I. State the type and function of high-flown words in the following examples:

1. “I must decline to pursue this painful discussion. It is not pleasant to my feelings; it is repugnant to my feelings.” (Ch. Dickens)

2. Towards the end of the following month, parcels of books began to arrive periodically at Vale View from the London branch of the International Medical Library. … He discovered and was swamped by the therapeutic advance of biochemistry. He discovered renal thresholds, blood ureas, basal metabolism, and the ballibility of the albumen test. As this keystone of his student’s days fell from him he groaned aloud. (A.Cronin)

3. “He of the iron garment,” said Daigety, entering, “is bounden unto you, MacEagh, and this noble lord shall be bounden also.” (W.Scott)

4. Riding back I saw the Greeks lined up in column of march. They were all still there. Also, all armed. On long marches when no action threatened, they had always piled their armour, helmets and weapons in their carts, keeping only their sword; wearing their short tunics (made from all kinds of stuff, they had been so long from home) and the wide straw hats Greek travel in, their skins being tender to sun. Now they had on corselets or cuirasses, helmets, even grades if they owed them, and their round shields hung at their backs. (M.Renault)

5. I showed them the papers, which were written in a very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American (E.Hemingway).

6. She had been charmed. It was so chic (J.Galsworthy).

7. Wee modest crimson tipped flow’r,

Thou’s met me in an evil hour;

For I maun crush amang the stoure

Thy slender stem:

To spare thee now is past my pow’r

Thou bonnie gem. (R.Burns)

II. Comment on the usage of the following colloquial words:

1. “She’s engaged. Nice guy, too. Though there’s a slight difference in height. I’d say a foot, her favor.” (T.Capote)

2. I didn’t really do anything this time. Just pulled the dago out of the river. Like all dagos, he couldn’t swim. Well, the fellow was sort of grateful about it. Hung around like a dog. (A.Christie)

3. “What’s the dif,” he wanted to know. (Th. Smith)

4. “There we were … in the hell of a country – pardon me – a country of raw metal”. (J.Galsworthy)

5. “All those medical bastards should go through the ops they put other people through. Then they wouldn’t talk so much bloody nonsense or be so damnably unutterably smug.” (D.Cussack)

6. “Nix on that,” said Roy. “I don’t need a shyster quack to shoot me full of confidence juice. I want to go through on my own steam.” (B.Malamud)

7. “Father, said one of the children at breakfast. – I want some more ‘am please”. – You mustn’t say ‘am, my child, the correct form is ‘am, – retorted his father, passing the plate with sliced ham on it. “But I did say ‘am, pleaded the boy”. “No, you didn’t: you said ‘am instead of ‘am”. The mother turned to the guest smiling: “Oh, don’t mind them, sir, pray. They are both trying to say ‘am and both think it is ‘am they are saying”.