- •T he notion of style
- •S tylistics as a science
- •Various literary genre;
- •Connection of Stylistics to the other sciences
- •S tylistic lexicology
- •Language variability
- •Read a story; define the subsystem of the words in italics. Give their standard variant.
- •2. Stylistic classification of English vocabulary
- •Divide the following types of words into 3 categories. Make a chart.
- •Read the following definitions of words and fill in the chart
- •3. Interaction of Stylistically Colored Words and the Context
- •S uper-neutral vocabulary
- •Super-neutral Words
- •Archaisms
- •Compare two variants of Canterbury Tales written in Middle English and translated into New English, find the obsolete, archaic words
- •Read and suggest the modern variant of the underlined words. Use the prompts given.
- •Foreign words or barbarisms
- •Match the given words with their translation. Define the type of the foreign words.
- •Read the given extracts. Define what additional information the foreign words reflect.
- •4. Literary words
- •Read an extract and tell what effect the elevated words have and why.
- •Give the neutral/standard variant of the following sentences
- •Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
- •Colloquial words
- •Jargon words
- •Vulgar words
- •Compare two variants of one and the same story. Write out the neutral words and their slang equivalents.
- •D ialect words
- •Before reading the story, look through the sentences and suggest what the story is going to be about
- •Something to lean on
- •S tylistic phonetics
- •Alliteration
- •Read the extracts and define the type of alliteration
- •Onomatopoeia
- •2. Translate the following examples of onomatopoeia
- •I nternal rhyme:
- •Analyzing english poetry
- •William Blake The Chimney Sweeper
- •S tylistic semasiology
- •Figures of replacement
- •2/ Figures of quality
- •I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!
- •Read the following sentences, define the type of the figure of quantity.
- •Read and define the metonymy examples. Explain their meaning
- •West End is the hands of London.
- •3 . Read and define the periphrasis examples. Explain their meaning
- •4. Read and define the allusion examples. Explain their meaning
- •5. What kind of person are you if you are called …
- •Translate the following examples of the speaking names
- •Match the points characterizing life in comparison with journey
- •Read the classified examples of metaphor and personification. Some of them are mixed. Figure them out.
- •3. Read and define the epithet examples. Explain their meaning
- •Figures of co-occurrence
- •4. Here is a short poem about the way how a good greyhound is shaped. Most of the similes are missed. Fill in the gaps. The words in the box will help you.
- •5. Translate the following examples of the oxymoron
- •Analyzing a poem
- •The Twilight by h. W. Longfellow
- •S tylistic syntax
- •Absence of Syntactical Elements
- •For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn
- •Шли три студента, один – в кино, другой – в сером костюме, третий – в хорошем настроении.
- •Order of speech elements
- •«They slid down» «Down they slid»
- •Read the following examples of inverted statements, tell what a direct word order in the statements is.
- •Interaction of Syntactical Structures
- •Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming.
- •Read a sentence; define what parts of the sentence are parallel here.
- •Read the sentences, define what words are repeated and what for.
- •I have to beg you for money. Daily. (s.Lewis)
- •Read the statements, define what is detached here.
- •Analyzing a poem
- •Analyzing a story
- •Introduction
- •Is he living or is he dead
Is he living or is he dead
We were as happy as we were poor, or as poor as we were happy, as you like it.
He took us into his house, and saved us from starvation.
hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs.
Starvation is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage and eventually, death.
"He wasn't greater than we were, then. He wasn't famous even in his own village; and he was so poor
Mostly dialogues
“I will ask you to note this fact in human history: many great artists die of starvation. And only after their death people begin to buy their pictures and pay large sums of money for them. So the thing is quite clear”, he added, “one of us must die. Let us draw lots”.
he travelled like a king
How happy we were!