The Amazing Qur'an

 

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Questions for Seminar 4 in Stylistics

 1. Climax

2. Anticlimax

3. Antithesis

4. Litotes

6. Simile

7. Periphrasis

8. Represented Speech

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Questions for Seminar 3 in Stylistics

 1. Anaphora and epiphora

2. Chiasmus

3. Climax and anticlimax

4. Stylistic inversion

5. Ellipsis

6. Asyndeton and polysyndeton

7. Antithesis

8. Suspense

9. Aposiopesis

10.Represented speech

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If Netflix is stumbling will Wall Street renew or cancel?

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Read the article and answer the questions:

1) Speak of Netflix at the beginning of its launch. Was it a success?

2) How many new users  have subscribed to Netflix this year as compared to the previous year and what was the result of it?

3) What other streaming services are mentioned in the article?

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Questions for Seminar 2 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

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Questions for Seminar 1 in Stylistics

1. The definition of the term 'style'

2. Different areas of stylistics

3. Stylistics and other linguistic disciplines

4. The belles-lettres style

5. The newspaper style

6. The style of scientific prose

7. The style of official documents

8. The publicistic style

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Past Continuous

 The past continuous is made from the past tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb:

I was working

You were playing

We use the past continuous to talk about the past:

• for something which happened before and after another action:

The children were doing their homework when I got home.

Compare: The children did their homework when (= after) I got home.

This use of the past continuous is very common at the beginning of a story:

The other day I was waiting for a bus when …
Last week, as I was driving to work, … 

• for something that happened before and after a specific time:

It was eight o'clock. I was writing a letter.

Compare: At eight o'clock I wrote (= started writing) some letters.

• to show that something continued for some time:

My head was aching.
Everyone was shouting.

• for something that happened again and again:

I was practising every day, three times a day.
They were meeting secretly after school.
They were always quarrelling.

• with verbs which show change or growth:

The children were growing up quickly.
Her English was improving.
My hair was going grey.
The town was changing quickly.

We do not normally use the past continuous with stative verbs. We use the past simple instead:

When I got home, I really needed (NOT was needing) a shower.

Make up 5 sentences with the verb in Past Continuous and post them below.