(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Exercise XVIII. Indicate the type of climax. Differentiate between climax and anticlimax:
1. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. (O. Wilde)
2. I am not quite sure that I quite know what pessimism really means. All I do know is that life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next. (O. Wilde)
3. Jennifer Parker was not only on the evening news – she was the evening news. (S. Sheldon)
4. If we live for aims we blunt our emotions. If we live for aims we live for one minute, for one day, for one year, instead of for every minute, every day, every year. The moods of one’s life are life’s beauties. To yield to all one’s moods is to really live. (O. Wilde)
5. “Bridge? Last night even before this happened I’d started to feel as though things weren’t right.”
Felt cold clunk of dread in stomach. Which was ironic really considering had been thinking things weren’t right myself. But really, it is all very well you yourself thinking things aren’t right in a relationship, but if the other person starts doing it is like someone else criticizing your mother. Also it starts you thinking you are about to be chucked, which, apart from pain, loss, heartbreak etc. is very humiliating. (H. Fielding)
6. The more he learned her, the more he watched her, the more he liked her; as temperament, as system of tastes and feelings, as female object.
(J. Fowles)
7. “Is it a beauty contest or a fancy dress contest?”
“That’s just it, I don’t know, no one knows,” said Tom, throwing down his headdress – a miniature tree which he was intending to set alight during the contest. “It’s both. It’s everything. Beauty. Originality. Artistry. It’s all ridiculously unclear.” (H. Fielding)
8. It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth or power but the pursuit of attainable goals: and what is a diet if not that?
(H. Fielding)
9. Oh, God, I’m so depressed. I thought I’d found something I was good at for once and now it’s all ruined, and on top of everything else it is the horrible ruby wedding party on Saturday and I have nothing to wear. I’m no good at anything. Not men. Not social skills. Not work. Nothing.
(H. Fielding)
10. On both sides of her along the walls she felt things creeping, damp souls that haunted this palace, this town, this North. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. Little things, meaningless and stupid in themselves, but there were there for me to see, for me to hear, for me to feel. (D. du Maurier)
12. “Of course I’m happy,” I said, “I love Manderley, I love the garden, I love everything.” (D. du Maurier)
13. “Oh, send somebody – send somebody!” she cried aloud. Clark Darrow – he would understand; or Joe Ewing; she couldn’t be left here to wander forever – to be frozen, heart, body, and soul. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. When I’m with him, I don’t feel … significant. I want to be everything to him. I want to be essential. I want him to be unable to live without me, but how can I be these things if he won’t let me? (C. Bushnell)
15. “Where are we going?” I burst out.
“Your flat. Why?” he said, looking around in alarm.
“Exactly. Why?” I said furiously. “We’ve been going out for four weeks and six days. And we’ve never stayed at your house. Not once. Not ever! Why?” (H. Fielding)
16. Passion is destructive. And if it doesn’t destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one’s life, that one’s brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one’s expended all one’s tenderness, poured out all the riches of one’s soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which one hung one’s dreams, who wasn’t worth a stick of chewing gum. (W.S. Maugham)
17. “Do you love him very much?”
“I don’t know. I’m impatient with him. I’m exasperated with him. I keep longing for him.” (W.S. Maugham)
18. “I keep it (the house) always full of interesting people, night and day. People who do interesting things. Celebrated people.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
19. Say yes. If you don’t I’ll break into tears. I’ll sob. Ill moan. I’ll growl. (Th. Smith)
20. You know – after so many kisses and promises, the lie given to her dreams, her words … the lie given to kisses – hours, days, weeks, months of unspeakable bliss (Th. Dreiser)
21. “Be careful,” said Mr. Jingle. “Not a look. Not a wink,” said Mr. Tupman. “Not a syllable. Not a whisper.” (Ch Dickens)
22. “Whatever you say is always right,” cried Harriet, “and therefore I suppose, and believe, and hope it must be so…” (J. Austen)
23. I have never seen any rich people. Very often I have thought that I had found them. But it turned out that it was no so. They were not rich at all. They were quite poor. They were hard up. They were pushed for money. They didn’t know where to turn for ten thousand dollars. (S. Leacock)
24. Three are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. (B. Disraeli)
25. “I’m so sorry,” I whispered, “so terribly, terribly sorry.” (D. du Maurier)
26. “But I love you – or adore you – or worship you – ” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
Exercise XIX. Analyze the following cases of pun. Study the semantic mechanism of pun:
1. Women give to men the very gold of their lives. Possibly; but they invariably want it back in such very small change. (O. Wilde)
2. Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there. (E. Hubbard)
