Irony Irony is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous realisation of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other

SEMINAR 6: THE NATURE, TYPES AND FUNCTIONS OF LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES: IRONY, EPITHET and OXYMORON
Group: 1802
Erkinov Shamsiddin
Task 1. Point out 3 types of Lexical stylistic devices and provide examples:



Lexical stylistic devices



Inanimate thing-

Irony
Irony is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous realisation of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other.

Epithet
Epithet is a stylistic device based on interaction of emotive and logical meanings in an attributive word, phrase or sentence.



Oxymoron
Oxymoron is a combination of two words in which meanings of the two clash, being opposite in sense


Task 2. Define below given phrases abbreviations and words related to the theme.

1. 
   Contextual meaning-related to context
   
2. 
   SD- Stylistic device
   
3. 
   Genuine irony-
   
4. 
   Logical attribute-contain values which are stored different database tables than other attributes in the entity.
   
5. 
   a thing which that is not alive.
   
6. 
   Of phrase epithet-is a stylistic device based on interaction of emotive and logical meanings in an attributive word, phrase or sentence.
   
7. 
   Contradictory meaning-involving a contradiction.
   
8. 
   Genuine oxymoron-is a SD, it is an individual creation and mainly used in the belles-lettres style.
   

Task 3. True or False

1. 
   Irony is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous realization of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings are similar.
   

True False

2. 
   Irony generally is used to convey a negative meaning.
   

True False

3. 
   Epithet is a stylistic device based on interaction of grammatical and logical meanings in an attributive word, phrase or sentence.
   

True False

4. 
   Epithets has no impact on the reader, so much that the reader begins to see and evaluate things as the writer wants him to.
   

True False

5. 
   Irony is such a combination of words in which the meaning of the word describing the thing and the word denoting the thing are contradictory in sense.
   

True False