QUESTIONS AND TASKS
Onomatopoeia
1. What is the nature of the stylistic device of onomatopoeia?
2. What groups of onomatopoeic words do you know?
3. Speak about two folded onomatopoeic words. Give examples to both cases.
4. What is the stylistic function of onomatopoeia?
II. Analyse the
following
onomatopoeic
words
and illustrate
equivalents from your mother tongue
1. I had only this one year of working without Shhh! (D. Carter)
2. Cecil was immediately shushed. (H. Lee)
3. "Sh-Sh". "But I am whispering". This continual shushing annoyed him.
(A. Huxley)
5.When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fill the shows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.
6.
Silver
bells...
how
they
tinkle,
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. (Poe)
Alliteration
1. What is stylistic device of alliteration?.
2. In what functional styles is alliteration often used?
3. What is the stylistic function of alliteration?
4. Give examples to different groups of alliteration.
tinkle,
tinkle
5. What was the place of alliteration in Old English poetry? Indicate the
effects of the cases of alliteration.
II. Analyze the following cases of alliteration and translate the sentences
1. Our dreadful matches to delightful measures. (Shakespeare)
2. The day is cold and dark and dreary.
It rains and the wind is never weary. (Longfellow)
3.
Both were flushed, fluttered and rumbled by the late scuffle. (Dickens)
4. His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible. (Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. ...he swallowed the hint with a gulp and a gasp and a grin. (R. Kipling)
Rhyme
1. What is the stylistic device of rhyme?
2. Where are rhyming words placed?
3. In what functional style is rhyme mostly used?
4. Describe the functions of rhyme in poetry.
5. What types of rhyme do we distinguish? Characterize every type of rhyme
separately.
6. Are proverbs, sayings and epigrams based on the use of rhyme?
7. What is the nature and the function of compound (broken) rhyme?
8. What can you speak about eye-rhyme?
9. What are the models of rhyme? Enumerate all the models and give
examples to each of them.
10.What is internal rhyme? Give illustrations of so called rhyme combinations
and tell about their functions.
11. What is stylistic function of rhyme?
II. Present the translation of your favorite poem
Rhythm
1. In what functional styles can rhythmical arrangement be found?
2. How is the poetic rhythm created?
3. Speak about the formation of the foot.
4. What are basic feet of English poetry? Comment on every foot. Give
illustrations.
5. What does rhythm interpret in verse?
6. Can rhythmical arrangement be found in prose?
7. By what stylistic devices the rhythm is created?
8. What is the stylistic function of rhythm?
II.
Single out the functions of rhythm in the following extract and
translate it
1. Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand
or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry. (W. Blake)