Define the style of the following words: kid, girlie, to have a snack

Define the style of the following words: man, woman, child

Define the style of the following words in My Lords!; Mr. Chairman!; Honourable Members

Choose the correct answer. The peculiar use of negative constructions in litotes

Choose the correct answer. The sentence ‘What have I done to deserve this treatment?’ contains

Choose the correct answer. The following extract ‘US senators unanimously agreed to allow into the chamber guide dogs or other assistance needed by staff members to alleviate an embarrassing situation Monday. The temporary rule was passed following an incident when Moira Shea, a congressional fellow for Sen Ron Wyden, D-Ore., was not permitted to the floor because of an objection to her bringing her dog Beau, a yellow Labrador retriever, which belongs to

Choose the correct answer. The extract from a lawyer’s speech in court ‘There is one way in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president’ belongs to

Choose the correct answer. The following extract ‘It was a lovely place, really a tasteful and colourful thing, and suggestive of a genuine love of beauty in her... She was gracious, tactful, artful, not unlike her old self, yet more interesting because more experienced,’ contains…

How many functional styles are in the English literary language?

The word stock of the English vocabulary is divided into:

The words house, bread, summer, winter, mother, child belong to:

What determines the choice of stylistically marked words in each particular case?

Find the right definition for the term allusion:

Find the right definition for the term ambiguity:

Find the right definition for the term pun:

What is genre?

Find the right definition for the term connotation:

Find the right definition for the term denotation:

Which term stands for the following definition “partial or whole conformation of the phonetic, graphical and morphological standards of the receiving language and its syntactic system”?

Which term stands for the words of official bureaucratic language?

Which term stands for words belonging to a special scientific, professional or trade system not understood by people outside the particular specialty?

What is ballad?

Which term stands for the following definition: “the use of a more palatable word or phrase in place of a more direct or crude one”?

Define the type of the following words: stoppeth, quoth, thee and thy

What is the main principle manifested in tropes?

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: My impatience has shown its heels to my politeness

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: I’ve been reading Shakespeare

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: Director Rippleton had also married money

What term stands for the following definition: a unit of poetic speech which both names and describes

What stylistic device is demonstrated in phrases: better sex, man in the street;

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: He couldn’t shut out the fact that he was doing a cruel and unlovely thing

What term stands for the following definition: “the attitude, as it is revealed in the language of a literary work, of a personage, narrator or author towards the other personages in the work or towards the reader”

What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the first word or word-group in several successive sentences, clauses or phrases”

What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the final word or word-group”

What term stands for “catch repetition”

What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the same unit at the beginning and at the end of the same sentence, stanza, or paragraph”

What term stands for the following definition: “an insistent repetition of a connective between words, phrases or clauses in an utterance”

What term stands for the following definition: “a deliberate avoidance of connectives in a sentence”

What term stands for the following definition: “a figure of speech which consists of one main element and a number of adjuncts which represent semantically different word-classes differing in the type and degree of cohesion with the main element”

What term stands for the following definition: “a phrase, a sentence or a group of such in what a thing (or a concept) is measured against, or contrasted to its opposite”

What term stands for the following definition: “a statement based on contrast, contradictory to what is accepted as a self-evident or proverbial truth”

What term stands for the following definition: “a specific form of understatement which consists in the use of negative for the contrary”

What term stands for the following definition: “a sudden intentional break in the narration, dialogue or speech”

What term stands for the following definition: “an intentional omission from the utterance of one or more words”

What term stands for the following definition: “a kind of antithesis which is based upon a contrast between two words”

How do we call “the persons” in a work of fiction or drama?

Translate the allegory in the proverb Every cloud has a silver lining

Translate the allegory in the proverb Make the hay while the sun shines