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What are Leech’s two language scales for analyzing literary style?

According to Galperin’s classification, what are lexical stylistic devices based on?

CLASSIFICATION OF STYLISTIC DEVICES.

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1
According to Galperin’s classification, what are lexical stylistic devices based on?
Phonetics
Graphical elements
Sentence length
Lexical meaning oppositions
2
What are Leech’s two language scales for analyzing literary style?
Syntax and semantics
Structural and poetic scales
Pragmatic and phonetic scales
Dialect and register scales
3
What is Leech’s term for an unexpected and unpredictable deviation in language?
Syntagmatic choice
Unique deviation
Grammatical shift
Linguistic blend
4
When the contextual meaning is fully blended with the original meaning, what happens?
Word gains emotive value
Word becomes obsolete
Stylistic device disappears
New metaphor is created
5
What does nominal meaning refer to?
Dictionary definitions
Words that describe actions
Only naming without signifying
Describing emotions
6
What stylistic device involves comparing two unrelated things by shared features?
Irony
Metonymy
Simile
Metaphor
7
Which type of lexical meaning expresses one’s attitude?
Dictionary meaning
Nominative meaning
Logical meaning
Emotive meaning
8
What are examples of words with only emotive meaning?
Walk, run, jump
Apple, table, chair
Alas, by god, fine
Red, green, blue
9
What is the most essential feature of a word?
Its ability to express concepts through form and meaning
Its length
Its grammatical category
Its pronunciation
10
What is polysemy?
The emotive use of language
A word that has only one meaning
A word having more than one meaning
The ability of a word to rhyme