Stylistics Quiz 1

date:____________ group:____________
name:_______________________
1. How do you think, why are Special Literary and Special Colloquial layers of vocabulary called
special? Why are the common ones called like that?

2. How often do we use special vocabularies? Which ones, do you think, we use the most often?

3. Explain, which groups of Special Literary vocabulary are:

the most rarely used

the most frequently used
the most innovative
most difficult for your personal understanding

4. What is a coinage?
5. What types (3) of archaic words do you know of? Give examples.
6. What is the function of barbarisms?
7. What is the difference between slang and jargon?

8. What is the difference between terms and professionalisms (professional jargon)? Who uses
which?

9. Do dialectal words have synonyms? Why?

10. Which group of vocabulary DOESNT generally have synonyms and are quite monosemantic?
11. Give examples of slang in your native language.
12. What is the function of vulgar words?
13. Where can we find colloquial coinages?
14. Where can we find literary coinages?
15. Ask me 2-3 questions you always wanted to ask me about vocabulary layers and groups. Be
creative, yet logical.