 |
Self test. Define stylistic devices in the following examples. Keys to the test. Texts for stylistic analysis for 3 year students
|
|
|
|
SELF TEST
Define stylistic devices in the following examples
1. One is born, then, into a new world – a world of intenser feelings, heightened values, more penetrating insights.
2. Fingers of the wind lifted the red locks of her hair.
3. The ripe sweetness of the afternoon seemed to enter into her spirit, filling it to the brim.
4. Bloomy with thundery silence, the choicest fruit of all time hung there, deliciously sweet, sweet to the core; hung flushed and beautiful on the brink of darkness.
5. Here he was, worried to death about business, and she sleeping like a little child.
6. I love it. I dream of it. I have lived on it for the last three days.
7. The bell again urgently broke the ruinous silence.
8. It is not easy to look tragic at eighteen, when you are extremely pretty, with the cheeks and lips and shining eyes of perfect health.
9. His eyes blazed with light and his throat worked like a plump.
10. As it is, your furniture is eating up your income, and you are living like rats in a hole, with nowhere to go.
11. And America for twelve years had been their anathema, the Sodom and Gomorrah of industrial materialism.
12. But America at least was a darn sight better than this miserable, dirt-eating continent.
13. He glowered at her like a cornered rat.
14. Our idealists were frightfully happy.
15. The glow of beauty, like every other glow, dies down unless it is fed.
16. They even went out to get away from its ancient, cold-floored stone heavy silence and dead dignity.
17. And the new soul, instead of sweetly stealing into their bodies, seemed only meanly to gnaw the old soul out of their bodies.
18. By noon, two hundred mooncalfs, softheads, boobies, ninnyhammers, noodleheads, gawkies, and assorted oafs and thickwits would doubtless be lined up at the address given, ready to turn over all their worldlies for the rare privilege of sitting at the feet of some guru pregnant with the news that all will be well if everyone will just turn around and give his neighbor a big hug.
19. Stupid, no? Childish. Naï ve. Simple. Callow. Or just fundamentally dumb.
20. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense.
21. Only once, before she came to be my guest here, did I have the privilege to see her with it loose, and it took my breath away it was so beautiful, like a mermaid.
22. At their edges rose the virgin forests, dark and cool even in the hottest noons, mysterious, a little sinister, the soughing pines seeming to wait with an age-old patience, to threaten with soft sighs: " Be careful! Be careful! We had you once. We can take you back again. "
23. It was a secret he would never learn, for everyone from Ellen down to the stupidest field hand was in a tacit and kindly conspiracy to keep him believing that his word was law.
24. Fury flamed in her, but Gerald waved her quiet with a hand.
25. Sad were the lights in the houses opposite. Dimly they burned as if regretting something.
|
|
|
26. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
27. I am not unaware how the productions of the Grub Street brotherhood have of late years fallen under many prejudices.
28. If he wishes to float into fairyland, he reads a book; If he wishes to dash into the thick of battle, he reads a book, if he wishes to soar into heaven, he reads a book.
29. No wonder his father wanted to know what Bosinney meant, no wonder.
30. That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Keys to the test
1. Anticlimax
2. Personification
3. Metaphor
4. Metaphor, Epithet, metaphor
5. Hyperbole, Simile
6. Parenthesis, Gradation, Syntactical parallelism
7. Epithet, metaphor
8. Irony, epithet, polysyndeton
9. Metaphor, Simile
10. Personification, Simile
11. Allusion
12. Epithets
13. Simile
14. Periphrasis, Oxymoron
15. Metaphor, Personification
16. Metaphorical epithet
17. Personification
18. Hyperbole, enumeration, metaphor, irony
19. Gradation
20. Allusion
21. Inversion, simile
22. Epithets, personification
23. Metonymy
24. Metaphor
25. Inversion, personification
26. Oxymoron
27. Litotes
28. Anaphora, epiphora, parallel constructions
29. Framing
30. Antithesis
TEXTS FOR STYLISTIC ANALYSIS FOR 3 YEAR STUDENTS
1. Vanity Fair by William Thackeray. Part I. Chapter IX. Family Portraits.
2. Departure by Sherwood Anderson.
3. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy.
4. Snow by Ann Beattie.
5. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin.
6. Very Short Story by Ernest Hemingway.
7. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.
8. Mother by Grace Paley.
9. The Escape by Somerset Maugham.
10. Can-Can by Arturo Vivante.
11. The Grass Harp by Truman Capote. Chapter II.
12. Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote.
13. Fatherless Sons by Dyson Carter. Part one, Chapter I.
14. The House of the Peacock by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
15. Hatter’s Castle by Archibald Joseph Cronin.
16. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Chapter XIII.
17. The White Monkey by John Galsworthy. Chapter IX. Confusion.
18. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest M. Hemingway. Chapter XV.
19. Excursion in Reality by Evelyn Waugh.
20. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren.
21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Chapter I.
22. Angel Pavement by John Boyton Priestley. Chapter IV.
23. Babbit by Sinclair Lewis.
24. Fear by James B. Henderson.
25. Parson’s Pleasure by Roald Dahl.
26. Nobody Knows by Sherwood Anderson.
|
|
|
