Контрольная «вопросы и практические задания»,
стилистика английского языка в Нижнем Новгороде

Questions: 1. Speak about the first system of expressive means and stylistic devices. What value does it have for modern stylistics? 2. Galperin’s classification: its positive and negative sides. 3. What is a metaphor? What are its semantic, morphological, syntactical, structural, functional peculiarities? 4. What is a metonymy? Give a detailed description of the device. 5. Describe the difference between pun and zeugma, zeugma and a semantically false chain, semantically false chain and nonsense of non-sequence. 6. What is irony: its types, the most frequently observed mechanisms of irony formation? 7. What is antonomasia? What meanings interact in its formation? What types of antonomasia do you know? 8. What is an epithet? What semantic and structural types of epithets do you know? 9. What is the principle of the second big subdivision according to Galperin? What expressive means and stylistic devices belong to it? 10. What is the principle of the third big subdivision according to Galperin? What expressive means and stylistic devices belong to it? Practices: Exercise I. Analyse the given cases of metaphor from the point of view of semantics, originality, expressiveness, syntactic function, vividness and elaboration of the created image. Pay attention to the manner in which two objects (actions) are identified: with both named or only one – the metaphorized one – presented explicitly: