<question>The device used in the sentence “Luscious, languid and lustful, isn’t she?” is:
<variant>alliteration
<variant>assonance
<variant>cacophony
<variant>italics
<variant>dissonance
<question>Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into the beach. The device used in the
sentence is:
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>graphon
<variant>alliteration
<variant>capitalization
<variant>hyphenation
<question>The device used in the sentence “He swallowed the hint with a gulp and a gasp and a grin.” is:
<variant>alliteration and polysyndeton
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>simile
<variant>asyndeton
<question>A two-component structure in which two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation is:
<variant>litotes
<variant>antonomasia
<variant>simile
<variant>aposiopesis
<variant>rhetoric questions
<question>The device used in the sentence “His voice was a dagger of corroded brass.” is:
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>simile
<question>The lexical stylistic device based on contiguity of objects or phenomena is called:
<variant>metonymy
<variant>metaphor
<variant>synecdoche
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>parodox
<question>The device used in the sentence “She saw around her, clustered about the white tables, multitudes of
violently red lips, powdered cheeks, cold, hard eyes, self-possessed arrogant faces, and insolent bosoms.” is:
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>simile
<variant>metaphor
<variant>antonomasia
<question>Represented inner speech is used:
<variant>to express feelings and thoughts of the character, which remain unuttered.
<variant>to present immediate mental and emotional reactions of the personage;
<variant>to show the character’s understanding of a situation;
<variant>to express the minds of the personages in the form of uttered speech;
<variant>to portray the disjointed, purely associative manner of thinking
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<question>“He acknowledged an early-afternoon customer with a-be-with-you-in-a-minute nod.” The device is:
<variant>phrase-epithet
<variant>reversed epithet
<variant>adjective
<variant>gradation
<variant>anticlimax
<question>The stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposed to its
dictionary meaning is:
<variant>irony
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>simile
<question>“We sat down at the table with two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us as Mr.
Mumble.” The word in bold is:
<variant>the case of speaking name
<variant>the case of paronomasia
<variant>the case of zeugma
<variant>the case of pun
<variant>the case of oxymoron
<question>“Someone at the door,” he said blinking.
“Some four, I should say by the sound,” said Fili. The device used in the sentence is:
<variant>pun
<variant>semantically false chain
<variant>nonsense of non-sequence
<variant>metonymy
<variant>zeugma
<question>Antithesis is:
<variant>a relative opposition which arises out of the context through the expansion of objectively contrasting
pairs
<variant>an arrangement of sentences which secures a gradual increase in significance, importance, or emotional
tension
<variant>a deliberate postponement of the completion of the sentence
<variant>a peculiar interrogative construction which semantically remains a statement
<variant>deliberate exaggeration
<question>“Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.” The device used in this sentence is:
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>understatement
<variant>litotes
<variant>transferred epithet
<variant>enumeration
<question>The repetition of conjunctions is used in:
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>asyndeton
<variant>attachment
<variant>apokoinu construction
<variant>detachment
<question>Obviously – this is a streptococcal infection -obviously. The repetition used in the fragment is:
<variant>framing
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<variant>anaphoric
<variant>epiphoric
<variant>successive
<variant>ordinary
<question>Chiasmus is:
<variant>reversed parallelism
<variant>parallelism
<variant>the repetition at the beginning
<variant>the repetition at the end
<variant>framing repetition
<question>“Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside.” The
device used in the sentence is:
<variant>climax
<variant>anticlimax
<variant>antithesis
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>comparison
<question>“Well, they’ll get a chance now to show –“ “I don’t mean – but let’s get ….“. The device used in the
sentence is:
<variant>aposiopesis
<variant>apokoinu construction
<variant>asyndeton
<variant>anticlimax
<variant>detachment
<question>"Now, see here! " she exclaimed. "I told you! It's silly! You mustn't kiss me! How dare you! Oh! Oh!
Oh! ----" Aposiopesis shows that the heroine
<variant>can’t speak because emotions prevent her from finishing the sentence
<variant>does not want to talk any more
<variant>wants to cut short the information
<variant>is uncertain what to promise
<variant>is certain what to promise
<question>"She ventured to take a distant, matronly air - the air she has originally held toward him." The
repetition employed by the author is:
<variant>catch
<variant>framing
<variant>anaphoric
<variant>epiphoric
<variant>chain
<question>"She was Lilian Matfield, Lilian Matfield, the same that had gone playing and laughing and singing
and looking forward to everything only a few years ago." The repetition employed by the author of the words in
bold is:
<variant>morphemic
<variant>anaphoric
<variant>ordinary
<variant>framing
<variant>chain
<question>"She thought that he would never stop; but his words made as little impression on her as the drip, drip
of rain from the eaves." The italicized words are the example of:
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>euphony
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<variant>assonance
<variant>alliteration
<variant>dissonance
<question>"They oughtn't to have brought that pressure to bare on me. They oughtn't to have threatened me, they
ought to have let me do the best I could. Speak to me. Say something, Dorinda- ---"The convergence of stylistic
devices is represented by:
<variant>parallel constructions with the anaphoric repetition, imperative sentences, aposiopesis
<variant>modal verbs, imperative sentences
<variant>break-in-the-narrative, one-member sentences
<variant>aposiopesis, the superaverage usage of modality
<variant>break-in-the-narrative, perfect infinitive
<question>"Suddenly, while she stood there in silence, the gun went off in her hands. She saw the flash; she heard
the sound; she smelt the powder. The next instant she felt the tremor of the shock."Suspense and tension is
conveyed through the convergence of the following stylistic devices:
<variant>parallel constructions, anaphora, the verbs of sense perception
<variant>epiphora, enumeration, anaphoric repetition
<variant>anaphora, polysyndeton, metaphor
<variant>chain repetition, polysyndeton, metonymy
<variant>parallel constructions, inversion, antonomasia
<question>"But weak, vain, wholly contemptible as she knew him to be, she had given him power over her." The
protagonist's downright negative attitude to the person described is shown through:
<variant>the chain of epithets with the negative connotation, ascending gradation and inversion
<variant>the chain of epithets with the negative connotation and parallelism
<variant>the chain of epithets with the negative connotation, ascending gradation
<variant>the chain of epithets with the negative connotation, ascending gradation and climax
<variant>the chain of epithets with the negative connotation, ascending gradation and suspense
<question>She kept stumbling ahead like a hunted animal, mindlessly putting one foot in front of the other,
terrified by the awful sounds that rent the night and the flashes of lightning that turned the sky into an inferno.
The simile employed by the author is:
<variant>metaphoric
<variant>trite
<variant>Homeric (epic)
<variant>disguised
<variant>metonymic
<question>You are a beautiful shell, like something washed up on the sea-shore, a collector’s item, perfectly
formed, a pearly shell - but empty, devoid of the life it once held. The device used in this sentence is:
<variant>sustained metaphor
<variant>understatement
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>transferred epithet
<variant>enumeration
<question>And for an hour or so Turgis slept, while Saturday went rattling and roaring on, gathering momentum,
through the dark little abysses of brick and smoke outside, the streets of London. The device used in this sentence
is:
<variant>personification
<variant>disguised (latent) simile
<variant>trite metaphor
<variant>transferred epithet
<variant>enumeration
<question>The peculiar interrogative construction, which semantically remains a statement, is called:
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<variant>rhetoric question
<variant>the question in the affirmative
<variant>litotes
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>antithesis
<question>‘And, motionless, old Jolyon stared at the wall; but for his open eyes, he might have been asleep…’
Define the stylistic device used by the author:
<variant>detachment
<variant>litotes
<variant>simile
<variant>aposiopesis
<variant>litotes
<question>There were things about Golspie that did not please Mr. Dersingham, for he was dogmatic, rough,
domineering …The chain of epithets the author resorts to displays:
<variant>the personage’s authoritative character
<variant>the personage’s reconciling character
<variant>the personage’s benevolent character
<variant>the personage’s mischievous character
<variant>the personage’s obliging character
<question>“All right”, said Mr. Golspie with his usual genial brutality. Define the stylistic device used by the
author:
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>pun
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>understatement
<question>A man, waiting at the corner, with the hope inspired by the letter, the letter that came that morning.’
The repetition used is:
<variant>catch
<variant>framing
<variant>chain
<variant>chiasmus
<variant>ordinary
<question>“Thanks”, and there came the ghost of a smile. The underlined word-combination is:
<variant>reversed epithet
<variant>zeugma
<variant>pun
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>substantivized adjective
<question>The fire winked cheerfully over the grate. Define the stylistic device used in the sentence:
<variant>personification
<variant>allusion
<variant>metonymy
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>synecdoche
<question>It was like a nightmare, the dark glimmering room, with its dust and cobwebs, the sinister old man
before the blue flames of the pine knots, the slanting rain over the box-bush, the pottering sound on the roof, and
the thunder bolts which crashed near by and died away in the distance. The convergence of stylistic devices used
by the author predicts:
<variant>the crucial and tragic moment in the character’s life
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<variant>something bright and happy to happen
<variant>the forthcoming wedding party
<variant>cloudless future
<variant>natural disaster
<question>Something stronger than her conscious will, stronger than her agony, stronger than her hate, held her
motionless. Parallel constructions employed by the author show:
<variant>ascending gradation of the character’s feelings
<variant>descending gradation of the protagonist’s feelings
<variant>suspended feelings of the protagonist
<variant>anticlimax
<variant>enumeration of the protagonist’s feelings
<question>He had wronged her; he had betrayed her; he had tramped her pride in the dust. Parallel constructions
employed by the author show the character’s:
<variant>indignation
<variant>jealousy
<variant>irony
<variant>sarcasm
<variant>mockery
<question>The vein of iron in her nature would never bend, would never break, would never disintegrate in the
furnace of emotion. Metaphor is sustained due to:
<variant>parallel constructions
<variant>catch repetition
<variant>repetition of the intensifier “never”
<variant>framing repetition
<variant>polysyndeton
<question>Deep down in her, beneath the rough texture of experience, her essential self was still superior to her
folly and ignorance. The stylistic device used in the sentence is:
<variant>inversion
<variant>climax
<variant>gradation
<variant>anticlimax
<variant>parallel constructions
<question>And in my greeting I put my arms around her and she, true to form, tickled my ear and giggled. My
Ellen. My daughter. Father’s tender feelings to his daughter are stressed by:
<variant>one-member sentences
<variant>elliptical sentences
<variant>two-member sentences
<variant>apoikonu constructions
<variant>chiasmus
<question>“…And you know what business we’ve been doing lately? Awful! A ghastly show!”
The exclamatory sentences used in the personage’s speech show his:
<variant>vexation
<variant>joy
<variant>satisfaction
<variant>jealousy
<variant>shallow nature
<question>There was about his whole manner a Napoleonic abruptness and self-confidence.
The device used is:
<variant>antonomasia
<variant>proper name
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<variant>common name
<variant>antonym
<variant>antithesis
<question>Define the device used by the author:
She adored fish and gossip.
