Seminar No 4 Morphological Stylistics

Assignment 1. Find cases of transposition of nouns and comment on them:

1. They would put away the card-table and empty the ash-receivers with many
"Oh, I beg your pardon's" and "No, no -1 was in your way's."

2. "Madge, what's 'necessitas', masculine or feminine?" - "Why, feminine, of com -

"Why?" - "Why, she was the mother of invention."

3. "Who is your favorite classic novelist?" - "Thackeray." - "Great Scott!" - "Some

think so; still 1 prefer Thackeray."

4. This is the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Its members are called
"Neurotics."

5. "Yes," prattled the elderly lady, "that is the Duke and Duchess; the couple
behind them are the Mayor and the Mayoress, and those on the right are the Vicar
and the-er-Vixen."

6. "If I speak of afoot, and you show me your feet, and I give you a boot, would a
pair be called beetl If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the
plural of booth be called beethV 7. The man I argued yesterday's expla-nation
puzzled me greatly.

Assignment 2, Analyse stylistic use of the articles:

1. A 'Drive Safe' sign: "It's better to be late, Mr. Motorist, than to be the late, Mr.
Motorist."
2. Advertisement: "Lion tamer wants tamer lion."
3.1 thought it was fine - especially the Chopin.
4. I don't want to turn into a Teddy Bolan.
5.1 will never go to a Sahara.
6. Sun: Friend not Foe.
7. Slowly but surely man is conquering Nature.

Assignment 3. Determine transposition of pronouns:

1. Are they going to take thee away?
2. They arrived at the fifth inning* "What's the score, Jim?" she asked a fan.
"Nothing to nothing." was the reply. "Oh, goodly!" she exclaimed. "We haven't
missed a thing!"
3. *'So your son is in college? How is he making it?" - "To be exact, he isn't
making it. I'm making it and he's spending it."
4. Chivalry is how you feel when you're cold.
5. Sign on the wall of a research laboratory: "Consider the turtle - He doesn't
make any progress unless he sticks his neck out."
6. The masculine pronouns are he, his, him, but imagine the feminine she, shis, and
shiinl
7. "Correct this sentence: 'it was me that spilt the ink. '" - "It wasn't me that spilt
the ink."

Assignment 4. Point out and explain cases of transposition of ad-jectives:

1. "I want you to teach my son a foreign language." - "Certainly, mad-am, French,
German, Russian, Italian, Spanish -?" - "Which is the most foreign?"

2. Landlady: "I think you had better board elsewhere." Boarder: "Yes, I often
have." Landlady: "Often had what?" Boarder: "Had better board elsewhere."

3. "What are the comparative and superlative of bad, Berty?" - "Bad - worse -
dead."

4. "Unmarried?" - "Twice."

5.1 don't like Sunday evenings: I feel so Mondayish.

Assignment 5. Pick out and analyse transposition of verbs:

1. "An' what's more, I ain't 'ad a day's illness in my life!" - "Lor lumme, what on
earth d'yer find to talk about?"

2. "And your brother, who was trying so hard to get a government job, what is he
doing now?" - "Nothing. He got the job."

3. "I would like to settle that little debt of mine." - "I'm very glad to hear it!" - "I
said I would like to; but I can't."

4. "I must say these are fine biscuits!" Exclaimed the young husband. "How could
you say those are fine biscuits?" inquired the young wife's mother, in a private
interview. "I didn't say they were fine. I only said I must say so."

5. A man who is always complaining is the easiest man to satisfy because nothing
satisfies him.

6. At fifteen I'm an orphan, and Vic moves in. "From now on you'll do as I tell
you," he says. It impressed me.

7. "Can you tell me where this road goes, please?" - "It don't go anywhere; it just
stops where it is."
8. "I'm taking Political economy at college." - "That's a useless course. Why learn
to econoniize in politics? It's not being done."

9. "Waiter!" - "Yes, sir." - "What's this?" - "it's bean soup, sir." - "No matter what
it's been. What is it now?"

10. said, "This deed, sir, will you do?" And soon the deed was dod!

11. "What would you do if you were in my shoes?" - "Polish them!"

12. "Does a doctor ^tor a doctor according to the doctored doctor's doctrine or
doctoring, or does the doctor doing the doctrine doctor the other doctor according
to his 1 own doctoring doctrine?"

13. "If we forget, then we've forgotten, But things we wet are never wotten, And
houses let cannot be lotten."

14. "So you're not going to Paris, this year?" - "No - it's London we're not going to
this year; it was Paris we didn't go to last year!"

Assignment 6. Analyse stylistic value of adverbs:

1. "Her husband didn't leave her much when he died, did he?" - "No; but he left her
very often when he was alive."

2. "Shay, pardon me, offisher, but where am I?" - "You're on the corner of
Broadway and Forty-second Street." - "Cut out the details. What town am I in?"

3. "Your hair wants cutting badly, sir," said a barber insinuatingly to a customer.
"No, it doesn't," replied the man in the chair "it wants cutting nicely. You cut it
badly last time."

4. Jane was terrifically beautiful.

5. He seemed prosperous, extremely mar-ried and unromantic.

Assignment 7. Define stylistic value of morphological transposition in the

following sentences:

1. Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean - roll!

2. What were you talking about to that old mare downstairs?

3. The real war was not between the Bill Davidsons and the Jean Duvals and the
Hans MUllers [...] (тобто англійцями, французами і німцями).
4. The blonde I had been dancing with's name was Bemice - Crabs or Krebs.

