Read the text and consider its following aspects. a) Comment upon the choice of words in:

a) Comment upon the choice of words in:

watched the school straggling двигающуюся вразбродto their places (why not "walking, coming"?); the boys stared about them (why not "looked"?); there was some tittering хихикание (why not "laughter"?); the whole assembly сбор roared with laughter (why not "the whole school laughed"?)

b) Explain:

there was a sense in which he was eager for the storm to break: I don't want to be hard on anybody; a class had подшутили над a certain Mas­ter; you put them off

c)What stylistic devices are used in the sentences beginning with "Speed felt rather as if..." and "Instinct in him..."? Explain their purpose and effect. Comment on the fitness of the' comparisons.