THEMATIC PORTFOLIO

For the exam students will be expected to get ready with the thematic Portfolio.

Required elements for the portfolio include:

-         The report;

-         Stylistic analysis of the text of your own choice in a written form;

-         The exercises done (in Ivashkin’s book)

Classifications of expressive means and stylistic devices by Skrebnev, Galperin and Leech. Валерия Паршкова

сLassif from arel1592

Theoretical questions on Stylistics (Part-time faculty - 4th year)

1. General Notes on Style and Stylistics
2. Individual Style Study. Decoding and Encoding Stylistics.
3. Classification of Functional Styles in English. Give the Definition of a Functional Style.
4. The Scientific Prose Style. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
5. The Belles-Lettres Style: Emotive Prose, Language of Poetry, Language of the Drama.
6. The Style of Official Documents. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
7. The Newspaper Style (Brief News Items, the Headline). Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
8. The Publicist Style. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
9. The Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary (outline). Neutral, Literary and Colloquial Vocabulary.
10. Special Literary Vocabulary
11. Special Colloquial Vocabulary.
12. Lexical EMs and SDs: Metaphor, Personification, Metonymy, Irony.
13. Lexical EMs and SDs: Zeugma, Pun, Antonomasia
14. Lexical EMs and SDs: Simile, Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole.
15. Lexical EMs and SDs: Interjections and Exclamatory Words, Epithet, Oxymoron.
16. Phonetic Stylistic Means.
17. Graphic Stylistic Means.
18. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, Epiphora, Anaphora, Anadiplosis.
19. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Stylistic Inversion, Detached Constructions, Parallel Constructions, Chiasmus.
20. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Suspense, Climax, Antithesis

Morphological means. Елена Пересыпкина

Morphological means from Peresypkina

Stylistic peculiarities of the style of official documents. Лилия Карипова

Stylistic peculiarities of the style of official documents from Lilchka

Language varieties: regional, social, occupational. Приходько Мария

Prikhodko maria from komani545

Publicist Style. Батышева Маргарита

Publicist Style from quenery

Text structure in the belles-lettres style. Алексей Чернилин

Text structure in the belles-lettres style from Alejo_Velasco

Neologisms in the english language. Нигай Виктория

Neologisms in the english language from SnailsReflection

Colloquial & Literary types of communiation. Елизавета Федотова

Dialects in Great Britain

Dialects in Great Britain from Hurry_Darry

British Accent

British Accent from saadiyap

Slang and jargon. Коноплев Иван

Slang and jargon from Analog_God

Reports

1. Oral versus written form of communication 
2. Dialects in Great Britain 
3. Dialects in the USA 
4. Latin borrowings in the English language in the Renaissance 
5. The use of foreign words in the English text as a specific stylistic device 
6. Neologisms in the English language 
7. Slang and jargonisms 
8. Language varieties: regional, social, occupational 
9. The differences between words and terms 
10. Colloquial versus literary type of communication 
11. Classifications of expressive means and stylistic devices by Skrebnev, Galperin and Leech 
12. Synonyms as an expressive means in the English and American literature 
13. Metaphors in the belles–lettres style 
14. Denotation and connotation in imaginative literature 
15. Word and its semantic structure 
16. Stylistic peculiarities of the newspaper style 
17. The structure of a text in the belles–lettres style 
18. Stylistic peculiarities of the style of official documents in English 
19. The stylistic functions of the article 
20. Literary text as poetic structure 
21. Stylistic peculiarities of the publicist style
22. Narrative method. Types of narration.

Theoretical questions (Faculty of Philology 5th year)

1.  General Notes on Style and Stylistics

2.   Classification of Functional Styles in English. Give the Definition of a Functional Style.

3.   The Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary (outline). Neutral, Literary and Colloquial Vocabulary.

4.     Special Literary Vocabulary

5.     Special Colloquial Vocabulary.

6.     Lexical EMs and SDs: Metaphor, Metonymy, Irony.

7.     Lexical EMs and SDs: Zeugma, Pun, Antonomasia

8.     .Lexical EMs and SDs: Simile, Periphrasis, Hyperbole.

9.     Lexical EMs and SDs: Epithet, Oxymoron.

10.  Syntactical EMs and SDs: Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, Epiphora, Anaphora, Anadiplosis.

11.  Syntactical EMs and SDs: Stylistic Inversion, Detached Constructions, Parallel Constructions, Chiasmus.