Контрольная «Стилистика»,
Английский язык в Санкт-Петербурге

Practice: I. Distinguish neutral, literary and colloquial words among the following groups of words: A B C 1. currency 2. to talk 3. to chow down 4. to start 5. insane 6. spouse 7. to leave 8. geezer 9. veracious 10. mushy money to converse to eat to commence nuts hubby to withdraw senior citizen opens emotional dough to chat to dine to kick off mentally ill husband to shoot off old man sincere sentimental II. What kind of adherent stylistic meaning appears in the otherwise neutral word FEELING? 1. I’ve got no feeling paying interest, provided that’s reasonable. (Shute) 2. I’ve got no feeling against small town life. I’d rather like it. (Shute) III. To what stratum of vocabulary do the words in bold type in the following sentences belong stylistically? Provide neutral or colloquial variants for them: 1. I expect you’ve seen my hand often enough coming out with the grub. (Wagh) 2. She betrayed some embarrassment when she handed Paul the tickets, and a hauteur which subsequently made her feel very foolish. (Cather) 3. I must be off to my digs. (Waugh) 4. When the old boy popped off he left Philbrick everything, except a few books to Gracie. (Waugh) 5. He looked her over and decided that she was not appropriately dressed and must be a fool to sit downstairs in such togs. (Cather) 6. It was broken at length by the arrival of Flossie, splendidly attired in magenta and green. (Waugh) IV. How does the choice of words in each case contribute to the stylistic character of the following passages? How would you define their functional colouring in terms of technical, poetic, bookish, commercial, dialectal, religious, elevated, colloquial, legal or other style? Make up lists of words that create this tenor in the texts given below. .................................................................