The style of official documents includes

TEST

STYLISTICS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Name ____________________________________ Date ______________________

Stylistics is a linguistic science dealing with

 principles of choice of language means

 is a separate branch of linguistics studying the expressive possibilities of the English language.

The aim of stylistics is

 to systematize regularities of usage of language means and different types of texts

 to systematize and find regularities of usage of language means and different types of texts

A stylistic device is

 a conscious and intentional intensification of some typical structural and semantic property of

a language unit

 a conscious and intentional intensification of some typical structural and semantic property of

a language unit promoted to a generalized status and thus becoming a generative model

Belles-lettres functional style includes

 emotive prose, poetry and drama

 emotive prose and drama

Publicistic style includes

 oratory style and the essay

 oratory style, feature articles and the essay

Newspaper functional style includes

 brief news items and headlines

 brief news items, notices, advertisements, announcements and headlines

The style of official documents includes

 the language style of diplomatic documents, the language style of legal documents and the

language style of military documents

 the language style of diplomatic documents, the language style of business documents, the

language style of legal documents and the language style of military documents

8. The word stock of the English language is divided into the main layers…..

 the literary layer, the neutral layer and the colloquial layer

 the literary layer and the colloquial layer

9. What style the terms belong to?

 the language of science

 the language of poetry

10. What layer the poetic words belong to?

 colloquial vocabulary

 special literary vocabulary

11. The style of scientific prose includes…..

 the language style of humanitarian sciences and the language style of popular scientific prose

 the language style of humanitarian sciences, the language style of “exact” sciences and the

language style of popular scientific prose

12. Obsolescent words appear when…

 the beginning of the aging process ends

 the beginning of the aging process starts

13. Obsolete words are those…..

 that have already gone completely out of use

 that have already gone completely out of use but are still recognized by the English speaking

community

14. Archaic proper words are…..

 words which are no longer recognizable in modern English and which have either dropped out

of the language entirely or have changed in their appearance so much that they have become

unrecognizable

 words which have become unrecognizable

15. What is the correct definition of slang?

 the special vocabulary used by educated people

 the special vocabulary used by any set of persons of a low or disreputable character, the

language of a low and vulgar type.

16. Jargonisms are words…..

 that exists in almost every language and whose aim is to preserve secrecy within one or

another social group

 that exists in almost every language

17. Professionalisms are words….

 used in a definite trade, profession or calling by people connected by common interests

both at work and at home

 used in different trades, profession or calling by people connected by different interests

only at work

18. Dialectal words are….

 those which in the process of integration of the English national language remained in literary

boundaries

 those which in the process of integration of the English national language remained beyond its

literary boundaries and their use is generally confined to a definite locality

19. What kind of onomatopoeia is used in the following examples: “ding-dong, buzz, bang,

ping-pong”?

 indirect

 direct

20. What is the correct description?

 alliteration, like most phonetic expressive means, bears lexical or other meanings

 alliteration, like most phonetic expressive means, does not bear any lexical or other meanings

unless we agree that a sound meaning exists as such

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