Irony Epithet Oxymoron Task Define below given phrases abbreviations and words related to the theme

SEMINAR 6: THE NATURE, TYPES AND FUNCTIONS OF LEXICAL STYLISTIC DEVICES: IRONY, EPITHET and OXYMORON
Task 1. Point out 3 types of Lexical stylistic devices and provide examples:



Lexical stylistic devices

Irony

Epithet



Oxymoron


Task 2. Define below given phrases abbreviations and words related to the theme.

1. 
   Contextual meaning
   
2. 
   SD
   
3. 
   Genuine irony
   
4. 
   Logical attribute
   
5. 
   Inanimate thing
   
6. 
   Of phrase epithet
   
7. 
   Contradictory meaning
   
8. 
   Genuine oxymoron
   

Task 3. True or False

1. 
   Irony is a stylistic device also based on simultaneous realization of two meanings: dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings are similar.
   

True False

2. 
   Irony generally is used to convey a negative meaning.
   

True False

3. 
   Epithet is a stylistic device based on interaction of grammatical and logical meanings in an attributive word, phrase or sentence.
   

True False

4. 
   Epithets has no impact on the reader, so much that the reader begins to see and evaluate things as the writer wants him to.
   

True False

5. 
   Irony is such a combination of words in which the meaning of the word describing the thing and the word denoting the thing are contradictory in sense.
   

True False
Task 4. Answer to the questions.

1. 
   What is irony, what lexical meaning is employed in its formation?
   
2. 
   What types of irony do you know? What is the length of the context needed for the realization of each of them?
   
3. 
   What are the most frequently observed mechanisms of irony formation? Can you explain the role of the repetition in creating irony?
   
4. 
   What lexical meaning is instrumental in the formation of epithets?
   
5. 
   What semantic types of epithets do you know?
   
6. 
   What structural types of epithets do you know?
   
7. 
   What parts of speech are predominantly used as epithets and why?
   
8. 
   What is an oxymoron and what meanings are foregrounded in its formation?
   
9. 
   Why are there comparatively few trite oxymorons and where are they mainly used?
   

Task 5.

1. 
   Make FISHBONE using information related to genuine irony and genuine oxymoron, and trite irony and trite oxymoron.
   

Task 6. Make crossword using the materials from the seminar (10 questions)