L. T. Kilevaya Doctor of Philological Sciences, Docent

№48. Find the euphemisms to the verb «to die»

1. 
   to create, to imagine, to fancy, to evoke
   
2. 
   to have devil life, to have black night, to join the majority
   
3. 
   to yield up the ghost, to go the way of all flesh, to go West, to check
   

4. 
   to be boiled, to close eyes, to delicate, to pay guest
   
5. 
   to glaze, to stare, to peep, to peer
   

№49. Transference based on resemblance is also referred to as

1. 
   metonymy
   
2. 
   litote
   
3. 
   euphеmism
   
4. 
   metaphor
   
5. 
   irony
   

№50. There are 3 types of motivation. They are

1. 
   morphological, lexical, structural
   
2. 
   morphological, phonetic, semantic
   
3. 
   semantic, special, general
   
4. 
   blending, shortening, clipping
   
5. 
   morphemic, lingual, lexical
   

3^rd variant

№1. A proverb is …

1. 
   a saying expressing some well-known truth
   
2. 
   a familiar quotation
   
3. 
   a free word-group
   
4. 
   a verb-adverb combination
   
5. 
   a traditional compound
   

№2. Define the somatic idiom

1. 
   a cold fish
   
2. 
   kill time
   
3. 
   jump out one’s skin
   
4. 
   play with fire
   
5. 
   sick and tired
   

№3. It is a transfer of the meaning on the basis of comparison

1. 
   metonymy
   
2. 
   elevation
   
3. 
   degradation
   
4. 
   litote
   
5. 
   metaphor
   

№4. Give the English equivalent for phrase “важная шишка”.

1. 
   a main person
   
2. 
   a big man
   
3. 
   a good man
   
4. 
   a high bug
   
5. 
   a big shot
   

№5. Metonymy is based on …

1. 
   pejoration of meaning
   
2. 
   harrowing of meaning
   
3. 
   contiguity of meaning
   
4. 
   extension of meaning
   
5. 
   amelioration of meaning
   

№6. The only existing classification system of synonyms was established by…

1. 
   I.V. Arnold
   
2. 
   V.V. Vinogradov
   
3. 
   G.B. Antrushina.
   
4. 
   R.S. Ginzburg.
   
5. 
   A.V. Koonin
   

№7. «Mother-in-law, Jack-of-all trades, forget-me-not» are the examples of… composition.

1. 
   neutral
   
2. 
   morphological
   
3. 
   simple
   
4. 
   idiomatic
   
5. 
   syntactical
   

№8. What are hybrids?

1. 
   idiomatic compounds
   
2. 
   removal of the functional and derivational elements
   
3. 
   words which are made after existing patterns
   
4. 
   words made up of elements derived from two or more different language
   
5. 
   the smallest meaningful units
   

№9. Choose the definition of a phraseological unit

1. 
   words joined together to make up single self-contained lexical units
   
2. 
   any prepositional or postpositional phrases
   
3. 
   the smallest two-facet language unit
   
4. 
   the basic unit of a language
   
5. 
   functionally and semantically inseparable word-groups