Stylistics is a branch of linguistics

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Who is considered to be the founder of Stylistics as a linguistic science?

G. Turner

*Ch. Bally

N. Winner

I. Galperin

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Choose the correct variant to finish the definition: Stylistics is a branch of linguistics which deals with…

individual styles of authors

*expressive resources and functional styles of a language

the usage of expressive means and stylistic devices in a given context

stylistic systems of two or more languages in comparison

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Attribute properly the object of studying to the following type of stylistics: A type of stylistics which deals with individual styles of authors.

contrastive stylistics

*literary stylistics

communicative stylistics

linguostylistics

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Complete the statement: The linguist who makes a methodical study of the principles of style is called…

a styler

a stylish man

*a stylistician

a stylist

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Name the author of the following definition: Stylistics is a linguistic science which investigates communicative and nominative resources of the language system and principles of selection and usage of language means for transmitting thoughts and feelings with the aim of achieving definite pragmatic results in various communicative conditions.

*O. Morokhovsky

I. Galperin

Ch. Bally

J. Swift

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Choose the correct definition of the main tasks of stylistics:

the investigation of expressive means and stylistic devices

*the investigation of the special language media which secure the effect of the utterance and the investigation of types of texts which are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of communication

the investigation of functional styles and the context of the text

the investigation of the features of organized language from the point of view of its context

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Match the following notion with its features: style

the environment of a speech unit where these or those properties of that unit are realized or shown

the invariant of the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns circulating in the language at a given period of time

*a quality of language which communicates precisely emotions and thoughts, or a system of emotions peculiar to the author

the segment of speech which brings figurative information

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Match the following notion with its features: norm

the environment of a speech unit where these or those properties of that unit are realized or shown

*the invariant of the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns circulating in the language at a given period of time

a quality of language which communicates precisely emotions and thoughts, or a system of emotions peculiar to the author

the segment of speech which brings figurative information

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Match the following notion with its features: context

*the environment of a speech unit where these or those properties of that unit are realized or shown

the invariant of the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns circulating in the language at a given period of time

a quality of language which communicates precisely emotions and thoughts, or a system of emotions peculiar to the author

the segment of speech which brings figurative information

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Match the following notion with its features: image

the environment of a speech unit where these or those properties of that unit are realized or shown

the invariant of the phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns circulating in the language at a given period of time

a quality of language which communicates precisely emotions and thoughts, or a system of emotions peculiar to the author

*the segment of speech which brings figurative information

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Choose the correct definition of the subject of stylistics:

the study of the means of realization of communicative and metalingual language functions

*the study of the means of realization of general and complimentary language functions

the study of expressive means

the study of emotional and communicative language functions

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Choose the correct definition of the following notion: language system

*a set of the phonetic, grammatical and lexical data of the given language

the realization of the models of generation of the speech units of the higher level with the help of actualization of the language elements of the lower level

the realization of the language units in the speech activity

the realization of the speech units in a given context

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Choose the correct definition of the following notion: speech activity

a set of the phonetic, grammatical and lexical data of the given language

*the realization of the models of generation of the speech units of the higher level with the help of actualization of the language elements of the lower level

the realization of the language units in the speech activity

the realization of the speech units in a given context

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Choose the correct definition of the following notion: speech

a set of the phonetic, grammatical and lexical data of the given language

the realization of the models of generation of the speech units of the higher level with the help of actualization of the language elements of the lower level

*the realization of the language units in the speech activity

the realization of the speech units in a given context

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Attribute properly the definition to the following notion: paradigmatics

*the totality of relations between the language elements of one level which are united by the associations in similarity

the choice of an element from the paradigmatical number of elements in the language which is determined by the necessities of nominations

the usage of a speech unit in the syntagmatical number which is determined by the necessities of communication

the totality of the linear relations between the speech units of one level within the limits of the unit in the higher level which are united in speech by associations in the adjoinment

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Attribute properly the definition to the following notion: syntagmatics

the totality of relations between the language elements of one level which are united by the associations in similarity

the choice of an element from the paradigmatical number of elements in the language which is determined by the necessities of nominations

the usage of a speech unit in the syntagmatical number which is determined by the necessities of communication