3. The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run.
(J. Barrymore)
4. Diana Manners has no heart but her brains are in the right place.
(C. Asquith)
5. “Do you need driving back to London? I’m staying here but I could get my car to take you.”
“What, all on its own?” I said.
He blinked at me.
“Durr! Mark has a company car and a driver, silly,” said Una.
(H. Fielding)
6. “Give it to me,” said Mark.
“No!” I said, grabbing the phone back and hissing, “I’m a person in my own right.”
“Of course you are, darling, just not in your own right mind,” murmured Mark. (H. Fielding)
7. Passion doesn’t count the cost. Pascal said that the heart has reasons that reason takes no account of. (W.S. Maugham)
8. In God we trust, all others must pay cash. (Anonymous)
9. Humanity is the sin of God. (A. France)
10. I do not drag it (my talent) in the dust, says I, because they (poor people) haven’t got the dust. (O Henry)
11. They had the appearance of men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat – seamy on both sides. (O Henry)
12. A committee is a group of people that keeps minutes and loses hours.
(O Henry)
13. – What would you do if you were in my shoes?
Polish them! (English Humour)
14. Architect: Have you any suggestions for the study?
Quickrich: Only that it must be brown. Great thinkers, I understand, are generally found in a brown study. (English Humour)
15. – Last week a grain of sand got into my wife’s eye and she had to go to the doctor. It cost me $5.
That’s nothing. Last week a fur coat got into my wife’s eye and it cost me $500. (English Humour)
16. Teacher: Johny, would you like to go to Heaven?
Johny: Yes, but mother told me to come right home after school.
(English Humour)
17. I think it will be a clash between the political will and the administrative won’t. (J. Lynn and A. Jay)
18. “What happened?” cried Rosemary. “Do all the Americans in Paris just shoot at each other all the time?”
“This seems to be the open season,” he answered. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
19. “Where have the Snows gone?” he said. “Melted?” jolly good joke, he thought. Magnifique. “Snows all melted?” (H.E. Bates)
20. Drawn up sharply by the second mention of the word milord that day, Angela Snow had no time to make any sort of comment before Mademoiselle Dupont fluffed again and said:
“I am right in thinking that? Yes? He is a milord?”
“Down to the ankles,” Angela Snow said. “And like every Englishman he’s sure his home is his castle.”
At the mention of the word castle Mademoiselle Dupont was unable to speak. A castle – a chateau. There was something overpowering, tres formidable, about the word castle.
