4. Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr Wolfsheim swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue limit of the sky. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind, and as we drove away Tom was feeling the hot whips of panic. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade… Thirty – the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. The manior, islanded and sundrenched in its clearing among the sea of huge oaks and beeches, was not quite what he had expected, perhaps because he spoke very little French … (J. Fowles)
9. Breasley shrugged, as if he didn’t care; or was proof to the too direct compliment. Then he darted another quizzing look at David. (J. Fowles)
10. During that tea the relationship seemed more daughterly than anything else. There was only one showing of the lion’s claws. (J. Fowles)
11. Light dawned on him, and he was so surprised that he slowed down. (W.S. Maugham)
12. Towards the end I saw him being harangued by his mother and Una, who marched him over towards me and stood just behind while he said stiffly. (H. Fielding)
13. Ever since I was ten, I worked at putting myself in the path of the oncoming train of destiny. (C. Bushnell)
14. “ALERT, ALERT, REBECCA ALERT,” nuclear-sirened Jude.
(H. Fielding)
15. I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with every detached word twisting it in the wound. (W.S. Maugham)
16. Just went round to Tom’s for top-level summit to discuss the Mark Darcy scenario. (H. Fielding)
17. Pazzi was a Pazzi and above all things ambitious, and he had a young and lovely wife with an ever-open beak. (Th. Harris)
18. The shores of the Mediterranean were littered with royalties from all parts of Europe: some lured there on account of the climate, some in exile, and some because a scandalous part or an unsuitable marriage made it more convenient for them to inhabit a foreign country. (W.S. Maugham)
19. I paused at the French windows, looking around nervously. Heart lurched when located him, standing on his own, in traditional Mark Darcy party mode, looking detached and distant. He glanced towards the door where I was standing and for a second we were locked in each other’s gaze before he gave me a confused nod, then looked away. (H. Fielding)
20. Gray wants to make pots of money. (W.S. Maugham)
Exercise VI. Indicate the structural type of metaphor (simple or prolonged) in the following examples:
1. There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to life. The old are in life’s lumber-room. But youth is the lord of life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile – like most kings. (O. Wilde)
2. The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their way every comedy would have a tragic ending and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art. (O. Wilde)
3. The modesty of the demand shook me. He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths – so that he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. After a little while Mr Gatz opened the door and came out, his mouth ajar, his face flushed slightly, his eyes leaking isolated and unpunctual tears. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. He (Michael) was not vain of his good looks, he knew he was handsome and accepted compliments, not exactly with indifference, but as he might have accepted a compliment on a fine old house that had been in his family for generations. It was a well-known that it was one of the best houses of its period, one was proud of it and took care of it, but it was just there, as natural to possess as the air one breathed. (W.S. Maugham)
6. Pazzi did not head the Questura investigation division for nothing – he was gifted and in his time he had been driven by a wolfish hunger to succeed in his profession. He also carried the scars of a man who, in the haste and heat of his ambition, once seized his gift by the blade.
(Th. Harris)
7. The English peeresses, having lost their lord, had been forced to surrender their mansions to daughters-in law, and had retired to villas at Cheltenham or to modest houses in Regent’s Park. (W.S. Maugham)
8. “What?” exploded Shazzer. “Have you no concept of the meaning of the word ‘girlfriend’? Bridget’s your best friend joint with me? And Rebecca has shamelessly stolen Mark, and instead of being tactful about it, she’s trying to hoover everyone into her revolting social web so he’s so woven in he’ll never get away…” (H. Fielding)
9. I could take a funny idea and make a two-line joke of it, earning a dollar. With false whiskers on, it would serve up cold as a quatrain, doubling its producing value. By turning the skirt and adding a ruffle of rhyme you would hardly recognize it as vers de societe with neatly shod feet and a fashion plate illustration. (O Henry)
10. Being a woman is worse than being a farmer – there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done: legs to be waxed, underarms shaved, eyebrows plucked, feet pumiced, skin exfoliated and moisturized, spots cleansed, roots dyed, eyelashes tinted, nails filed, cellulite massaged, stomach muscles exercised. The whole performance is so highly tuned you only need to neglect it for a few days for the whole thing to go to seed. Sometimes I wonder what I would be like if left to revert the nature – with a full beard and handlebar moustache on each shin, face a graveyard of dead skin cells, spots erupting, long curly fingernails like Struwelpeter, blind as bat and stupid runt species as no contact lenses, flabby body flobbering about. Is it any wonder girls have no confidence? (H. Fielding)
11. Mrs. Bradley got up from her chair as we came in and Elliot presented me to her. She must have been a handsome woman when young, for her features, though on the large side, were good, and she had fine eyes. But her sallowish face, almost aggressively destitute of make-up, had sagged, and it was plain that she had lost the battle with the corpulence of middle age. I surmised that she was unwilling to accept defeat, for when she sat down she sat very erect in a straight-backed chair which the cruel armour of her corsets doubtless made more comfortable than an upholstered one. (W.S. Maugham)
12. Slowly and inevitably, yet with a sudden surge at the last, while Amory talked and dreamed, war rolled swiftly up the beach and washed the sands where Princeton played. Every night the gymnasium echoed as platoon after platoon swept over the floor and shuffled out the basket-ball markings. (F.Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. ‘I can remember how I stood waiting for you in the garden – holding all my self in my arms like a basket of flowers. It was that to me anyhow – I thought I was sweet – waiting to hand that basket to you.’
