TEST on STYLISTICS ( REVIEW)

1. Odd one out. Choose the sentence which does not contain SD called oxymoron.

a) The rich arrived in pairs and in Rolls Royces.

b) He was magnificently imbecile.

c) Welcome to Reno, the biggest little town in the world.

2. Identify SD in the following passage:«You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life».

a) tautology

b) pun

c) apokoinu construction

3. Choose the definition for «climax»:

a) deliberate omission of one or more parts of the sentence.

b) an arrangement of sentences (or of the homogeneous parts of one sentence) which secures a gradual increase in emotional tension in the utterance.

c) the statement in the form of a question which presupposes the possible (though not demanded) answer.

4. Choose the right SD for the model a..., a..., a..., …

a) anaphora

b) epiphora

c) framing

5. Odd one out. Choose the SD which does not belong to the group of lexical SD.

a)irony

b) simile

c) euphony

6. Identify SD in the following example:«He would make some money and then he would come back and marry his dream from Blackwood».

a)periphrasis

b) asyndeton

c)polysyndeton

7. Identify «framing» in these examples of repetition:

a) Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led ... to the smell and stagnation of B. Inn Alley.

b) She unchained, unbolted, and unlooked one door.

с) Не ran away from the battle. He was an ordinary human being that didn't want to kill or be killed, so he ran away from the battle.

8. Odd one out. Choose the SD which is not a periphrasis:

a) I took my obedient feet away from him.

b) The villages were full of women who did nothing but fight against dirt and hunger and repair the effects of friction on clothes.

c) I didn't dislike Mr. Kelada.

9. Identify SD in the following passage:«It rained during the US-USSR match at summit level in Moscow. But it not only rain, it rained records.

a)understatement;

b) antonomasia;

c)pun

10. Odd one out. Choose the SD which does not belong to the group.

a) italics;

b) assonance;

c) alliteration

11. Identify SD in the following example:«One of my partners is a liar and a cheat and a thief».

a)hyperbole

b) gradation

c) simile

12. Identify «metonymy» with its definition:

a) applying the name of an object to another object that is in some way connected with the first.

b) expressive renaming on the basis of similarity of two objects.

c) attributing human properties to lifeless objects.

13. Identify SD in the following sentence:«It's 9:45 o'clock, and not a single picture hat or piece of pineapple chewing gum has showed up yet».

a)metonymy

b) gradation

c) apokoinu construction