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1. The author of the story “Three men in a boat” is Jerome K. Jerome. He is famous for his art of story-telling and his humour which is based on misunderstanding. He is good at revealing the weak sides of human nature. Jerome presents his story as 1st-person narration with descriptive passages. 

2. By this text the author wanted to tell us that it had better to try something new than to be indifferent and do everything as usual. People ought to develop in this case world progress would go ahead. There are three characters in the story. The author used in this text a lot of lexical and stylistic devices which helped to create the needful atmosphere. In the description of Sonning Jerome used metaphor, simile, epithets. The author underlines his own attitude towards the village, he conveys his positive emotions to the reader. Moreover, Jerome used polysyndeton with help of connectives. He used these enumerations to increase the comic effect. The author added also asyndeton. It is the sentence which is equal a paragraph in the text. The author described the climax when Montmorency brought a dead water-rat. The author kept the reader in suspense using the sentence where the connectives are deliberately omitted. Jerome used hyperbole. He used a deliberate overstatement to reveal the humour of situation. He also used irony, similes. This extract is about three men who decided to cook an Irish stew. They began cooking from peeling the potatoes. They threw another products which they wished to get rid of and mixed all carefully. At the end Montmorency bought fresh caught water-rat. After some discussions these three men decided to try something new and added the rat. Eventually, they were very happy by their cook masterpiece. 

3. This extract may be divided into the following parts. The first one is a description of Sonning. The second is decision of cooking an Irish stew. The third is Montmorency’s contribution to the dinner. The last one is about great success of Irish stew. This text is written with the cheerful, humorous, emotional and optimistic prevailing mood. All these language means reveal the author’s manner, his style of writing. He renders his feeling and thoughts with epithets, similes, metaphors and so on. The author shows the weak sides of people in a humorous manner.

4. The story under analysis called "Interviewing Ingmar Bergman" is an extract from the book "Encountering Directors" written by Ch. Samuels. The extract is presented in the form of the dialogue of two persons, and in fact, is an interview. 

5. One of the characters is an author himself - Ch. Samuels, who asks questions the other character - Ingmar Bergman, a famous Swedish film director, writer and theatre producer. They speak about Ingmar's works and try to come to agreement, 'cause there are things which each of them understands in his own way. The writer is a scientist working with words, and one and the same thing he can define in many ways, giving a great number of synonyms. Bergman created his own special world.  In a word, Bergman's explanations don't sound convincing and only his awards make people believe he is a genius. 

6. The main idea of the extract is – one having found his way in this life will be able to use his confidence to resist all troubles and lifetime situations. Samuels bombards Bergman with questions, exerts every effort to prove him that some of Bergman's creations aren't clear to the audience, but Bergman is sure he has found his way and that's why is unshakable. In addition, Bergman appreciates the critics' words and learns more from them. That seems very wise, 'cause the one learning on one's own mistakes is better taught than the rest. This fact even proves the reason why he got his awards. 

7. The story “To sir, with love” was written by E.R. Braithwaite. His numerous writings have dealt with the difficulties of being an educated black man, a black social worker and a black teacher. It is a 1st-person narration with descriptive passages.