*the totality of the linear relations between the speech units of one level within the limits of the unit in the higher level which are united in speech by associations in the adjoinment

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Attribute properly the definition to the following notion: selection

the totality of relations between the language elements of one level which are united by the associations in similarity

*the choice of an element from the paradigmatical number of elements in the language which is determined by the necessities of nominations

the usage of a speech unit in the syntagmatical number which is determined by the necessities of communication

the totality of the linear relations between the speech units of one level within the limits of the unit in the higher level which are united in speech by associations in the adjoinment

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Attribute properly the definition to the following notion: combination

the totality of relations between the language elements of one level which are united by the associations in similarity

the choice of an element from the paradigmatical number of elements in the language which is determined by the necessities of nominations

*the usage of a speech unit in the syntagmatical number which is determined by the necessities of communication

the totality of the linear relations between the speech units of one level within the limits of the unit in the higher level which are united in speech by associations in the adjoinment

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Choose the correct definition of the following notion: expressive means

*those phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic units and forms which make speech emphatic

those units which are not language phenomena, they are formed in speech and most of them do not exist out of context

those lexical and syntactic forms which exist in language for the purpose of intensification of some property of a language unit

an unconscious intensification of some property of a language in the stream of speech

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Choose the correct definition of the following notion: stylistic devices

those phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic units and forms which make speech emphatic

*those units which are not language phenomena, they are formed in speech and most of them do not exist out of context

those lexical and syntactic forms which exist in language for the purpose of intensification of some property of a language unit

an unconscious intensification of some property of a language in the stream of speech.

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Choose the correct statement about the notion of paradigmatics:

*it is connected with the characteristics of the language: phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, models of sentences and texts

it is connected with the characteristics of the speech: allophones, allomorphs, words, utterances, segments of the text

it deals with the characteristics of the speech: phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, models of sentences and texts

it deals with the characteristics of the language: allophones, allomorphs, words, utterances, segments of the text

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Choose the correct statement about the notion of syntagmatics:

it is connected with the characteristics of the language: phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, models of sentences and texts

*it is connected with the characteristics of the speech: allophones, allomorphs, words, utterances, segments of the text

it deals with the characteristics of the speech: phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, models of sentences and texts

it deals with the characteristics of the language: allophones, allomorphs, words, utterances, segments of the text

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Choose the correct statement about the Theory of Information:

the Theory of Information was applied in stylistics for transmitting the message from the sender to the recipient

the Theory of Information was applied in stylistics for giving a detailed analysis of expressive means and stylistic devices

*the Theory of Information was applied in stylistics in order to describe the process of information transmission from the sender to the recipient

the Theory of Information was applied in stylistics for rendering information

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J. Swift defined style as “Proper Words in proper Places…” What did he think the speaker should take into consideration while choosing words for expressing his ideas?

*situation

meaning

image

imagery

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Which component in the scheme of Information Transmission denotes the reason of the possible misunderstanding between the addresser and the addressee of the message?

code

message

*noise

encoder

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Decide what the sentence contains:

e.g. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

alliteration

*assonance

onomatopoeia

versification

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Decide what the sentence contains:

e.g. She sells sea shells on the sea shore.

*alliteration and assonance

assonance

onomatopoeia and alliteration

versification

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Decide what the sentence contains:

e.g. The bees were buzzing around the hive.

alliteration and assonance

assonance

*onomatopoeia and alliteration

versification

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Define the metrical feet of the following words: Monday, morning, thunder.

*trochee

iamb

dactyl

anapaest

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Define the metrical feet of the following words: alive, astir, before.

trochee

*iamb

dactyl

anapaest

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Define the metrical feet of the following words: saturday, favourite, delegate.

trochee

iamb

*dactyl

anapaest

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Define the metrical feet of the following words: interrupt, guarantee, overlook.

trochee

iamb

dactyl

*anapaest

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Define the metrical feet of the following words: umbrella, emergence, botanic.

dactyl

anapaest

*amphibrach

spondee

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Define the metrical feet of the following words: get up, maintain, jump on.

dactyl

anapaest

amphibrach

*spondee

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Decide what phonographic means the sentence contains:

e.g. Mon fren, what is ze name of zis street?

hyphenation and multiplication

*graphon

capitalization

punctuation and hyphenation

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Decide what phonographic means the sentence contains:

e.g. The b-b-b-b-bas-tud-he seen me c-c-c-c-com-ing.

