A. Choose the correct variant.

1.___«Among the various branches of ___ the most obscure in content is undoubtedly stylistics».

a) Literature; b) General Linguistics;

c) Poetics; d) Grammar.

2. «Style is the man himself». (Author)
a) Joubert; b) Buffon;
c) Boileau; d) Fowler.

3. The Great Oxford Dictionary gives ___ meanings of the word «style».

a) 9; b) 13;

c) 27; d) 31.

4. The norm is ___ (point out the synonyms):

1) habit; 2) mark; 3) trait; 4) standard;

5) idiom; 6) pattern; 7) peculiarity; 8) invariant; 9) example; 10) type; 11) view; 12) category; 1З) model; 14) tariff; 15) symbol.

5.___All types of styles are represented in ___.

a) the epistolar genre; b) business documents;

c) fiction; d) dictionaries

6.___________ A cognitive style is ___.

a) a scientific method rendering a permanent utterance into literature;

b) a departure from the norm;

c) an aesthetic reading and evaluation of language works;

d) schemes and structures of knowledge used in decoding a literary work

7.According to Ch. Bally, the task of stylistics is ___.

a) to study the features of organized language from the point of view of their affective content;

b) to investigate the individual elements of writers' styles;

c) to state the contextual spread of style markers;

d) to study the usual and unusual in literary language.

8.«Feedback» as a term of stylistics implies ___.

a) information about something (e.g. a product);

b) return of part of the output to its source;
c) response, dialogue;

d) a route that serves outlying areas, joining them up to a main system

9.«Whilome» is ___ for «once».

a) colloquial; b) a foreign word;

b) archaic; d) a learned word

10. «No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees ...» is the example of ___.

a) tautology; b) asyndetic coordination;

c) contextual synonyms; d) elliptical syntax

B. Use one or two words while answering the following questions.

1. How many meanings of the word «style» does the Great Oxford Dictionary give?

2. What, is, according to St. Ullmann, «another key-concept of stylistics»?

3. What do you think is the norm in style?

4. What two types of language communication do you know?

5. What is the most important characteristics of learned style?

6. What two conspicuous features of the official style can you mention?

7. By what epoch is the poetic style historically limited?

8. What term is used for a pair of words where a stylistically neutral noun of native origin is correlated with a borrowed relative adjective?

9. In what styles are emotional words mostly used?

10. What do you call words used to end sentences abruptly or to conceal embarrassment?

Assessment: 5 x 20 = 100 points

90-100 points = A; 80-89 = B; 70-79 = С

SECTION 2

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