Лингвостилистический анализ текста (часть 1/1)
Практическое задание 1.
Read the paragraph from Chapter 1 of Animal Farm by George Orwell The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. Major continued:
2. Render the extract into Russian.
3. Find some information about George Orwell.
4. What other books did George Orwell write?
5. What vocabulary is used in the extract?
6. Which words were typical of a totalitarian society?
7. What is the aim of Majors speech?
8. How would you define the functional style of the extract?
9. Find all cases of word repetition in the paragraph.
10. Find cases of syntactical arrangement of words, phrases, clauses and sentences (inversion, parallelism, antithesis, etc.) and state the function of these tropes.
11. Give a summary of the paragraph.
12. Underline the words that are informal. Rewrite the text using formal words and phrases.
13. Match the expressive means or stylistic devices with the definitions:
