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Stylistics Test

This document defines various terms and concepts related to stylistics. It defines linguistic stylistics, communicative stylistics, coding stylistics, and contrastive stylistics. It also defines linguistic context, macro context, mega context, expressive means, phonetic means, morphological means, lexical means, syntactic means, functional styles, neutral words, and more. It provides examples of different types of words and their stylistic functions such as poetic words, barbarisms, professionalisms, slang, and others. It also defines various figures of speech and their categories including figures of substitution, figures of quantity, metonymic figures of quality, metaphoric figures of quality, figures of combination, and syntactic stylistic devices.

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Stylistics Test

This document defines various terms and concepts related to stylistics. It defines linguistic stylistics, communicative stylistics, coding stylistics, and contrastive stylistics. It also defines linguistic context, macro context, mega context, expressive means, phonetic means, morphological means, lexical means, syntactic means, functional styles, neutral words, and more. It provides examples of different types of words and their stylistic functions such as poetic words, barbarisms, professionalisms, slang, and others. It also defines various figures of speech and their categories including figures of substitution, figures of quantity, metonymic figures of quality, metaphoric figures of quality, figures of combination, and syntactic stylistic devices.

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Define the term stylistics.


Match types of stylistics with their definitions:
Linguistic stylistics
a) Describes expressive peculiarities of certain
Communicative (decoding) stylistics
messages (texts)
Coding (literary stylistics)
b) Investigates stylistic systems of two or more
Contrastive stylistics
languages in comparison
c) Is a science of functional styles and
expressive potential of a language
d) Deals with individual styles of authors
Define the term linguistic context.
What is the difference between macro context and mega context?
Explain the notion of expressive means. What are phonetic; morphological; lexical; and syntactic
expressive means?
What is the difference between expressive means and stylistic devices?
Determine functional styles below:
A. The ________ FS has the following sub styles:
) the language style of poetry;
b) the language style of emotive prose;
) the language style of drama.
B. The _________ FS comprises the following sub styles:
) the language style of oratory;
b) the language style of essays;
) the language style of feature articles in newspapers and journals.
C. The __________ FS falls into
) the language style of brief news items and communiqus;
b) the language style of newspaper headings;
) the language style of notices and advertisements.
D. The __________ FS also has three divisions:
) the language style of humanitarian sciences;
) the language style of "exact" sciences;
) the language style of popular scientific prose.
E. The _____/_______ FS can be divided into four varieties:
) the language style of diplomatic documents;
) the language style of business documents;
) the language style of legal documents;
d) the language style of military documents.
8. Define the term neutral word.
9. What functional style is the domain of usage of terms?
10. What is a stylistic function of poetic words?
11. Explain the difference between obsolescent, obsolete and archaic words. Provide examples.
12. What is the main stylistic function of barbarisms?
13. Newly born words, most of which are terms are called ________
14. What are the peculiarities of common colloquial vocabulary?
15. ________are non-standard words used by people of a certain associated group to keep their
intercourse secret.
16. What are professionalisms and what is their stylistic function?
17. __________are words used by people of a certain community living in a certain territory.
18. What is stylistic effect of slang?

19. What is another word for obscene?


20. What is transposition?
21. Explain transposition of articles; verbs; pronouns and adjectives.
22. Phonetic stylistic devices belong to ________ and _________ types.
23. Rhyme is _____ .
24. What are the terms for these rhyme patterns: (aa, bb); (ab, ab); (ab ba)?
25. Define the type of rhymes: male; female and dactylic.
26. Define the notion of rhythm and metre.
27. What are the most popular poetic feet?
28. _______ is attitude of the speaker or writer as revealed in the choice of vocabulary or the intonation
of speech.
29. What are the basic graphic expressive means?
30. Into what categories are the figures of substitution classified?
31. Match each figure of quantity with its main stylistic feature:
1. Hyperbole 2. Meiosis
3. Litotes
a) positive sense of a structure with double negation;
b) a deliberate exaggeration;
c) a deliberate diminution.
32. Match each metonymic figure of quality with its main stylistic feature:
1. Metonymy
2. Synecdoche
3. Perriphrasis
4. Euphemism
a) replacement of a direct name of a thing/phenomenon by the description of some its quality;
b) naming the whole object by mentioning part of it, or naming a constituent part by mentioning the
whole object;
c) replacement of an unpleasant, impolite word or expression with a milder and decent one;
d) transference of a name of one object to another based on contiguity.
33. Match each metaphoric figure of quality with its main stylistic feature:
1. Metaphor 2. Epithet 3. Antonomasia 4. Personification 5. Allegory
a) an attribute describing an object expressively, pointing out an implied figurative connotation;
b) an abstract notion in a concrete image, embodied throughout a whole text, often possessing the
features of a human being and having its proper name;
c) transference of a name of one object to another based on similarity;
d) ascribing human behavior, feelings, thoughts and actions to inanimate objects.
34. Into what categories are the figures of combination classified?
35. Match each figure of combination with its main stylistic feature:
1. Simile 2. Synonyms 3) Oxymoron 4) Antithesis 5) Climax 6) Zeugma 7) Pun.
a) a figure of ascending arrangement of emotional, qualitative, or quantitative features of the referent
under description;
b) a figure of contrast at the level of two semantically opposite phrases;
c) identity is expressed in the words with similar meaning;
d) a play on homonymic or polysemantic words;
e) a figure of identity consisting in expressive comparison of two belonging to different semantic classes
objects which have something in common;
f) a figure of inequality realized in decreasing significance, importance or emotional tension of
narration;
g) a figure of contrast based on the combination of semantically incompatible, almost antonymous
words describing one referent;
h) an at least three-component figure of inequality, in which the basic component forms with the
adjacent ones both a metaphoric expression and a free word combination.
36. Into what categories are the syntactic stylistic devices classified?
37. Pick out the syntactic stylistic devices based on:
a) reduction, b) extension of the sentence model:
1) a rhetoric question; 2) polysyndeton; 3) parceling; 4) detachment;
5) repetition; 6) tautology; 7) aposiopesis; 8) inversion; 9) an apokoinu construction; 10) ellipsis; 11)
asyndeton; 12) enumeration; 13) a nominative sentence; 14) parallel constructions.

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