MAGISTRALE - material for 13th/16th November

Complete the following worksheet :

 Mastering Advanced English Language, Sara Thorne

 Worksheet 2

Chapter 3 – Style

1. What is focus ?
2. What is foregrounding?
3. What is end focus? – give an example of end- focus with “There” used  as a dummy subject.
4. Change the focus of the following sentence by using the passive voice:

They accused him of murder –

5. What is rhetoric ?-
6. Give examples of the following

a)   Alliteration

b)   Irony

c)   Metaphor

d)   An Oxymoron

e)   Paradox

f)    Personification

g)   Simile

h)   Symbolism