Theoretical questions (for Full-time department)

1. Definition of Style and Stylistics. Types of stylistic research and branches of stylistics.
2. Individual Style Study. Decoding and Encoding Stylistics.
3. Different Approaches to the 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. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
6. The Belles-Lettres Style: Language of Poetry. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
7. The Belles-Lettres Style: Language of the Drama. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
8. The Style of Official Documents. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
9. The Newspaper Style (Brief News Items, the Headline). Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
10. The Publicist Style. Its Distinctive Linguistic Features.
11. The Stylistic Classification of the English Vocabulary (outline). Neutral, Literary and Colloquial Vocabulary.
12. Special Literary Vocabulary
13. Special Colloquial Vocabulary.
14. Meaning. Types of Lexical Meaning
15. Lexical EMs and SDs: Metaphor, Personification, Metonymy, Irony.
16. Lexical EMs and SDs: Zeugma, Pun, Antonomasia.
17. Lexical EMs and SDs: Simile, Periphrasis, Euphemism, Hyperbole.
18. Lexical EMs and SDs: Interjections and Exclamatory Words, Epithet, Oxymoron.
19. Morphological Stylistics (the noun and adjective, their stylistic functions)
20. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Asyndeton, Polysyndeton, Epiphora, Anaphora, Anadiplosis. 
21. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Rhetorical Questions, Questions-in-the-narrative, Litotes.
22. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Stylistic Inversion, Detached Constructions, Parallel Constructions, Chiasmus.
23. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Stylistic Repetition, Enumeration, Antithesis
24. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Suspense, Climax, Anticlimax
25. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Ellipsis, Break-in-the narrative
26. Syntactical EMs and SDs: Represented speech
27. Linguistic features of text
28. Characters and characterisation                           
29. Points of view in narrative

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