Follow-Up Work. Define the type of individualisation represented by nouns with the definite article in the contexts below and comment on the role of attributes:

Define the type of individualisation represented by nouns with the definite article in the contexts below and comment on the role of attributes:

a) Many years ago I wrote a novel called The Moon and Sixpence. In that I took a famous painter, Paul Gauguin, and, using the novelist’s priviledge, devised a number of incidents to illustrate the character I had created on the suggestions afforded me by the scanty facts I knew about the French artist. In the present book I have attempted to do nothing of the kind. (S. Maugham)

b) He frowned, moving to inspect the picture more closely. It was an oil painting of a child in a field of buttercups. The field was in shadow, but, beyond the field, the sun shone on rocks and sea and the distant figures of two older girls. The illusionary effect of light and colour had caught his attention, not simply because it hummed with warmth but because the technique, thefactual rendering of the three-dimensional form, sprang at him with all the familiarity of a face remembered fromchildhood. (R. Pilcher)

c) Louise looked down at the floor with a serious look on her face. Suddenly she seemed to rouse herself.

‘I must go and put grandfather to bed.’

She went over to the old man, still hugging his empty glass, and leaning over him, tenderly cajoled him to come with her. (S. Maugham)

d) ‘Oh no. What does one do things for? Of course one has to work a certain amount to earn one’s living, but after that, only to satisfy the imagination. Tell me, when you saw those islands from the sea and your heart was filled with delight, and when you landed on them and found them a dreary jungle, which was the real island? (S. Maugham)

e) And so we always had the sense about Holly that she’d been foisted upon us; she wasn’t quite chosen; she was never a talking point, just Holly the workaday tabby: dismissible stand-in for the proper family cat. (F. Weldon)

f) ‘I feel like the grasshopper who sang all summer,’ she … revealed. ‘And now it’s the winter of my life and I haven’t stored up anything of my own.’ (H. Fielding)