You really should see a doctor about all those visits to the john

But I had no intention of chatting with a man I could have cheerfully murdered.

In out wrinkled suits and rumpled neckties, we were a sorry-looking lot, clearly out of place among the peacocks in their assorted finery. Little did these birds know that we were what they had paid so handsomely to hear.

Once again, I drew the short straw.

With a look that blended condescension and arrogance, he lifted his baton and his eyebrows and his expectations.

She launched into a tirade of Spanish that sounded like a small, cross terrier yipping in the night.

A mammoth gray limousine drove up, and a matching gray driver (gray hair, gray uniform, gray face) emerged as if from a tomb.

Miss Ice-Eyes looked at me in total astonishment. She really had remarkable eyes -laser beams, they were.

Besides herself, the board members include Police Commissioner Lorenzo DaPonto and his better half, Lisa.

I have never played under his baton.

In my opinion, his ear and eye were as sharp as ever.

I listen to him in stony silence.

I knew all about Fun City - riots, murders, corruption, drug dealing, crimes.

6. Probably because her remarkable blue eyes had become cold, and glacial, lowering the temperature for miles around.

10. Her next sentence went along these lines: “Ah just know you’ll wonna rest up aftuh that ordeal. But fuhst, though, ah’d like ya to meet the sponsprs of ouah fine festival.

11. “Is that seat taken, Mr. Field?”

“Well, I think Ms Hasse ….

15. Oh, what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a terrible P.M.

18. That’s what makes a live performance so exciting - the «how is he going to get out of this one?» syndrome.

19. “Performing?’ I asked.? “You were a …?”

“Singer. Bass baritone.”

“Operatic?”

“Yes.”

SD based on interaction of several syntactical constructions in a certain context

Prof. Galperin - compositional patterns of syntactical arrangement

Parallelism - the repetition of several identical syntactical patterns closely following one another

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. (R. Chandler)

background for stylistic convergence:

And it must have been fun – though I can’t remember much about it – to sail home again; and fun, of course, to get home. And pleasant, perhaps, to reappear at school as a man of wide world. And endurable – it had to be – to stay there one more year. (R. Kent)

Types:

Partial parallelism

He wouldn’t listen to the music any more. He would break the record. He would give the machine away. He would lift the blind of the window. He would turn on all the lights and open his eyes. He would come to the room only to sleep. He would go down to the pool-room and find a couple of boys. He would stop being alone. (W. Saroyan)

Complete parallelism

He’d seen people. He’d seen roads. He’d seen fields. He’d seen trees.

functions

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