*hyphenation and multiplication

graphon

capitalization

punctuation and hyphenation

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Decide what phonographic means the sentence contains:

"MISS JEMIMA!" explained Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals.

hyphenation and multiplication

graphon

*capitalization

punctuation and hyphenation

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What does the limerick contain:

e.g. Baa baa blacksheep

Have you any wool?

Yes sir, no sir.

Three bags full.

alliteration

assonance and onomatopoeia

onomatopoeia

*alliteration and onomatopoeia

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Decide what phonographic means the sentence contains:

e.g. She sellybrated her birthday yesterday.

change of the print

hyphenation

*graphon

multiplication

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Match the following definition with its notion: The intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word used to reflect its authentic pronunciation.

hyphenation

*graphon

multiplication

change of the print

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Match the following definition with its notion: Any form of periodicity in verse, its kind being determined by the character and number of syllables of which it consists.

rhyme

foot

*meter

rhythm

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Match the following definition with its notion: The smallest unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse.

rhyme

*foot

meter

rhythm

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Match the following definition with its notion: The repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combinations of words.

*rhyme

foot

meter

rhythm

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Match the following notion with its features: the full rhyme

identity of vowels of the syllables in corresponding words;

*identity of the vowel sound and the following consonant sounds in a stressed syllable;

identity of the consonants of the syllables in corresponding words;

identity of the letters, not sounds.

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Who of the given stylisticians classified archaisms into archaic words, obsolescent words, obsolete words?

*I. Galperin

O. Morokhovsky

Ch. Bally

O. Akhmanova

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Who of the given stylisticians classified archaisms into proper archaic words and archaic forms of existing words?

I. Galperin

*O. Morokhovsky

Ch. Bally

O. Akhmanova

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Who of the given stylisticians classified neologisms into terminological neologisms, stylistic neologisms, nonce-words?

*I. Galperin

O. Morokhovsky

Ch. Bally

O. Akhmanova

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Who of the given stylisticians classified neologisms into lexical neologisms and stylistic neologisms?

I. Galperin

*O. Morokhovsky

Ch. Bally

O. Akhmanova

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Match the following definition with its notion: A collection of epithets, periphrases, archaisms, etc., which were common property to most poets of the 18^th century.

*poetic words

archaic words

barbarisms

bookish words

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Match the following definition with its notion: Obsolete words which are used for denoting existing objects and phenomena.

poetic words

*archaic words

barbarisms

bookish words

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Match the following definition with its notion: Words of foreign origin which have been entirely or partially assimilated into the English language.

poetic words

archaic words

*barbarisms

bookish words

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Match the following definition with its notion: Words that have narrow sphere of usage, they are generally used in high literary style, official business style, scientific style.

poetic words

archaic words

barbarisms

*bookish word

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Match the following notion with its features: neologisms.

words denoting subjects, phenomena, notions dealing with the past

normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects words

coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation

*new words or new meanings for established words

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Match the following notion with its features: vulgarisms.

words denoting subjects, phenomena, notions dealing with the past;

normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects words;

*coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation;

new words or new meanings for established words.

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Match the following notion with its features: dialectal words.

words denoting subjects, phenomena, notions dealing with the past;

*normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects words;

coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation;

d) new words or new meanings for established words.

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Match the following notion with its features: historic words.

*words denoting subjects, phenomena, notions dealing with the past;

normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects words;

coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation;

new words or new meanings for established words.

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Define the notions which belong to literary words:

bookish words, vulgarisms, barbarisms;

poetic diction, barbarisms, bookish words, archaic words, neutral words;

*poetic diction, barbarisms, bookish words, archaic words, neologisms;

colloquial words, vulgarisms, dialectal words, general slang, special slang.

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Define the notions which belong to conversational words:

poetic diction, bookish words, stylistic neologisms, barbarisms;

archaic words, colloquial words, bookish words;

*colloquial words, vulgarisms, dialectal words, slang;

barbarisms, archaic words, lexical neologisms, vulgarisms.

