Ответы на вопросы - стилистика

Упражнение 18. Проанализируйте примеры употребления гиперболы, преуменьшения и литоты с точки зрения их структуры, семантики и функции.

1. Calpurnia was all angles and bones; her hand was as wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. (Lee)

2. They were under a great shadowy train shed ... with passenger cars all about and the train moving at a snail pace. (Dreiser)

3. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old. (Fitzgerald)

4. Newspapers are the organs of individual men who have jockeyed themselves to be party leaders, in countries where a new party is born every hour over a glass of beer in the nearest cafe. (Reed)

5. The rain had thickened, fish could have swum through the air. (Capote)

6. She was a giant of a woman. .She carried a mammoth red pocketbook that bulged throughout as if it were stuffed with rocks. (O'Connor)

7. She wore a pink hat, the size of a button. (Reed)

8. Kirsten said not without dignity: "Too much talking is unwise." (Christie)

9. Still two weeks of success is definitely not nothing and phone calls were coming in from agents for a week. (Roth)