“You must ask him to tell you about it,” Angela Snow said. (H.E. Bates)
Exercise XX. Analyze the following cases of zeugma, state the function and types of zeugmatic combinations:
1. Most women in London nowadays seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners, and French novels. (O. Wilde)
2. I’m trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer. (O. North)
3. For over an hour the minister sighed and chuckled as he studied many of the pieces with admiration and finally returned to the old man to praise his skill. The craftsman bowed one again, and his shy smile revealed no teeth but only genuine pleasure at Sir Alexander’s compliments. (J. Archer)
4. Village looked surreally idyllic, trimmed with daffodils, conservatories, ducks etc. and people clipping hedges for all the world as if life were easy and peaceful, disaster had not happened, and there was such a thing as God. (H. Fielding)
5. Feel he thinks I am trying to trap him into a mini-break; as if it were not a mini-break but marriage, three kids and cleaning out the toilet in the house full of stripped pine in Stoke Newington. (H. Fielding)
6. Krendler had the tool and the time and the venom he needed to smash Starling’s career, and as he set about it, he was vastly aided by chance and the Italian mail. (Th. Harris)
7. His friends were Mary and Harold Winters, and they lived in a big house in the country. It was, I suppose, the sort of life that every single woman who’s spent too many nights alone in a tiny apartment in New York City dreams of: your own house with space, dogs, children, a Mercedes, and a jolly, adorable teddy-bear husband. (C. Bushnell)
8. Everyone held their breath as Sir Ralph looked down at his notes for really beyond all sense, beyond all reason, beyond all decorum and good English manners, too long. (H. Fielding)
9. (In the restaurant) Questions and corks popped, laughter and silver rang… (O Henry)
10. Familiarity breeds contempt and children (M. Twain)
11. There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. Usually once he gets going he will see things through to their logical conclusion come earthquake, tidal wave or naked pictures of Virginia Bottomley on the television. (H. Fielding)
13. He hesitated, and for a moment I thought he was going to talk of Manderley at last, but something held him back, some phobia that struggled top the surface of his mind and won supremacy, for he blew out his match and his flash of confidence at the same time. (D. du Maurier)
14. There were three things that Chico was always on – a phone, a horse or a broad. (G. Marx)
15. He took a filial look at Septimus Kinsolving’s elaborate tombstone in Greenwood, and a tedious excursion through typewritten documents with the family lawyer. (O Henry)
16. “Age fifty-five; married twice; Presbyterian, likes blondes, Tolstoy, poker and stewed terrapin; sentimental at third bottle of wine.” (O Henry)
17. There was a breathless indescribable hour crammed full of half-sentences, hot water, bacon and eggs and confusion; and after that she was alone with Harry in the library, asking him if she dared smoke.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
18. Out of that period he had brought all of its old pride and scruples of honor, and antiquated and punctilious politeness, and (you would think) its wardrobe. (O Henry)
19. And that afternoon Sue came to the bed where Johnsy lay, contentedly knitting a very blue and very useless woolen shoulder scarf, and put one arm around her, pillows and all. (O Henry)
20. I never could understand why some men who can break a mustang before breakfast and shave in the dark, get all left-handed and full of perspiration and excuses when they see a bolt of calico draped around what belongs in it. (O Henry)
21. She was alone in the world, with two small children, little money, and, worst of all, a host of friends. (F.Sc. Fitzgerald)
Exercise XXI. Differentiate between cases of tautology pretended and tautology disguised, state its function in the text:
1. Football’s football; if that weren’t the case, it wouldn’t be the game it is. (G. Crooks)
2. Slice him where you like, a hellhound is a hellhound. (P.G. Wodehouse)
3. Immature poets imitate; mature steal. (T.S. Eliot)
4. I rode over to see her once every week for a while; and then I figured it out that if I doubled the number of trips I would see her twice as often.
