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31.03.2020 21:01 •  Английский язык

EXERCISE 1. What figures of quality are used in the following examples? State their stylistic functions. 1. He had therefore begun to think it not unwise in us to cover our bodies, and by that invention, conceal many of our deformities from each other, which would else be hardly supportable (J. Swift). 2. They were under a great shadowy train shed ... with passenger cars all about the train moving at a snail pace (Th. Dreiser). 3. The liquor tasted like a small cyder, and was not unpleasant (J. Swift). 4. They swarmed up in front of Sherburn‘s paling as thick as they could jam, together and you couldn‘t hear yourself think for the noise (M. Twain). 5. The knowledge I had mathematicks gave me great assistance in acquiring their phraseology, which depended much upon that science and musick; and in the latter I was not unskilled (J. Swift). 6. A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a bucking broncho, and by the same token a broncho is not much smaller (S. Crane). 7. To this little circle, I, my wife, and my two daughters made, I venture to think, a not unwelcome addition (E. M. Forster). 8. There were two girls working there. One a tall tennisanyone type, the other a bespectacled mouse type. I opted for Minnie Four-Eyes (E. Segal).