Classification.

1. Play on words may be based upon polysemy and homonymy:

a) Visitor, to a little boy:

- Is your mother engaged?

- Engaged? She is already married;

b) A young lady, weeping softly into her mother's lap:

- My husband just can't bear children!

- He needn't bear children, my dear. You shouldn't expect too much of your husband.

2. Play on words may be based upon similarity of pronunciation: John said to Pete at dinner: "Carry on". But Pete never ate carrion. Хотів розвалитися у кріслі, а воно не витримало і розвалилося ^ Ваше чадо - чудо, але не чудове, якраз навпаки.

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT

Pick out figures of combination, classify them and define their sty-listic functions.

1. Isaac's looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not. 2. For a time Jean put on a Red Cross uniform and met other ladies similarly dressed in the armory, where bandages were rolled and reputations unrolled. 3. Ben­ny reminded James, as he said afterwards, of a hungry cat. 4. Huddled in her gray fur against the sofa cushions, Aurora had a strange resemblance to a captive owl, 5. I want you all, each and every one of you all. 6. The rich arrived in pairs and also in Rolls Royces. 7.1 let a day slip by without seeing her, then three, a whole week. 8. The yacht was his inheritance, his tradition, his life. 9.1 despise New York's poorest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the painful delights, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures. 10. The lady had a mane of yellow hair too long to be called bobbed, but too loose to be called anything else. 11. When a man is in the country he amuses other people. When a man is in town he amuses himself. 12. The trouble happened because of this degrading and disgusting document, this blighting bill, this per­nicious placard, this abominable advertisement. 13. Poor Betty. She must be as poor as a church mouse. 14. The countryside seemed to faint from its own loveliness. 15. Clement was a saint in public and a devil at home. 16. More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look at him, I went into the booking-office. 17. Joe was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-go­ing, foolish dear fellow. 18. Mr. Witte's method of paying off debts would be a form of feeding a dog with bits of its own tail. 19. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us... on the right and in front and behind. 20. "Golden dreams" is a very sweet story, singularly sweet; in fact, madam, the critics are saying it is the sweetest thing that Mr. Slush has done.

CHAPTER 8

Stylistic Syntax Syntactic Stylistic Devices

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