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. “Good God,” said Tom when I arrived.
“What?” I said. “What?”
“Your face. You look like Barbara Cartland.”
I started blinking very rapidly, trying to come to terms with the realization that some hideous time-bomb in my skin had suddenly, irrevocably, equined it up. (H. Fielding)
Exercise VII. Discriminate between irony as a trope and ironical attitude of the author in the following examples:
1. “Mrs. Jones,” he said, in his most charming voice. “It’s Daniel here.”
I could practically hear her going all fluttery.
“This is very bright and early on a Sunday morning for a phone call. Yes, it is an absolutely beautiful day. What can we do for you?” (H. Fielding)
2. “Hey, don’t be like that, Bridge,” he said, pulling me back. “You know I think you’re a … an intellectual giant. You just need to learn how to interpret dreams.” (H. Fielding)
3. Mum was brilliant. “Darling,” she said. “Of course, you haven’t woken me up. I’m just leaving for the studio. I can’t believe you’ve got in a state like this over a stupid man. They’re all completely self-centered, sexually incontinent and no use to man nor beast…” (H. Fielding)
4. “How did you sacrifice yourself?”
“I gave Larry up for the one and only reason that I didn’t want to stand in his way.”
“Come off it, Isabel. You gave him up for a square-cut diamond and a sable coat.” (W.S. Maugham)
5. Elliot said he was disappointed with the way his fellow-countrymen had reacted to the depression; he would have expected them to take their misfortune with more equanimity. Knowing that nothing is easier than to bear other people’s calamities with fortitude, I thought that Elliot, richer now than he had ever been in his life, was perhaps hardly entitled to be severe. (W.S. Maugham)
6. I thought I had no heart. I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old, and it spoils one’s career at critical moments. (O. Wilde)
7. “He isn’t causing a row,” Daisy looked desperately from one to the other. “You’re causing a row. Please have a little self-control.”
“Self-control!” repeated Tom incredulously. “I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife…” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. Got home to an answer phone message from my mother saying, “Darling, call me immediately. My nerves are shot to ribbons. ”
Her nerves are shot to ribbons! (H. Fielding)
9. I suddenly realized cringing, that both Una and Mum must be coming up to their ruby weddings soon. Knowing Mum, it is highly unlikely she will let a trifling detail like leaving her husband and going off with a tour operator stand in the way of the celebrations and will be determined not to be outdone by Elaine Darcy at whatever price, even the sacrifice of a harmless daughter to an arranged marriage. (H. Fielding)
10. In the library, which was to be Gray’s den, he had been inspired by a room in the Amalienburg Palace at Munich, and except that there was no place in it for books it was perfect. (W.S. Maugham)
11. Trembling I took the card from the envelope.
“Who’s it from?”
“I don’t know.”
“Yes, you do,” he said, in the sort of calm, smiley way that suggests someone is about to pull out a meat hatchet and cut your nose off.
(H. Fielding)
12. “I’m Dr Hollingsworth – medical examiner, hospital pathologist, chief cook and bottle washer.” Hollingsworth has bright blue eyes, shiny as well-peeled eggs. (Th. Harris)
13. “Ah, Bridget,” he said in a stiff, military-style voice. “Will you speak to your mother on the land-line? Seems to have got herself worked up into a bit of a state?”
