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Reregistration
Task B - our answer (iii)
the Section Head's helminthoid resemblances.
Skater now verbally abuses Wagner, but his abuse is represented in arcane
lexis, this time derived from Greek. A helminth is a worm, and so 'helminthoid'
means worm-like. Again, Skater is most likely to have told Wagner rather
directly that he looks like a worm, and the 3rd-person narrator's arcane
lexis suggests Christie's pleasure (he is one-up not just because of the
chaotic social relations he has secretly caused, but also in the way he
appears to represent that chaos to himself linguistically.
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