<variant>zeugma
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>pun
<variant>antithesis
<variant>climax
<question>Mr. Smeeth was a connoisseur of both tobacco and human nature. Define the device used:
<variant>zeugma
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>pun
<variant>antithesis
<variant>climax
<question>a pepper-and-salt beard. The epithet used is:
<variant>phrase
<variant>simple
<variant>compound
<variant>reversed
<variant>two-step
<question>You could hear a final clatter of type-writers, a banging of doors, the hooting of horning cars, the
sound of footsteps hurrying up the street. The onomatopoeic words used in the sentence create:
<variant>the atmosphere of commotion and bustle
<variant>a calm atmosphere
<variant>bleak atmosphere
<variant>oppressive atmosphere
<variant>peaceful atmosphere
<question>Mr. Smeeth regarded her thoughtfully, and…then he turned to regard Turgis. One of them had to go.
Should he put it to them now? Well, well, this wanted a bit more thinking about.
The form of narration is:
<variant>inner represented
<variant>monologue
<variant>dialogue
<variant>stream of consciousness
<variant>entrusted
<question>“And the only way to do that – I think you fellows will agree, especially you, Smeeth – is to reduce
expenses. The- er- what’s-its-name-er-overhead charges are too big”.
Break-in-the-narrative is employed by the author to show:
<variant>the personage’s irresoluteness
<variant>the personage’s clear-cut position
<variant>the personage’s determination
<variant>the personage’s confidence
<variant>the personage’s self-assurance
<question>To portray the disjointed, purely associative manner of thinking, which makes interior speech almost
or completely incomprehensible the author employs:
<variant>stream-of-consciousness technique
<variant>interior monologue
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<variant>dialogue
<variant>represented inner speech
<variant>represented uttered speech
<question>The personage's speech, which is materialized through the first-person pronouns and the language
idiosyncrasies of the character, is:
<variant>interior monologue
<variant>dialogue
<variant>stream-of-consciousness technique
<variant>represented inner speech
<variant>represented uttered speech
<question>He refused a taxi. Exercise, he thought, and no drinking at least a month. That's what does it. The
drinking. Beer, martinis, have another. And the way your head felt in the morning.
The form of narration is:
<variant>inner represented
<variant>monologue
<variant>dialogue
<variant>stream of consciousness
<variant>entrusted
<question>They had taken arms against a common peril. The device is:
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>zeugma
<variant>simile
<variant>epithet
<question>Like cattle when a dog comes into the field, they stood head to head… The device is…
<variant>simile
<variant>epithet
<variant>metaphor
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>comparison
<question>They were sensitive lips, sensuous and sweet. The device is a convergence of:
<variant>alliteration, epithets in post position
<variant>alliteration, synonyms
<variant>metaphor
<variant>simile
<variant>metonymy
<question>He's bigger than ever; he's enormous. The device is a convergence of:
<variant>gradation, parallel construction
<variant>metaphor, epithets
<variant>zeugma, oxymoron
<variant>anaphoric, epiphoric repetition
<variant>simile, interior speech
<question>Old Jolyon…looked at her, that little slip of a thing who had got such a grip of his heart. The device in
bold is:
<variant>reversed epithet
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
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<question>…a formula to which June was not unaccustomed. The device is:
<variant>litotes
<variant>metonymy
<variant>repetition
<variant>chain repetition
<variant>metaphor
<question>The perfect luxury of his latter days had embedded him like a fly in sugar. The device is:
<variant>simile
<variant>comparison
<variant>metonymy
<variant>zeugma
<variant>oxymoron
<question>Through florescence and feud, frosts and fires… It is a convergence of the following devices:
<variant>alliteration, antithesis
<variant>antithesis, simile
<variant>alliteration, metaphor
<variant>zeugma, oxymoron
<variant>repetition, interior speech
<question>The kindly thought was not unmixed with the inevitable longing to get something out of everything
you do. The underlined device is…
<variant>litotes
<variant>negation
<variant>metonymy
<variant>epithet
<variant>metaphor
<question>He had introduced a good deal of change and china into the drawing-room.
The device is:
<variant>zeugma
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>repetition
<variant>epithet
<variant>object
<question>He sat for half an hour in the dawn and the arm-chair where he had slept. The device is…
<variant>zeugma
<variant>repetition
<variant>simile
<variant>metonymy
<variant>chiasmus
<question>The engaging rascal is the device of…
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>litotes
<variant>metaphor
<variant>repetition
<variant>antonym
<question>There’s my young rascal of a son! The device is:
<variant>reversed epithet
<variant>metonymy
<variant>catch repetition
<variant>ordinary repetition
<variant>zeugma
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<question>And the face of Annette rose before him: her brown hair and her blue eyes with their dark lashes, her
fresh lips and cheeks, dewy and blooming, her perfect French figure. The girl is described with…
<variant>love
<variant>hatred
<variant>indifference
<variant>dullness
<variant>dislike
<question>Restitution of conjugal right, legal separation, bring a suit for divorce are …terms.
<variant>law
<variant>business
<variant>biological
<variant>poetic
<variant>technical
<question>He admired her – so beautifully straight and rounded and supple. The device is…
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>asyndeton
<variant>metaphor
<variant>zeugma
<variant>oxymoron
<question>A stormy petrel of a chap! The device is…
<variant>reversed epithet
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>alliteration
<variant>repetition
<question>He took Winifred’s pearls and a dancer. The device is…
<variant>zeugma
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>simile
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<question>He had removed his grief and his paintbox abroad. The device is…
<variant>zeugma
<variant>a semantically false chain
<variant>repetition
<variant>metaphor
<variant>simile
<question>Net sum, income tax, life interest in fifteen thousand pounds, consols are words referring to…
<variant>business
<variant>literature
<variant>botany
<variant>zoology
<variant>every day life
<question>As oil spills go, the one that struck the Galapagos Islands was small change. The tanker Jessica plowed
into a coral reef a half mile off the coast of San Cristobal Island and belched 185.000 gallons of diesel fuel into
the Pacific Ocean. As the oil spread toward land, the world braced for a heartbreaking environmental catastrophe.
