Lexical stylistic devices

Stylistic Devices

TEXT INTERPRETATION.

BOOK REPORT

1.	Information on the author.
2.	The plot. (quotations).
3.	The characters (quotations).
4.	The problems raised.
5.	Impressions.
6.	Questions to the audience.

Extracts from the books to be studied and interpreted/analyzed.

1.	J. London	‘‘Martin Eden”
2.	M. Wilson	‘‘Live with Lightening”
3.	A. Bennet	‘‘The Wind”
4.	W.S. Maugham	‘‘The Moon and Sixpence”
5.	R. Aldington	‘‘Death of a Hero”
6.	A. Coppard	‘‘Fifty Pounds”

The extracts are to be found:

1.	Воинова, Т.П. Belles-Lettres Text Analysis: Учеб. – метод. пособие / Т.П Воинова, Т.В Кононенко, А.В Охременко, В.С Шахлай – 2-ое изд., перераб. и доп. – Минск: МГЛУ, 2003. – 70c.
2.	Охременко, А.В. Анализ художественного текста / Методическая разработка для студентов IV курса ф-та англ. языка / А.В Охременко, В.С Шахлай. – Минск: МГПИИЯ, 1990. – 85c.

Metaphor	In his opinion he had never been able to conquer pride (A.H.). Louie felldown the stairs to the telephone. He was very excited, and began to call joyously in all directions he shared his plans with Herb and Morrie and Bat, and then toreover to the hospital (Th.W.).
Sustained metaphor	Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles willdevour (O. N.). The idea grew and flowered (Th. W.).
Personification	Trees wrappedthick grey mist round their shoulders to protect their last leaves (J.C.). Florence was little more than a child in years – not yet fourteen – and the loneliness and gloom of such an hour in the great house where Death had lately made its own tremendous devastation, might have set on older fancy brooding on vague terrors (D.).
Metonymy	The train … carried its maximum cargo of wet clothes, the wearers of which were simply so many irritable ghosts (J.B.P.). It was the first time a mink coat had ever walked into his office (J.A.).
Irony	Stony smiled the sweet smile of an alligator (J. St.). Henry could get gloriouslytipsy on tea and conversation (Al. H.).
Sarcasm	But every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. …As the great champion of freedom and national independence he conquers and annexes half the world and calls it Colonization (B. Sh.).
Hyperbole	…he’ll go to sleep, my God he should, eight martinis before dinner and enough winetowashanelephant (T.C.).
Understatement	There was not a fraction of a second without its flash and roar (R.A.).
Epithet	Tea that evening was partaken in fearsome silence (H.M.).The principle picture on the program was pathetic and they all cried happily and generously (Th. W.).
Oxymoron	He was also the most outrageously attractive man, Abby had ever seen (J.C.). The little girl who had done this was eleven – beautifullyugly as little girls are apt to be who art destined after a few years to be inexpressibly lovely…(Sc. F.).

Zeugma	He felt perfectly capable of being in disgrace and in a gooseberry garden at the same time (H.M.). Have you been seeing any spirits?” inquired the old gentleman. “Or taking any?” added Bob Allen (D.).
Pun	Did you hit a woman with a child? No. Sir, I hit her with a brick (Th. S.).
Semantically False Chain	He installed a wall-to-wall carpet in the living room, an oak table in the dining room, a dishwasher in the kitchen, and more than occasionally Miss Bigelow in the bedroom (J.A.).
Violation of the Phraseological Unit	He finds time to have a finger or a foot in most things that happen round here. (J.L.). Little Jon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth which was rather curly and large (G.).

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