the poem to describe a) twilight b) wind c) night wind c) light d) ocean e) casement?

4. What kind of simile is used to describe the caps of the sea? Is it a quiet sea?

5. What SD is used in the statement ‘Flash the white caps of the sea’? What for?

6. What does the word ‘night’ mean in the extract ‘Pierce out into the night’? what does a child feel?

7. What stylistic device is used in the extract ‘Close, close … were looking into the darkness? What for?

8. Describing the woman in the fisherman’s cottage the author uses mostly the Participles? Why do you think?

9. In two last passages there is repetition of one and the same phrase ‘as they beat’? What did the author compare? What is the effect?

10. A story in the poem ends with two rhetoric questions. Is there an answer to them? Can you suggest your suggestion? What is the end of the story?

The Twilight by h. W. Longfellow

The twilight is sad and cloudy,

The wind blows wild and free,

And like the wings of the sea birds

Flash the white caps of the sea.

But in the fisherman’s cottage

There shines a radiant light,

And a little face at the window

Pierce out into the night.

Close, close it is pressed to the window,

As if those childish eyes

Were looking into the darkness

To see some form arise.

And woman’s waving shadow

Is passing to and fro,

Now rising to the ceiling,

Now bowing and bending low.

What tale do the roaring ocean

And the night wind, bleak and wild,

As they beat at the crazy casement,

Tell to the little child?

And why do the roaring ocean

And the night wind wild and bleak

As they beat at the heart of the mother

Drive the colour from her cheek?

S tylistic syntax

1. Absence of syntactical elements

2. Excess of syntactical elements

Stylistic syntax is the branch of linguistics which investigates the stylistic value of syntactic forms, stylistic functions of syntactic phenomena, their stylistic classifications as well as their appurtenance to sublanguages or styles.

STYLISTIC EXPRESSIVE MEANS BASED ON:

Absence of syntactical elements – ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominatives, asyndeton, zeugma

Excess of syntactical elements – repetition, framing, anadiplosis, prolepsis, polysyndeton