Final written work on english stylistics and text interpretation for the 4th

FINAL WRITTEN WORK ON ENGLISH STYLISTICS AND TEXT INTERPRETATION FOR THE 4^th YEAR STUDENTS OF 2021-2022 ACADEMIC YEAR
Name: Olimova Aziza_________________________ Date:_______________________
Group:__Fing k-1803_____________________ Score:_______________________
Faculty:______________________ Teacher’s signature:__________

Variant - 1


Part 1
I. Define the stylistic devices in the following sentences: 1 point per correct answer.
1. She lowered her standards by raising her glass, her courage, her eyes and his hopes.
___Zeugema_____________________________________________________________

2. 
   The ancient castle was so big that it took a week to walk from one end to the other.__Hyperbole_______________________________________________________________
   
3. 
   You say, "Isn't it warm in here", and point toward a broken heater. This is the best conveyed "get it repaired fast" message ever._ Verbal irony_________________________________
   
4. 
   He swam in the sea of diamonds.___Metaphor______________________________________
   

5. My family is happy, well fed and kind to each other.Metanomy________________________
6. "Are you kidding?"___Ryerotical question_______________________________________________
7. His novel created a mild sensation in literary circles.___Metaphor______________________

8. 
   "Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears."
   (Taken from Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare)._Synecdoche_____________________
   
9. 
   He does not seek money no more than he seeks fame.__Zeugema_____________________
   
10. 
    Money is the root of all evils: poverty is the fruit of all goodness._Ryerotorical question_______________
    

Part 2
II. Answer to the following theoretical questions.

1. 
   What is the subject matter of stylistics? (No more than 15 sentences) (Total: 5 p)
   

Stylistics is a linguistic discipline which studies nominative and communicative language units and the principles according to which the units of all language levels are selected for achieving a certain pragmatic aim in different communicative situations. (Morokhovsky).
Stylistics is the study of style, which can be defined as the analysis of distinctive expressions in language and the description of its purpose and effect (Peter Verdonk).
Stylisitics is a branch of general linguistics, which deals with the following two interdependent tasks:
a) studies the totality of special linguistic means ( stylistic devices and expressive means ) which secure the desirable effect of the utterance;
b) studies certain types of texts "discourse" which due to the choice and arrangement of the language are distinguished by the pragmatic aspect of communication (functional styles).Galperin
The subject-matter of stylistics can be outlined as the study of the nature, functions and structure of stylistic devices, on the one hand, and, on the other, the study of each style of language as classified, its aim, its structure, its characteristic features and the effect it produces, as well as its interrelation with other styles of language.

2. 
   What member of the sentence represents "one-member sentences"?
   

(No more than 15 sentences) (Total: 5 p)
One-member sentences consisting of a noun or a noun with its attributes are called nominative sentences . The existence of the object denoted by the noun is asserted in these sentences:
The sky, the flowers, the songs of birds! (Galsworthy.) Another day of fog. (London.)
These sentences always refer to the present. They are uttered with an especially expressive intonation.
Nominative sentences differ from elliptical sentences with a suppressed verbal predicate in that they do not contain any second­ary parts which might be connected with a verbal predicate. If we analyze the following sentences — A small but cosy room; in the background a little writing table; to the left a sofa — vve see that only the first is a one-member sentence containing a noun with its attributes; the two other sentences are elliptical because the prepositional phrases in the background and to the left are adverbial expressions of place which may refer only to a suppressed verbal predicate. It is true that in a different context the very same prepositional phrases might serve as attributes to some noun (The table in the background was a writing table. The house to the left is a hospital), but that is not the case in our examples, where the adverbial character of the two phrases is quite evident.