W.S. Maugham

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 435.

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STYLE

1) Which of the following adjectives would you choose to describe the tone of the story?

Pedantic, neutral, ironic, solemn, humorous, playful, other:

2) Characterise the humour of the story:

· verbal (when what the narrator or the ch-s say is funny)

· behavioural

· situational

3)Explain how Miss Martha' s thoughts add a touch of humour to the narration.

4) Which of the following stylistic devices are employed for the humorous effect?

· epithet

· personification

· pun

· irony

· simile

· metaphor

· zeugma

· periphrasis

· semantically false chain

· anticlimax

· bathos

· oxymoron

· litotes

· decomposition of a set phrase

Identify them in the text:

5) What does the humorous tone underline?

- the mild mockery of the narrator

- the absurdity of the situation

- the light-hearted nature of the subject under discussion

- other________________

6) Identify the case of repetition in parallel constructions. What effect is achieved through the stylistic convergence?

7) Pick out all cases of the distant repetition of the word heart. Underline all other elements that are repeated.

8) Circle the epithets characterizing the two men, their appearance and actions. What mood is sustained by the epithets?

9) How is tension built in the story? Through:

· repetition

· expressive syntax

· stylisticaly coloured vocabulary

· imagery

· other means_____________

10) Circle foreign words and comment on their role in the story.

11) Is the l-ge that is used rich in descriptive elements (epithets, metaphors, similes) or is it sparing and direct?

What meanings of the word witch do you know?

Which of them is relevant for the story? Who is the witch? Why?

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