THE TASK:
Analyze each sentence of the text extract given below and indicate all the stylistic devices and expressive means you can identify in it. Your analysis of each sentence may look like this:
EXAMPLE
Singers and ringers are little home bringers.— alliteration (sound [ŋ]), assonance (sound [i]), rhyme (sound [i]).
TEXT FOR ANALYSIS
Katherine Mansfield «A Cup of Tea»
Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn't have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces… But why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young', brilliant, extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed, amazingly well read in the nevest of the new books, and her parties werethe most delirious mixture of the really important people and… artists — quaint creatures, discoveries of hers, some of them too terrifying for words, but others quite presentable and amusing.
Rosemary had been married, two years.
One winter afternoon she had been buying something in a little antique shop in Curzon Street. It was a shop she liked. For one thing, one usually had it to oneself. And then the man who kept it was ridiculously fond of serving her. He beamed whenever she came in. He clasped his hands; he was so gratified he could scarcely speak. Flattery, of course. All the same, there was something....
«You see, madam,» he would explain in his low respectful tones, «I love my things. I would rather not part with them than sell them to someone who does not appreciate them, who has not that fine feeling which is so rare. ...» And, breathing deeply, he unrolled a tiny square of blue velvet and pressed it on the glass counter with his pale finger-tips.
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