Assignment 2. Define the type of rhyme (couplets/ triple/ cross rhyme/framing) and instrumentation
means:
1. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
Yet she sailed softly too;
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze —
On me alone it blew. (Coleridge) - cross (ab, ab)/ consonance
2. Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. (Tennyson) (couplets )adjacent (aa, bb)/
3. His wife was a Wave; he waved at a Wac.
The Wac was in front, but his wife was in black.
Instead of a wave from the Wac, it is said,
What he got was a whack from the Wave he had wed. adjacent (aa, bb)/ consonance/ assonance
4. I saw thee weep — the big bright tear
Came o'er that eye of blue;
And then methought it did appear
A violet dropping dew. (Byron) - cross (ab, ab)/ onomatopoeia
5. But any man that walks the mead,
In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find,
According as his humours lead,
A meaning suited to his mind. (Tennyson) - - cross (ab, ab)/ Alliteration
Assignment 3. Indicate separately the cases of: a) hyperbole; b) meiosis; c) litotes:
1. English and American hands were as scarce as hen's teeth in this unhealthy place. meiosis (W.
Foster).
2. He would give the world for her fair eyes. hyperbole
3. Dear aunt, you frightened me out of my senses. (H. Fielding). hyperbole
4. A smile crossed Natt's face from ear to ear. (H. Caine). hyperbole
5. An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup. meiosis
6. A watched pot never boils. Hyperbole
7. He said: "I thought I'd come up and have a word with you, father." (A. Cronin). meiosis
8. I have not seen you for ages. hyperbole
9. To write a novel is as simple for him as falling off a chair, I suppose. meiosis
10. You make noise enough to wake the dead. hyperbole
11. We'll be back in three shakes of a dead lamb's tail. (J. Conroy). hyperbole
12. He seemed to me to be frightened all to pieces. (A. Doyle). hyperbole
13.1 don't speak empty words. Litotes
14. It hadn't been for nothing after all. litotes
14. No man is indispensable. Litotes - Незамінних людей немає
15. These cabins aren't half bad. (H. Wells). litotes
16. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. Litotes
17. I've had such a lot of worry lately that I don't know whether I'm on my head or heels. (H.
Lawson). hyperbole
18. And the floors! They haven't seen water for ages. (J. Steele). hyperbole
19. An old dog barks not in vain. Litotes
20. "Well, that's not a bad idea," he said finally. (M. Wilson). litotes
21. He proceeded very slowly and cautiously, an inch at a time. (J. London). meiosis
22. He was a good-for-nothing fellow. litotes
23. I wouldn't say it is beyond your purse to buy that book. Litotes – Я б не сказав, шо ця книга
тобі не покишені.
Assignment 5. Supply the missing words from the list below. Define the types of metaphor: 1)
dead/original; 2) nominative/cognitive/ imaginative; 3) simple/sustained:
1. Then we'll … kill an hour in the lounge. (A. Cronin). dead cognitive simple
2. Hunger … breaks stone walls. original cognitive simple
3. When … poverty. enters the door, love will fly out of the window. original cognitive simple
4. His heart was … melting with sympathetic tenderness. (J. London). Dead cognitive simple
5. In a little district west of Washington Square the streets … have run crazy and broken themselves
into small strips called "places." (O'Henry) dead imaginative sustained
a) poverty; b) kill; c) have run crazy; d) melting; e) breaks
Assignment 7. Translate the sentences with metaphors into Ukrainian and analyze the degree of image
identity in every case.
1. Finnegan complains that his wife is hell on wheels; he is considering getting a divorce. - Фіннеган
скаржиться, що його дружина - справжнісінька фурія; він думає розлучатися.
2. Horbury’s alibi is holding water all right.
3. Annette says that Mr. Rich is very sophisticated but I think he is just a culture vulture.
4. Mary is clinging vine,she cannot do anything without her husband.
5. Her brother is a straight arrow.
6. He became a nervous man for his work is nothing but a goldfish bowl.
7. He is over the hill as a professional athlete.
8. This person is a last-ditcher by nature.
9. She plants stories about herself with columnists that keep her name constantly before the public.
10.There was a sprinkling of children in the audience.
11.The question has been thoroughly ventilated.
12.You need a strong stomach to read this report.
13.His uncle is a stick-in-the-mud.
14.I’m afraid you’ve got your wires crossed.
15.John is quick on the trigger.
16.This science is still in swaddling clothes.
17.A pilot performing this maneuver might keep it opponent in his sight but would be a sitting duck for a
second enemy aircraft.
18.The speaker gave a bird’s eye view of the situation.
19.A man looking at a big mounting from a valley has naturally only a worm’s eye view.
20.Boys and novices are frequently sent on the first of April to buy pigeon’s milk.