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.