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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 poetic messages
- communicative demands of scientific messages
Вопрос 2
What do colloquial words serve to satisfy?
Варианты ответов
- communicative demands of scientific messages
- communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
- non-official everyday communicative demands
- communicative demands of official messages
Вопрос 3
Where can we find literary words?
Варианты ответов
- In streets
- In authorial speech, descriptions, considerations
- In the dialogue or monologue of a prose work.
- At home
Вопрос 4
What two major subgroups constitute special literary words?
Варианты ответов
- Terms and archaisms
- Slang and jargonisms
- Argo and slang
- Dialectisms and foreignisms
Вопрос 5
Terms are:
Варианты ответов
- 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
- archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
Вопрос 6
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 7
"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
- Barbarisms
- Professionalisms
- Vulgarisms
Вопрос 8
"These are expletives and swear words which are of an abusive character, obscene word like "damn", "bloody" etc". The given definition is appropriate for:
Варианты ответов
- Colloquial coinages
- Jargon words
- Borrowed words
- Vulgar words
Вопрос 9
Obsolescent words are the words which:
Варианты ответов
- 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)
- 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 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 generally defined as "a new word or a new meaning for an established word".
Вопрос 10
"These are the words of foreign origin which have not been entirely been assimilated into the English language. They bear the appearance of a borrowing and are left as something alien to the native tongue".
The given definition is appropriate for:
Варианты ответов
- Barbarisms and foreignism
- Archaic, obsolescent and obsolete words
- Archaic, obsolescent and obsolete words
- Vulgarisms
Вопрос 11
Slang is:
Варианты ответов
- words, used by limited groups of people
- words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and expressive
- words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
- words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
Вопрос 12
Professionalisms are:
Варианты ответов
- words, used by limited groups of people, united professionally
- 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
- barbarisms and foreign words
Вопрос 13
Dialectal words are:
Варианты ответов
- normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects, but used outside of them, carry a strong flavour of the locality where they belong
- words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and expressive
- barbarisms and foreign words
- words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
Вопрос 14
Poetic words are...
Варианты ответов
- 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
- archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
- antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones
- archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
Вопрос 15
The irony is ...
Варианты ответов
- A combination of two words in which the meaning of the two clash, being opposite in sense.
- The stylistic device based on the interplay between the logical and nominal meanings of a word.
- Is a word phrase used to replace an unpleasant word or expression by a conventionally more acceptable one.
- The stylistic device based on simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other.
Вопрос 16
Alliteration is:
Варианты ответов
- A repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combination of words.
- A phonetic stylistic device based on the combination of the ideal metrical scheme and the variations of it, variations which are governed by the standard.
- A combination of speech-sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature (wind, sea, thunder, etc.), by things (machines or tools, etc.), by people (sighing, laughter, etc.), and by animals.
- A phonetic stylistic device which aims at impacting melodic effect to the utterance. The essence of this device lies in the repetition of similar sounds, in particular consonants sounds.
Вопрос 17
Find metonymy in the sentences:
Варианты ответов
- I translate an article .
- I never read Balzac.
- I read a lot of books
- I like ice-cream
Вопрос 18
What is onomatopoeia?
Варианты ответов
- the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action
- the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables
- a combination of two words in which the meaning of the two clash, being opposite in sense.
- the stylistic device based on simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other.
Вопрос 19
What is assonance?
Варианты ответов
- the repetition of consonants, usually-in the beginning of words
- the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action
- A combination of two words in which the meaning of the two clash, being opposite in sense
- the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables
Вопрос 20
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
- Metonymy
- Graphon
- Assonance
- Alliteration
Вопрос 21
The following phrase: "He swallowed the hint with a gulp and a gasp and a grin" is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Assonance
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Metaphor
Вопрос 22
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
- Antonomasia
- Zeugma
- Pun
- Epithet
Вопрос 23
The following phrase “The topic of the Younger Generation spread through the company like a yawn." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Simile
- Epithet
- Hyperbole
- Irony
Вопрос 24
The following phrase “The girls were dressed to kill (J.Br.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Hyperbole
- Epithet
- Simile
- Metaphor
Вопрос 25
The following phrase: “There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books (E.W.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Oxymoron
- Metaphor
- Hyperbole
- Epithet
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