3. Read the sentences, define what words are repeated and what for.

I wake up and I’m alone and I walk round Warley and I’m alone; and I talk with people and I’m alone and I look at his face when I’m home and it’s dead. (J.Braine)

It’s their wealth and security that makes everything possible makes your art possible, makes literature, science, even religion possible.

Chain repetition is recurrence of identical elements in the following way:

1. Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley. (D. du Maurier)

2. ”To think better of it,” returned the gallant Blandois, “would be to slight a lady, to slight a lady would be to be deficient in chivalry towards the sex, and chivalry towards the sex is a part of my character.” (Dickens)

The Connection between Parts of the Sentence

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I have to beg you for money. Daily. (s.Lewis)

She was crazy about you. In the beginning.

etachment makes the word prominent. Thus, from the point of view of stylistics, detachment is nothing but emphasis.

4. Read the statements, define what is detached here.

1. «Smither should choose it for her at the stores — nice and dappled» (Galsworthy)

2. I have to beg you nearly killed, ingloriously, in a jeep accident. (I.Shaw)

3. Daylight was dying, the moon rising, gold behind the poplars. (Galsworthy)

4. ‘I want to go’ he said, miserable. (Galsworthy)

R hetorical question is an affirmative or negative statement which only assumes the form of a question. The speaker never doubts what kind of answer to his question can be expected, and the conclusion is left with the hearer.

ANALYZING A POEM

If this belief from heaven be sent,

If such be Nature's holy plan,

Have I not reason to lament

What man has done of man?

What the poem is about?

Find two examples of Present Subjunctive in the poem? What does the author use them for?

Is where any possible answer to the question given?

Analyzing a poem

1. What do you see in the pictures? Who are these people? What are they?

2. Is there any connection between these people? Try to explain why one of them is happy and the other is not?

3. Why do you think the city is crumpled?

4. What’s happened to a little boy? Who is guilty? Could it possibly be that a happy man killed a child?

Read a poem and answer the following 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? What title would you give to a poem?

3. What simile is used in a poem to describe the H-bombs' thunder?

4. What is understood by the allusion to the crack of doom? Why is it compared to the H-bombs' thunder?

5. What is understood by the pronoun they? Why does the author use personification here?

6. What SD is used when the author names the earth a tomb?

7. What kind of synonymic repetition is an example of ‘tumble – crumble’?

8. What is meant by a periphrasis ‘Have his blood upon your hands’?

9. Are there any parallel constructions to enhance the action?

10. The whole poem is a sequence of rhetoric questions. Is there an answer to them? Whom are these questions addressed to? Does the decision depend on every person or only on a government?

Don't you hear the H-bombs' thunder

Echo like the crack of doom?

While they rend the skies asunder

Fall-out makes the earth a tomb;

Do you want your homes to tumble,

Rise in smoke towards the sky?

Will you let your cities crumble,

Will you see your children die?

Must you put mankind in danger,

Murder folk in distant lands?

Will you bring death to a stranger,

Have his blood upon your hands?

Shall we lay the world in ruin?

Only you can make the choice.

Stop and think of what you're doing.

Join the march and raise your voice.

Time is short; we must be speedy.

We can see the hungry filled,

House the homeless, help the needy.

Shall we blast, or shall we build ?