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Define the words which have no lexico-stylistic paradigm:

*historic words, exotic words, nomenclature words, terms, lexical neologisms;

bookish, archaic, dialectal, historic words;

poetic, archaic, bookish, colloquial, dialectal words barbarisms, stylistic neologisms, slang, vulgarisms;

lexical and stylistic neologisms.

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Define the words which have lexico-stylistic paradigm:

historic words, exotic words, nomenclature words, terms, lexical neologisms;

bookish, archaic, dialectal, historic words;

*poetic, archaic, bookish, colloquial, dialectal words barbarisms, stylistic neologisms, slang, vulgarisms;

lexical and stylistic neologisms.

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Define the type of the following words:

e.g. nasal bone, lachrimal bone, temporal.

*nomenclature words

terms

historic words

exotic words

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Define the type of the following words:

e.g. knight, vassal.

nomenclature words

terms

*historic words

exotic words

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Continue the statement: Nominal meaning is a characteristic feature of…

each word

*proper names

expressive means

stylistic devices.

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What are the two kinds of occasional stylistic usage of phraseological units?

structural transformation and structural transposition

versification and instrumentation

*structural transformation and contextual transposition

connotative and denotative

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Name what kind of occasional stylistic usage of phraseological units is expounded in the given definition: Various modifications of the structure (or components of phraseological units) which are accompanied by partial or complete change of its meaning.

contextual transposition

*structural transformation

versification

instrumentation

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Name what kind of occasional stylistic usage of phraseological units is expounded in the given definition: Complete or partial modifications of the meaning of phraseological units in the given context without changing its composition and structure.

*contextual transposition

structural transformation

versification

instrumentation

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Attribute the correct notion to the following characteristics: This kind of occasional stylistic usage of phraseological units can be realized in such ways:

expansion of the components of phraseological units;

reduction of the components of phraseological units;

changes in the components of phraseological units;

inversion of the components.

*structural transformation;

contextual transposition;

versification;

instrumentation.

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Continue the statement choosing the correct variant: Expressive means based on the deliberate reduction of some elements of the sentence structure are:

inversion, repetition, ellipsis, asyndeton, syntactic tautology;

*ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentences, asyndeton;

repetition, enumeration, syntactic tautology, emphatic construction, parenthetical sentences;

inversion, distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence.

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Continue the statement choosing the correct variant: Expressive means based on the redundancy of some elements of the sentence structure are:

inversion, repetition, ellipsis, asyndeton, syntactic tautology

ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentences, asyndeton

*repetition, enumeration, syntactic tautology, emphatic construction, parenthetical sentences, polysyndeton

inversion, distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence

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Continue the statement choosing the correct variant: Expressive means based on the violation of word-order in the sentence structure are:

inversion, repetition, ellipsis, asyndeton, syntactic tautology;

ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentences, asyndeton;

repetition, enumeration, syntactic tautology, emphatic construction, parenthetical sentences;

*inversion, distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence.

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Continue the statement choosing the correct variant: Stylistic devices based on the interaction of several syntactic constructions are:

rhetoric question, reported speech;

parcellation, coordination instead of subordination;

*parallel construction, chiasmus, anaphora, epiphora;

rhetoric question, parallel construction.

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Continue the statement choosing the correct variant: Stylistic devices based on the interaction of types and forms of connections between clauses and sentences are:

rhetoric question, reported speech;

*parcellation, coordination instead of subordination;

parallel construction, chiasmus, anaphora, epiphora;

rhetoric question, parallel construction.

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Continue the statement choosing the correct variant: Stylistic devices based on the transposition of meaning of a syntactic structure in the given context are:

*rhetoric question, reported speech;

parcellation, coordination instead of subordination;

parallel construction, chiasmus, anaphora, epiphora;

rhetoric question, parallel construction.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. Early evening. April.

*nominative sentences;

asyndeton;

detachment;

ellipsis.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. Broken up now. Finished.

nominative sentences;

asyndeton;

detachment;

*ellipsis.

