II. Questions and Topics for Analysis

1. Why did Dixon feel “like a special agent, a picaroon, a Chicago war-lord, a hidalgo, an oil baron, a mohock” (p. 132).

2. Explain the meaning of the phrase: “Dixon … realized that the third round of his campaign against Bertrand was about to begin” (p. 136).

3. What did Dixon learn from the conversation with Carol? (about Margaret, Bertrand, Carol herself, her husband Cecil).

4. What advice did Carol give him? Did he follow it?

5. Characterize Gore-Urguhart, Margaret, Bertrand, Carol, Christine and Dixon from a perspective of the new facts you have learned. Explain how your attitude to them has changed after you read the chapters and the way they behaved in various situations. Specify the most essential episodes for the development of these characters.

III. Focus on Writing

1. Choose a paragraph for translation.

2. Write summaries of both chapters.

3. Dixon was trying to court Bertrand’s girl. What do you think of the moral aspect of the situation? Write an argumentative essay (100-120 words) analyzing the situation presented in the chapters.

IV. Focus on Text Analysis

Metaphor is an imaginative identification of one concept with another (e.g. the floor of heaven). Thus, the author compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other. Unlike a simile metaphor claims that one thing IS another thing, not LIKE it (e.g. You are my sun! – metaphor; fortune is like glass – the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken – simile). In other words, when creating a metaphor the author replaces the already existing word with an objectively “inadequate” word (e.g. the starlit sky is replaced with the floor inlaid with bright gold). As we see the sky is compared to the floor. This comparison is unique and is based on a single subjective experience.

There can be nominative metaphors (e.g. the apple of the eye, a leg of the table), when one name is substituted for by another; cognitive metaphors (black despair, time flies), which is created as a result of qualifying abstract notions with the help of more “material” features ; generalizing metaphors serve to destroy the borderline between different notions (bounty – a chocolate bar “Bounty”, the one that can be considered as a dear present); figurative or image-bearing metaphors appeal to readers’ imagination and help to understand an object through a certain image (e.g. and her time with him was an island of calm in the sea of terror).

Find in the chapters and write down in your copy books examples of metaphors. Explain the ground of likeness between the compared objects and analyze the effect they produce in the text.

Mid-Term Test

1. Find two synonyms to the words in italics. Translate the italicized words:

e.g. scarcely – barely, hardly (ледве);

impel –

fatigue –

predicament –

avidity -

convalescence -

innocuous -

endeavour -

dissent –

exaltation -

forgery -

difficulty, force, harmless, try, exhaustion, fraud, recovery, tiredness, urge, trouble, fake, delight, differ, rapture, gluttony, inoffensive, disagree, rehabilitation, greed, attempt.