Alliteration is a speech unit used for the purposes of human communication, materially representing a group of sounds, possessing a meaning, susceptible to grammatical employment and characterized by formal and semantic unity. The word

... is the repetition of similar consonants in close succession, particularly at the beginning of successive words.-Alliteration
...is a speech unit used for the purposes of human communication, materially representing a group of sounds, possessing a meaning, susceptible to grammatical employment and characterized by formal and semantic unity.-The word
...is part of General Linguistics, it is concerned with the study of vocabulary irrespective of the specific features of any particular language-General Lexicology
...is the Lexicology of a particular language, i.e. the study and description of its vocabulary and units, primarily words as the main units of language-Special Lexicology
[p, t, f, k, s, ᶴ, Ө, ʧ]consonants are…-Voiceless consonants
“ I am dying of shame”. What stylistic device is used in this sentence?-hyperbole

“Bon-mot” is a…-Barbarism
“Younger Edda” and “Older Edda” is a collection of …-sagas
… claimed that in English there are two degrees of comparison: the positive and the relative.- A.I. Smirnitsky
… is a way of expressing grammatical categories which consists in changing a sound inside the root.-sound alternation
… name a new already existing concepts, tools or instruments and have the typical properties of a special code.-Professionalisms
1,500 years ago the closest language to Old English was ….-Frisian
A grammatical category … without constant formal markers.-can’t exist
A paradigm can embrace ….-simple synthetic and analytical forms
A stylistic device is…-a conscious and intentional literary use of some of the facts of the language for further intensification of the emotional or logical emphasis contained in the expressive means.
A word which belongs to the original English stock is…-a native word
According to the ... approach, the vocabulary is studied at the given stage of its development-synchronic
According to the semantic principle phraseological units are classified into …-combinations, unities, fusions
According to the type of communication sentences are classified into ….- declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
Active organs of speech are…-the soft palate with the uvula, the lower jaw, the lungs
All morphemes are subdivided into two large classes: .... and ....-roots and affixes
All prefixes in English are ….-derivational morphemes
All the organs of speech can be divided into…-two groups
All vowels can be divided into two main categories:-monophthongs & diphthongs
Analytical grammatical forms consist of two elements ….-the notional and the functional
Antonyms are words different in …-denotational meaning
Barbarisms are considered to be on the “outskirts” of literary language. What does the word “outskirts” mean?-On the edge
Choose the correct answer
Choose the incorrect statement.-Neutral words are always more emotionally colored than literary ones
Choose the line in which letter “g” is pronounced like [dʒ]- liege, encourage
Choose the line in which letter combination “n + consonant” is pronounced like [ŋk]-ink, uncle
Choose the line in which letter combination “ng” is pronounced like [ŋɡ]-England, language
Choose the line in which plural endings -s/es are pronounced like [s]-roof, wife
Choose the line in which the letter combination “th” is pronounced like [ð]-these, that, mother
Choose the line in which the letter combination “th” is pronounced like [ð]-these, that, mother
Completely non-motivated word-groups are called…-phraseological fusions
d) a Roman feast
Define the type of stressed syllable in the word MARY-I
Define the type of stressed syllable in the word THIRSTY-II
Each component of a phrase … undergo grammatical changes in accordance with grammatical categories represented in it, without destroying the identity of the phrase.- can
Find correct varieties of official documents-diplomatic, legal, business, military
Find the dialectal words with correct meanings.-Daft – silly mind, lass – beloved girl, lad – young man
Find the jargonisms with correct meanings-grease – money, loaf – head
Find the missing word
Find the odd one out: u, x, t, d, f-u
Find the wrong answer
Find the wrong answer
Functional styles are distinguished according…-to the function and the peculiar choice of language means dependent on the aim of communication
Grammatical categories of the English noun are ….-the category of number, the category of gender
Grammatical category is a unity of ….-grammatical meaning and grammatical form
Grammatical meaning is the same ….-with all words having the same grammatical form
Groups of words based on several types of semantic relations are…-conceptual fields, lexical semantic groups
Homonyms having the same pronunciation are called…-homophones
How many consonant letters are there in the English alphabet?-21
How many consonant phonemes are there in English?-24
How many consonant sounds are there in the English alphabet?-24
How many Functional styles are there in the English language?-4
How many layers does English vocabulary consist of?-3
How many subgroups are there in Belles Letters functional style?-3
How many tasks does stylistics deal with?-2
How many vowel phonemes are there in English?-20
How many vowel sounds are there in the English alphabet?-20
Ideographic synonyms are words …-conveying the same notion but different in shades of meaning
In case of conversion when nouns are derived from verbs there may be …-a stress shift
Intonation is one of the most important features of a…-sentence
Intonation -It is a special coloring of the voice
It is … to establish the category of voice by means of the opposition “asks — is asked” in which both the members are marked- possible
Jargonisms have … character-Social
Most of the palate is…- soft
Newspaper functional style consists of following sub-styles: the language style of brief news items and communiques; the language style of notices and advertisements; the language style of newspaper headlines ; and…-the language style of editorials
Noise consonants are the sounds…-in which noise prevails over tone
Old English had … genders.-3
Old English had a lot of borrowings from ….-Danish
Old English noun had … cases.-4
Old English noun had … numbers.-2
On what level is the word studied in its relationships with other words the vocabulary system?-It is studied on the paradigmatic level.
One of the most characteristic features of terms is…-its direct relevance to the system or set of terms used in a particular science, discipline or art
One-member sentences are … sentences.-full-meaning complete
Paradigmatic relations are established ….-between different forms of the same word and between structurally homogeneous language units possessing some common part