The text deals with…
<variant>pollution of environment
<variant>oil excavation
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<variant>navigation
<variant>exotic countries
<variant>geography
<question>Rivas said he killed the officer, Aubrey Hawkins, when Hawkins drove up to the store. He and his
accomplices will unquestionably face the death penalty when they are extradited back to Texas. Only six are left:
when police surrounded their hideout in Colorado last week, 37-year old Larry Harper shot himself to death. The
text deals with …
<variant>crime
<variant>sports
<variant>police
<variant>shooting competition
<variant>hunting in Colorado
<question>They were vain, pig-headed and odd. The device is:
<variant>a string of epithets
<variant>metaphor
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>adjectives
<question>He was a tall thin ungainly man with untidy black hair and a small sallow dark face. The man
described is…
<variant>unpleasant
<variant>clever
<variant>young
<variant>grand
<variant>pleasant
<question>Their tables groaned with food. The device is…
<variant>personification
<variant>alliteration
<variant>repetition
<variant>simile
<variant>chiasmus
<question>There are coarse and wicked and vicious people in the world. It is a convergence of the following
devices:
<variant>polysyndeton, gradation, a string of epithets
<variant>asyndeton, gradation
<variant>repetition, zeugma
<variant>oxymoron, gradation
<variant>parallel construction, metonymy
<question>Name the stylistic device: She threw out the statement with the same take-it-or-leave-it casualness.
<variant>phrase-epithet
<variant>chain of epithets
<variant>metonymy
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>graphon
<question>Name the stylistic device: Mrs. Trafford exercised a gentle violence on him.
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>antithesis
<variant>metaphor
<variant>epithet
<variant>pun
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<question>Stylistic differentiation of the English vocabulary is represented by the following groups:
<variant>neutral; literary; colloquial
<variant>literary; neutral; slang
<variant>terms; neutral; colloquial
<variant>dialectal words; archaisms; poeticisms
<variant>historical words, professionalisms, argot
<question>The main subgroups of colloquial layer are:
<variant>slang, jargonisms, vulgarisms, professionalisms, dialectal;
<variant>terms, barbarisms, archaic, foreign, poeticisms;
<variant>neutral, slang, barbarisms;
<variant>slang, professionalisms, dialectal, learned;
<variant>common colloquial words, cant, argot, back slang.
<question>State the type of the colloquial words in the following example:
"... some thief in the night boosted my clothes whilst I slept."
"Somebody boosted...?"
"Pinched. Jobbed. Swiped. Stole." he said happily.
<variant>jargon
<variant>teenagers' slang
<variant>dialectal words
<variant>vulgarisms
<variant>colloquial coinages
<question>A combination of speech sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature is:
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>alliteration
<variant>rhyme
<variant>rhythm
<variant>graphon
<question>What type of stylistic device does it belong to? “Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo”
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>intonation
<variant>epithet
<variant>rhythm
<variant>graphon
<question>Name the types of Onomatopoeia
<variant>direct and indirect
<variant>triple, cross, framing
<variant>general and special
<variant>full and incomplete
<variant>vowel and consonant
<question>What SD is based on repetition of the same sounds or sound-combinations at relatively short intervals?
<variant>alliteration
<variant>rhyme
<variant>rhythm
<variant>graphical means
<variant>onomatopoeia
<question>Name the stylistic devices used in the following sentence: Chaplains have chanted thy charming
choiceness; chieftains have changed the chariot and the chase for the chaster chivalry of the chessboard, and the
cheerier charge of the chess-knights.
<variant>alliteration
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<variant>rhyme
<variant>rhythm
<variant>graphical means
<variant>repetition
<question>Find the example of alliteration
<variant>pride and prejudice
<variant>night – knight
<variant>cuckoo
<variant>buzz – crash
<variant>roar
<question>What SD is the repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combinations of words?
<variant>rhyme
<variant>italics
<variant>rhythm
<variant>multiplication
<variant>onomatopoeia
<question>What kinds of rhyme are distinguished?
<variant>full and incomplete
<variant>incomplete and dissevering
<variant>full and consolidating
<variant>consolidating and dissevering
<variant>full and dissevering
<question>Graphon is:
<variant>the intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word / word combination used to reflect its authentic
pronunciation;
<variant>convey emotions of the speaker
<variant>the repetition of consonants, usually in the beginning of words;
<variant>the repetition of vowels, usually in stressed syllables;
<variant>the unity of generalization, communication and thinking.
<question>Which of the SD serves to convey in the written form those emotions which in the oral speech are
expressed by intonation and stress, in written form they are shown mostly with the help of punctuation and
deliberate change of a spelling of a word?
<variant>graphical means
<variant>alliteration
<variant>rhythm
<variant>rhyme
<variant>onomatopoeia
<question>Which is not included into Graphical means?
<variant>simile
<variant>alliteration
<variant>italics
<variant>multiplication
<variant>capitalization
<question>Find the case of Capitalization
<variant>HELP, HELP
<variant>all-ab –b board
<variant>you spread like a chimpanzeee
<variant>Thank Gawd!
<variant>Shadderin’! I’d shadder yer if I caught yer at it, my words I would.
