I mentioned in class that Barthes once claimed, in an interview, that reading Jakobson was such fun that it belonged at his bedside, like all ecstatic and irresponsible activities in his life.  In that spirit, more or less, try this exercise taken from a longer article by Louis Hébert at the U of Quebec:

Which functions of language are activated in the following text?

This text you gave me to correct is a bunch of rubbish! Listen to this, you’ve got several verbs with no subject, you state the obvious (“a day lasts 24 hours”!), then – are you still following me? – you use obscure metaphors (“work is the drop hammer of life”) and stupid malapropisms (“You are the suntan of my life”).

So the Norton is definitely at Shakes & Co. now, so pick up a copy ASAP!