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Analyze the following cases of irony, antonomasia, epithets, litotes, hyperbole and understatement and oxymoron. Define the types, structure and stylistic functions of these lexical SDs.
1. "It was an occasion for rejoicing, perhaps, but rather for a solemn, thankful, eyes-raised-to-heaven kind of rejoicing" (Wodehouse)
2."For the Doctor Watson of this world, as opposed to the Sherlock Holmeses, success in the province of detective work must be, to a very large extent, the result of luck" (Wodenhouse)
3. "One after another those people lay down on the ground to laugh - and two of them died." (M.Twain)
4. "What a noble illustration of the tender laws of this favored country! - They let the paupers go to sleep" (Dickens)
5. "Lovers speak of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires." (Sir Ph.Sidney)
Task 4
Name different EM and SD and comment on their stylistic functions in the sentences.
1. The girls were giggling and whispering in the hall. The pink muslin and the white silk rushed downstairs.
2. She had a kind heart, a gold tooth and a bank account.
3. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in and the sun and the moon were made to give them light.
4. What sweet pain is to listen to her!
5. treacherous as a snake.
6. ...uncertain rustling of the silky curtain.
7. They suffered a crushing defeat.
8. The fair sex.
9. In private I should call him a liar. In the Press you should use the words; 'Reckless disregard for truth'.
10. Jingle, bells, jingle, bells, jingle all the way...
11. The principal production of these towns appears to be soldiers, sailors, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dock-yard men.
12. Youth is lovely, age is lonely; Youth is fire, age is frost.
13. Soames turned away; he had an utter disinclination for talk...
14. You just come home or I'll...
15. Over and over he was asking himself; would she receive him?
16. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.
17. She was lovely: all of her - delightful!
18. I woke early to see the kiss of the sunrise summoning a flush to the cliffs.
19. St. Paul's cathedral dominated the urban space.
20. Dirk, an artist, thought he was skilled in cooking Italian dishes, and I confess that his spaghetti were much better than his pictures.