III. Indicate characteristic features of represented uttered speech.

1. I then found a couple of stale letters to reread, one from my wife ... and one from my mother-in-law, asking me to please send her some cashmere yarn.

2. The Mayor of Maycomb asked us to please help the garbage collector by dumping our own trees and trash.

3. Angela, who was taking in every detail of Eugene's old friend, replied in what seemed an affected tone that no, she wasn’t used to studio life: she was just from the country, you know — a regular farmer girl — Blackwood, Wisconsin, no less!

4. Rosita sniffed and in her well-bottom voice declared that yes, it was better that they stay out of the sun, as it seemed to be affecting Ottilie’s head.

5. Certainly he had seen nobody remotely resembling the photograph of Gowan. Was there anybody at all like what Gowan would be if clean-shaven? Well, there now, that was asking something that was. Had the Inspector any idea what a 'edge-'og would look like without its spikes?

6. …the servants summoned by the passing maid without a bell being rung, and quick, quick, let all this luggage be taken down into the hall and let one of you call a cab.

7. He kept thinking he would write to her — he had no other girl acquaintance now; and just before he entered art school he did this, penning a little note saying that he remembered so pleasantly their ride; and when was she coming?

8. “... So I've come to be servant to you.”

“How much do you want?”

“I don't know. My keep, I suppose.” Yes, she could cook. Yes, she could wash. Yes, she could mend, she could darn. She knew how to shop a market.

(14) Polysyndeton

I. State the functions of the following examples of polysyndeton. Pay attention to the repeated conjunction and the number of repetitions.

1. And the coach, .and, the coachman, and the horses, rattled, and jangled, and whipped, and cursed, and swore, and tumbled on together, till they came to Golden Square.

2. And they wore their best and more colourful clothes. Red shirts and green shirts and yellow shirts and pink shirts.

3. Bella soaped his face and rubbed his face, and soaped his hands and rubbed his hands, and splashed him, and rinsed him and towelled him, until he was as red as beetroot.

4. Mr. Richard, or his beautiful cousin, or both, could sign something, or make over something, or give some sort of undertaking, or pledge, or bond?

5. First the front, then the back, then the sides, then the superscription, then the seal, were objects of Newman’s admiration.

(15) Asyndeton

I. Analyse the following cases of asyndeton, indicating their functions and paying attention to the quality of units, connected asyndetically.

1. The pulsating motion of Malay Camp at night was everywhere.

People sang.

People cried.

People fought.

People loved.

People hated.

Others were sad.

Others gay.

Others with friends.

Others lonely.

Some died.

Some were born.

2. “Well, guess it’s about time to turn in.”

He yawned, went out to look at the thermometer, slammed the door, patted her head, unbuttoned his waistcoat, yawned, wound the clock, went to look at the furnace, yawned, and clumped upstairs to bed, casually scratching his thick woolen undershirt.

3. Through his brain, slowly, sifted the things they had done together. Walking together. Dancing together. Sitting silent together. Watching people together.

4. With these hurried words, Mr. Bob Sawyer pushed  the postboy ori one side, jerked his friend into the vehicle, slammed the door, put up the steps, wafered the bill on the street-door, locked it, put the key in his pocket, jumped into the dickey, gave the word for starting…