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What EM the example contains:

e.g. Who makes fame? Critics, writers, stockbrokers, women.

ellipsis;

*asyndeton;

anadiplosis;

aposiopesis.

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What EM the example contains:

e.g. That Jimmy Townsend - he and the job - were made for each other.

*syntactic tautology;

emphatic construction;

polysyndeton;

parenthesis.

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What EM the example contains:

e.g. " I'll never swim the Channel, that I do know", she said.

polysyndeton;

*emphatic construction;

parenthesis;

repetition.

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What EM the example contains:

e.g. The raisins and almonds and figs and apples and oranges and chocolates and sweets were passed about the table…

*polysyndeton;

asyndeton;

detachment;

ellipsis.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. But don't - he wagged his finger at me - say a word to anyone else.

polysyndeton;

*parenthesis;

emphatic construction;

syntactic tautology.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. There was a little girl in Alaska, her name appealed to me, Heather Falls.

distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence;

*detachment;

ellipsis;

parenthesis.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. There was a world of anticipation inner voice, and of confidence too, as she walked past me onto the terrace…

*distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence;

detachment;

ellipsis;

parenthesis.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. It was a shock to me that while I observed Thompson, Thompson observed me.

anaphora;

epiphora;

*chiasmus;

parallel costruction.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore…

*anaphora;

epiphora;

chiasmus;

parcellation.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. The death of a hero! What a mockery, what a bloody cant! What sickening putrid cant!

*symploca;

epiphora;

chiasmus;

parcellation.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. They would appear with soup. Thin and watery. A steam of cabbage.

parallel construction;

reported construction;

*parcellation;

coordination instead of subordination.

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Decide what EM the example contains:

e.g. The day was clear and we decided to climb the mountain.

parallel construction;

reported construction;

parcellation;

*coordination instead of subordination.

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Decide what type of repetition the following example contains:

e.g. Poirot was shaken; shaken and embittered.

chain repetition;

framing;

*catch repetition;

extended repetition.

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Decide what type of repetition the following example contains:

e.g. A smile would come onto Mr Pickwick's face. Smile extended into laugh, the laugh into roar, and the roar became general.

*chain repetition;

framing;

catch repetition;

extended repetition.

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Continue the classification of SD of the syntax: SD of the syntax can be divided into 3 groups:

SD based on the reduction of the given model; SD based on the redundancy of the given model; SD based on the violation of word-order in the sentence structure.

*SD based on the interaction of several syntactic constructions; SD based on the transposition of the meaning of the ways of connection; SD based on the transposition of the meaning of a syntactic structure in a given context.

SD based on the reduction of the given model; SD based on the transposition of the meaning of the given model; SD based on the expansion of the given model;

SD based on the interaction of the given model; SD based on the transposition of the meaning of the given model; SD based on the violation of the word-order of the given model.

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Name the group of EM to which the following notions belong: ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentences, asyndeton.

*EM based on the reduction of the given model;

EM based on the redundancy of the given model;

EM based on the violation of word-order in the sentence structure;

EM based on the interaction of several syntactic constructions.

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Name the group of EM to which the following notions belong: inversion, distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence.

EM based on the reduction of the given model;

EM based on the redundancy of the given model;

*EM based on the violation of word-order in the sentence structure;

EM based on the interaction of several syntactic constructions.

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What SD of the syntax based on the interaction of syntactic constructions of several contact clauses or sentences?

*parallel construction, chiasmus, anaphora, epiphora;

parcellation, coordination instead of subordination;

rhetoric question, reported speech;

inversion, distant position of the syntactically connected units of the sentence.

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Decide what EM of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.

meiosis;

*hyperbole;

litotes;

metaphor.

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Decide what EM of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. The gold restored - that cost me a pretty penny, I can tell you.

*meiosis;

hyperbole;

litotes;

metaphor.

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Decide what EM of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. After the brawl Julia was not dissatisfied with herself.

meiosis;

hyperbole;

*litotes;

metaphor.

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Decide what EM of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. Art is a jealous mistress.

meiosis;

hyperbole;

litotes;

*metaphor.

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Decide what SD of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man, I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

oxymoron;

antithesis;

simile;

*gradation.