(O Henry)
5. Ma was certain sure they all slept in their make-up. (H.E. Bates)
6. War is war. The only human being is a dead one. (G. Orwell)
7. It would be like Kitty, soft and pliable, without impervious. You couldn’t move Kitty; you couldn’t reach Kitty. There was nothing there to reach. He understood that perfectly – he had understood it all along.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. Her face, the face of a saint, a Viking Madonna, shone through the faint motes that snowed across the candlelight, drew down its flush from the wine-coloured lanterns in the pine. She was still as still.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. Finally one of them had gone and left the other crying, only to feel blue, to feel sad. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
10. “My father had the kind of manners he inherited from the days when you shot first and apologized afterward. Men armed – why, you Europeans haven’t carried arms in civil life since the beginning of the eighteenth century – ”
“Not actually, perhaps – ”
“Not act ually. Not really.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
11. This was plain as plain to Dick. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
12. The man was almost shrieking. ‘Drink – black drink. Do you know what colour black is? It’s black. My own uncle was hung by the neck because of it, you hear! My son comes to a sanatorium, and a doctor reeks of it!’ (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
13. But there were insects and insects. (G. Orwell)
14. “No,” I reply firmly. “He fancies her. If he didn’t fancy her he wouldn’t be walking along the street with her. Believe me, having once been a teenage boy I know I wouldn’t have been seen dead talking to a girl I didn’t fancy in case my mates saw me.” I look over to Trevor and Lee for support. “Am I right or am I right?” (M. Gayle)
Exercise XXII. In the following examples pay attention to the structure and semantic peculiarities of oxymoron:
1. A succulent hash arrived, and Mr Wolfsheim, forgetting the more sentimental atmosphere of the old Metropole, began to eat with ferocious delicacy. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
2. They drove the rest of the journey in stormy silence. (W.S. Maugham)
3. Cannot believe he still hasn’t rung. Hate passive-aggressive behaviour of telephone in modern dating world, using non-communication as means of communication. Is terrible, terrible with simple ring or non-ring meaning difference between love and friendliness and happiness and being cast out into ruthless dating trench war again. (H. Fielding)
4. Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. (J. Baldwin)
5. A woman is an absolutely unreliable partner in any straight swindle.
(O Henry)
6. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! (O. Wilde)
7. “No, the Northern races are the tragic races – they don’ indulge in the cheering luxury of tears.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
8. “I’m sorry, dear,” said Harry, malignantly apologetic, “but you know what I think of them. They’re sort of – sort of degenerates – not at all like the old Southerners.” (F Sc. Fitzgerald)
9. “No, but you think it too, don’t you darling? It’s not just me? We are happy, aren’t we? Terribly happy?” (D. du Maurier)
10. “Now you are here, let me show you everything,” she said, her voice ingratiating and sweet as honey, horrible, false. (D. du Maurier)
11. I remembered the touch of her hand on my arm, and that dreadful soft, intimate pitch of her voice close to my ear. (D. du Maurier)
12. We were all three in the rather hearty, cheerful humour of people before a funeral. (D. du Maurier)
13. His moth fell open sharply, but except for a muted gurgle he had nothing to say. (H.E. Bates)
14. His hair had turned gradually white as he talked, and now he lifted his head high to the heavens like a prophet of old – magnificently mad.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
15. He bent his great brown eyes on her, shrewd – aloof, confused.
(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
16. “I’m a cynical idealist.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
17. He compared the two. Kitty – nervous without being sensitive, temperamental without temperament, a woman who seemed to flit and never light – and Roxanne, who was as young as a spring night, and summed up in her own adolescent laughter. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
18. During dinner the twilight faltered into dusk, and later it was a starry dark outside. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
19. “You’re not like me. I’m a romantic little materialist.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
20. “I despise its very vastness and power. It has the poorest millionaires, the littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw.” (O Henry)
Exercise XXIII. Comment on the structural and semantic varieties of antithesis:
1. Men know life too early; women know life too late – that is the difference between men and women. (O. Wilde)
2. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.
(O. Wilde)
