Assignments for stylistic analysis. 1. Define the style represented by the extract.
1. Define the style represented by the extract. 2. State the theme and the idea of the text. 3. What is basically presented in the passage - narration or description? is there any emotional climax in the text? 4. Analyse: a) whether the setting is realistic/ fantastic/ exotic; b) what span of time the extract covers. 5. What is the tone of the extract? Choose three words or phrases which you think convey the unpleasantness of the weather or the landscape. Explain how these words or phrases achieve their effects. 6. Analyse metaphor and explain simile in the excerpt. 7. Is/ are there any image/ images created in the context? Comment on your answer. Item 4 Their own tea arrived and they prepared to begin. Attempting to break the silence Mr Stone found that he whispered, and the whisper was like gunshot. And then silence vanished. The door was pushed vigorously open and there entered a very tall man and a very small fair girl. The man was in mountaineering clothes, like one equipped for a Himalayan or at least Alpine expedition. He carried rucksack and ropes; his thick rough trousers were tucked into thick woollen socks, and these disappeared into massive lustreless boots with extraordinarily thick soles. He created, by his masculine entry and the laying down of detachable burdens, as much noise as for two or three. The girl was soft and mute. Her slacks, imperfectly and tremulously filled, suggested only fragility; so did her light-blue silk scarf. The pale colours of her clothes, the milky fawn of her raincoat, and the style of her pale tan shoes marked her as a European. From V. S. Naipaul's Mr Stone and the Knights Companion
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