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Decide what SD of semasiology the following examples contain:

e.g. awfully nice, pretty bad.

*oxymoron;

antithesis;

simile;

gradation.

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Decide what SD of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. He reminded Julia of an old dog lying in the sun.

oxymoron;

antithesis;

*simile;

gradation.

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Decide what SD of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. Every Caesar has his Brutus.

*antonomasia;

metonymy;

personification;

synecdoche.

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Decide what SD of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. In the book Alfred found Love which was hiding herself between the pages.

antonomasia;

metonymy;

*personification;

synecdoche.

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Decide what SD of semasiology the following example contains:

e.g. The school went to the zoo.

antonomasia;

metonymy;

personification;

*synecdoche.

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Decide which notions belong to the figures of quality:

hyperbole, meiosis, litotes;

*metonymy, synecdoche, periphrasis, euphemism, metaphor, antonomasia, personification, allegory, irony;

simile, synonyms-substitutors, synonyms-verifiers;

antithesis, oxymoron.

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Decide which notions belong to the figures of equality (identity):

hyperbole, meiosis, litotes;

metonymy, synecdoche, periphrasis, euphemism, metaphor, antonomasia, personification, allegory, irony;

*simile, synonyms-substitutors, synonyms-verifiers;

antithesis, oxymoron.

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Decide which notions belong to the figures of unequality:

*gradation, anticlimax, zeugma;

metonymy, synecdoche, periphrasis, euphemism, metaphor, antonomasia, personification, allegory, irony;

simile, synonyms-substitutors, synonyms-verifiers;

antithesis, oxymoron.

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Decide which notions belong to the figures of opposition:

gradation, anticlimax, zeugma;

metonymy, synecdoche, periphrasis, euphemism, metaphor, antonomasia, personification, allegory,irony;

simile, synonyms-substitutors, synonyms-verifiers;

*antithesis, oxymoron.

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Attribute properly the following notion with its definition: figures of identity

correlations of semantically different lexical units;

*correlations of semantically identical lexical units;

correlations of semantically opposite antonymic lexical units;

figures based on comparison of two different subjects (phenomena) or their qualities according to their mutual quantitative criterion.

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Attribute properly the following notion with its definition: figures of quantity

correlations of semantically different lexical units;

correlations of semantically identical lexical units;

correlations of semantically opposite antonymic lexical units;

*figures based on comparison of two different subjects (phenomena) or their qualities according to their mutual quantitative criterion.

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Attribute properly the following notion with its definition: figures of opposition

correlations of semantically different lexical units;

correlations of semantically identical lexical units;

*correlations of semantically opposite antonymic lexical units;

figures based on comparison of two different subjects (phenomena) or their qualities according to their mutual quantitative criterion.

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Attribute properly the following notion with its definition: figures of quality

correlations of semantically different lexical units;

*figures based on comparison of properties and qualities of two different subjects (phenomena) according to their mutual qualitative criterion;

correlations of semantically opposite antonymic lexical units;

figures based on comparison of two different subjects (phenomena) or their qualities according to their mutual quantitative criterion.

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Attribute properly the following notion with its definition: figures of unequality

*correlations of semantically different lexical units;

correlations of semantically identical lexical units;

correlations of semantically opposite antonymic lexical units;

figures based on comparison of two different subjects (phenomena) or their qualities according to their mutual quantitative criterion.

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Attribute properly the given notion to its definition: belles-lettres style

a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication;

*the style of imaginative literature whose unique task is to impress the reader authentically;

the style is characterized by explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author;

the style of informative materials, characteristic of newspaper only and not found in other publications.

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Attribute properly the given notion with its definition: the scientific prose style

*the style which is characterized by the abundance of terms denoting objects, phenomena and processes characteristic of some particular field of science and technique;

the most conservative style which preserves cast-iron forms of structuring and uses syntactical constructions and words long known as archaic and not observed anywhere else;

the style is characterized by explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author;

the style of informative materials, characteristic of newspaper only and not found in other publications.

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Attribute properly the given notion to its definition: the publicistic style

a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication;

the style of imaginative literature whose unique task is to impress the reader authentically;

*the style is characterized by explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author;

the style of informative materials, characteristic of newspaper only and not found in other publications.

