Университет XXI века: научное измерение 2013г

173 “…then draw up the bedcovers, tuck them in, like sweet dreams and good night” [5, p. 68]; “Mrs. Archibald William Warren-Browne did not at all resemble the café’s other frequenters, and seemed, within that setting, like a peacock trapped in a turkey pen” [5, p. 74]; “Dick did nothing–only moaned, complained of the motion, lay about sun-drugged and listless, like a lizard at siesta” [5, p.76]. Образное сравнение с животными указывает на то, что преследование преступников в третьей главе произведения схоже с охотой на зверя: “Dewey and the imported team of K.B.I. agents, crept about conversing in hushed tones. It was as though, like huntsmen hiding in a forest, they were afraid that any abrupt sound or movement would warn away approaching beasts.” [5, p. 82]. Наиболее яркий пример, иллюстрирующий сравнение с животными, – это описание котов (значительный отрезок текста), обитающих на площади Garden City, образная метафора жизненного пути главных героев: “Among Garden City’s animals are two gray tomcats who are always together–thin, dirty strays with strange and clever habits. The chief ceremony of their day is performed at twilight. First they trot the length of Main Street, stopping to scrutinize the engine grilles of parked automobiles, particularly those stationed in front of the two hotels, the Windsor and Warren, for these cars, usually the property of travelers from afar, often yield what the bony, methodical creatures are hunting: slaughtered birds – crows, chickadees, and sparrows foolhardy enough to have flown into the path of oncoming motorists. Using their paws as though they are surgical instruments, the cats extract from the grilles every feathery particle. Having cruised Main Street, they invariably turn the corner at Main and Grant, then lope along toward Courthouse Square, another of their hunting grounds–and a highly promising one on the afternoon of Wednesday, January 6, for the area swarmed with Finney County vehicles that had brought to town part of the crowd populating the square” [5, p. 151]. В тексте также можно выделить несколько других примеров исполь- зования образных средств языка. Например, персонификация, представление природных сил или явле- ний в образе человека или признание за ними человеческих свойств: “Hawks wheeling in a white sky” [17, p.70], “Wasn’t that a horse’s laugh?” [5, p. 72]; аллитерация: “Yet even upon this shadowed terrain sunlight had very lately sparkled” [5, p. 13]; анафора, в повторении сродных звуков, слова или группы слов в нача- ле каждого параллельного ряда или начала предложения: “When it comes to murder, you can’t respect grief. Or privacy. Or personal feelings” [5, p. 57];