Chapter twelve
I. Dwell upon the general mood of the chapter. What new information does the reader get to know from the chapter?
II.
a). P. 127-128.Comment on the discreet comparison between the play and the life. Speak on the oppositions in the passage. What does simile in the passage imply?
b). P. 129. Comment on similes used in the passage. What atmosphere do they create?
c). P. 130-131.Dwell upon epithets used to describe the play and actions of the actors. Comment on the phrase given in italics. What meaning does it carry? Find an example of lexical onomatopoeia. Speak on simile in the passage. What atmosphere do these SDs create?
d). P. 132. Analyze the actors’ replies. Pay attention to the word order. To which style do they belong? Prove your statement.
e). P. 133. Dwell upon metaphor and simile in the passage.
f). P. 134-135. Define some characteristic features of the actors’ play. Speak on simile and discreet comparison in the passage. Dwell upon aposiopesis. What atmosphere is created by these SDs?
g). P. 138-139. Analyze replies of the actors. What SDs are implied in them? Pay attention to the graphic pattern of the passage. Speak on the examples of metaphor. Pick up some obsolete forms peculiar to the author’s style. What is the general atmosphere of the passage?
h). P. 140.Dwell upon the inversion in the passage. What is its function? Find the examples of metaphor. What is their significance? Speak on the graphic pattern.
i). P. 141-142. Dwell upon onomatopoeia in the passage. What details help the reader to reconstruct the action? Analyze the closure of the chapter. What is the significance of it?
Chapter thirteen
I. What is the atmosphere of the chapter? How is it reached?
II.
a). P.143. What symbolic meaning does the church carry? What atmosphere is created by the alliteration in the chapter? How does this atmosphere coincide with an inner state of the actors?
b). P. 144.Comment on the irony in the passage. Dwell upon the pun. Speak on the antithesis and enumeration in the passage. What is the mood created by the usage of these SDs? What symbolic meaning does the personification carry? Speak on the personification ‘fear is the patron of self-deceivers’. What is the significance of this phrase?
c). P. 145. What is the significance of the last phase the actors pronounced in the play of Thomas Wells?
d). P. 146. What is the symbolic meaning of the description of doves? Dwell upon the description of snow and sky? What SDs are used? Pick up archaic and poetic words. How can the reader reconstruct the image of knighthood described in the passage?
e). P. 147. What is the significance of the usage of the French borrowing in the passage? Dwell upon the parenthesis used in the passage. What is the aim of a rhetoric question? Speak on the elliptical sentences.
f). P. 148-149. Pick up SDs which help the reader to reconstruct the picture of the past. Dwell upon the SDs used to describe knights and the narrator thoughts.