She was in a state? Didn’t they care about me at all? Their own flesh and blood? (H. Fielding)
14. Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season. (O Henry)
15. “Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm tire, and our good supper, and our great cask of red wine, he might get envious, and envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody’s nature. I certainly will not allow Hans’s nature to be spoiled. I am his best friend.” (O Henry)
16. “There is no good in my going to see little Hans as long as the snow lasts,” the Miller used to say to his wife, “for when people are in trouble they should be left alone, and not be bothered by visitors. That at least is my idea about friendship, and I am sure I am right. So I shall wait till the spring comes, and then I shall pay him a visit, and he will be able to give me a large basket of primroses, and that will make him so happy.”
“You are certainly very thoughtful about others,” answered the Wife.
(O Henry)
17. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. (O. Wilde)
18. “‘Twas a great picture, most of them agreed, admiring the gilt frame larger than any they had ever seen.” (O Henry)
19. At that time me and Andy was doing a square, legitimate business of selling walking canes. If you unscrewed the head of one and turned it up to your mouth a half pint of good rye whisky would go trickling down your throat to reward you for your act of intelligence. (O Henry)
20. “I’ve no kith or kin,” says she, “except a husband and a son or two…”
(O Henry)
Exercise VIII. Define the stylistic purpose of personification in the following examples:
1. The popular cry of our time is: “Let us return to Life and Nature, they will recreate Art for us and send the red blood coursing through her veins; they will shoe her feet with swiftness and make her hand strong.” But, alas! We are mistaken in our amiable and well-meant efforts. Nature is always behind the age. And as for Life, she is the solvent that breaks up Art, the enemy that lays waste her house. (O. Wilde)
2. Nature is no great mother who has born us. She is our own creation. It is in our brain that she quickens to life. Things are because we see them and what we see and how we see depends on the arts that have influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees beauty. (O. Wilde)
3. Nature hates mind. (O. Wilde)
4. Facts are not merely finding a footing-place in history but they are usurping the domain of fancy and have invaded the kingdom of romance. Their chilling touch is over everything. They are vulgarizing mankind. (O. Wilde)
5. On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby’s house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. ‘Good afternoon, Mr. Verger,’ Starling said into the darkness, the overhead light hot on the top of her head. Afternoon was someplace else. Afternoon did not enter here. (Th. Harris).
7. Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. (D. du Maurier)
8. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20 the letters of “Dillingham” looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest and unassuming D. (O Henry)
9. While I slept my problems and my fears sat at the foot of the bed, waiting to greet me when I awake. (J.H. Chase)
10. Money made this country, built its great and glorious cities, created its industries, covered it with an iron network of railroads. It’s money that harnesses the forces of Nature, creates the machine and makes it go when money says go, and stop when money says stop. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. If Evylyn’s beauty had hesitated in her early thirties it came to an abrupt decision just afterward and completely left her. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire’s bobbing party spent the morning in his pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. Amory liked Louisville and Memphis best: these knew how to meet strangers, furnished extraordinary punch, and flaunted an astonishing array of feminine beauty. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. Then tragedy’s emerald eyes glared suddenly at Amory over the edge of June. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. After a while the coat of clean white paint on the Jeffrey Curtain house made a definite compromise with the suns of many Julys and showed its good faith by turning grey. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
16. If the original genius of the family had grown a little tired, Franz would without doubt become a fine clinician. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
17. Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains… (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
18. A high sun with a face traced on it beat fierce on the straw hats of the children. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
19. His glance fell soft and kind upon hers, suggesting an emotion underneath; their glances married suddenly, bedded, strained together.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
20. I collect together every single photo album in the flat, and the small suitcase filled with photos that lives under the bed and I bring them all into the living room. (M. Gayle)
Exercise IX. Characterize the type (non-figurative; figurative; metaphoric; metonymic; ironic; euphemistic) and function of periphrasis in the following fragments:
1. When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman’s husband has to pay for. (O. Wilde)
2. No man is able who is unable to get on, just as no woman is clever who can’t succeed in obtaining that worst and most necessary of evils, a husband. (O. Wilde)
3. When you are in love with a married man you shouldn’t wear mascara.
(S. Sheldon)
4. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (R. Reagan)
5. “Yeah.” He (Mr Wolfsheim) flipped his sleeves up under his coat. “Yeah, Gatsby’s very careful about women. He would never so much as look at a friend’s wife.” When the subject of this instinctive trust returned to the table and sat down Mr Wolfsheim drank his coffee with a jerk and got to his feet. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at some time, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. Cody was fifty years then … The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this, an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for half an hour, while at her request, I remained watchfully in the garden. “In case there’s a fire, or a flood,” she explained, “or any act of God.”
