Task 2 Read the passages and interpret figures of speech.
Selection 1
This excerpt is for Alexander Solzhenitsyn's acccptance speech for the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature. Like many other Soviet writers and intellectuals. Solzhenitsyn spent years in the brutal forced labor prison camp in the Gulag Archipelago. In the excerpt he talks about the effect on his country of the deaths of thousands of political dissidents and other intellectuals who were imprisoned for their beliefs and who did not survive imprisonment