MESSAGE

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 403.

STYLE

LITERARY TECHNIQUES

1) Identify the adjective reverberating the name of the central character. What is “leafy Kensington.”? What is the irony of the name based on?

2) What mythological allusions are based on the words Pan, sylvan, pipe music, terror, stag, hounds. (See the notes).

3) In what way does the story rewrite the myth of Actaeon?

3) What is the message of the ‘reversed myth'? Can Sylvia be considered a fortune huntress? A punished abuser of the weak?

4) Which phrases present the outcome (denoument) as

· terrible: ________________________________________________

· stirring :_______________________________________________

· cathartic : ______________________________________________

1) Name the stylistic devices reinforcing the satire in the passage about Sylvia's marriage:

2) In the climactic passage of the story identify and comment on the effect the following stylistic devices:

· epithet

· metaphor

· irony

· metonymy

· simile

· personification

· repetition

· parallel constructions

· detachment

3) Compare the syntax of the climactic part with the preceding one. How would you define its rhythm (sharp or smooth) ? How does the change in syntax affect the impact of this part of the text? It makes it:

- less flowing

- easier to understand

- less poetic

- less detached?

4) Which of the following adjectives would you use to describe the tone of the story?

Melancholic

Angry

Humorous

Bitter

Ironic

Triumphant

Detached

Sympathetic

Other

5) How would you define the style of this story:

poetic, matter-of-fact, unemotional, concrete, simple, philosophical, sophisticated, direct, figurative,conversational, dramatic, abstract, realistic, other?

In his stories Saki uses the frame of a whimsical joke for the purpose of revealing something hidden beneath the surfaces of life. What is it in this story?