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16.Translate the following examples concentrating on cases various expressive means used individually and in convergence.

1.He felt the first watery eggs of sweat moistening the palm of his hands (W.S)

2.Geneva, mother of the Red Cross, hostess of humanitarian congress for the civilizing warfare (J.R.)

3.Autumn comes and trees are shedding their leaves, and Mother Nature blushes before disrobing (N.W)

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4.She saw around her, clustered about white tables, multitudes of violently red lips, powdered cheeks, cold hard eyes, self-possessed, arrogant faces and insolent bosoms (A.B)

5.He made his way through the perfume and conversation (B. Sh)

6.After a while and a cake he crept nervously to the door of the parlour (A.T)

7.“Someone at the door,” he said, blinking. “ Some four, I should say by the sound,” said Fili (A.T)

8.There are two things I look for in a man: a sympathetic character and full lips (I.Sh)

9.“There is only one brand of tobacco allowed here – “Three nuns”. None today, none tomorrow and none day after” (Br. B)

10.“Good morning,” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining and the grass was very green (J.T)

11.Several months ago a magazine named Playboy, which concentrates editorially on girls, books, girls, art, girls, music, fashion, girls and girls, published an article about old-time science-fiction (M.St)

12.Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war (I. Sh)

13.Her mother is perfectly unbearable. Never met such a Gorgon (O.W)

14.In the moon-landing year what choice is there for Mr. and Mrs. Average – the programme against poverty and ambitious NASA project (M.St)

15.We sat down at a table with two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us Mr. Mumble (Sc. F)

16.She was a faded white rabbit of a woman (A.C)

17.Ten-thirty is a dark hour for a town, where respectable doors are locked at nine (T.C)

18.There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books (E.W)

19.She behaved pretty lousily to Jan (D.C)

20.A neon sign reads “Welcome to Reno – the biggest little town in the world” (A.M)

21.Newspapers are the organs of individual men who have jockeyed themselves to the party leaders, in countries where a new party born every day over a glass of beer in the nearest cafe (J.R)

22.The girls were dressed to kill (J.Br)

23.Across the street a bingo parlour was going full blast, the voice of the hot-dog merchant split the dusk like an axe. The big blue blared down the street (R.Ch)

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24.On little pond the leaves floated in peace and praised heaven with their hues, the sunlight haunting over them (G)

25.We were sitting in the cheapest of all the cheap restaurants that cheapen that very cheap and noisy street, the Rue des Petits Champs in Paris (H)

26.We are overbrave and overfearful, overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers, we’re oversentimental and realistic (P.St)

17.Translate, identify all the figures of speech used in each text.

1.Violet Baudelaire, the eldest, liked to skip rocks. Like most fourteen- year-olds, she was right-handed, so the rocks skipped farther across the murky water when Violet used her right hand than when she used her left. As she skipped rocks, she was looking out at the horizon and thinking about an invention she wanted to build. Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes (S. L.)

2.Sunny Baudelaire, the youngest, liked to bite things. She was an infant, and very small for her age, scarcely larger than a boot. What she lacked in size, however, she made up for with the size and sharpness of her four teeth. (S. L.)

3.Mr. Poe had taken them to the remains of the Baudelaire mansion to see if anything had been unharmed, and it was terrible: Violet’s microscope had fused together in the heat of the fire, Klaus’s favorite pen had turned to ash, and all of Sunny’s teething rings had melted. (S. L.)

4.Their home destroyed, the Baudelaires had to recuperate from their terrible loss in the Poe household; which was not at all agreeable. Mr. Poe was scarcely at home, because he was very busy attending to the Baudelaire affairs, and when he was home he was often coughing so much he could barely have a conversation (S. L.).

5.But even given the surroundings, the children had mixed feelings when, over a dull dinner of boiled chicken, boiled potatoes and blanched. - the word “blanched” here means “boiled,, -string beans, Mr. Poe announced that they were to leave his household the next morning (S. L.).

6.“And the baby bites,” Edgar said, tossing a chicken bone to the floor as if he were an animal in a zoo and not the son of a well-respected member of the banking community (S. L.)

7.Everyone talks about snows forty foot deep, and how the ice wind comes howling out of the north, but the real enemy is the cold. It steals up on you quieter than Will, and at first you shiver and your teeth chatter and you stamp your feet and dream of mulled wine and nice hot fires. It burns,

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