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Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices
Practice:
Exercise 4.7. Read the given passages. Analyze the cases of onomatopoeia printed in bold type, try to describe the way different people walked and speak of the effect produced.
Example: Thumpa-thumpa-thumpa. Gage’s small bare feet thundering along the hallway runner. /Stephen King Pet Sematary/ In the fragment we see a case of onomatopoeia “Thumpa-thumpa-thumpa.” The hyphenated graphical form shows that Gage ran rather than walked, and probably was putting his feet flat on the floor.
1. Dussander shuffled past him and into the living room, his slippers wish-wishing on the floor. /Stephen King Apt Pupil/ (from Different Seasons by S. King)
2. Laurel thought of the listless clup-clup sound of her high heels on the cement, and the lack of echo when Captain Engle cupped his hands around his mouth and called up the escalator for Mr. Toomy. /Stephen King The Langoliers/
3. Hilary parked her car in the garage and walked to the front door. Her heels made an unnaturally loud tock-tock-tock sound on the stone footsteps. /Dean Koontz Whispers/
4. ‘Okay!” The louder clack-clack of her feet. “here’s your snack, Gage. I got to go to school.” /Stephen King Pet Sematary/
Exercise 4.8. Read the given passages and pick out cases of direct and indirect onomatopoeia from the units in bolt type. Speak about the effect produced by it.
Example: At the borderland of sleep she heard onrushing wings: wicka-wicka-wicka! /Dean Koontz The Vision/ In this fragment the author resorts to indirect onomatopoeia. The hyphenated unit “wicka-wicka-wicka” illustrates how fast the wings worked and the sound produced by them.
1. She paused a moment longer, listening for voices, for dogs, possibly for the irregular whup-whup-whupof helicopter blades. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
2. Her rage overflowed and she charged the sheets, clawed at them, began pulling them down. Her fingers caught over the first line and it snapped like a guitar string. The sheets hung from it dropped ina sodden, meaty swoop. […] Wilma took a single large, froggy leap and landed on top of one. It made a weary floosh sound and billowed up, splatering gobbets of mud on her nylons. /Stephen King Needful Things/
3. Her foot went into a cold, vicious substance that was too thick to be water and too thin to be mud. […] She fell forward into long grass that hopped with bugs. She got a knee under her and yanked her foot back. It came with a loud sucking plop, but her sneaker stayed down there someplace. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
4. Thump! Something had fallen over in another part of the house. /Dean Koontz The Eyes of Darkness/
5. He rang the doorbell again, thumbing it twice this time, so the sound from the belly of the house was BingBong! BingBong! /Stephen King Needful Things/ Exercise 4.9. Read the given passages and analyze cases of alliteration, rhyme and rhythm from the units in bolt type. Speak about the produced effect and make the rhyme schemes:
1. I go to concert, party, ball – What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive to look at ease. The incense that is mine by right They burn before Her shrine; And that’s because I’m seventeen And she is forty-nine. /from My Rival by R. Kipling/
2. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful AnnabelLee; And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful AnnabelLee; And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride In her sepulchre there by the sea – In her tomb by the side of the sea. /from Annabel Lee by E.A. Poe/
3. Nowhere can a secret keep always secret, dark and deep, half so well as in the past, buried deep to last, to last.
Keep it in your own dark heart, otherwise the rumors start.
After many years have buried secrets over which you worried, no confidant can then betray all the words you didn’t say.
Only you can then exhume secrets safe within the tomb of memory, of memory within the tomb of memory. /Dean Koontz Cold Fire/
Checking Your Progress:
Exercise 4.10. Read the given passages and pick out cases of onomatopoeia (state their kinds), alliteration, rhyme and rhythm. Speak about the effect produced by onomatopoeia. Analyse the rhyme and rhythm patterns, make the rhyme scheme:
1. Ahead of her, on the hummock which was her next stop, three frogs jumped out of the grass and into the water, plip-plip-plop. /Stephen King The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon/
2. In the next yard the haverhills’ mutt began to bellow hysterically in its high, unpleasant voice – yark!yark!yark! – and this did nothing to improve Wilma’s state of mind. /Stephen King Needful Things/
3. Pity not! The Army gave Freedom to a timid slave: In which Freedom did he find Strength of body, will, and mind: By which strength he came to prove Mirth, Companionship, and Love: For which Love to Death he went: In which Death he lies content. /Redyard Kipling Ex-clerk/
4. They didn’t talk much during the remainder of the journey. At long last, the train stopped at Hogsmeade station, and there was a great scramble to get out; owls hooted, cats miaowed, and Neville’s pet toad croaked loudly from under his hat. /J. Rowling Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban/
5. The lock turned out to be easy, and as Frank climbed the stairs to the first floor again, he burst into an unseasonal but nonetheless cheery song: Oh … you better not fight, you better not cry, You better not pout, I’m telling you why, Santa Claus is coming to town! He sees you when you’re sleeping! He knows when you’re awake! He knows if you’ve been bad or good, So you better be good for goodness’ sake! /Stephen King Needful Things/
Figures of Speech
Practice:
Exercise 4.11. Read the given passages with the units in bolt type. Pick out cases of stylistic inversion, detached constructions (insertion), segmentation, chiasmus, parallel constructions, repetition (anaphora, epiphora, anadiplosis, chain-repetition), antithesis, suspense, gradation, anticlimax, asyndeton, polysyndeton, ellipsis, represented speech, inner speech, litotes. Speak on the effect produced: Example: The earth is a living thing. It could talk to us if we were worth talking to. /Dean Koontz Cold Fire/
In the fragment the author resorts to chiasmus “It could talk to us if we were worth talking to” to bring home the idea that people could understand different processes and phenomena of the universe if they were sensitive and considerate enough.
1. Harry shivered. He wasn’t sure he liked Mr. Ollivander too much. /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
2. You fall in love with the Bureau, but the Bureau doesn’t fall in love with you. /Thomas Harris Hannibal/
3. The switchboard told him Mrs. Lorna Brick had telephoned twice, and would he please return the call. /Jackie Collins Sinners/
4. He was shaking with need, trembling, quivering, quaking. /Dean Koontz Whispers/
5. Harry had almost forgotten that the exam results were still to come, but come they did. /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
6. A white Honda bumped the bike. Brakes squealed, traffic halted, and people rushed toward the injured man. /Dean Koontz The Key to Midnight/
7. A moment later the desserts appeared. Blocks of ice in every flavor you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate éclairs, and jam doughnuts,trifle, strawberries, Jell-O, rice pudding… /J.K. Rowling Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone/
8. They were, in fact, leading indicators of the approach of a condition that Sully had come to think of as a stupid streak, where everything he did would turn out wrong, where each wrong turn would be compound by the next, where even smart moves would prove dumb in the particular circumstance, where thoughtlessness and careful consideration were guaranteed to arrive at the same end – disaster. /Richard Russo Nobody’s Fool/
9. She turned towards them, using them as an excuse to avoid Alex’s eyes for the few seconds required to regain her composure, but what she saw made her gasp. A man with no right hand. Twenty feet away. Date: 2016-01-03; view: 2550
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