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<question>The lexical stylistic device based on contiguity of objects or phenomena is called:
<variant>metonymy
<variant>synecdoche
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>paradox
<variant>metaphor
<question>Name the type of metonymy:
<variant>synecdoche
<variant>capitalization
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>paradox
<variant>metaphor
<question>Synecdoche is based on the relations between:
<variant>the part and the whole
<variant>full and partial
<variant>full and incomplete
<variant>the object and the subject
<variant>the notion and the concept
<question>The stylistic device based on the principle of identification of two objects is called …..
<variant>metaphor
<variant>synecdoche
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>paradox
<variant>metonymy
<question>Name the metaphor which is absolutely unpredictable and unexpected.
<variant>genuine (fresh)
<variant>trite (hackneyed)
<variant>prolonged
<variant>simple
<variant>complex
<question>Name the metaphor which is commonly used in speech and therefore is sometimes even fixed in
dictionaries as expressive means of language.
<variant>trite (hackneyed)
<variant>genuine (fresh)
<variant>prolonged
<variant>simple
<variant>complex
<question>How metaphors can be divided by their structure?
<variant>simple and sustained (prolonged)
<variant>simple and trite
<variant>simple and fresh
<variant>sustained and trite
<variant>sustained and fresh
<question>… is the form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or contradicted by the words used.
<variant>irony
<variant>zeugma
<variant>litotes
<variant>pun
<variant>epithet
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<question>The stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposed to its
dictionary meaning is:
<variant>irony
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>simile
<question>What stylistic device has very much in common with humour, but not confined to produce a humorous
effect?
<variant>irony
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>simile
<question>A rhetorical term for the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may
be grammatically or logically correct with only one is called ….
<variant>zeugma
<variant>irony
<variant>litotes
<variant>pun
<variant>epithet
<question>Find the example which does not belong to that of zeugma.
<variant>When it rains, it pours.
<variant>He kept an eye and a hand on the chest before him.
<variant>He took Winifred`s pearls and a dancer.
<variant>Mr. Jones took his coat and his leave.
<variant>The old lady dropped a curtsey and her fan.
<question>… is a humorous or ludicrous use of a word in more than one meaning.
<variant>pun
<variant>irony
<variant>litotes
<variant>zeugma
<variant>epithet
<question>A play on words, either on different senses of the same word or on the similar sense or sound of
different words is called.
<variant>pun
<variant>irony
<variant>litotes
<variant>zeugma
<variant>epithet
<question>Name the device. “Mine is a long a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. “It is a
long tail, certainly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse`s tail.
<variant>pun
<variant>irony
<variant>litotes
<variant>zeugma
<variant>epithet
<question>What device is based on likening two things belonging to different classes using like or as?
<variant>simile
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<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>irony
<question>Simile may be:
<variant>epic, disguised (hidden) and trite;
<variant>dead and prolonged;
<variant>sustained and phrase;
<variant>epic and two-step;
<variant>hackneyed and elevating.
<question>Find the example which does not belong to that of simile.
<variant>She is like her mother.
<variant>She was a queenlike girl.
<variant>She seemed nothing more than a doll.
<variant>Mr. Dombey took the hand as if it were a fish.
<variant>He looks as a balloon.
<question>What verbs are used in the hidden simile?
<variant>to resemble, to seem, to appear, to look like
<variant>to resemble, to turn, to look
<variant>to seem, to see, to think
<variant>to like, to see, to appeal
<variant>to appear, to like, to see
<question>It is a word or phrase expressing some quality of a person, thing, idea or phenomenon, its function is
to emphasize a certain property or feature.
<variant>epithet
<variant>irony
<variant>litotes
<variant>zeugma
<variant>pun
<question>Find the example which does not belong to that of epithet.
<variant>a boy is like a bear
<variant>a specter of a man
<variant>amazing dress
<variant>heart-burning sigh
<variant>stalk-like neck
<question>How epithets can be divided by their composition?
<variant>simple, compound, phrase
<variant>simple and trite
<variant>simple, fresh and sustained
<variant>sustained and trite
<variant>sustained and fresh and compound
<question>Semantically epithets can be divided into:
<variant>affective and transferred
<variant>simple and trite
<variant>affective and fresh
<variant>sustained and trite
<variant>sustained and fresh and compound
<question>Find the case of reversed epithet.
<variant>a devil of a job
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<variant>the insulted silence
<variant>load ocean
<variant>chemical-change-producing heat
<variant>a pair of gloves
<question>A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to emphasize or add effect is called
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>irony
<variant>litotes
<variant>zeugma
<variant>pun
<question>Find the example which does not belong to that of hyperbole.
<variant>He failed math because he missed thirty classes.
<variant>I read a million pages last night.
<variant>I have a mountain of homework.
<variant>In a house the size of a postage stamp lived a man as big as a barge.
<variant>His mouth could drink the entire river.
<question>Find the example of periphrasis.
<variant>my better half
<variant>a rare bird
<variant>a silly girl
<variant>the bag weighs a ton
<variant>I am a mother
<question>The use of a free word-combination instead of the universally accepted name of a thing is called …
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>euphemism
<variant>litotes
<variant>understatement
<variant>metaphor
<question>The function of oxymoron is:
<variant>to emphasize contradictory qualities simultaneously existing in the described phenomenon
<variant>to create a very strong effect of tension and suspense
<variant>to foreground the emotive meaning
<variant>to create additional emotive and subjective connotations
<variant>to exaggerate quantity or quality
<question>What SD consists in placing a certain component of the sentence in an unusual position in order to
achieve the desired stylistic effect?
<variant>inversion
<variant>climax
<variant>parallel construction
<variant>detachment
<variant>suspense
<question>Inversion is …
<variant>the violation of the usual order of sentence elements
<variant>to reflect its authentic pronunciation;
<variant>the repetition of consonants, usually in the beginning of words;
<variant>the repetition of vowels, usually in stressed syllables;
<variant>the unity of generalization, communication and thinking.
