Assignments for stylistic analysis. 1. State the theme and the idea expressed in the extract.

1. State the theme and the idea expressed in the extract.

2. Define the form of presentation, its tone, and the narrator's attitude.

3. Characterise the sentence structure and syntactic stylistic peculiari­ties of the extract.

4. Say whether the following questions can be considered rhetoric: "what's a pension to а тал what's lost 'is sight?"; "and then what's goin' t' look after 'im?";

5. Point out and analyse cases of morphological transposition. State their function.

6. Enumerate the instances and state the stylistic function of the numer­ous illusions and orthography graphons.

7. Characterise lexico-semantic peculiarities of the following: "Give me a turn it did"; "leadin' 'im along like a child"; "Gives up all 'er life to that hoy"; "But she ain't many years for this world, crackin' up fast, she is";.

8. Decide whether there is/ are any image(s) disclosed in the extract.

Item 3

The Salmon is ever bred in the fresh Rivers (and in most Rivers about the month of August) and never grows big but in the Sea; and there to an

•«credible bigness in a very short time; to which place they covet to swim, by _the instinct of nature, about a set time: but if they be stopp'd by Mills, Flood-nates or Weirs, or be by accident lost in the fresh water, when the others go (which is usually by flocks or shoals) then they thrive not.

And the old Salmon, both the Melter and Spawner, strive also to get into фе Sea before Winter; but being stopped that course, or lost, grow sick in fresh waters, and by degrees unseasonable, and kipper, that is, to have a bony oristle, to grow (not unlike a Hawks beak) on one of this chaps, which hinders him from feeding, and then he pines and dies.

From Izaak Walton's The Complete Angler