TEST 3 Variant 1

1) These words are created only for special purposes and are practically never used out of
the texts they appear in:
a) literary words
b) expressive words
c) occasional words
d) tropes
e) alliteration

2) Define the case of morphemic foregrounding:

New scum, of course, has risen to take the place of the old, but the oldest scum, the thickest scum,
and the scummiest scum has come from across the ocean (E.Hemingway)
a) connotation
b) graphon
c) morphemic repetition
d) expressive means
e) grammatical transposition

3) The underlined word in the sentence “The girls could not take off their panamas hats
because this was not far from the school gates and hatlessness was an offence” is :
a) slang
b) jargon
c) occasional
d) literary
e) bookish

4) Connotative meaning includes the following components:

a) expressive, emotive and evaluative
b) expressive, evaluative, emotive and stylistic functional
c) denotative, expressive, emotive and evaluative
d) denotative and contextual
e) expressive, evaluative and stylistic

5) The word-stock of the English language can be divided into the following layers:
a) general, special
b) literary (high-flown) words, conversational words
c) terms, poetic diction, archaic words, foreign words, bookish (learned) words
d) literary (high-flown) words, conversational words, neutral words
e) literary colloquial, familiar colloquial and low colloquial

6) To literary vocabulary we refer the following subgroups:

a) terms, poetic diction, archaic words, foreign words, bookish (learned) words
b) colloquial words, general slang words (interjargon), special slang words (social and
professional jargons), vulgarisms and dialectal words.
c) literary colloquial; familiar colloquial; low colloquial.
d) neutral, stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked
e) stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked

7) To conversational words we refer

a) terms, poetic diction, archaic words, foreign words, bookish (learned) words
b) colloquial words, general slang words (interjargon), special slang words (social and
professional jargons), vulgarisms and dialectal words.
c) literary colloquial; familiar colloquial; low colloquial.
d) neutral, stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked
e) stylistically marked and stylistically unmarked

8) Archaisms may be used in a literary text

a) to show the overflow of emotions
b) to create the life-like atmosphere
c) to indicate personages’ occupation, cultural or educational background
d) to provide a true-to-life historical background
e) to create a humorous or satirical effect

9) Professionalisms are used in a literary text

a) to show the overflow of emotions
b) to create the life-like atmosphere
c) to indicate personages’ occupation
d) to provide a true-to-life historical background
e) to create a humorous or satirical effect

10) What mode of expression is presented in the given example "You want to know what I
think? I think you're nuts. Pure plain crazy. Goofy as a loon. That's what I think":
a) bookish
b) official
c) colloquial
d) neutral
e) literary

11) What subgroup of literary layer do the underlined lexical units belong to?
Omniscience.
Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience. (P. Hein)

a) poetic words
b) archaic words
c) terms
d) bookish words
e) foreign words

12) What subgroup of colloquial layer do the underlined lexical units belong to?
You are right, old buddy. Let’s make it (J. Baldwin)
a) literary colloquial
b) slang words
c) dialectal words
d) jargonisms
e) vulgarisms

13) What subgroup of colloquial layer do the underlined lexical units belong to?
Bell looked disgusted. He turned to Percy. “What the hell kind of army it is when you get a hug
for doing what you’re bloody well told?” (K.Follet)
a) literary colloquial
b) slang words
c) dialectal words
d) jargonisms
e) vulgarisms