<question>Which of the following sentences is the example corresponding to the model “the adverbial modifier
is placed at the beginning of the sentence”:
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<variant>Eagerly I wished the morrow.
<variant>With fingers weary and worn.
<variant>A good generous prayer it was.
<variant>Rude am I in my speech.
<variant>In went Mr. Pickwick.
<question>One of the secondary parts of the sentence which is placed so that it seems formally independent of
the word it logically refers to is called …
<variant>detachment
<variant>climax
<variant>parallel construction
<variant>inversion
<variant>suspense
<question>The function of suspense is:
<variant>to create the expectant uncertainty about the outcome of the plot
<variant>to detach the sentence from the rest
<variant>to weaken the effect of the utterance
<variant>to exaggerate the quantity or quality
<variant>to stress the heterogeneity of the described phenomenon
<question>The deliberate delay in the completion of the expressed thought is called …
<variant>suspense
<variant>climax
<variant>parallel construction
<variant>inversion
<variant>detachment
<question>The syntactic figure of speech in which each next word combination (clause, sentence) is logically
more important or emotionally stronger and more explicit is called …
<variant>climax
<variant>suspense
<variant>parallel construction
<variant>inversion
<variant>detachment
<question>A gradual increase in significance in SD of climax may be maintained in 3 ways. They are …
<variant>logical, emotive, quantitative
<variant>logical and prolonged
<variant>emotive, affective, figurative
<variant>emotive, figurative, emotional
<variant>logical, effective, genuine
<question>What SD is based on repeating words, phrases or sentences for some stylistic purposes?
<variant>repetition
<variant>climax
<variant>parallel construction
<variant>inversion
<variant>detachment
<question>What type of repetition is it if the beginning of some successive sentences (clauses) is repeated?
<variant>anaphora
<variant>epiphora
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>catch
<variant>framing
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<question>What type of repetition is it if the end of successive sentences (clauses) is repeated?
<variant>epiphora
<variant>anaphora
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>catch
<variant>framing
<question>What type of repetition is it if the beginning of the sentence is repeated at the end?
<variant>framing
<variant>anaphora
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>catch
<variant>epiphora
<question>What type of repetition is it if the end of one sentence is repeated at the beginning of following one?
<variant>catch
<variant>anaphora
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>epiphora
<variant>framing
<question>To elucidate the notion mentioned at the beginning of the sentence is the function of:
<variant>anaphora
<variant>framing
<variant>epiphora
<variant>anadiplosis
<variant>successive repetition
<question>What syntactical type of SD adds rhyme and balance to the utterance?
<variant>parallel construction
<variant>climax
<variant>enumeration
<variant>suspense
<variant>detachment
<question>Chiasmus is:
<variant>reversed parallelism
<variant>parallelism
<variant>the repetition at the beginning
<variant>the repetition at the end
<variant>framing repetition
<question>Parallelism is:
<variant>syntactical stylistic device
<variant>phono-graphical stylistic device
<variant>lexical stylistic device
<variant>morphological stylistic device
<variant>lexico-syntactical stylistic device
<question>What sentences are called one member sentences?
<variant>sentences which have no separate subject and predicate but one main part only instead.
<variant>sentences in which the connection is not immediately seen
<variant>sentences without any formal sign
<variant>typical phenomenon in conversation, arising out of the situation
<variant>sentences with a peculiar type of connection
<question>Ellipsis is …
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<variant>The omission of a word or words in the sentence.
<variant>Sentence which has no separate subject and predicate but one main part only instead.
<variant>Sentence in which the connection is not immediately seen.
<variant>Sentences without any formal sign.
<variant>Sentences with a peculiar type of connection.
<question>When the missing parts of the sentence are either present in the syntactic environment of the sentence
(context) or they are implied by the situation, it is called …
<variant>ellipsis
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>asyndeton
<variant>Gap-Sentence Link
<variant>antithesis
<question>The repetition of conjunctions is used in:
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>asyndeton
<variant>attachment
<variant>apokoinu construction
<variant>detachment
<question>Polysyndeton is a stylistic device of connecting sentences or phrases or syntagms or words …
<variant>by using connectives
<variant>by detaching
<variant>by dots, commas
<variant>without any formal sign
<variant>without connectives
<question>A stylistic device in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses is
called...
<variant>asyndeton
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>attachment
<variant>apokoinu construction
<variant>detachment
<question>Asyndeton is a SD in which the connection between parts of a sentence or between sentences
<variant>without any formal sign
<variant>by detaching
<variant>by connectives
<variant>by using by connectives
<variant>without dots, commas
<question>The peculiar interrogative construction, which semantically remains a statement, is called:
<variant>rhetoric question
<variant>the question in the affirmative
<variant>litotes
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>suspense
<question>A two-component structure in which two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation is:
<variant>litotes
<variant>antonomasia
<variant>simile
<variant>aposiopesis
<variant>rhetoric questions
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<question>Litotes is a stylistic devise consisting of. ..
<variant>a peculiar use of negative constructions
<variant>a phrase, a sentence or a group in which a thing (or concept) is contrasted to
<variant>reshaping the grammatical meaning of the interrogative sentence
<variant>the violation of the usual order of sentence elements
<variant>emotionally stronger word combination
<question>What stylistic device promotes the incompleteness of sentence structure?
<variant>breaking-in-the-narrative
<variant>question-in-the-narrative
<variant>uttered speech
<variant>unuttered speech
<variant>represented speech
<question>What SD is marked by dots and dashes to convey to the reader a strong tension of emotions?
