Балжан Темиргалиева

I forgot about these themes :] but You can try to do these exercises: I. Match the euphemism with the plain English equivalent EUPHEMISM PLAIN ENGLISH 1 Urban Art A Rubbish dump 2 Emporium B Stupid 3 Intoxicated C Window cleaner 4 Disposal Centre D Drug addict 5 Canine control officer E Graffiti 6 Socially disadvantaged youth F Fat 7 Glass maintenance engineer G Shop 8 Medicinally dependant H Dog catcher 9 Big-boned I Thug 10 Intellectually challenged J Drunk II. Label each item as hyperbole or understatement in the space provided. Example: ___Hyperboly I’ve told you a million times not to call me during my favorite show. 1. __________Sally was a tad annoyed when her brother sneaked a peak at her secret diary. 2. __________ “The weather is brisk,” Nathan admitted, as the thermometer read…

This week we talked about Syntactical SDs and EMs, namely, climax, anticlimax, antithesis, attachment, asyndeton, polysyndeton, break-in-the-narrative, chiasmus, detachment, ellipsis, enumeration, litotes, parallel constructions, question-in-the-narrative, represented speech, rhetorical question, suspense, inversion, repetition. so, there are some functions of them: Function of Climax A climax, when used as a plot device, helps readers understand the significance of the rising action earlier to the point in the plot where the conflict reaches its peak. The Climax of the story makes readers mentally prepared for the resolution of the conflict. Hence, climax is important to the plot structure of a story. Moreover, climax is used as a stylistic device or a figure of speech to render balance…

Definition Example I.R. Galperin V.A. Kukharenko Yu.M. Skrebnev PUN a play on words –the use of one word in two different applications, or the use of two different words, which are pronounced alike. Lexical SDs and EMs Lexical SDs Syntagmatic semasiology unit An elephant’s opinion carries a lot of weight. ZEUGMA the use of one word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations: on one hand literal, and on the other, transferred. Lexical SDs and EMs Lexical SDs Syntagmatic semasiology unit You held your breath and the door for me. IRONY a direct contrast of two notions: the notion named and the notion meant. Lexical SDs and EMs Lexical SDs Paradigmatic semasiology units The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”. MALAPROPISM a grotesque misuse of words, a substitution of one w…

Exercise:Say if the sentences or phrases below are metaphors, similes, personifications or metonyms. "Education is our passport to the future, and tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." —Malcolm X, civil rights activist and writer "The computer had become like the most miraculous sort of technological Swiss Army knife: each time you thought you knew what it could do, it turned out that it could do more, faster, and more accurately." —Anna Quindlen, author "Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." —Douglas Jerrold, playwright and humorist (1803-1857) "Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand." —Mark Abley, journalist (1…

Good evening!!! I decided to kill two birds with one stone >:D I want to analyze the common features and differences between similes and metaphors. Common features: So these two figures of speech in question – metaphor and simile – give colour, life and other intriguing effects to the language. Metaphor and simile are, in essence, comparison words. They compare two different things. Differences: Similes are the simplest figure of speech. They deploy words such as "like" and "as" to highlight similarities in two different things that are being compared. The Metaphor also is used to highlight a similarity between two different things. However, metaphors do not make use of the comparing words "like" or "as". In fact, the metaphor is more forceful than the simile and equates one thing to t…

Glad to see you here, my dear friends! First of all I want to apologize for being late. It is because "my computer is dead" :) and I didn`t have an Internet access. Cause of my illness I couldn`t use another one. And I hope that it won`t happened again. So..... It`s ma first experience in such way of blogging. To be honest, at first time I didn`t think that it would be interesting for me, but after reading all your blogs and comments on them, I found it really Funny and useful! I agree with your opinions that blogging will help us in future studying of English language in common. And I hope that at the end of the course my speech will be "rich" :) According to stylistics, I share my mind with I.Galperin that it is a branch of general linguistics and it help us to make our speech more colo…