Identify the SSM based on Transposition. Analyse the stylistic effect created by them.

1.In love/Who respects friend? (W. Shakespeare)

2.Marius at Minturnae, Charles Edward in the Highlands, Napoleon' before Elba: – what great man has not been called upon to face evil fortune? (W. Thackery)

3.Kirsten said not without dignity: «Too much talking is unwise». (A. Christie)

4.Who will be open where there is no sympathy, or has call to speak to those who never can understand? (W. Thackery)

5.What courage can withstand the everduring and all besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? (W. Irwing)

6.It was not without satisfaction that Mrs. Sunbury perceived that Betty was offended. (S. Maugham)

6. Analyse the syntactic stylistic devices used in the following sentences:

1. Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; the inaccuracy of thought; the ignorance of humanity!

V. Woolf

2. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

W. Shakespeare

3. “The result of an upright, sober and godly life,” he laughed. “Plenty of work. Plenty of exercise…”

S. Maugham

4. And strange as it may appear, those clumps on the head often cured me – for the time being.

J.K. Jerome

5. He’s a fine man; no airs about him. Made all his money in the last five years.

O’Henry

6. …and you can’t find a coat that I put down not five minutes ago! Well, of all the…

J.K. Jerome

7. “I’ve changed completely. I’m a new person,” said Louis. “I’m tired, now, of staying indoors and contemplating my novel. I want to get out…” “And contemplate other people’s?” asked Emma. “Yes, then,” said Louis. “Look. Don’t I matter to you?”

R. Bradbury.

8. And is it in the flight of threescore years

To push eternity from human thought,

And smother souls immortal in the dust?

E. Young.

9. In the first row then of the first gallery did Mr. Jones, Mrs. Miller, her youngest daughter, and Partridge, take their places.

H. Fielding.

10. See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,

Sullen and sad, with all his rising train

Vapours and clouds, and storms.

J. Thompson.

11. He [the governor] shall neither strike, or pinch, or tickle, – or bite, or cut his nails, or hawk, or spit, or snift, or drum his feet or fingers in company; <…>

L. Sterne. Tristram Shandy.

12. Perfectly, said my mother, if it pleases you. Mr. Shandy. – There’s for you! cried my father, losing temper. – Pleases me! – You never will distinguish, Mrs. Shandy, nor shall I ever teach you to do it, betwixt a point of pleasure and a point of convenience.

L. Sterne.

13. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,

How complicate, how wonderful, is man!

E. Young.

14. Lewd whispers, groans of contrition burlesqued, winking, and coughing, alternately exciting laughter.

O. Goldsmith.

15. Curious things, habits.

A. Christie

16. В делах житейских предприимчивые, уверенные в себе, повелительные люди незаменимы. В делах сердечных петушащееся усатое мужское самодовольство отвратительно.

Б. Пастернак

17. Presently in came the owners of the cottage – seven little dwarfs who worked in the mountains digging for gold.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

18. I went to Oxford as one goes into exile; she to London.

H. Wells

19. It will not attend our sorrow.

It will not console our children.

It will not be able to help us.

Ch. Wright

20. My God! If the police come and find me here –

J. Galsworthy

21. A dark gentleman… A very bad manner. In the last degree constrained, reserved, diffident, troubled.

Ch. Dickens

22. She narrowed her eyes a trifle at me and said I looked exactly like Celia Briganza’s boy. Around the mouth.

J.D. Salinger

23. Flesh and blood is weak and trail,

Succeptible to nervous shock;

While the true Church can never fail

For it is based upon a rock.

T.S. Eliot

24. He became one of the prominent men of the House. Spoke clearly and modestly, and was never too long. Held the House where men of higher abilities “bored” it.

W. Collins

25. Undoggedly I interest myself in his (the child’s) uninteresting concerns…

B.S. Johnson

26. …a poplar, ceaselessly

Gives a soft answer to the wind:

Cool on the light her leaves lie sleeping…

С. Day Lewis

27. He who saddens

At thought of idleness cannot be idle,

And he’s awake who thinks himself asleep.

J. Keats

28. Manuel felt the wind on his back from the capes^* flopping^* at the bull, and then the bull was gone, gone over him in a rush^*. Dark, as his belly went over. Not even stepped on.

E. Hemingway

^* capes – loose outer garment without sleeves

^* flop – fall awkwardly (floppy hat – soft and loose)

^* rush – sudden and rapid movement

 

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