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George HW Bush and the Middle East: How his legacy lives on

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Jon Lansman tells Owen Jones: We have failed to deal sufficiently deeply with antisemitism

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Examination topics for 3rd year students

1. Different means of travelling
2. Theatre
3. British Isles
4. Sport
5. Russia
6. The book I've recently read
7. My favourite movie star
8. My favourite film
9. Internet in our life
10. The city of my dreams
11. Happy topic

Questions for Seminar 4 in Stylistics

1. Asyndeton
2. Polysyndeton
3. Antithesis
4. Suspense
5. Aposiopesis
6. Represented Speech
7. Litotes
8. Periphrasis

Lecture 4 (continuation)

Seminar 4

Questions for Seminar 3 in Stylistics

1. Expressive Means
2. Stylistic Devices
3. Metaphor
4. Metonymy
5. Simile
6. Epithet
7. Pun
8. Zeugma
9.Violation of phraseological units
10. Semantically false chains
11. Nonsense of non-sequence
12. Irony
13. Antonomasia
14. Hyperbole
15. Oxymoron
16. Anaphora and epiphora
17. Chiasmus
18. Climax and anticlimax
19. Stylistic inversion
20. Ellipsis

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 4 (continuation)

Questions for Seminar 1 in Stylistics

1. The definition of Style and Stylistics
2. The issues that Stylistics deals with (8)
3. Stylistics and other linguistic disciplines.

The link to Lecture 1

Oprah Winfrey Receives Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s first TV interview in full

Topics for the 3rd year students

1. Choosing a career
2. Illnesses and their treatment
3. London
4. Moscow
5. My meals
6. Education in England
7. Education in Russia
8. The film I have recently watched
9. The book I have recently read
10. Happy topic
11. Sport in our life
12. My favourite TV-series
13. My favourite celebrity
14. The city of my dreams