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Practice:
Exercise 4.1. Read the following sentences and choose cases of metaphor, sustained metaphor, metonymy, irony, zeugma, pun, the epithet, oxymoron, and antonomasia from the units in bold type. Speak about the effect produced by the given tropes:
Example:
Things can get a little dull around here if you mix with the importants. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
In this fragment the authoress resorts to metonymy “the importants,” meaning “people with influential position,” and judging by the context such people are usually boring.
1. I close my eyes, willing myself to be nice. I don’t need to be swathed in the blanket of her concern. /Josie Lloyd & Emlyn Rees Come Together/
2. A lamp flickered on. It was Hermione Granger, wearing a pink bathrobe and a frown. /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
3. The blue suits stretch the tape and call the division. I go over with Merino, arriving at eight fifty-three. /Michael Crichton Rising Sun/
4. “Can I tempt you, Marge?”
Aunt Marge had already had rather a lot of wine. Her huge face was red.
“Just a small one, then,” she chuckled. “A bit more than that… and a bit more… that’s the boy.” /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban/
5. They moved out into the cold London night; it was spitting with rain. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
6. The temptation was overpowering. A full frontal assault. It was clever, but this cleverness was stupid. /Campbell Armstrong Blackout/
7. “What’s funny?” Mom asked.
“Just me thinks,” Trisha replied, and Quilla frowned – ‘me thinks’ was a Larry Mcfarland-ism. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
8. After all, he was still young, and he never had any trouble getting girls to bed with him. As a matter of fact it was a job to get them out of it later. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
9. “The wand chooses the wizard, remember…I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter… After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things – terrible, yes, but great.” /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
10. He took a seat next to a plump matron. He didn’t like her. At the next stop the woman got out, and Herbert shifted his knees so that she had to squeeze past him. He digged his knees into her passing body. Old cow. And he laughed silently. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
11. Judge: “Have you anything to offer the court before sentence is passed on you?”
Prisoner: “No, your honor, my lawyer took my last dollar.” /from Laughs and Smiles/
12. Harry and Ron slouched into the Great Hall in states of deepest gloom, Hermione behind them, wearing a well-you-did-break-school-rules sort of expression. /J. Rowling Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets/
13. Lillian Phelan’s dreams of a cozy Christmas dinner were shattered when Troy Junior arrived late and drunk and in the midst of a nasty fight with Biff. /John Grisham The Testament/
14. Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus. /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
15. A light snow had begun to fall, casting a chiffon veil over the world. /Sidney Sheldon Rage of Angels/
16. “Were you a personal trainer?”
“More like impersonal.” /Jonathan Kellerman The Clinic/
17. That thought probably deserved a giggle, but there were apparently no giggles in her; the old giggle-well, which her mother believed inexhaustible, seemed to have temporarily dried. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
18. “This elevator’s going up, sir.”
“Well. I want to go down.” He was speaking with the careful, over-articulated speech of the drunk.
“Yes, sir. I know that, sir,” his aide replied cheerfully. “Let’s take the next elevator, Senator.”
The doors closed. The elevator continued up.
“Your tax dollars at work,” Graham said. “Recognized him? Senator Stephen Rowe.” /Michael Crichton Rising Sun/
19. As the wind stripped wet leaves off trees and as cataracts gushed along gutters toward half-clogged street drains, Dusty drove down through the Newport hills./Dean Koontz False Memory/
20. Pete sat at the table, looking cataclysmically bored, refusing to give the brochure more than a glance. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
Checking Your Progress
Exercise 4.2. Read the given sentences and point out cases of metaphor, sustained metaphor, metonymy, irony, zeugma, pun, the epithet, oxymoron and antonomasia in them. Speak about the effect produced by the given tropes:
Example:
On the sidewalk, he tried to stretch but his muscles were screaming and his joints were locked. /John Grisham The Testament/
In the fragment we see that the character is extremely tired and has pain in his muscles and joints. To render this idea John Grisham resorts to metaphoric personification “muscles were screaming” to show how strong the pain was.
1. More thunder, and this time she could see lightning shiver inside the clouds, which were advancing rapidly and eating the first stars as they came. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
2. He had a reputation of a lady-killer and most ladies couldn’t wait to get killed. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
3. Customer: “What can you show me for ten or twenty dollars?”
Jeweler: “Nothing but my complete contempt.” /from Laughs and Smiles/
4. He shifted from foot to foot as he talked, turned this way and that, gestured expansively with his quick, gem-speckled hands, virtually doing a jig. /Dean Koontz The Eyes of Darkness/
5. Hermione had got both her breath and her bad temper back again. /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
6. The smile froze on her face when she recognized Clay. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
7. The door opened. We faced a solid wall of blue business suits, backs turned to us. /Michael Crichton Rising Sun/
8. Enormous waves slammed onto the shore, and bullets of water, skimmed off the breakers by a growing wind, rattled inland through the low dunes and sparse stalks of grass. /Dean Koontz False Memory/
9. “Take no notice,” Carey replied, “he’s just annoyed ‘cos you turned down his lunch invitation. It’s not often he gets a no. He is Mr. Important. He’s been practically with every actress that ever set foot on a movie of his. His wife’s a boozer. They’re a beautiful couple. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
10. Logic wasn’t working. In a dark territory of her mind that she’d never travelled before, she found a twisted landscape of superstition. /Dean Koontz False Memory/
11. When they told him about Charlie’s letter, his eyes filled with tears, although that might have been because Norbert [small dragon] had just bitten him on the leg.
“Aargh! It’s all right, he only got my boot – jus’ playin’ – he’s only a baby, after all.”
The baby banged its tail on the wall, making the windows rattle. /J.K.
Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
12. She was suddenly drowning in isolation, choking on a bright and yet oppressive sense of herself as a living being cast out from her fellows. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
13. A mosquito whined bloodthirstily around her left ear, and she had no hand free with which to slap at it. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
14. He regarded her with all the warmth of a dead penguin frozen to an ice floe. /Dean Koontz Cold Fire/
15. She was steadily becoming a respected name in the closely-knit Vegas entertainment world, as she believed that she was on the verge of great success. /Dean Koontz The Eyes of Darkness/
16. Michelle Lomas was an old friend of his and a big star, and a big voluptuous woman. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
17. A strong gust of wind pressed suddenly and insistently against the window. A few specks of powdery snow spun through the ash-grey afternoon light. /Dean Koontz The Key to Midnight/
18. Harry went down to breakfast next morning to find the three Dursleys already sitting around the kitchen table. They were watching a brand-new television, a welcome-home-for-the-summer present for Dudley, who had been complaining loudly about the long walk between the fridge and the television in the living room. /J. Rowling Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban/
19. Actor: “What do you think of my execution?”
Friend: “I’m in favour of it.” /from Laughs and Smiles/
20. Desperation clawed some of the beauty out of Susan’s face, and the feral terror darkened the green of her jungle eyes. /Dean Koontz False Memory/
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