V. Distinguish between metonymy and metaphor
Seminar №1.
Theme: Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
I State metaphors and similes
1. He has a tongue like a sward and a pen like a dagger.
2. You talk exactly like my father!
3. The laugh in her eyes died out...
4. The grin made his large teeth resemble a miniature piano keyboard in the green light.
5.It was his habit not to jump or leap at anything in life but to crawl (ползать) at everything.
6. She was obstinate as a mule, always had been, from a child.
7. The clock has struck, time was bleeding away.
8. The air was hot and felt like a kiss as we stepped off the plane.
9. In November a cold stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked (подкрадываться) about the colony. Touching one here and there with ice fingers.
10. England had two eyes, Oxford and Cambridge. They are the two intellectual eyes.
11. He felt like an old book: spine (корешок книги) defective, covers dull, rather shaken copy.
12. She was still fat; the destoyer of his figure sat at the head of the table.
13. He would make some money and then he would come back and marry his dream from Blackwood.
II.Comment on the play upon words:
1. Did you hit a woman with a child? — No, sir, I hit her with a brick. (Th. Smith)
2. I’m full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.
3. “Someone at the door,” he said, blinking. “Some four, I should say by the sound,” said Fili.
4. “Good morning,” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining and the grass was very green. (A.T.)
5. When you decide to give her a ring, give us a ring. (a jeweller’s shop).
III. Finish the sentence with zeugma.
1. She found her purse and…2 He was in his room and… 3 They ruined the city and…4 His back and…was hurting him.
IV. Complete similes with the words:a church mouse, a bat, hills, a judge, a fox, a kitten
1 as weak as…2 as sober as a … 3 as poor as … 4 as old as … 5 as blind as…6 as cunning as…
V. Distinguish between metonymy and metaphor
1. He earns his living by his pen.
2. ... came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack.
3.Money burns a hole in my pocket.
4. Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes. You can’t know beforehand.
5. He smelled the ever-beautiful smell of coffee imprisoned in the can.
6. “We need you so much here. It’s a dear old town, but it’s a rough diamond.
7. He went about her room, after his introduction, looking at her pictures, her bronzes and clays, asking after the creator of this, the painter of that, where a third thing came from.
8. Except for a lack of youth, the guests had no common theme, they seemed strangers among strangers; indeed, each face, on entering, had straggled to conceal dismay at seeing others there.
9. She saw around her red lips, powdered cheeks, cold, hard eyes, self-possessed faces.
10. Dinah, a slim, fresh, pale eighteen, was pliant and fragile.
VI. Point out litotes and hyperbole
1. Joe Clegg also looked surprised and possibly not too pleased.
2. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
3. “How slippery it is, Sam.” “Not an uncommon thing upon ice, Sir,” replied Mr. Weller.
4. God, I cried buckets. (слезы ручьем текли).
5. Tom was conducted through a maze of rooms and labyrinths of passages.
6. I was scared to death when he entered the room. (S.)
7. The girls were dressed to kill.
8. She was a giant of a woman
9. The little woman, for she was of pocket size, crossed her hands.
10. We danced on the handkerchief-big space between the tables.
11. She wore a pink hat, the size of a button.
VII. Point out how irony is created below:
1. 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.
2. She’s a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket (ведро) of mud and if she has washed her hair since Colledge’s second term, I’ll eat my spare tire (запасное колесо).
3. With all the expressiveness of a stone Welsh stared at him another twenty seconds.
4. “Well. It’s shaping up into a lovely evening, isn’t it?” “Great,” he said. “And if I may say so, you’re doing everything to make it harder, you little sweet.”
5. Sonny Grosso was a worrier who looked for and frequently managed to find, the dark side of most situations.
6. Bookcases covering one wall boasted a half-shelf of literature. (T.C.)