Группа Ан - 17 б -1, 1 - модуль
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Вопрос 1
What do literary words serve to satisfy?
Варианты ответов
- communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
- non-official everyday communicative demands
- communicative demands of official messages
- communicative demands of scientific messages
Вопрос 2
What do colloquial words serve to satisfy?
Варианты ответов
- communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
- non-official everyday communicative demands
- communicative demands of official messages
- communicative demands of poetic messages
Вопрос 3
The biggest division of vocabulary is made up of:
Варианты ответов
- Literary words
- Colloquial words
- Historical words
- Neutral words
Вопрос 4
Where can we find literary words?
Варианты ответов
- in authorial speech, descriptions, considerations
- in the dialogue (or interior monologue) of a prose work.
- in the types of discourse, simulating everyday oral communication
- In streets
Вопрос 5
The main source of synonymy and polysemy are considered to be
Варианты ответов
- Colloquial words
- Neutral words
- Literary words
- Neutral and common literary words
Вопрос 6
What two major subgroups constitute special literary words?
Варианты ответов
- Professionalisms and jargons
- Argo and slang
- Terms and archaisms
- Slang and jargonisms
Вопрос 7
Terms are:
Варианты ответов
- archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones
- words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
- archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the function of imbuing the work of art with a lofty poetic colouring
- words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
Вопрос 8
Archaisms are:
Варианты ответов
- words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
- words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and expressive
- words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
- words, used by limited groups of people
Вопрос 9
"It is a recognized term for a group of words that exists in almost every language and whose aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group. These are generally old words with entirely new meanings imposed on them". The given definition is appropriate for:
Варианты ответов
- Jargonisms
- Professionalisms
- Vulgarism
- Barbarisms
Вопрос 10
Obsolescent words are the words which:
Варианты ответов
- have already gone completely out of use but are still recognized by the English-speaking community: e.g. methinks{—\X seems to me); nay{~no).
- are no longer recognizable in modern English, words that were in use in Old English and which have either dropped out of the language entirely or have changed their in their appearance so much that they have become unrecognizable, e.g. troth(=faith), a losel(—a worthless, lazy fellow)
- are in the beginning of the aging process when the word becomes rarely used, i.e. they are in the stage of gradually passing out of general use, e.g. pronouns thy, thee, thine, thouh
- are used exactly in Modern English Literature and which are created by the English Contemporary Poets, thus belonging to concrete style of the concrete author, e.g.hateships, weatherology.
Вопрос 11
Lexico-syntactical stylistic devices are:
Варианты ответов
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical organization of the utterance
- SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
- SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical organization of employed lexical units
Вопрос 12
Find metonymy in the sentences:
Варианты ответов
- I translate an article
- I read a lot of books
- I never read Balzac.
- I book a set in the theatre
Вопрос 13
Graphical stylistic means are:
Варианты ответов
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical organization of the utterance
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical organization of employed lexical units
- SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
- SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
Вопрос 14
The given definition: "intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation" is true for:
Варианты ответов
- Assonance
- Graphon
- Onomatopoeia
- Alliteration
Вопрос 15
The following phrase: "Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into the beach" is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Onomatopoeia
- Irony
- Assonance
- Alliteration
Вопрос 16
Syntactical stylistic devices are...
Варианты ответов
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical organization of the utterance
- B) SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical organization of employed lexical units
- SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
Вопрос 17
Lexical stylistic devices are...
Варианты ответов
- SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical organization of employed lexical units
- SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical organization of the utterance
- SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
Вопрос 18
The following phrase "You have nobody to blame but yourself. The saddest words of tongue or pen." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Epithet
- Metonymy
- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
Вопрос 19
The following phrase ""There comes a period in every man's life, but she is just a semicolon in his."" is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Metonymy
- Onomatopoeia
- Metaphor
- Pun
Вопрос 20
The following phrase “Cats and canaries had added to the already stale house an entirely new dimension of defeat. As I stepped down, an evil-looking Tom slid by us into the house (W.Gl.)” is the example of ...
Варианты ответов
- Pun
- Metaphor
- Zeugma
- Antonomasia
Вопрос 21
The following phrase “He's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed peacock (D.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Zeugma
- Epithet
- Metaphor
- Metonymy
Вопрос 22
The following phrase “There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books (E.W.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Oxymoron
- Epithet
- Hyperbole
- Irony
Вопрос 23
The following phrase “The girls were dressed to kill (J.Br.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Irony
- Epithet
- Simile
- Hyperbole
Вопрос 24
The following phrase “Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old (Sc.F.).”is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Hyperbole
- Epithet
- Simile
- Metaphor
Вопрос 25
The following phrase “. Her mother is perfectly unbearable. Never met such a Gorgon (O.W.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Antonomasia
- Zeugma
- Pun
- Epithet