<variant>breaking-in-the-narrative
<variant>question-in-the-narrative
<variant>uttered speech
<variant>unuttered speech
<variant>represented speech
<question>The personage's speech, which is materialized through the first-person pronouns and the language
idiosyncrasies of the character, is:
<variant>interior monologue (speech)
<variant>dialogue
<variant>stream-of-consciousness technique
<variant>represented inner speech
<variant>represented uttered speech
<question>“WILL YOU BE QUIT!” he cried. The device is…
<variant>capitalization
<variant>pun
<variant>suspense
<variant>alliteration
<variant>onomatopoeia
<question>“He is a BIG boy.” The device is…
<variant>capitalization
<variant>multiplication
<variant>alliteration
<variant>pun
<variant>onomatopoeia
<question>Ding-dong, buzz, bang, mew, ping-pong are examples of:
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>inversion
<variant>pun
<variant>alliteration
<variant>simile
<question>“A saint abroad, and a devil at home.” The device is…
<variant>antithesis
<variant>alliteration
<variant>graphon
<variant>zeugma
<variant>litotes
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<question>Shrill as a wind, the fiddle, quick and nervous and shrill.” The device is…
<variant>frame repetition
<variant>anaphoric repetition
<variant>epiphoric repetition
<variant>chain repetition
<variant>frame repetition
<question>“This is a new principle, a discovery, a great discovery,” – said the gentleman. The device is…
<variant>climax
<variant>anticlimax
<variant>simile
<variant>inversion
<variant>antithesis
<question>“Don Corleone received everyone – rich and poor, powerful and humble – with an equal show of
love.” The device is…
<variant>antithesis
<variant>repetition
<variant>metonymy
<variant>zeugma
<variant>litotes
<question>“Even Miss Eleanor was running about like a chicken with its head off.” The device is …
<variant>simile
<variant>metonymy
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>litotes
<question>“It was not unfit messenger of death.” The device is …
<variant>litotes
<variant>repetition
<variant>zeugma
<variant>pun
<variant>oxymoron
<question>“It ain’t that big. The whole United States ain’t that big. It ain’t that big.”
The device is …
<variant>epiphoric repetition
<variant>anaphoric repetition
<variant>chain repetition
<variant>frame repetition
<variant>catch repetition
<question>“You call your own f-f-f-flesh and b-b-b-lood stupid?” The device is …
<variant>multiplication
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>alliteration
<variant>capitalization
<variant>antithesis
<question>“Only after a hundred years did the train stop.” The device is …
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>metonymy
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>antithesis
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<question>“I knew that boys in books often did this and had adventures before they married a fortune and a
king’s daughter.”The device is …
<variant>zeugma
<variant>litotes
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>pun
<variant>simile
<question>“He was a tall man with a small sallow face.” The device is …
<variant>alliteration
<variant>irony
<variant>zeugma
<variant>metaphor
<variant>antithesis
<question>“Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.”The device is …
<variant>alliteration
<variant>graphon
<variant>onomatopoeia
<variant>suspense
<variant>antithesis
<question>Find the example of oxymoron
<variant>the peopled desert
<variant>forgive and forget
<variant>he was full of emotions and beer
<variant>the hall applauded
<variant>youth is lovely, age is lonely
<question>Define the device “The pain of the ocean”:
<variant>personification
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>epithet
<variant>polysemy
<variant>zeugma
<question>The truth was, of course, that Mr. Smeeth’s children were foreigners.
The italics is used to emphasize:
<variant>the problem of fathers and sons
<variant>the local colouring
<variant>the difference in gender
<variant>the difference in age
<variant>the problem of the lost generation
<question>The device used in the sentence “He swallowed the hint with a gulp and a gasp and a grin.” is:
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>simile
<variant>asyndeton
<question>And the face of Annette rose before him: her brown hair and her blue eyes with their dark lashes, her
fresh lips and cheeks, dewy and blooming, her perfect French figure.
The girl is described with …
<variant>love
<variant>hatred
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<variant>indifference
<variant>dullness
<variant>dislike
<question> “Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.”
The device used in this sentence is:
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>understatement
<variant>litotes
<variant>transferred epithet
<variant>enumeration
<question>Obviously – this is a streptococcal infection. Obviously.
The repetition used in the fragment is:
<variant>framing
<variant>anaphoric
<variant>epiphoric
<variant>successive
<variant>ordinary
<question>“Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside.”
The device used in the italicized part of the sentence is:
<variant>climax
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>antithesis
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>comparison
<question>"All along the shores grew clumps of tall reeds that reached out like greedy fingers as though waiting
for someone."
<variant>the heroine will get drowned
The simile describing the stormy sea predicts that
<variant>the heroine will be greedy
<variant>the heroine will be waited for
<variant>the heroine will enjoy Nature
<variant>the heroine will grow reeds
<question>"She ventured to take a distant, matronly air - the air she has originally held toward him."
The repetition employed by the author is:
<variant>anadiplosis (catch)
<variant>anaphoric
<variant>epiphoric
<variant>framing
<variant>chain
<question>"She was Lilian Matfield, Lilian Matfield, the same that had gone playing and laughing and singing
and looking forward to everything only a few years ago."
The repetition employed by the author of the underlined words is:
<variant>morphemic
<variant>anaphoric
<variant>ordinary
<variant>framing
<variant>chain
<question>"Suddenly, while she stood there in silence, the gun went off in her hands. She saw the flash; she heard
the sound; she smelt the powder. The next instant she felt the tremor of the shock."
Suspense and tension is conveyed through the convergence of the following stylistic devices:
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<variant>parallel constructions, anaphora, the verbs of sense perception
<variant>epiphora, enumeration, anaphoric repetition
<variant>anaphora, polysyndeton, metaphor
<variant>chain repetition, polysyndeton, metonymy
<variant>parallel constructions, inversion, antonomasia
<question>He was a tall thin ungainly man with untidy black hair and a small sallow dark face.
