15. “There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books (E.W.)." is an example of
* oxymoron
*epithet
*hyperbole
*Irony
16. “You have nobody to blame but yourself. The saddest words of tongue or pen.” is an example of
*litotes
* metonymy
*alliteration
*Understatement
17. A recognized term for a group of words with entirely new meanings imposed on them existing in almost every language, whose aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group is
* jargonisms
*barbarisms
*vulgarism
*Professionalisms
18. Archaism proper are...
*archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the function of imbuing the work of art with a lofty poetic colouring
*words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
*antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones
*barbarisms and foreign words
19. Archaisms are…
*words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
*words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
*barbarisms and foreign words
*words, used by limited groups of people
20. At the lexical level stylistics studies
*a set of morphological, syntactical, transpositional representations
*tropes
*graphical shapes of texts
*hierarchical system of sounds, words and clauses
21. Brief news items (newspaper style) are characterized by
* terms (political or economic)
*emotional colouring
*the use of the first person singular
*obsolete words
22. Dialectal words are:
* normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects, but used outside of them, carry a strong flavour of the locality where they belong
*words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
*words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and expressive
*words, used by limited groups of people
23. Expressive means are ...
*abstract in nature
*fixed in dictionaries and grammars
* abstract in nature but fixed in dictionaries
*used in everyday speech
24. Galperin’s classification of functional styles embraces
*6 groups
*7 groups
* 5 groups
*3 groups
25. In Great Britain four major dialects are…
*New England, Southern, Northern and Midwestern
*Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western
* Lowland Scotch. Northern, Midland (Central) and Southern
*Highland. Northern, Southern and Western
26. In the USA the dialectal varieties are…
* New England, Southern and Midwestern (Central, Midland)
*Northern and Southern
*Northern, Southern and Western
*Northern, Southern and Eastern