Exercise 1. Point out metaphor, metonymy and irony in the following examples and state their function.
Maggie took a lively interest in the young bloods of Tidsley.
Sam Wcller: Who lives in our place? There is a wooden leg in No. 6, apair of boots in 13, two pairs of shoes in trade number.
The Trafalgar Square crowds swallowed him up.
She rushed downstairs out of the front door, then kicked and punched herway through the waiting journalists, sending several of them leaping forsafety as the car stormed down the drive. "Nice, quiet girl," said Mail on Sundaypicking himself out of the snow.
The soft snow turned the already frozen streets of Manhattan to gray slush and the icy December wind herded the Christmas shoppers toward thecomfort of their apartments and houses.
Bookcases covering one wall boasted a half-shelf of literature.
At ten minutes before eleven inthe morning the sky exploded into a carnival of white confetti instantly blanketing the city.
As Prew listened the mobile face before him melted to a battle blackened skull as though a flame-thrower has passed over it, kissed it lightly andmoved on. The skull talked on to him about his health,
Life is a coin. You can spend itany way you wish, but you can spend it once.
She scrutinized the others with lightning speed. A Searat. A Sezanne. A Gauguin,
Mr. Smeeth was sitting on the same side as the glass eye ...
The wind moaned through the cypress trees, scattering rain across the path.
Women's tennis is the biggest firestorm blowing through sport,
I went around an elbow of wall to the foot of tailed stairs and the shaft of the automatic elevator.
He was near the front, almost at the till now and sandwiched between two strapping blonds.
She still had a great quantity of untidy brown hair, a bright blue eye, rosy cheeks and a ripe moist lip.
Staying in touch after the candle of romance has dimmed, or gone out, only prolongs the hurt, I have always felt.
An hour and three speeches later, his stomach was beginning to wonder if his throat had been cut.
Time was a swiftly flying river that had no shores, no boundaries: its seasons were not winter, spring, fall or summer, but birthdays and joys and troubles and pain.
Exercise 2. Analyse the following cases of personification.
The morning smiled upon him ... no fog, snow, rain, but a slight sparkle, a nip of frost and the early ghost of a sun.
The ship, for her part, began to think about discharging her mixed cargo
Both the blind eyes and the lighted eyes of its innumerable windows seemed to answer his stare and to tell him that he did not amount the very much not here in London.
The theatres and picture houses shouted to him their knowledge of girls and love.
This treacherous Saturday was destined to give him a series of shocks, ofvarying degrees of severity.
Turgis said nothing, but he had no need to, for his face replied for hum.
The dark mouth of the tunnel beneath it opened and swallowed him.
The wind moaned through the cypress trees, scattering rain across the path.
The streets were deserted and it was very cool, with an irritable windflickering over the roofs of the little houses huddling together under a bright starlit sky
Exercise 3. Point out cases of zeugma and pun in the following examples.
He is good at running, but no good at running anything.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
My garden is a little jewel - 14 carrots.
I know a secretary who can type twenty letters an hour. Her boss is still waiting for her to learn the other six.
Can I have a puppy for Christmas? - Certainly not. You'll have turkey, like everybody else.
You're looking very gloomy, Joe. Feeling a little low? - I could walk under a cockroach.
He fished for compliments and trout.
They were a fastidious couple. She was fast and he was tedious.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
She carried a sack of groceries, a child, and on.
After a while and a cake he crept nervously to the door of the parlour.
There is only one brand of tobacco allowed here - "Three Nuns". None today, none tomorrow and none the day after.
Seven days without water make one weak.
Exercise 4. Point out cases of epithet and oxymoron in the following examples.
... he stood there, straddling at ease ..., a thick figure of a man.
A bittersweet feeling came over her.
There were comments of the type women made that were indirectly direct.
I call them the "so what else is wrong with you?" books.
Today, more than ever, every detail has to be correct if young adults are to avoid ridicule by the press.
To the left was a tennis court that had succumbed to triumphant weeds.
The parlour, brick-floored, with bare table and shiny chairs and sofa stuffed with horse-hair, seemed never to have been used—it was so terribly clean.
I felt the stirring of sympathy to warm my stone-cold heart.
Dawlish gave me a twitch of a smile.
The smart vulgarity of the place was hateful to her.
She looked at me from behind disapproving spectacles.
My girl asked him if it was drugs. And he laughed and said no - better still, "hot ice". - Had he got the diamonds?"
Nancy, that kind of I-already-know-but-would-like-some-confirmation statement is the oldest reporter's play in the book.
The yellow-wheeled chariot continued to roll between houses and avenues - a little Flying Dutchman of a cab.
It's something big, urgent, some wonderful disaster
Roses were everywhere, not as many blooms as in the summer but radiantly colourful.
it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low - so horribly dirty.
Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category ofwhat-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-iustead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards.
His father was a man with champagne taste and beer money, while lie is the opposite.
With all his heart and soul, furiously, jealously, vindictively, he was hoping Queen would not win.
Exercise 5. . Point out cases of antonomasia in the following examples.
From a quiet little zombie she turned into Miss Personality.
"Good morning, Sleepyhead," -- Jean greeted her. "You'd never make a good farmer's wife "
One man, a very young soldier from officers' convalescent home at Ipswich , Gordon Somebody, I had felt at first that 1 might have liked.
"Aha, Mr. Fixit is here." Aidan said.
Mr Wonderful, that was me. Star of stage and screen. Western, courteous and specious.
A half an hour later Blond Curls escorted Mason to France del Brasco's study.
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