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Task 1: Answer the following questions:

1. 
   What do you understand as a “word meaning”?
   
2. 
   How has the meaning of the word ‘mouse’ changed in the last 50 years?
   
3. 
   Why do you think words change their meanings?
   
4. 
   How can the context vary the denotational or connotational meaning of the word?
   
5. 
   What is the major difference between metaphor and metonymy?
   

Task 2: Below is a list of sentences with the adjective “red”. In each case, try to find a plausible motivation for the use of this adjective:
(a) The prince was a thin redhead boy (= someone with red hair)
(b) The offer of the secretary was a red herring (= smth that distracts from important things)
(c) His was a red politics (= extremely left-wing, with communist ideas)
(d) He was caught red-handed (= in the act of doing something wrong).
(e) He was beginning to see red in the middle of the talk (= he was getting very angry).
(f) This was a red-hot project (= very exciting).