Assignments for stylistic analysis. 1. State the theme and the idea expressed in the extract.

1. State the theme and the idea expressed in the extract.

2. Define the form of presentation, its tone, and the narrator's attitude.

3. Characterise the sentence structure and syntactic stylistic peculiari­ties of the extract.

4. Say whether the following questions can be considered rhetoric: "what's a pension to а тал what's lost 'is sight?"; "and then what's goin' t' look after 'im?"

5. Point out and analyse cases of morphological transposition. State their function.

6. Enumerate the instances and state the stylistic function of the numer­ous illusions and orthography graphons.

7. Characterise lexico-semantic peculiarities of the following: "Give me a turn it did"; "leadin' 'im along like a child"; "Gives up all 'er life to that hoy"; "But she ain't many years for this world, crackin' up fast, she is".

8. Decide whether there is/ are any image(s) disclosed in the extract.

Item 3

The Salmon is ever bred in the fresh Rivers (and in most Rivers about the month of August) and never grows big but in the Sea; and there to an

•«credible bigness in a very short time; to which place they covet to swim, by _the instinct of nature, about a set time: but if they be stopp'd by Mills, Flood-nates or Weirs, or be by accident lost in the fresh water, when the others go (which is usually by flocks or shoals) then they thrive not.

And the old Salmon, both the Melter and Spawner, strive also to get into фе Sea before Winter; but being stopped that course, or lost, grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony oristle, to grow (not unlike a Hawks beak) on one of this chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he pines and dies.

From Izaak Walton's The Complete Angler

Assignments for stylistic analysis

1. Define the theme disclosed in the extract.

2. Decide and explain whether the subject matter is presented in realis­tic/ historical/ fantastic/ or exotic setting.

3. Characterise stylistic properties of the capitalized and italicized nouns.

4. Analyse syntactic stylistic peculiarities of the extract.

5. Decide whether the extract can be considered an article.

6. Point out and analyse the instances of morphological transposition.

7. Explain what lexico-semantic stylistic devices are observed in the fol­lowing: "not unlike a Hawks beak".

8. Say whether there is any internal/ external conflict, image(s), and what idea is expressed in the extract.

Item 4

The Soul selects her own Society -

Then - shuts the Door -

To her divine Majority -

Present no more -

Unmoved - she notes the Chariots - pausing

At her low Gate -

Unmoved - an Emperor be kneeling

Upon her Mat -

I've known her - from an ample nation -

Choose One -

Then - close the Valves of her attention -

Like Stone -

by Emily Dickinson

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