Note: Syntax deals with sentences and phrases
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 489.
There are many expressive devices in the text. They are all syntactical. Remember some of them. Try to find more examples in the text ( 1 mark for one of the examples you find in the text - total 10 marks).
STYLE
Have a look at the sample summary of the text. What would you like to add to the summary (2-3 sentences). It is advisable to use the vocabulary of the text and the past tense narrative (6marks).
Translate the following passage in writing. Pay attention to the register of translation - neutral and colloquial (10marks).
The news spread like wildfire too. Mark Melcher had gone crazy over Old Man Fellow's death. Wasn't it shame! And such a fine man! So sympathetic he was worrying himself crazy over his friend's death because he had sold him some poison. As if he could have known that Old Man Fellows was going to commit suicide, as the police said.
SUMMARY
Mark Melcher was a respected, dignified kind man, Willowville's best loved citizen. He had lived in this small American town for 22 years when a new young teacher Emily Holden, a nice girl of 22, arrived in the place and fell in love with Old Man Fellows, the head of the school board and the richest man in the town.
Once Emily came to the drugstore all in tears and told Mark her sad story. Old Man Fellows had deceived her and threatened to tell something awful, he knew about her. Mark cashed a big sum of money and sent her to New York to some lady who might help her. He murdered Old Man fellows with prussic acid, having changed the usual eye drops, he used for the poison. He wanted to confess to the sheriff and get the punishment he deserved. But nobody in the town believed that it was a murder, all the people were sure that it was a mistake and Mark went mad because of this tragedy. He was sent to the sanatorium but nobody in the town found out that Emily was his daughter, Mark had never been married and Old Man Fellows was the only man who knew it.
· parallelism(parallel constructions) – параллельные конструкции
For 22 years Mark Melcher had walked from his office at exactly 5 o'clock. Methodical Mark was.
For 22 years he had been greeted respectfully by men and women with whom he had grown old. Dignified Mark was.
For 22 years Mark stopped to pat the heads of children and give them candies. Kindly Mark was.
Inversion (inverted word order) – инверсия, обратный порядок слов
. MethodicalMark was.
· Detachment - обособление
Old Man Fellows – he wasn't so very old – was the richest man in town….
· Parcellation
Emily Holden was a very pretty girl of about 22. The schoolteacher and a very good one.
· Represented (Non-Direct Personal Speech) – представленная (несобственно- прямая речь)
Wasn't it shame! And such a fine man! So sympathetic….
· Rhetorical Question
Can you believe it?
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