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Attribute properly the given notion to its definition: the newspaper style

a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication;

the style of imaginative literature whose unique task is to impress the reader authentically;

the style is characterized by explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author;

*the style of informative materials, characteristic of newspaper only and not found in other publications.

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Attribute properly the given notion with its definition: the official document style

the style which is characterized by the abundance of terms denoting objects, phenomena and processes characteristic of some particular field of science and technique;

*the most conservative style which preserves cast-iron forms of structuring and uses syntactical constructions and words long known as archaic and not observed anywhere else;

the style is characterized by explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author;

the style of informative materials, characteristic of newspaper only and not found in other publications.

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Attribute properly the given notion to its definition: the functional style

*a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication;

the style of imaginative literature whose unique task is to impress the reader authentically;

the style is characterized by explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views, in accordance with the argumentation of the author;

the environment of a speech unit where the properties of that unit are realized.

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Name the author of the following classification of functional styles:

The Belles-Lettres Style;

Publicistic Style;

Newspaper Style;

Scientific Prose Style;

The Style of official Documents.

O. Morokhovsky;

*I. Galperin;

Ch. Bally;

J. Swift.

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Name the author of the following classification of functional styles:

1. Official business style.

2. Scientific professional style.

3. Publicist style.

4. Literary colloquial style.

5. Informal colloquial style.

*O. Morokhovsky;

I. Galperin;

Ch. Bally;

J. Swift.

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Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

The terrible thing about that second sentence is that its infection has spread in all its falsity beyond research - into politics, religion, public statements, film scripts, journalism. It creates the bureaucratic impression that things “were done” and that nobody “did them”.

belles-lettres;

publicistic;

newspaper;

*scientific prose.

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Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled.

*belles-lettres;

publicistic;

newspaper;

scientific prose.

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Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

In the process of teaching Foreign Languages at higher educational establishments we distinguish between General English Major, English Minor, and English as a Foreign Language. General English includes corrective courses in Practical Phonetics, Practical Grammar, etc. English Major covers theoretical and practical courses in main linguistic disciplines.

belles-lettres;

publicistic;

newspaper;

*scientific prose.

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Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

It is high time this people had recovered from the passions of war. It is high time that counsel were taken from the statesmen, not demagogues…It is high time the people of the North and the South understood each other and adopted means to inspire confidence in each other.

belles-lettres;

*publicistic;

newspaper;

scientific prose.

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Decide what style is represented in the following extract:

A large chunk of ice, believed to have fallen from an aircraft, crashed through the roof, then through the bedroom ceiling of a house in Leamington, Warwickshire, yesterday.

belles-lettres;

publicistic;

*newspaper;

scientific prose.

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Name the type of classification of the given scheme:

classification of FS on the basis of functions of the language (beles-lettres style, oratorial style, lecturing style);

classification of FS on the basis of criteria of the sphere of the usage of the language (oral and written );

classification of FS on the basis of 3 basic features of differentiation (emotionality - unemotionality, spontaneity - non-spontaneity, normativity - abnormativity).

according to the inductive approach (from specific to general);

*according to the deductive approach (from general to specific);

I. Galperin's classification;

O. Morokhovsky's classification.

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What functional style do the following linguistic features characterize?

Genuine, not trite, imagery, achieved by purely linguistic devices.

The use of words in contextual and very often in more than one dictionary meaning, or at least greatly influenced by the lexical environment.

A vocabulary which will reflect to a greater or lesser degree the author's personal evaluation of things or phenomena.

A peculiar individual selection of vocabulary and syntax, a kind of lexical and syntactical idiosyncrasy.

The introduction of the typical features of colloquial language to a full degree (in plays) or a lesser one (in emotive prose) or a slight degree, if any (in poems).

*belles-lettres style;

the publicistic style;

the scientific prose style;

the official document style.

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What functional style do the following linguistic features characterize?

conventionality of expression;

absence of any emotiveness;

the encoded character of language symbols including abbreviations;

a general syntactical mode of combining several pronouncements into one sentence.

belles-lettres style;

the publicistic style;

the scientific prose style;

*the official document style.

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Name the author of the following classification of functional styles:

Official style.

