Read the text and consider its following aspects.

a) Explain:

vital жизненно важными facts about Home Rails, Questions in the House, and Three- Piece Suits; different orders of mind from his; many miles from no­where; We are held up! We have broken down!

b) Comment on the punctuation in the passage entitled "Mouchaid (near the Jura Mountains)".

c) Express in simpler language the sense of the sentence "He felt that the gauze, which could not contain the torrents of the world's activities, might house this but terfly and not brush off its bloom." Point out the stylistic devices used in the sen tence and comment on their effectiveness. Do you accept the comparison with a butterfly or do you consider it too ornate? Give your reasons.

d) Justily the length of the sentence beginning "It described the blue smoke...".

e) Analyse the stylistic devices used in the author's digression beginning "Rail ways — it is their drawback...". Point out inversion, repetition, rhetorical question and comment on their purpose. Indicate the syntax of the second part of the pas sage and the rhythmic effect achieved. Can you detect any sound-imitative effects? What does the rhythm of the extract imitate? Comment on the rhythmic value of "But it never does. Never? Once it did" in its relation to the preceding extract. Comment on the names of places (Lulworth, Downderry, Nether Wallop) which, in the author's opinion, "cannot go far wrong". Why can't they? Suggest some typical Russian countryside names with the same kind of implications.

1) Think of a suitable heading for the episode beginning "Why have we stopped?" What is the role of the extract in the structure of the story? Comment on the composition device by which the episode is introduced in the texture of the story.

g) Analyse the stylistic values of the fragments beginning "A hedgerow bowed with blossom...", ending "...all were sweet and fresh and frank" and from "Beyonc? the meadow of flowers" to "filled the carriage". What words and phrases give at mosphere to the passages? Is it a realistic description? How is its dream-like qual ity created? Do you consider the description sweetish and sentimental or do you think that it serves its purpose? If so, what purpose? Support your opinion.

h) Comment on the contrast provided by the fragments of dialogue interchang­ing with the descriptive passages referred to in itemg).

What is the purpose of the device? Indicate the rhythmic effects achieved, es­pecially in the passage beginning "Oh, what is it?...", ending "Lunch is served. Come!".