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B. Do the jigsaw task.

1 as blind a) as a hatter

2 as fit b) as a cat

3 as green с) as an alligator

4 as good d) as the Bank of England

5 as cool e) as brass

6 as bold f) as a bat

7 as safe g) as a fiddle

8 as hungry h) as gold

9 as mad i) as grass

10as melancholy j) as a cucumber

What kind of similes are these?

Indicate the metonymy and the type of metonymical relations.

1.They were portly men who looked like advertisements for Munich beer, and running came hard to them. The first prisoner stopped and picked up one of the discarded rifles. He did not fire it, but carried it, as he chased the guards. He swung the rifle like a club, and one of the beer advertisements went down. (I. Shaw)

2.The praise was enthusiastic enough to have delighted any common writer who earns his living by his pen. (S. Maugham)

3. Don Juan, when the midnight hour of pillows

Arrived, retired to his; but to despond

Rather than rest. (J.G. Byron)

4. Gordred appears, his frowning brow

Troubles our northern skies. (W. Blake)

5. He went about her room, after his introduction, looking at her pictures, her bronzes and clays, asking after the creator of this, the painter of that, where a third thing came from. (Th. Dreiser)

6. Nancy broke with Rome the day her baby died. It was a secret break, but no Catholic breaks with Rome casually. (J. O'Hara)

7. Some remarkable pictures in this room, gentlemen. A Holbein, two Van Dycks and if I am not mistaken, a Velasquez. I am interested in pictures. (A. Christie)

8. The harmony of the English Bench was disturbed during the Chief Justiceship of Lord Mansfield in the second half of the eighteenth century. (D. Panneck)

State the type and structure of the epithets.

1. Clay left his feet where they were for a few don't-tell-me-where-to-put-my-feet seconds, then swung them around to the floor and sat up. (J.D. Salinger)

2. (...) our candle, as though intimidated by the incandescence of the opening, star-stabbed sky, toppled and we could see, unwrapped above us, a late wayaway wintery moon: it was like a slice of snow... (T. Capote)

3. G. G. Quartermain, board chairman and chief executive of Supranational Corporation – SuNatCo – was a bravura bull of a man who possessed more power than many heads of state and exercised it like a king. (A. Hailey)

4. She looked at him, warm and enthusiastic. (Ph. Turner)

5. In the cook house someone has painted little bright child-like pictures of steamships. (Gr. Greene)

6. (...) she had weakly, sentimentally, wantonly fallen in love. Almost without a token of resistance. (W. Graham)

7. There rises the hidden laughter

Of children in the foliage. (T.S. Eliot)

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