Russian language · Grade 6
Lexicology and speech culture
6 materials · Lessons are in Russian
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Theory note
Native and borrowed words, professional terms and dialect words
Vocabulary by origin and by use: native, borrowed, professional and dialect words.
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Theory note
Obsolete words: archaisms and historicisms
How archaisms differ from historicisms; old words for parts of the body; proverbs with obsolete words.
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Table
Old Russian measures of length and weight
Arshin, versta, vershok, sazhen and other historicisms in modern units.
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Theory note
Set phrases (idioms)
What makes a set phrase, where idioms come from, with examples from the notebook.
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Theory note
Tropes
Words used figuratively: epithet, metaphor and its kinds, synecdoche, irony, antonomasia, oxymoron.
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Figures of speech and sound devices
Alliteration, assonance, anaphora, antithesis, parcellation and other expressive devices.