- •A guide to stylistics
- •Contents
- •Foreword
- •Section 1 Stylistics: Introduction into the Field. Cognitive Style. Functional Styles.
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- •10. Define the genre, the functional style and its specific characteristics in the following extracts.
- •11. Use the intensifier with each of the adjectives. The first two have been done as an example:
- •12. Complete the sentences using the adverbs below and a suitable adjective.
- •13. In spoken English, it's possible to emphasize certain parts of a sentence simply by using stress. Which words would you stress in the following sentences to emphasize the information in brackets?
- •Section 2 The Language of Literature as an Object of Stylistics.
- •1. Compare the neutral and the colloquial (or literary) modes of expression:
- •2. Link together the suitable pairs of words making a stylistic opposition:
- •3. A. Which of the following phrases would you use while commenting on someone's features to express a) respect b) amusement c) contempt?
- •4. Analyse the semantic structure of the following words:
- •5. State what connotative component(s) of lexical meaning the following words represent.
- •Section 3 Lexical Means of Expressiveness
- •1. Do a jigsaw task identifying examples of metonymy in the columns. Choose at least 5 cases of metonymy and explain why the original use of a word has turned into a metonymical one.
- •9. Analyse cases of metaphor into the components of its structure.
- •10. A. Identify the trope and its type in the following sentences:
- •11. Indicate the metonymy and the type of metonymical relations.
- •12. State the type and structure of the epithets.
- •13. What trope is used in the following examples?
- •14. A. Concentrate on cases of hyperbole and understatement.
- •15. Before analysing cases of irony look at this definition from a Dictionary of Literary Terms by g.A. Cuddon:
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- •16. Define the device used:
- •17. Discriminate between metaphor, simile and personification in the following examples:
- •18. Define the stylistic device and explain what the effect produced by it is based on.
- •19. Identify the tropes in the following Russian examples:
- •Section 4 Stylistic Phraseology. Stylistic Morphology.
- •1. Read the sentences and discuss different ways in which j. Galsworthy refreshes proverbs and sayings by violating phraseological units. What effect is gained by this?
- •2. Analyse various cases of play on words, indicate how it is created and what effect it adds to the utterance.
- •3. Analyse the structure and purpose of creating the author's neologisms:
- •4. Find out and explain the morphological and phraseological devices:
- •Section 5 Stylistic Syntax.
- •1. Specify on the ssm based on Compression.
- •2. Identify the ssm based on Recurrence.
- •3. Keep the conversation going using False Anadiplosis and the counterarguments to make the utterance complete.
- •4. Read the sentences in which the ssm grouped under Inversion are used. Define the type of the inversions.
- •5. Identify the ssm based on Transposition. Analyse the stylistic effect created by them.
- •6. Analyse the syntactic stylistic devices used in the following sentences:
- •Identify the lexical and syntactic stylistic means in the following examples. Specify the function performed by them.
- •8. Specify on all the stylistic devices employed by the authors in the following examples. Identify and analyse the stylistic effect of the devices used.
- •Section 6 Stylistic Phonetics.
- •1. Identify the phonetic stylistic means in the following examples and specify the function performed by them:
- •Section 7 Extracts for Comprehensive Stylistic Analysis.
- •More you can do Do the independent stylistic analysis of the following texts.
- •Exam issues
- •Reading matters in stylistics
1. Compare the neutral and the colloquial (or literary) modes of expression:
1. «Also it will cost him a hundred bucks as a retainer». «Huh?» Suspicious again. Stick to basic English.
«Hundred dollars», I said. «Iron men. Fish. Bucks to the number of one hundred. Me no money, me no come. Savvy?» I began to count a hundred with both hands. (R. Chandler)
2. «... some thief in the night boosted my clothes whilst I slept. I sleep awful sound on the matresses you have here».
«Somebody boosted ... ?»
«Pinched. Jobbed. Swiped. Stole», he says happily. (K. Kesey)
3. «Now take fried, crocked, squiffed, loaded, plastered, blotto, tidied, stinko, viled, polluted».
«Yes», I said.
«That's the next set of words 1 am decreasing my vocabulary by», said Ath-erton. «Tossing them all out in favor of -»
«Intoxicated?» I supplied.
«I favor fried», said Atherton. «It's shorter and monosyllabic, even though it may sound a little harsher to the squeamish-minded». (P.G. Wodehouse)
4. «Do you talk?» asked Bundle. «Or are you just strong and silent?» «Talk?» said Anthony. «I babble. I murmer. I burble – like a running
brook, you know. Sometimes I even ask questions». (A. Christie)
5. «I say, old boy, where do you hang out?» Mr. Pickwick responded that he was at present suspended at the George and Vulture. (Ch. Dickens)
Mrs. Sunbury never went to bed – she retired, but Mr. Sunbury who was not quite so refined as his wife always said: «Me for Bedford». (S. Maugham)
The famous Alderman objected to the phrase in Canning's inscription for a Pitt Memorial «He died poor» and wished to substitute «He expired in indigent circumstances». (S. Lucas)
8. Ask a teenager today what he thought of last night's rock show. If he liked it, it was «wicked» or «totally awesome». But if he didn't, it was «groady» or «harsh».
Slang is not the talk of board rooms and diplomatic sessions. Because young people spend more time informally than adults, and slang is a product of relaxing the rules, high schools and college campuses are breeding grounds for it. (C. Rosenberg)
2. Link together the suitable pairs of words making a stylistic opposition:
A
1 maiden a) ocean
slay b) horse
eve с) girl
ire d) morning
5main е e) evening
6 morn f) anger
7 steed g) kill
B
1 summon a) send off
2 accommodation b) carriage
3 sustain c) get
4 donation d) room
5 conveyance e) gift
6 dispatch f) suffer
7 obtain g) send for
C
1 uncouth a) beautiful
2 oft b) presently
3 naught c) hear
4 fair d) strange
5 hearken e) sorrow
6 anon f) often
7 woe g) nothing
To which layers of the vocabulary do these words belong?
3. A. Which of the following phrases would you use while commenting on someone's features to express a) respect b) amusement c) contempt?
1) What a face! 2) What a countenance! 3) What a dial!
В. Make three columns headed: Approval, Neutral. Disapproval, and put the following words in the appropriate columns:
stench, scent, odour
perspire, sweat, glow
horse, nag, charger
tousled, unkempt, uncombed
garb, clothes, attire