Доклад: Epithet

2. Just as daylight laid its steel-gray fingers on the parchment window, Jacob Kent awoke.

J. London

The author compares the daylight with a human being.

3. A see swept up the beach, licking around the trunks of the coconuts and subsiding almost at their feet.

J. London

The author shows similarity between the sea and the animal

Irony

1. The sight of his meekly retreating back must have further enraged Patsy Horan, for that worthy , dropping the table implements, sprang upon him.

J. London

2. The French, with no instinct for colonization , futile in their childish playgame of developing the resources of the island, were only too glad to see the English company succeed.

J. London

3. “Well”, thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs. How brave they’ll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house ”(Which was very likely true )

L. Carroll

4. “…if you drink much from a bottle marked “ poison”, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later .”

L. Carroll

Zeugma

1. They grew frightened, sitting thus and facing their own apprehensions and a callous, tobacco-smoking audience .

J. London

2. He returned with an easier air to the table and his meal .

H.G. Wells

3. The one martyr who might, perhaps, have paid him a visit and a fee did not show herself.

A. Bennett

4. She broke off under the strain of her illiteracy and an overloaded stomach .

A. Cronin

5. “What are you guys doing – having a supper and ladies’ night .”

A. Hailey

Metonymy

1. The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton , and conversed in American with a policeman off duty. (sort of beer)

H.G. Wells

2. I made off up the roadway to Bloomsbury Square, intending to strike north past the Museum and so get into the quiet district. (British Museum)

H.G. Wells

3. The pistol snapped its penultimate shot and ripped a valuable Sidney Cooper . (ripped a canvas)

H.G. Wells

Oxymoron

1. The thought was like some sweet, disarranging poison to Clyde.

T. Dreiser

Oxymoron is a specific type of an epithet, which is always contrary to the verb or noun it modifies. With the use of the above-mentioned oxymoron the author shows that this thought was pleasant to Clyde, but at the same time dangerous.

2. When Clyde appeared to be the least reduced in mind she most affected this patter with him, since it had an almost electric, if sweetly tormenting effect on him.

T. Dreiser

3. You baddie, good boy .

T. Dreiser

4. It tortured and flustered him.

T. Dreiser

Pun

1. “I had not !” Cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily.

“A knot !”said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking anxiously about her.

“Oh, do let me help to undo it!”

“I shall do nothing of the sort”, said the Mouse, getting up and walking away.

L. Carroll

2. “…You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis -”

“Talking of axes ”, said the Dormouse, “chop off her head!”

L. Carroll

3. “No, please go on!” Alice said very humbly: “I won’t interrupt you again. I dare say there may be one ” (pronoun)

“One, indeed!” said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time. (numeral)