Assignments for stylistic analysis

1. Define the theme of the extract. Is it disclosed through (1^st/ 3^rd person) narration or description?

2. Describe the tone of the extract (whether it is casual/ sympathetic/ cheerful/ serious/ humorous/ mock-serious/ lyrical/ dramatic/ excited/ agitated/ passionate/ impassive/ detached/ matter-of-fact/ dry/ impartial/ melancholy/ moralising/ unemotional/ pathetic/ sarcastic/ ironical/ sneering/ bitter/ or reproachful, etc.) and the author's attitude to the introduced characters. Explain the pragmatic peculiarity of the word "slumbers" and find stylistic devices in the following: "the unseen power in the next room — a certain Betty"; "she wakened of herself 'as sure as clockwork', and left the household very little peace afterwards". Say if there is any contrast between the two girls, and whether the author resorts to direct or indirect characterization.

3. Analyse the structure and the pragmatic effect of the introductory sentence. Define the stylistic essence of the phrase "the old rigmarole of childhood".

4. Characterise all the other syntactic stylistic peculiarities of the passage, analyse their functions.

5. Define the idea expressed in the extract.

Theoretical items for independent personal consideration

1. The text information category.

2. Factual and conceptual information in the text content. The notion of implication.

Literature recommended

1. Борисова Л. В. Практическое пособие по интерпретации текста. - Минск, 1987. - C. 80-93, 10-46.

2. Долинин К. А. Интерпретация текста (фр. яз.) - M., 1985. - C. 4-142.

3. Пелевина Н. Ф. Стилистический анализ художественного текста - M., 1980. - C. 184-187, 229-234.

Independent personal work 4

Phonetics, Etc.

Note: Measuring the rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables alter­nation can be realized in the following metrical feet:

spondee - //

get up, maintain, jump on; He will read this, strong wish

(Scansion is defining the number of metrical feet within a line of verse: e.g. monometer (one foot), dimeter (2), trimeter (3), tetrameter (4), pen­tameter (5), hexameter (6), heptameter (7), octometer (8), etc.)

Item 1

The Tyger by William Blake

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,

Could twist the sinews of thy heart?

And when thy heart began to beat,

What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?

In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread grasp

Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,

And water'd heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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