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“You Are What You Say” by Robin Tolmach Lakoff

4. According to Lakoff, women’s language sounds more polite than that of men. Is it,
as she observes, really a sign of weakness of uncertainty?
Not being a strong advocate of feminist sentiments, I however find no
deficiency in letting myself be prevailed upon to see women’s language being highly
culturally biased. Based on Lakoff’s observation, women’s polite ‘lady talk’ one
could hardly define as a manifestation of weakness, as soon as one is not a man. How
come women’s humbleness, ingenuity, ability to grant leeway, eluding the unilateral
imposition of their own mind can be so mistakenly taken? How come all those
capable comprehensive women are being made ‘communicative cripples’ once they
speak? One can only speculate. My guess is that this is the burden a true lady is
doomed to carry. And this very burden gives a way to disguise our powerful means of
control and guidance as a meek and vulnerable obedience. Women will always let
men lead, or at least suppose to I believe. However, this does not mean their humble
state must remain as it is, at least not from their perspective. Men do not need to
know what they should not know. But having this secret power and realizing her own
potential, woman is able to be far more that she can ask or think.
“The Sojourner” by Carson McCullers
6. What role does the music, performed by Elizabeth, play in the psychological
description of Ferris?

In this story of unrequited love the music does play a significant role of creating
a background, or rather conveying the motif itself. When Elizabeth sits to play a Bach
prelude and fugue, Ferris, slightly drunk, allows himself to elicit long-forgotten but
still pulsing memories. “The first voice of the fugue… repeated intermingling with a
second voice” and the leading melody “woven with two other voices” kind of reflect
those twisted relationships in the story. The music spoke to him evoking all the “past
longings, conflicts, ambivalent desires”. Even a sudden breaking off implied the story
needing to be finished. And that “unfinished air” took hold and manifested itself on
the plane to Paris, when Ferris desperately tried to recapture that melody. Instead, he
felt himself stuck between two worlds, between his idealized might-have-been life
and his own destructing reality. This very melody serves as a sort of a closure for
Ferris when he once again is attacked by a sudden reminiscence while holding a
child. But this time it feels like it served him good. This time he feels ready to finish
what was left unfinished. This time, the sojourner is coming home.
 TEST in Discourse Analysis

1. In which of the studied stories is the parallel description of children used to create the effect of
opposition?.
1. “Time” 2. “The Sojourner” 3. “Art for Heart’s Sake” 4. “The Escape”

2. What is the central metaphor of the essay “Light Reflections”?

1. Music 2. Address-book 3. Mirror 4. Train

3. What stylistic devices (two) are employed by the author in the following sentence: “He
enveloped them all in a warm, protective affection”.
1. Epithet 2. Metaphor 3. Simile 4. Verbal irony

4. “The guinol is now closed”. What story is this key phrase taken from?
1. “The Sojourner” 2. “Crome Yellow” 3. “The Escape” 4. “Time”

5. What is the main obsession of Lorna and her family from Muriel Spark’s story?
1. Job-hunting 2. Cleanliness 3. Marriage 4. House-redecorating

6 .What is the main concept in H.E. Bates’s story?

1. Time 2. Light 3. Music 4. Spring

7.Which of the concepts plays one of the symbolic roles in the story “The Sojourner”?

1. Space 2. Music 3. Light 4. City

8. In which of the stories the role of irony is the most prominent?

1. “The Sojourner” 2. “Time” 3. “Crome Yellow” 4. “First meeting with Sven”

9. The use of speaking names is one of the techniques of …… characterization.

1.direct 2. Indirect 3. Plot 4. Narrative

10. The use of dialogue is a means of ……….characterization.

1.plot 2.indirect 3.direct 4. Chronological

11. A scene that dramatically shows the reader an event or series of events that happened prior to the
time frame of the present story is called….. .

1.crisis 2.complication 3.suspense 4.flashback

12. The author of a novel might use ………. in the early chapter of his book to give readers a hint or a
sign of something that will happen later, such as an impending disaster.

1.digression 2. Exposition 3. Foreshadowing 4. Foil character

13. “Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him”. This is an example of the so-called
... beginning.

1.conventional 2. In-medias-res 3. Hard 4. In-ultimas-res

14. Showing is otherwise termed a/an ……method of characterization.

1.direct 2.indirect 3.chronological 4. Digressive

15. Telling is otherwise termed a ……method of characterization.

1.direct 2.indirect 3.chronological 4. Digressive

16. Physical location, climatic conditions, historical period are all elements of ….. .

1.framing 2. Action 3. Narrative 4. Setting

17. …………is the insertion of important background information within a story; for example, information
about the setting, characters' background stories, prior plot events, historical context, etc.

1.complication 2. Exposition 3. Flashback 4. Foreshadowing