3. It is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself.
(O. Wilde)
4. The soul is born old, but grows young. That is the comedy of life. The body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy. (O. Wilde)
5. Conversation should touch on everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
6. I like men who have a future and women who have a past. (O. Wilde)
7. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (O. Wilde)
8. We make gods of men and they leave us. Others make brutes of them and they fawn and are faithful. (O. Wilde)
9. Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about things. What they like is to be a man’s last romance. (O. Wilde)
10. What is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is unread. (O. Wilde)
11. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. (O. Wilde)
12. What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question of for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot – that is all one can say. (O. Wilde)
13. Moreover he told it to me at a time of confusion, when I had reached the point of believing everything and nothing about him. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
14. The world is like a game. In this game there are joy and sorrow, virtue and vice, knowledge and ignorance, good and evil. The game cannot continue if sin and suffering are altogether eliminated from the creation. (W.S. Maugham)
15. It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought. (O. Wilde)
16. Virtue is generally merely a form of deficiency, just as vice is an assertion of intellect. (O. Wilde)
17. Money to you means freedom; to me it seems bondage. (W.S. Maugham)
18. I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old. (D. du Maurier)
19. He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. (O Henry)
20. I knew then that he had mistaken my silence for fatigue, and it had not occurred to him I dreaded this arrival at Manderley as much as I had longed for it in theory. (D. du Maurier)
STLYLISTIC SYNTAX
Exercise I. Discriminate between syntactic stylistic devices based on the absence of elements:
1. EDUCATION. – At Mr Wackford Squeers’s Academy, Dotheboys Hall, at the delightful village of Dotheboys, near Greta Bridge in Yorkshire, Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with pocket-money, provided with all necessaries, instructed in all languages living and dead, mathematics, orthography, geometry, astronomy, trigonometry, the use of the globes, algebra, single stick (if required), writing, arithmetic, fortification, and every other branch of classical literature. Terms, twenty guineas per annum. No extras, no vacations, and diet unparalleled.
(Ch. Dickens)
2. Where we differ from each other is purely in accidentals – in dress, manner, tone of voice, religious opinions, personal appearance, tricks of habit, and the like. (O. Wilde)
3. Roaring noon. In a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar I met Gatsby for lunch. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. “You’re very polite, but I belong to another generation,” he announced solemnly. “You sit here and discuss your sports and your young ladies and your – ” He supplied an imaginary noun with another wave of his hand. “As for me, I am fifty years old, and I won’t impose myself on you any longer.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. “Oh, it isn’t about that. At least –” He fumbled with a series of beginnings. “Why, I thought – why, look here, old sport, you don’t make much money, do you?” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
6. “Left no address?”
“No.”
“Say when they’d be back?”
“No.”
“Any idea where they are? How I could reach them?”
“I don’t know. Can’t say.”(F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. “Oh, there you are, darling. You are sweet. Thank you very much. Must dash, going to miss the plane. Byee!” she said, grabbing the banknotes from my hand. (H. Fielding)
8. “The Mouse. Beginning of a hand, don’t you think?”
“Nice line.”
Breasly nodded down toward the huge canvas. “I let her help. The donkey-work.”
David murmured, “On that scale …”
“Clever girl, Williams. Don’t let her fool you. Shouldn’t make fun of her.” The old man stared down at the drawing. “Deserves better.” Then, “Couldn’t do without her, really.”
“I’m sure she’s learning a lot.”
“Know what people say. Old rake and all that. Man my age.” (J. Fowles)
9. Love and beauty and art; the world well lost. (W.S. Maugham)
10. The Cadillac sideswiped a line of cars across the street and came to a grinding stop against them. Starling was walking toward the Cadillac now. A shooter still sat in the back window, his eyes wild and hands pushing against the car roof, his chest compressed between the Cadillac and a parked car. Starling ignored him.
Gunfire from her right and the runner pitched forward, sliding on his face, and tried to crawl under a car. Helicopter blades blatting above her.
Someone yelling in the fish market, “Stay down. Stay down.” People under the counters and water at the abandoned cleaning table showering into the air.
Starling advanced on the Cadillac. Movement in the back of the car. Movement in the Cadillac. The car rocking. The baby screaming in there. Gunfire and the back window shattered and fell in. (Th. Harris)
11. Elliot liked the summer there because the hot weather gave him the opportunity to indulge in a gaiety of dress that his sense of decorum had always forced him to eschew. He would appear then in trousers of startling colour, red, blue, green or yellow, and with them wear singlets of contrasting hue, mauve, violet, puce, or harlequin, and would accept the compliments his attire clamoured for with the deprecating grace of an actress who is told that she played a new role divinely. (W.S. Maugham)
12. And although Maxim had recovered, and was himself again, and we lived together, sleeping, eating, walking, writing letters, driving to the village, working hour by hour through our day, I knew there was a barrier between us because of it. (D. du Maurier)
13. Brough sighed as she went upstairs.
Women! There was no way of understanding how their minds and, even, their emotions worked. (P. Jordan)
14. “I want her held for obstructing justice, for tampering with a witness in a capital case, for conspiracy, for …”. He was incoherent with rage. (S. Sheldon)
15. “…I’d be delighted to have you.”
