Bleak House”, Ch. 6-11. Appendix.

Pronounce the proper names:

***Dedlock, Jarndyce, Summerson, Leicester, Boythorne, Jellyby, Pardiggle, Skimpole, Tulkinghorn, Snagsby, Rouncewell, Nemo, Guppy, Krook, Flite, Esther, Lawrence, Harold, Watt.

1. By whom is the following said?

· All he asked of society was to let him live. His wants were few, and he didn’t cry for the moon.

· You won’t make any use of it to my detriment, and I am not to be prejudiced in my situation or worldly prospects.

· …, not to put too fine a point on it,….

· We have been misdirected by a most abandoned ruffian. He is the most intolerable scoundrel on the face of the earth I haven’t the slightest doubt that the scoundrel has passed his whole existence in misdirecting travellers.

· You cannot tire me if you try. The quantity of exertion that I go through sometimes astonishes myself.

· We are revolving around the Lord Chancellor and his satellites and … waltzing ourselves off to dusty death.

2. Of whom is the following said? Practice back translation in pairs.

· … he/she could never bear acknowledgments of any kindness he/she performed.

· It was a handsome, lively, quick face. He/she was upright, hearty, and robust.

· He is an Amateur, but might have been a Professional. He is a man of attainments and of captivating manners.

· He had more the appearance of a damaged young man, than a well-preserved elderly one.

· He supposes all his dependants to be utterly bereft of individual characters.. or opinions.

· The doomed young rebel showed no sign of grace as he grew older… ( but, on the contrary, constructed a model of a power-loom).

· She’s an apt scholar, and will do well. She is very modest, - a scarcer quality than it formerly was!

· He/she is part and parcel of the place (Chesney Wold).

· … whose family greatness seems to consist in never having done anything to distinguish themselves.

· They were not suited to each other in age or character, and they had no children to moderate between them. She hated the race into which she had married.

· He/she regards a ghost as a privilege of the upper classes, and genteel distinction to which the common people have no claim.

· He lived here shut up, and hoping against hope.. to bring the suit to a close.

· … was distinguished by rapacious benevolence; … made a show of doing charity by wholesale.

· … looked absolutely ferocious with discontent.

· …are not only one bone and one flesh, but, to the neighbours’ thinking, one voice, too.

· … an Oyster of the old school, whom nobody can open; a great reservoir of confidences.

· … has established his pretensions to his name by becoming indeed No one.

· He is a mild, bald, timid man, with a shining head. He tends to meekness and obesity.

· … the active and intelligent

3. How does the writer create the mystery part of the plot? Does he do it with ingenuity or are his attempts to intrigue and baffle the readers naïve and futile? Explain, providing objective evidence.

4. How does Dickens create a collective portrait of the common Londoner, “the man in the street”? What does he need it for?

5. Find concrete examples of lexical or semantic repetition and classify it as either excessive and tiresome verbosity or an important device creating implied meaning.

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