Read the following utterances and identify the underlined stylistic devices

Make sure you remember the LDs whose definitions are given below.

1 an attributive word or phrase giving an object an individual perception and evaluation of its properties or features.

2 an expressed imaginative comparison based on the likeness of two subjects or ideas belonging to different classes.

3 an implied imaginative comparison expressed in a word or words or sentences.

4 an LD which represents an inanimate object as having human characteristics.

5 an LD where the literal meaning is the opposite of the intended meaning.

6 an LD in which the name of a thing is replaced by the name of an associated thing.

7 a combination of 2 words with opposite meanings.

8 blending together two or more semantically incompatible word groups.

9 combination of 2 words with opposite meanings.

10 a SD in which the name of a famous person is put for a person having the same features.

11 an overstatement or exaggeration of a feature essential to the object.

12 a roundabout way of naming an object or phenomenon.

13 a milder way of naming something that seems rough or unpleasant.

14 a wise saying.

15 a short clever amusing saying or a poem.

16 a play on words.

17 a phrase or sentence taken from a work of literature, usually marked graphically.

18 a word or phrase which lost its originality.

19 an implied or indirect reference supposedly know to the reader.

40* Say what should be taken into account to differentiate the following LDs? Make necessary notes. The first two entries are done for you.

An epithet – based on the interplay of logical and emotive meaning; subjective and evaluative;	A logical attribute – objective and non-evaluating
A simile	A logical comparison
A simile	A metaphor
Zeugma	Oxymoron
Overstatement	Understatement
Logical periphrasis	Figurative periphrasis
Cliché	Proverb
Epigram	Pun
Quotation	Allusion

1 You never saw such a barren (бесплодный), boring landscape in your life, like the surface of the moon in a heatwave.

2 Do tear yourself away from the television and come out for a walk.

3 The car is incredibly, hearstoppingly beautiful.

4 The solution to the mystery burst in my head like a flare (вспышка, взрыв).

5 I felt like a sponger that had been saturated and squeezed so often that it had lost its spring.

6 A powerful sun was burning the last mist off the lake to reveal a dazzling silver mirror beneath.

7 Their furniture was about as comfortable as a cactus.

8 He is a bull when he is roused.

9 The food was so delicious that I took it home for my dog.

10 The whole world greeted his latest invention with ridicule.

11 He usually manages to bulldoze his way through the committee meetings.

12 My daddy was a loving man/My father loved his daughter/My daddy bought himself a van/And with it killed his daughter.

13 I got back to my room last night wet with wine and good intention for today but now they are both floating out to sea with the rain that falls forever outside my door.

14 Pity melted his heart.

15 I tried to sell him my old car, but he wouldn’t bite.

16 I felt about as sexy as a sack of Brussels sprouts.

17 The hotel was a huge and splendid rubbish dump.

18 The centre forward was so skillful that he managed to knee the ball over the bar from five yards out.

19 She danced as daintily(изящно) as a cow.

20 I’d prefer to describe him as stout.

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