3. Differentiate professional and social jargonisms; classify them according to the narrow sphere of us­age, suggest a terminological equivalent where possible.

1. She came out of her sleep.in a nightmare struggle for breath, her eyes distended in horror, the strangling cough tearing her again and again . . . Bart gave her the needle. (D. C.)

2. I'm here quite often—taking patients to hospitals for majors and so on. (S. L.)

3. "I didn't know you knew each other," I said. "A long time ago it was," Jean said. "We did History Final together at Coll." (K. A.)

4. They have graduated from Ohio State together, him­self with an engineering degree. (J.)

5. The arrangement was to keep in touch by runners and by walkie-talkie. (St. H)

II) Stylistic devices

1. Epithet

Exercises

1. Discuss the structure of epithets.

1. "Can you tell me what lime thai game starts today?" The girl gave him a lipsticky smile. (S.)

2. The day was windless, unnaturally mild; since mor­ning the sun had tried to penetrate the cloud, and now above the Mall, the sky was still faintly luminous, col-oured like water over sand. (Hut.)

3.Silent early morning dogs parade majestically peck­ing and choosing judiciously whereon to pee. (St.)

4. The hard chairs were the newlywed-suit kind, often on show in the windows of shops. (K. A.)

5. ... whispered the spinster aunt with true spinster-aunt-like envy ... (D.)

6. I closed my eyes, smelling the goodness of her sweat and the sunshine-in-the-breakfast-room smell of her laven­der-water. (J. Br.)

7. Stark stared at him reflectively, that peculiar about to laugh, about to cry, about to sneer expression on his face. (J.)

8. Eden was an adept at bargaining, but somehow all his cunning left him as he faced this Gibraltar of a man.(E.D.B.)

9. At his full height he was only up to her shoulder,a little dried-up pippin of a man. (G.)

10. "Thief," Pilon shouted. "Dirty pig of an untrue friend." (St.)

11. An ugly gingerbread brute of a boy with a revolting grin and as far as I was able to ascertain, no redeeming qualities of any sort. (P G W.) ..

12.A breeze . . . blew curtains in and out like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling. (Sc. F.)

2. Metonymy

Exercises

1. State the type of relations existing between the object named and the object implied in the following examples of metonymy.

1. She saw around her, clustered about the white ta­bles, multitudes of violently red lips, powdered cheeks, cold, hard eyes, self-possessed arrogant faces, and insolent bosoms. (A. B.)

2. The trenchful of dead Japanese made him feel even worse but he felt he must not show this, so ho had joined in with the others; but his heart wasn't in it.(J.)

3. It must not be supposed that stout women of a cer­tain age never seek to seduce the eye and trouble the med­itations of man by other than moral charms (A. B.)

4. Daniel was a good fellow, honorable, brilliant, a fig­ure in the world. But what of his licentious tongue? What of his frequenting of bars? (A. B.)

5. If you knew how to dispose of the information, you could do the Axis quite a bit of good by keeping your eyes and ears open in Grelley. (P.)

6. "You've got nobody to blame but yourself." "Тhe saddest words of tongue or pen." (I. Sh.)

7. The syntax and idiom оf the voice, in common conversation, are not the syntax and idiom of the pen. (V.)

8. For several days he took an hour after his work to make inquiry taking with him some examples of his pen and inks. (Dr.)

9. The praise . . . was enthusiastic enough to have delighted anу common writer who earns his living by his pen . . . (S.M.)

10. . . .there would follow splendid years of great works carried out together, the old head backing the young fire. (K.)

2. Differentiate between trite and original metonymies

1. . . for every look that passed between them, and word they spoke, and every card they played, the dwarf had eyes and ears. (D.)

2.". . .he had a stinking childhood." "If it was so stinking why does he cling to it?"

"Use your head. Can't you see it's just that Rusty feels safer in diapers than he would in skirts?" (T. C.)

3. "Some remarkable pictures in this room, gentlemen. A Holbein, two Van Dycks, and, if I am not mistaken, a Velasquez. I am interested in pictures!" (Ch.)

4. Mrs. Amelia Bloomer invented bloomers in 1849 for the very daring sport of cycling. (I. W.)

5. "I shall enjoy a bit of a walk." "It's raining, you know." "I know. I’ve got a Burberry." (Ch.)

6. Two men in uniforms were running heavily to the Administration building. As they ran, Christian saw them throw away their rifles. They were portly men who looked like advertisements for Munich beer, and running came hard to them . . . The first prisoner stopped and picked up one of the discarded rifles. He did not fire it, but carried it, as he chased the guards . . .He swung the rifle like a club, and one of the beer advertisements went down. (I. Sh.)

7. I get my living by the sweat of my brow. (D.)

8. I crossed a high toil bridge and negotiated a no man's land and came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack.(St.)

9. Torn and Roger came back to eat an enormous tea and then played tennis till light failed.

(S. M.)