28. Territorial and Stylistic Differentiation of the English Vocabulary.

The three main layers in the whole word-stock are following, e.g. literary, neutral and colloquial.The literary layer is bookish. The colloquial layer has spoken character. The neutral is universal. Example: infant, child, kid. (L. it will be…N. it will be…C. it will be…)There are subgroups in the literary vocabulary: common literary, terms and learned words. poetical words (steed-horse), archaic words (yeoman), barbarisms and foreign words (chic), literary coinages (neologisms)The colloquial vocabulary has some groups: common colloquial, slang (a pretty girl – “sugar”), jargonisms, professional words, dialectical words, vulgar words, colloquial coinages. The common literary, neutral and common colloquial words belong to Standard English Vocabulary.

28. The Ant and the Grasshopper.

I want to tell you a few words about story “The Ant and the Grasshopper” written by Maugham. The story is about two brothers (Tom and George). Tom would have a good carrier and was respectable people. But one day he left his wife and his office. He spent 2 happy years in the various capitals of Europe. They soon found out: he borrowed. He turned to George. George gave Tom considerable sums. For twenty years Tom gambled, dance and dressed beautifully. George was in his office every morning. He had a good wife and 4 daughters. One day Tom became engaged to old woman; she left him half a million pounds, a house in London… it is not fair.

The main idea of this story is “Every family has a black ship”.

The writer uses rather many different SD.I found some SD, for example: hyperbole (an expression of such deep gloom) shows us George’s feelings; alliteration (has, him, half, house) shows us fortune of Tom’s life; metaphor (fell out of love) shows us Roger’s feelings words with positive connotation (honest, the best of father) shows us George’s character; repetition (he had, he had, he was, he was) demonstrated George’s character.

I don’t like this story because it is not good. All of this situation it is not fair. George works and was poor, then Tom gambled but he has riches. And Tom didn’t help his brother.

27. Jimmy Valentine’s reformation.

The story I’m going to analyse is ‘’ Jimmy Valentine’s reformation’’ written by Henry.

Safe cracker Jimmy Valentine is released from prison after 10 month he was originally sentenced to four years but men with as many friends as Jimmy usually didn’t stay locked up for long. He goes to his old apartment packs up his tools and leaves. In the following weeks a few crash robberies are committed and the detective who landed Valentine in the first place. Ben Price is called to work on the new case. He realized that the robbers are committed in Jimmy’s style. Then Jimmy has his business and engaged Annabel. Valentine start to leave the bank after wards and he sees. Price standing by the door and realizes he had witnessed the whole incident. Sheepishly he gives himself up but much to his surprise. Price pretends not to recognize him and walks away.

SD: find in the text