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. “I should like to introduce you to Miss Lambert,” said Michael. Then with the air of an ambassador presenting an attaché to the sovereign of the court to which he is accredited: “This is the gentleman who is good enough to put some order into the mess we make of our accounts.”
(W.S. Maugham)
10. “I’ve already got a bag.”
“Oh, darling, you can’t go around with that tatty green canvas thing.”
(H. Fielding)
11. She seemed to manage to kiss me, get my coat off, hang it over the banister, wipe her lipstick off my cheek and make me feel incredibly guilty all in one movement, while I leaned against the ornament shelf for support. (H. Fielding)
12. He looked over at me briefly, with the expression of an axe-murderer.
(H. Fielding)
13. Eventually we gave up to retire to our room for a hot bath and Codis, discovering en route that another couple were to be sharing the non-wedding party dining room with us that evening, the female half of which was a girl called Eileen… (H. Fielding)
14. “I don’t think much of the girlfriend, do you?” said Una Alconbury loudly, nodding in Natasha’s direction as soon as she got me alone. “Very much the Little Madam. Elaine thinks she’s desperate to get her feet under the table…” (H. Fielding)
15. I feel like ringing Daniel in hope he could deny everything, come up with plausible explanation for the clothes-free rooftop valkyrie – younger sister, friendly neighbour recovering from flood or similar – which would make everything all right. (H. Fielding)
16. Jude arrived in vixen-from-hell fury because Vile Richard had stood her up for the Relationship Counselling.
“Why didn’t he turn up? I hope the sadistic worm had a decent excuse,” said Sharon. (H. Fielding)
17. Malcolm and Elaine. Begetters of the over-perfect Mark Darcy.
(H. Fielding)
18. He was having a crisis of confidence. (H. Fielding)
19. Just returned from the hideous middle-class Singleton guilt experience at supermarket, standing at checkout next to functional adults with children buying beans, fish fingers, alphabetti spaghetti, etc. (H. Fielding)
20. Just opened pan. Hoped-for 2-gallon stock taste-explosion has turned into burnt chicken carcasses coated in jelly. (H. Fielding)
21. She went on huffy. “I can’t believe you’re being so mean, darling. After all I’ve done for you. I gave you the gift of life and you can’t even loan your mother a few pounds for some equined cheques.” (H. Fielding)
22. My brother, on the other hand, can come and go as he likes with everyone’s respect and blessing just because he happens to be able to stomach living with a vegan Tai Chi enthusiast. (H. Fielding)
23. Mum went into her slow, kindly ‘let’s try to make best friends with the waiting staff and be the most special person in the café for no fathomable reason’ voice. (H. Fielding)
24. “Listen, I’m in the car. Do you want to come out for supper tonight with Giles?”
“I’ve said I’ll see the girls.”
“Oh Christ. I suppose I’ll be dismembered and dissected and thoroughly analysed.”
“No, you won’t…” (H. Fielding)
25. After panting rush through rain, arrived at 192 to find Magda not arrived yet, thank God, and Jude already in a state, allowing her thinking to get into a Snowball Effect, extrapolating huge dooms from small incidents as specifically warned against in Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff. (H. Fielding)
26. Hurrah! Everything is lovely. Mark just rang! Slightly suspicious, but he asked me to come to the law thing tomorrow. (the Law Society dinner) (H. Fielding)
27. Starling was suddenly a thirty-three-year-old woman, alone, with a ruined civil service career and no shotgun, standing in a forest at night. She saw herself clearly, saw the crinkles of age beginning in the corners of her eyes. (Th. Harris)
28. “What’s your birth date?” Mrs. Rosencrantz at last parted with the correct information, characterizing it as ‘the date Dr Lecter is familiar with.’
(Th. Harris)
29. “Did you fill the form in last October?” said self-important baggage in ruffly-collared shirt and brooch, enjoying crazed moment of glory just because she happened to be in charge of table in voting station.
