Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Donald Trump returns to social media with glorified blog




Read the article and answer the questions:

1) Does Donald Trump use social networking sites like Facebook?
2) Who is he criticizing?
3) What is Donald Trump's website about?



Sunday, 18 April 2021

Seminar 5 in Stylistics

1. Asyndeton

2. Polysyndeton

3. Antithesis

4. Suspense

5. Aposiopesis

6. Represented Speech

7. Litotes

8. Periphrasis






Sunday, 11 April 2021

Seminar 4 in Stylistics

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Anaphora

Epiphora

Chiasmus

Climax

Anticlimax 

Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Antithesis
Suspense
Aposiopesis
Represented Speech
Stylistic inversion
Ellipsis

Sunday, 4 April 2021

Seminar 3 in Stylistics. Stylistic Devices

1. Pun
2. Zeugma
3.Violation of phraseological units
4. Semantically false chains
5. Nonsense of non-sequence
6. Irony
7. Antonomasia
8. Hyperbole
9. Oxymoron

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Seminar 2 in Stylistics. Expressive Means

1. Expressive Means
2. Stylistic Devices
3. Metaphor
4. Metonymy
5. Simile
6. Epithet

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Monday, 29 March 2021

Seminar 1 in Stylistics. Functional Styles


1. Belles-lettres style.

2.Publicistic style.

3. Newspaper style.

4.Scientific prose style.

5.The style of official documents.

 

The lecture

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Monday, 8 March 2021

Princess Diana's controversial interview for BBC

 


Watch the interview and answer the questions in the commentary section:

1. What was the main topic of the interview?
2. Did Diana have any problems in the royal family? If yes, which ones?
3. Was her union with Prince Charles an ideal one? If not, why?

Angelina Jolie receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2013 Governors Awards

  Watch the interview and answer the question: What problem does Angelina raise in her acceptance speech?