What device is represented by the marked words?

What allusion is made in the extract?

Explain the meaning of these euphemisms

Comment on the peculiarities of antonomasia

State which of the attributes represent epithets

Distinguish between metonymy and metaphor

State which of the comparative structures represent metaphors and similes

He has a tongue like a sward and a pen like a dagger. (H. Caine)

You talk exactly like my father!

The laugh in her eyes died out... (M. Spillane)

The grin made his large teeth resemble a dazzling miniature piano keyboard in the green light. (J. Jones)

// was his habit not to jump or leap at anything in life but to crawl at everything. (Dickens)

He earns his living by his pen. (S. Maugham) /... came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack. (Steinbeck) Money burns a hole in my pocket. (T. Capote)

... whispered the spinster aunt with true spinster-aunt-like envy.

(Dickens)

A lock of hair fell over her eye and she pushed it back with a tired, end-of-the-dayjesture. (J. Braine)

The money she had accepted was two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills. (Dreiser)

4. Comment on the play upon words:

His arm about her, he led her in and bawled, 'Ladies and worser halves, the bride!' (S. Lewis)

Then there were the twin boys, whom the family called "Stars and Stripes ", as they were whipped regularly. (O. Wilde)

There comes a period in every man's life, but she's just a semicolon in his. (S. Evans) (period in American English means " a full stop")

Did you hit a woman with a child? — No, sir, I hit her with a brick. (Th. Smith)

lsn 't it discouraging when it takes two days to fly a letter from coast to coast? I get so mad I mark the envelopes ■'Air-Snail". (example from the work by С.Ж. Нухов)

5. Point out litotes and hyperbole

She was not without realization already that this thing was impossible, so far as she was concerned. (Dreiser)

Joe Clegg also looked surprised and possibly not too pleased. (Christie)

Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. (Fitzgerald)

Every Caesar has his Brutus. (O. Henry) There are three doctors in an illness like yours... Dr. Rest, Dr. Diet and Dr. Fresh air. (D. Cusack)

7 expect you 'd like a wash,' Mrs. Thompson said. 'The bathroom 's to the right and the usual offices next to it'. (J. Braine)

Why, in the name of all the infernal powers, Mrs. Merdle...? (Dickens)

"Christ, it's so funny! Madame Bovary at Columbia Extension School!" (Salinger)

Break, break, break

On the cold gray stones, О Sea! (A. Tennison)

10. Point out how irony is created below:

To look at Montmorency, you would imagine that he was an angel sent upon the earth. At first I never thought he would survive. I used to sit down and look at him as he sat on the rug and looked up at me, and think: "Oh, that dog will never live. He will be taken to the bright skies in a chariot, that's what will happen to him ". But when I had paid for about a dozen chickens that he had killed... then I began to think that maybe they would let him remain on earth a bit longer. (Jerome)

V. Structural Stylistic Devices

1. State the type of inversion:

What the action of the play would have been like if Laertes had not had the occasion to revenge the death of his father, we cannot tell. (Literary criticism)

Had this happened before supper, George would have expressed wishes and desires concerning Harris's fate in this world and the next that would have made a thoughtful man shudder. (Jerome)

Calm and quiet below me in the sun and shade lay the old house. (Dickens)

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