Liza Mesheryakova, EG-16

Unit 3.
Stylistic morphology of the English language
Exercise 1.
1. To himself, he thought, as he pushed a chair for her and asked her to sit
down, she was scarcely distinguishable from any other woman of her kind.
There were thousands of Sissy Millers — drab little women in black
carrying attache cases. (V. Woolf)

Sissy Millers - a proper noun. It becomes a common name, a collective

image of a certain social class. Acquires such meaning as " little silly
women". The author applies it that the nouns acquire expressive connotation
and become more symbolic.

2. It was a cloudless afternoon in May, and the pale green of the young
chestnut leaves made a pretty contrast with the dark blue of the sky (E.M.
Forster).
the pale green of the young chestnut
the dark blue of the sky
Here we can see how adjectives lose their function. It become nouns. The
author does this in order to create a bright coloring of coloristics.
Therefore, here in the proposal there are bright colors, as well as an
unusual combination.

3. It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was
nothing too (E. Hemingway).
The author uses this for a more expressive expression. The author uses this
also for an estimated value.

4. It must be the Hedder girl, he thought (J. Chase).

The author uses this pronoun in order that we could specify the
representative, describe it, give character. In the text it does for
amplification.

5. Lisa French was being pretty forthright (R. Pitman, J. McNally).

 The author uses this to add emphasis and vividness to the description. The
author uses this to describe a temporary character.

6. Goodman grunted and smiled to himself. You‘ve read the file, Adam.
You‘ve researched the case for a long time. There‘s no doubt Sam took
part in the bombing.
But?
There are a lot of ―buts. There always are (J. Grisham).
The author uses an abstract plural noun to express intensification of
meaning.

7. I shrugged. ―Hasn‘t turned up. They weren‘t going to run him but
they‘ve had a few quid on and decided to have a go (R. Pitman, J.
McNally).
The author shows a special expression of this part of speech in order to
strengthen the reader's perception.

8. The irritation and resistance melted from Elisa‘s face. ―Oh, those are
chrysanthemums, giant whites and yellows. I raise them every year, bigger
than anybody around here (J. Steinbeck)
By using these adjectives in the text, the author shows the expressiveness
and accuracy of the description, which allows us to assess the situation as a
whole.

9. ―Pretty full of yourself for a has been, ain‘t you?But my spirits were
high and my blood was up. I smiled warmly just to irritate him. ―I‘d
sooner be a has-been then a never-was (R. Pitman, J. McNally).
The author uses this to enhance the perception of the text, to describe the
character. The author uses an idiom “has-been” to express a person who is
so popular.

10. All this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as usurer
in Boston. His door was soon thronged by customers. The needy and
adventurous; the gambling speculator; the dreaming land-jobber; the
thriftless trades-man; the merchant with cracked credit; in short, every
one driven to raise money by desperate means and desperate sacrifices,
hurried to Tom Walker (W. Irving).
With this technique, the author depicts workers, teams of people, enhances
their description, with the help of bright colors.
11. But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a
Johnson with a quick tongue? (A. Walker).
Here the author uses description, quality for more vivid expression of the
sentence. The article also helps him with this.

12.You‘ve got magnificently brown, I must say‘.

You too. You're a marvellous colour‘ (H. E. Bates).
The author shows how the adjective passes into the noun stage to give color
to the quality.

13.From time to time he wondered if there could, possibly, be a Mr.

Palgrave, but there was no way of asking her this (H. E. Bates).
This technique the author uses to give a stylistic coloring, namely for the
evaluation value.

14. There was snow on the tops of the mountains and the lake was a gray
steel-blue.
The author shows how this technique may have a temporary feature of
character, it is a temporary quality.

15. While in the wild wood I did lie // The City in the Sea (E.A. Poe).
In this text, the author uses this morphological technique to show the
atmosphere of mystery.

16. The melancholy waters lie (E.A. Poe).

The author shows the plural to еxpress the expression and this noun
acquires a stylistic meaning.

17. No swellings tell that winds may be (E.A. Poe).

The author uses the verb, this inverted construction elsewhere to reinforce
the speaker's speech.