5. A world without goodness - it'd be Paradise. But it wouldn't no more than now.
The only paradises were fools' paradises, ostriches' paradises.

6. Waters on a starry night are beautiful and fair.

7. He was engaged to be married to a Miss Hubbard.

8. You are not the Andrew Manson I married,

9. It was a dead leaf, deader than the deadest tree leaf.

10. You have come from Them to spy on me. I told my uncle that the next one
would suffer. And you're him.

11. A great pity! Surely something could be done! One must not take such
situations lying down. She walks on, and reached a station, hot and cross.

12. You can never know what you can do till you try.

13.1 don't want to write; 1 want to live. What does she (I) mean by that.

It's hard to say.

14. All the people like us are We, and everyone else is they.

15. "And what are we going to do now, escape?" the warder asked the prisoner.

16. You're burning yourself out. And for what?

17. I'm going there tomorrow.

18. The auditorium is quite the largest in the world-

19. She is terribly pretty.

 Seminar No 5
Phonetic and Graphic Expressive Means
and Stylistic Devices
Assignment 1. Define whether the graphons show the speaker's physical
peculiarities (physical defect of speech, excitement, intoxication, carelessness),
or social, territorial, and educational status:

1. A Frenchman stopped a newsboy in New York City to make some inquiries of

his whereabouts. "Mon fren, what is ze name of zis street?" -"Well, who said
'twant'?" - "What you call him, zis street?" - "Of course we do!" - "Pardonnez! I
have not the name vat you call him." - "Yes, Watts we call it." - "How you call ze
name of zis street?" - "Watts street, I told yen" -""Zis street." - "Watts street, old
feller, and don't you go to make game o' me. — "Sacre! I ask you one, two, tree
several times oftin, vill you tell me ze name of ze street-eh?" - "Watts street, I tole
yer. Wer drunk, ain't yer?"

2. "It's lonesome enough fur to live in the mount'ins when a man and a woman
keers fur one another. But when she's a-spittin' like a wildcat or a-sullenin' like a
hoot-owl in the cabin, a man ain't got no call to live with her." (O'Henry)

3. "The b-b-b-b-bas-tud-he seen me c-c-c-c-com-ing." (R. P. Warren)

4. "Wall," replide I, "in regard to perlittercal ellerfunts і don't know as how but
what they is as good as enny other kind of ellerfunts. But і maik bold to say thay is
all a ornery set and unpleasant to hav round. They air powerful hevy eaters and
take up a right smart chans of room." (Artemus Ward)

5.'MISS JEMIMA!' ex-claimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. (W.

Thakeray)

6. A producer recently imported an alien star. "She's a nize goil," he announced,

"and I'm gonna loin her English."

7. "Hey," he said "is it a goddamn cardroom" or a latrine? Attensh - - HUT! Da-

ress right! DHRESS!" (J. Jones)

8. (School-boy) "Gam, I ain't done it." - (Teacher) 'Tommy, Tommy, where is your
grammar?" - "She's a tome in bed, teacher, with the noomonier."

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)
2. Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
(Tennyson)

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.

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)

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)

6. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.

(Dryden)

7. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I
bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. (Shelly)

8. О that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I
heard thee last. (Cowper)

Assignment 3. Analyse instrumentation and graphic means in the following:

1- There she sees a damsel bright, Drest in a silken robe of white. (Col-eridge)

2- E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wanted
fires. (Gray)

3- Full fathom five thy father lies. (Shakespeare)

The worth of that (-my mortal self) is that which it contains
And that is this (-this sonnet), and this with thee remains. (Shakespeare)

4. West wind, wanton wind, wilful wind, womanish wind, false wind from, over
the water, will you never blow again? (Shaw)

5. And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me - filled
me with fantastic terrors never felt before. (Рое)

6. 'Tutor?" he cried. "Tewtor? TerYEWtor?" (Wodehouse)

7. "Silence! Silen-n-n-n-nce!" (Shaw)

8. "Fact is, оГ man, they were drunk, yes, dr-r-unk." (Priestley)

9. "But you ought to have it. If he takes it away from you he's unjust." (Bennett)

10. "Oh! I do hate the telephone." (Wilson)

11. "Wassa matter?"

"Hell I dunno. ... One о them automoebile riots I guess. Aint you read the paper? I
don't blame em do you?" (Dos Passos)

12. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling, faintly through universe
and faintly falling like the descent of their last end, upon the living and the dead.
(J. Joyce)

13. From the morn to the night, he's so joyous and bright, And he bubbles with wit
and good humour! (Gilbert)

14. Leaves
Murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees Lives
Wakening with wonder in Pyrenees. Birds
Cheering chirping in the early day. Bards
Singing of summer scything thro' the hay. (Owen)

15. "They've killed him, those vile, filthy foreigners. My baby son."Sam Browne,
still mystified, read the telegram. He then stood to attention, saluted (although not
wearing a cap), and said solemnly: "A clean sport- in' death, an Englishman s
death."
(When Huns were killed it was neither clean nor sportin', but served the beggars -
(" ......... " among men) - right. ) (Aldridge)

16. "AS - I - WAS - SAYING," said Eyore loudly and sternly, "as I was saying
when I was interrupted by various Loud Sounds, I feel that -' (Milne)

17. The trouble with a kitten is THAT

Eventually it becomes a CAT. (Nash)