Scientific style.

Publicistic style.

Newspaper style.

Belles-lettres stye.

O. Morokhovsky;

I. Galperin;

*V. Kukharenko

J. Swift.

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What functional style do the following linguistic features characterize?

- the use of cliches and abbreviations;

- the use of neologisms;

- non-term political vocabulary;

- specific word-order;

- informative purpose of the information.

belles-lettres style;

*the newspaper style;

the scientific prose style;

the official document style.

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What functional style do the following linguistic features characterize?

- logical sequence of utterances;

- the use of terms;

- the use of sentence-patterns;

- the use of references and quotations;

- the use of foot-notes;

- impersonality.

belles-lettres style;

the newspaper style;

*the scientific prose style;

the official document style.

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Who of the linguists subdivided the belles-lettres style into the language of poetry, emotive prose, and the language of drama?

O. Morokhovsky;

*I. Galperin;

Ch. Bally;

J. Swift.

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Who is considered to be the founder of the theory of information transmission?

G. Turner

Ch. Bally

*Cl. Shennon

I. Galperin

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Decide into what types the extralinguistic context is subdivided.

*single situational, typical situational, social historical,

linguistic, stylistic;

microcontext, macrocontext, megacontext;

lexical, syntactical, morphological, mixed.

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Choose the classification of the context according to its size:

single situational, typical situational, social historical,

linguistic, stylistic;

*microcontext, macrocontext, megacontext;

lexical, syntactical, morphological, mixed.

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Into what types are synonyms subdivided?

paradigmatic, syntagmatic;

style, stylistic;

*speech, language;

total, partial.

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Into what groups is the English vocabulary subdivided?

emotional, evaluative, expressive;

style, stylistic;

*literary, neutral, colloquial;

denotative, connotative, colloquial.

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Name two main types of slang:

*general slang, jargon;

style slang, stylistic slang;

jargon, argo;

lexical slang, stylistic slang.

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Name the types of repetition:

complete, incomplete, partial, ordinary;

catch, frame, chain, partial, ordinary;

*ordinary, catch, chain, frame, extended;

style, stylistic, emotional, expressive.

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Name the types of parallel construction:

*complete, incomplete, partial, chiasmus, anaphora, epiphora;

catch, frame, chain, partial, ordinary;

ordinary, catch, chain, frame, extended;

style, stylistic, emotional, expressive.

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Name the types of periphrasis:

lexical, contextual;

*logical, figurative;

religious, moral, medical, political;

speech, language.

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Name the types of euphemism:

lexical, contextual;

logical, figurative;

*religious, moral, medical, political;

speech, language.

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Name the types of metonymy:

*lexical, contextual;

logical, figurative;

religious, moral, medical, political;

speech, language.

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Name the types of metaphor according to the pragmatic effect produced upon the adresseer:

prolonged, simple;

nominational, cognitive, imaginative;

*dead, original;

catch, chain, frame.

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Name the types of metaphor according to the degree of stylistic potential:

prolonged, simple;

*nominational, cognitive, imaginative;

dead, original;

catch, chain, frame.

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Name the types of metaphor according to the structure:

*prolonged, simple;

nominational, cognitive, imaginative;

dead, original;

catch, chain, frame.

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Define the type of parallelism in the following example:

e.g. If we are Frenchmen we adore our mother; if Englishmen we love dogs and virtue.

partial parallelism

*incomplete parallelism

complete parallelism

chain parallelism

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Define the type of structural transformation of the phraseological unit in the following example:

e.g. But that was no reason for not being pleased, or making political hay whenever one could.

*expansion of the components of phraseological units

reduction of the components of phraseological units

changes in the components of phraseological units

inversion of the components of phraseological units

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Define the type of parallelism in the following example:

e.g. “Good morning, Pooh Bear”, said Eyreglomily. “If it is a good morning”, he said

partial parallelism

incomplete parallelism

complete parallelism

*chain parallelism

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Define the type of structural transformation of the phraseological unit in the following example:

e.g. This is a bird in the hand, I think.

expansion of the components of phraseological units

*reduction of the components of phraseological units

changes in the components of phraseological units

inversion of the components of phraseological units

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