Банина, Стилистика, упр. 11, глава 5

Готовое Упражнение 11 Выделите стилистические средства, основанные на использовании различных типов лексических значений.

1 The slash of sun on the wall above him slowly knives down, cuts across his chest, becomes a coin on the floor, and vanishes. (Updike)

2 "The business I am in is the coming thing, the wave of the future. .(Puzo)

3 The praise was enthusiastic enough to have delighted any common writer who earns his living by his pen. (Maugham)

4 "Never mind," said the stranger, cutting the address very short, "said enough - no more; smart chap that cabman - handled his fives well; but if I'd been your friend in the green jemmy - damn me - punch his head -, Cod I would - pig's whisper - pieman too, - no gammon." This coherent speech was interrupted by the entrance of the Rochester coachman, to announce that..."(Dickens)

5 The road twists more and more wildly in its struggle to gain height and then without warning sheds its skin of asphalt and worms on in dirt. (Updike)

6 He went about her room, looking at her pictures, her bronzes and clays, asking after the creator of this, the painter of that, where a third thing came from. (Dreiser)

7 "Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars." - "I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years," said Paul. The doctor looked up for the first time. - "Don't you dare to make jokes here, my man," he said, "or I'll have you in the strait-jacket in less than no time." (Waugh)

8 After you practice for six months you realize we're nothing but hired guns. (Grisham)

9 Dinah, a slim, fresh, pale eighteen, was pliant and yet fragile. (Holmes)

10 Don Corleone nodded. "Revenge is a dish that tastes best when it is cold," he said. (Puzo)

11 Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains forever an infinite field for mistakes. You can't know beforehand. (Lawrence)