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Charles Lamb. Dream Children: a Reverie (The Essays of Elia)

1. What can be called the main object of discription in the essay? How is it connected with its title?
2. Point out the compositional peculiarities of the text. Why is it not divided into paragraphs?
3. What are the main principles of building an essay? Does Lamb follow them? What is specific in his approach to this genre?
4. What style is used here? What function does it perform?
5. Explain the rules of interaction between direct and indirect speech?
6. Analize the syntactic structure of a sentence. Pay special attention at the parentheses and homogenious members.
7. Point out the elements of enumeration that express Lamb's individual tastes or feelings.
8. What grammatical phenomena are typical for Lamb's style?
9. Find antonymic and synonymic constuctions and state their functions.
10. Define the notions creating the atmosphere of the essay. How are they expressed?
11. Find thе examples of irony.

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