Stylistics Module #1 182

The word “style” is derived from ...

• Greek

• Arabic

• Latin

• Roman

a repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of neighbouring words or accented syllables

• alliteration

• assonance

• onomatopoeia

The following words “ding-dong”, “buzz”,” bang”, “mew”, “roar” are a typical example of ......

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme

• rhythm

______________ is a combination of speech-sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature, by things, by people, by animals

• euphony

• rhyme

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

The common literary, neutral and common colloquial words are grouped under the term

• non-standard English vocabulary

• bookish vocabulary

• standard English vocabulary

• general vocabulary

__________ a layer of words of a highly colloquial character. The most extended and vastly developed subgroup of non-standard colloquial layer of the vocabulary.

• terms

• borrowings

• slang

• exotic words

__________ are borrowed words which have synonyms of the native origin and they are fixed in the vocabulary stock of the given language.

• Barbarisms proper

• Foreign words/loans

• Foreignisms

___________ 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.

• slang

• jargon

• neologism

• barbarisms

The following words "component", "infant", "commence" are ...

• professionalisms

• bookish words

• borrowings

• foreign words

«She had her lunches in the department-store restaurant at a cost of sixty cents for the week; dinners were one dollar five cents. The evening papers... came to six cents; and Sunday papers... were ten cents. The total amounts to 4 dollars 76 cents. Now, one had to buy clothes, and-» (O 'Henry)

• Framing

• Aposiopesis

• Anadiplosis