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Seminar 7:
Ex. 10 (8 sent.), p.72; Ex. 11(10 sentences), p. 72-73; Ex. 14 (11 sent.) (only task a), p.77; Ex.20,
p.80; Ex. 24 (10 sent.), p.83.
Ex. 10 (8 sent.), p.72. a) Point out the cases ofzoosemy in the following sentences. b) Translate
the sentences into Ukrainian.
1. They were under a great shadow train shed... with passenger cars all about and the train moving
at a snail pace (Th. Dreiser).
2. "Now come and have some breakfast. We pig it in the kitchen in the mornings" (J. Fowles).
3. "Get him an ambulance, then." I shook my head... "You're a stupid heartless pig. He obviously
needs a doctor, and hospital care" (D. Francis).
4. «You and Fleur. Two little lame ducks - charming yellow little ducks" (J. Galsworthy).
5. 'They won't monkey with me no more," he told Martha, "I've showed 'em I could look after
myself? (V. Palmer).
6. "Some swine sent the word around that I'd been a scab" (Id.).
7. When the billy boiled, it was luxurious to lie in the soft sand, wolfing his bread and meat (Id.).
8. They sang songs and acted the goat as they came back after each load (Id.).
Ex. 11(10 sentences), p. 72-73. a) Explain the logic of metonymic transference in the following
words and collocations in bold type. b) Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
1. George Dial /was/ dressed in smart grey flannels (R. Chandler).
2. "Moira Nicholson is a nice little soul and I didn't want her to get landed in a mess" (A. Christie).
3. Thoroughly sympathetic with beauty in distress, he... did all he could (Id.).
4. Over a period of two weeks the old man executed a hundred and forty silhouette portraits of
Evelyn (E.L. Doctorow).
5. "Do you all sell anything to eat here?" one questions the grizzled old carpet slippers who opens
the door (Th. Dreiser).
6. One table was playing dominoes already (E. Hemingway).
7. So I resolved to sell no more muscle and to become a vendor of brains (J. London).
8. His jeans were too short to be fashionable (B. Lawry).
9. At lunch-time the people sat on the grass beside their buggies and ate sandwiches and drank tea
they poured from billies (A. Marshall).
10. The Stars and Stripes dangled languidly from a flagstaff (W.S. Maugham).
Ex. 14 (11 sent.) (only task a), p.77. a) Give synonyms to the words in bold type.
1. "I want to be quite frank with you" (W.S. Maugham).
2. The Avon Swim Club appeared to be a very luxurious complex (R. Ludlum).
3. Grinning, satisfied with himself, he stood away from the car (Sh. Jackson).
4. Isabel sat quite still at her dressing table (K. Norris).
5. In a swift, reflex action, Amandaris swung the wheel sharply to the left (S. Sheldon).
6. There was just one tiny flaw in Simonetta. When she became jealous, she turned into a savage
(Id.).
7. It was an ordinary bus trip with crying babies and hot sun (J. Kerouac.
8. There was complete silence... You could have heard a feather falling (R. Stout).
9. "I used to work in the theater." "An actress!" This idea stirred Caroline (I. McEwan).
10. "There were several things about it all that struck me as - well, queer" (A. Christie).
11. "We are utterly dumbfounded at this strange series of disasters" (Id.).
Ex.20. p.80. Give direct words to the following euphemisms.

Abdomen -
Blooming -
Bosom -
Briefs -
call girl -
comfort station -
consumption -
the deceased -
delinquent -
the departed -
deranged -
expectorate -
expire -
gay -
gents -
help -
ill-favoured -
infirmary -
intoxicated -
ladies* -
the late -
memorial park -
merry -
necropolis -
perspiration -
privy -
pro -
retiring room -
rounder -
small clothes -
T.B. -
Tight -
W.C. -
Ex. 24 (10 sent.), p.83. a) Classify the words in bold type into homographs, homophones and
absolute homonyms. b) Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.
1. a) Minute by minute, the silence seemed to grow more pregnant with possibilities (A. Christie).
b) Poirot was busy mopping a grey suit with a minute sponge (Id.).
2. a) The cupped receiver made a biasing sea-sound. Like the sound of distant surf you heard when
you held a sea shell over your ear (Ch. Barnard, S. Stander). b) He dropped the gun. Barney picked
it up, jacked a shell into the chamber, and handed the gun back (E. Queen).
3. a) They returned to the bar where they ordered beer (A. Saxton). b) Joe fumbled in his knapsack
and took out a bar of chocolate (H. Robbins).
4. a) He raised his mug and John clinked it with his own (M. Bragg). b) "I broke my nose playing
baseball when I was a kid," Mugger said earnestly. "It give me this ugly mug, see..." (E. Queen).
5. a) The terrace tiles were already warm under her bare feet (J. Mortimer). b) The bear was huge.
Reared up on its hind legs, it loomed over her... (B. Lowry).
6. a) Then came spring, the great time of travelling (J. Kerouac). b) She was all wound up like a
tight spring (H. Robbins).
7. a) She lined up their shoes in the cupboard in a tidy row (I. McEwan). b) "Scandals all round us.
What a row everyone makes" (A. Christie).
8. a) He remembered two mortar rounds hitting close by (T. O' Brien). b) Stephen's embarrassed
hand moved over the shells heaped in the cold stone mortar (J. Joyce). c) The marble blocks were
fitted without mortar. (E.L. Doctorow).
9. a) He was of medium height, his face was rather long and pale, his eyes looked tired (D. H.
Lawrence). b) She... went down the stairs and drew from the sink on the ground floor a pail of
water (E.L. Doctorow).
10. a) I looked around the room and lowered my voice to match his (H. Robbins). b) He struck a
match with shaking fingers and lit a cigarette (Id.).

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