The man described is …:
<variant>unpleasant
<variant>clever
<variant>young
<variant>grand
<variant>pleasant
<question>Beside her on the sand stood a straw basket stuffed with a pink towel, a pair of yellow beach shoes and
a yellow scarf, together with a second flatter basket of bananas, peaches and pears. With her long orange-pink
finger tips she patted the sand beside her.
What atmosphere do the words denoting colour create?
<variant>pleasant
<variant>tense
<variant>oppressive
<variant>unpleasant
<variant>animated
<question>And for an hour or so Turgis slept, while Saturday went rattling and roaring on, gathering momentum,
through the dark little abysses of brick and smoke outside, the streets of London.
The device used in this sentence is:
<variant>personification
<variant>disguised (latent) simile
<variant>trite metaphor
<variant>transferred epithet
<variant>enumeration
<question>Anna and her two sons, George and David, went home in a stupor of fear. Soon Grandma Madeleine
moved in to live with them. It was gossiped at her church that the elder Mrs. Nelson had repeated visions of Jules’
death.
The expressive means used by the author predicts:
<variant>the grievous and tragic moment in people’s life
<variant>the forthcoming wedding party
<variant>natural disaster
<variant>cloudless future
<variant>something bright and happy to happen
<question>“All right”, said Mr. Golspie with his usual genial brutality.
Define the stylistic device used by the author:
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>zeugma
<variant>pun
<variant>hyperbole
<variant>understatement
<question>…A man, waiting at the corner, with the hope inspired by the letter, the letter that came that morning.
The repetition used is:
<variant>catch
<variant>framing
<variant>chain
<variant>chiasmus
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<variant>ordinary
<question>The twilight of the room seemed like darkness after the golden glare of the evening sunlight, and it
was a second or two before the glimmer of light reflected from a round mirror opposite enabled him to make out
the main features of the interior. The room itself seemed dusty and even defaced; the dark blue-green hangings, of
a peacock pattern, as if carrying out the same scheme as the living decoration of the garden, were themselves,
nevertheless, a background of dead colours; and, peering into the dusty mirror, he saw it was cracked.
By the description of the room the reader can detect that it was ….:
<variant>gloomy and neglected
<variant>comfortable
<variant>often visited
<variant>pleasant-looking
<variant>dull, but inhabited
<question>But, like a mouse, she kept her eyes open, missing nothing, with her busy little Cockney mind
fastening on every crumb of information and gossip.
The metaphor used in the passage is:
<variant>prolonged
<variant>trite
<variant>hackneyed
<variant>phrase
<variant>stale
<question>The fire winked cheerfully over the grate.
Define the stylistic device used in the sentence:
<variant>personification
<variant>allusion
<variant>metonymy
<variant>periphrasis
<variant>synecdoche
<question>It was like a nightmare, the dark glimmering room, with its dust and cobwebs, the sinister old man
before the blue flames of the pine knots, the slanting rain over the box-bush, the pattering sound on the roof, and
the thunder bolts which crashed near by and died away in the distance.
The convergence of stylistic devices used by the author predicts:
<variant>the crucial and tragic moment in the protagonist’s life
<variant>something bright and happy to happen
<variant>the forthcoming wedding party
<variant>cloudless future
<variant>natural disaster
<question>He had wronged her; he had betrayed her; he had tramped her pride in the dust.
Parallel constructions employed by the author show the character’s:
<variant>indignation
<variant>jealousy
<variant>irony
<variant>sarcasm
<variant>mockery
<question>The vein of iron in her nature would never bend, would never break, would never disintegrate in the
furnace of emotion.
Metaphor is sustained due to:
<variant>parallel constructions with epiphoric repetition
<variant>repetition of the intensifier “never”
<variant>framing repetition
<variant>polysyndeton
<variant>parallel constructions
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<question>Deep down in her, beneath the rough texture of experience, her essential self was still superior to her
folly and ignorance.
The stylistic device of inversion used in the sentence intensifies the heroine’s …. state:
<variant>disappointed
<variant>merry
<variant>cheerful
<variant>ignorant
<variant>passionate
<question>…And you know what business we’ve been doing lately? Awful! A ghastly show!”
The exclamatory sentences used in the personage’s speech show his:
<variant>vexation
<variant>joy
<variant>satisfaction
<variant>jealousy
<variant>shallow nature
<question>You could hear a final clatter of type-writers, a banging of doors, the hooting of horning cars, the
sound of footsteps hurrying up the street.
The onomatopoeic words used in the sentence create:
<variant>the atmosphere of commotion and bustle
<variant>a calm atmosphere
<variant>bleak atmosphere
<variant>oppressive atmosphere
<variant>peaceful atmosphere
<question>“Hey, baby, let me in, baby. You like me, baby. I’m a liked guy. Didn’t I pick up the check, five
people, your friends, I never seen them before? Don’t that give me the right you should like me? You like me,
baby.”
The words in bold type belong to …. layer:
<variant>colloquial
<variant>formal
<variant>neutral
<variant>bookish
<variant>laterally
<question>She was so slim, so white, so eager!
The stylistic device used in the sentence is…
<variant>repetition
<variant>litotes
<variant>metaphor
<variant>metonymy
<variant>zeugma
<question>Myra Babbitt – Mrs. George F. Babbitt – was definitely mature.
The stylistic device is…
<variant>detachment
<variant>break-in-the-narrative
<variant>oxymoron
<variant>epithet
<variant>litotes
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