(H. Fielding)
30. He took the praise as a greedy boy takes apple pie, and the criticism as a good dutiful boy takes senna-tea. (Lord Macaulay)
31. She sang some, and exasperated the piano quite a lot with quotations from the operas. (O Henry)
32. His seeing arrangement was gray enough. (O Henry)
33. The boss rides up close, and swings his gun over till the opening in it seems to cover my whole front elevation. (O Henry)
34. The blithesome Phyllis bore her twenty-five summers gaily from the train. (F.Sc. Fitzgerald)
Exercise X. Analyze the following cases of allusion and its function in the text:
1. “You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who’s fallen on hard times.” (H. Fielding)
2. Cannot believe my mother is not more grateful to Mark Darcy for sorting everything out for her. Instead of which he has become part of That Which Must Not Be Mentioned, i.e. the Great Time-Share Rip-Off, and she behaves as if he never existed. Cannot help but think he must have coughed up a bit to get everyone their money back. Very nice good person. Too good for me, evidently. (H. Fielding)
3. Emergency: Jude on phone in tears. Is coming round. Vile Richard has gone back to Vile Jilly. Jude blames gift. Thank God stayed home. Am clearly Emissary of Baby Jesus here to help those persecuted at Christmas by Herod – Wannabees, e.g. Vile Richard. Jude will be here at 7.30.
(H. Fielding)
4. Maybe will go downstairs, make myself a cup of tea and watch TV in the kitchen. But what if Mark isn’t back and is going out with someone and brings her home and I am like the mad aunt or Mrs Rochester drinking tea? (H. Fielding)
5. “Exactly,” said Vile Richard, towering above us like Bacchus with a bottle of Chardonnay and two packets of Silk Cut. (H. Fielding)
6. That’ll be my boyfriend. You can stand him a drink and then you better scram. He’s a Corsican and as jealous as our old friend Jehovah.
(W.S. Maugham)
7. Don’t know what I would have done without the girls yesterday. Called them instantly after Mark drove off, and they were round within fifteen minutes, never once saying “I told you so.”
When Shazzer bustled in with armfuls of bottles and carrier bags, barking, “Has he rung?” was like being in ER when Dr Green arrives.
“No,” said Jude, popping a cigarette in my mouth as if it were a thermometer. (H. Fielding)
8. “Dee chose it,” Kelly informed him, adding truthfully, “I feel like Cinderella being equipped for the ball by her fairy godmother.”
(P. Jordan)
9. This car had the wings of Mercury I thought, got higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young. (D. du Maurier)
10. I was a lugubrious fox praising the singing of my friends, the crows, that they might drop from their beaks the morsels of wit that I coveted.
(O Henry)
11. Now with a life time of knowledge and experience, Mason felt like Stradivarius approaching the worktable as he built the engines of his revenge. (Th. Harris)
12. What a wealth of information and resources Mason had in his faceless skull! Lying in his bed, composing in his mind like the deaf Beethoven, he remembered walking the swine fairs with his father, checking out the competition… (Th. Harris)
13. She looked like a boy in her sailing kit, a boy with a face like a Botticelli angel. (D. du Maurier)
14. All married men with lovely wives are jealous, aren’t they? And some of them just can’t help playing Othello. They’re made that way. I don’t blame them. I’m sorry for them. (D. du Maurier)
15. “But they are your problems as well!” she flared. “How are we going to raise the money?”
“That, as Hamlet once said, is the question. Have you any suggestions to make?” (J.H. Chase)
16. Then the wine-glasses succumbed to leg fractures, and even the dinner-glasses disappeared one by one like the ten little niggers, the last one ending up, scarred and maimed, as a tooth brush holder among other shabby genteels on the bathroom shelf. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
17. He was intensely ritualistic, startlingly dramatic, loved the idea of God enough to be a celibate, and rather liked his neighbour. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
18. His glimpse of it as a vivid whiteness against a deep-blue sky had left a picture of splendour that rivaled the dream cities in the Arabian Nights. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
19. As the swing reached its highest points, Arcady really lay just over the brow of a certain hill, where the brown road dwindled out of sight in golden dot. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
20. Amory was far from contented. He missed the place he had won at St. Regis’s, the being known and admired, yet Princeton stimulated him, and there were many things ahead calculated to arouse the Machiavelli latent in him, could he but insert a wedge. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
21. How he loved to do any sort of thing with Clara! Shopping with her was a rare, epicurean dream. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
22. “That’s what Stephen must have thought many years ago. But he preached his sermon and they killed him. He probably thought as he was dying what a waste it all was. But, you see, I’ve always felt that Stephen’s death was the thing that occurred to Paul on the road to Damascus, and sent him to preach the word of Christ all over the world.”
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
23. “There are some adventurous miners who had the misfortune to discover El Dorado,” he remarked. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Exercise XI. Analyze the following cases of antonomasia. State the type (metaphoric, metonymic, reversed) and indicate additional information created by the use of antonomasia:
1. Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is invariably Judas who writes the biography. (O. Wilde)
2. I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss This-or-That’s and the chatter of frozen breath and the hands waving overhead as we caught sight of old acquaintances … (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)