Assignments for Analysis. 1. What characters of the novel are described in the passage and what does the reader learn about them?

1. What characters of the novel are described in the passage and what does the reader learn about them?

2. What does the word “philosopher” suggest in this context? Identify the SD.

3. How do you account for the sudden transmission from literary vocabulary mostly used by the author to the colloquial words? What stylistic effect is achieved by this device?

4. Comment on the exclamatory sentence “What a happy woman was Rose to be my Lady Crawley!” and say what is the main SD used to characterize “the items of her happiness”?

5. Comment on the stylistic effect of the rhetorical question: “He had his pretty Rose, and what more need a man require than to please himself?”

6. Analyze the manner in which the author describes “the endowments with which Nature had gifted Lady Crawley”. What language media emphasize the emptiness of Lady Crawley’s life?

7. Look for the language used to characterize Lady Crawley’s position in her husband’s house.

8. Comment on the two passages beginning with the exclamation “O Vanity Fair! Vanity Fair!...” and speak on the author’s attitude towards the society he describes. Note the vocabulary of the passage, metaphors, metonymies, allusions, rhetorical questions and explain their stylistic function.

9. Summing up the analysis of the excerpt, pick out all passages where the author’s ironic or sarcastic attitude towards high society is acutely felt. Analyze the main language means used to achieve this effect.

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