“Be ver’ nice,” said Mr Sloane, without gratitude. “Well – think ought to be starting home.”
“Please don’t hurry,” Gatsby urged them. He had control of himself now, and he wanted to see more of Tom. “Why don’t you – why don’t you stay for supper? I wouldn’t be surprised if some other people dropped in from New York.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
16. “If there’s nothing else …” Judge Waldman began.
“There is something else.” (S. Sheldon)
17. “Do you remember Mark, darling? He’s one of those top-notch barristers. Masses of money. Divorced.” (H. Fielding)
18. “Are you accusing me of -?”
“Accusing you?” – Robert Di Silva clenched his fists. (S. Sheldon)
19. “He’s just back from America, apparently. Divorced. He’s looking for a house in Holland Park. Apparently he had the most terrible with his wife. Japanese. Very cruel race.” (H. Fielding)
20. “Espresso? Filter? Latte? Cap: half fat or de-caf?” snapped the waitress, sweeping all the plates off the table next to her and looking at me accusingly as if Mum was my fault.
“Half fat de-caf cap and a latte,” I whispered apologetically. (H. Fielding)
21. “Oh, but Mum, I have to work with Daniel, I – ”
“Darling – wrong way round. He has to work with you. Give him hell, baby”. (H. Fielding)
Exercise II. Differentiate syntactic stylistic devices based on the excess of syntactical elements:
1. He who would lead a Christ-like life is he who is perfectly and absolutely himself. He may be a great poet, or a great man of science; or a young student at the university, or one who watches sheep upon a moor; or a maker of dramas, like Shakespeare, or a thinker about God, like Spinoza; or a child who plays in a garden, or a fisherman who throws his nets into the sea. It does not matter what he is as long as he realizes the perfection of the soul that is within him. (O. Wilde)
2. In addition to all these I can remember that Faustina O’Brian came there at least once and the Baedeker girls and young Brewer, who had his nose shot off in the war, and Mr Albrucksburger and Miss Haag, his fiancée, and Ardita Fitz-Peters and Mr P. Jewett, once head of the American Legion, and Miss Claudia Hip, with a man reputed to be her chauffeur, and a prince of something, whom we called Duke, and whose name, if I ever knew it, I have forgotten. All these people came to Gatsby’s house in the summer. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
3. She began to cry – she cried and cried. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
4. “This is a terrible mistake,” he (Gatsby) said, shaking his head from side to side, “a terrible, terrible mistake.” (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
5. Everyone else at the table had got up to dance, except him and me. There I was, trapped. Trapped like a trap in a trap. (D. Parker)
6. From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches, and a man named Bunsen, whom I knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet, who was drowned last summer up in Maine. And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires, and a whole clan named Blackbuck, who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whoever came near. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)
7. The word fell, slow, slow, slow, like drops of water in a basin from a defective tap. (W.S. Maugham)
8. “It’s really, really, reall y amazing,” Gave was saying. “It’s, like, a sullied Utopia with these really, really, really good echoes of, like lost national identities.” (H. Fielding)
9. In the bar of the Hotel du Cap, it’s the same scene as it was the night before and the night before that and lunch the day before and lunch the day before that. (C. Bushnell)
10. I shot back upstairs, grabbed back the doormat and there, nestling underneath like a Christmas miracle, was a little pile of cards, letters and invitations all addressed to me. Me. Me. Me. (H. Fielding)