Банина, Стилистика, упр.12 глава 5

Упражнение 12 Проанализируйте различные случаи игры слов, объясните создание каждого из стилистических приёмов.

1 She possessed two false teeth and a sympathetic heart. (O. Henry)

2 After a while and a cake he crept nervously to the door of the parlour. (Tolkien)

3 When Bishop Berkley said: "There is no matter" and proved it - it was no matter what he said. (Byron)

4 May's mother always stood on her gentility, and Dot's mother never stood on anything but her active little feet. (Dickens)

5 Dorothy, at my statement, had clapped her hand over her mouth to hold down laughter and chewing gum. (Barth)

6 There comes a period in every man's life, but she's just a semicolon in his. (Evans) (period in American English means 'a full stop')

7 "I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry". (Hemingway)

8 Did you hit a woman with a child? - No, sir, I hit her with a brick. (Smith)

9 "Someone at the door," he said, blinking. "Some four, I should say by the sound," said Fili. (Tolkien)

10 He had taken three weeks off and a ticket to Mentone. (Galsworthy)