Find the stylistic device in this example: I was followed by a pair of heavy boots

Test 1

Question 1

Find the stylistic device in this example: I was followed by a pair of heavy boots.

Select one:

a. an epithet;

b. metaphor

c. metonomy 

d. an antithesis;

Question 2

Find the stylistic device in this example: She has always been as live as a bird.

a. metaphor 

b. simile

c. an epithet;

d. an antithesis;

Question 3

Identify 'allusion' with its definition:

a. brief reference to some literary or historical event commonly known 

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

c. expressive renaming on the basis of similarity of two objects.

d. attributing human properties to lifeless objects.

Question 4

The sentence «Dear Nature is the kindest Mother still» contains …………..

a. metaphor; 

b. allusion.

c. metonymy;

d. irony;

Question 5

Identify ‘framing' in these examples of repetition.

a. 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

b. Three fishers went sailing out in the west. Out into the west, as the sun went down. 

c. She unchained, unbolted, and unlooked one door.

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

Question 6

Choose the SD which belongs to the group of lexical SD.

a. Simile

b. Chiasmus

c. euphony 

d. oxymoron

Question 7

Find the stylistic device in this example: Obviously- this is a streptococcal infection. Obviously.

a. repetition 

b. an epithet;

c. an antithesis;

d. a gradation;

Question 8

Anadiplosis is based…

a. upon the order of speech elements.

b. upon the interaction of syntactical structures; 

c. upon the absence of the indispensable elements in the sentence;

d. upon the excessive use of syntactical elements;

Question 9

Match the words to different layers of the vocabulary: snuff out, rags, turn down;

a. neutral;

b. Neologism

c. colloquial; 

d. bookish;

Question 10

Find the stylistic device in this example: “I was forgetting that you had such a reputation as Sherlock.”

Select one:

a. Oxymoron

b. antonomasia

c. metaphor 

d. simile

Question 11

Choose the sentence which contains SD called oxymoron.

a. He was magnificently imbecile

b. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… 

c. The rich arrived in pairs and in Rolls Royces.

d. Down dropped the breeze.

Question 12

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

Select one:

a. hyperbole

b. simile

c. Bathos

d. gradation

Question 13

Find the stylistic device in this example: The sky looked like black velvet.

a. periphrasis;

b. metaphor 

c. Epithet

d. oxymoron;

Question 14

Epithet belongs to ……………

a. the stylistic group.

b. the metaphorical group;

c. the metonymic group;

d. the ironic group;

Question 15

Choose the SD which belongs to syntactical SD:

a. alliteration; 

b. anadiplosis.

c. antonomasia;

d. assonance;

Question 16

Expressive means and stylistic devices have ……………....

a. nothing in common,

b. to be considered completely synonymous, 

c. none of the mentioned above.

d. a lot in common,

Question 17

Find the stylistic device in this example: correctional institution.

a. periphrasis

b. hyperbole

c. euphemism 

d. Oxymoron

Question 18

Find the stylistic device in this example: My love is like a red, red rose.

a. an antithesis;

b. metonymy

c. simile

d. Metaphor 

Question 19

Find the stylistic device in this example: Money is what he is after money!

a. framing

b. an antithesis;

c. Enumeration

d. a gradation; 

Question 20

Find the stylistic device in this example: In marriage the upkeep of woman is often the downfall of man.

a. an epithet;

b. Metaphor

c. hyperbole

d. an antithesis;

Question 21

Elliptical sentences…

a. state the existence of the thing named;

b. impart a kind of emotional tension to the author’s narration;

c. invigorate the dynamic force of narration; 

d. emphasize the significance of the elements of the sentence.

Question22

Indicate the sentence which constitutes a simile:

a. She likes to read novels

b. «She is as talkative as a parrot»;

c. He likes to play

d. He was as handsome as he could be, given that he depended on the lively imagination of others to make him seem attractive.

Question 23

She is a real flower" is …………….

a. comparison

b. metaphor

c. metonymy.

d. simile 

Question 24

Expressive means of a language can be found ....................

a. on phonetic level,

b. on all levels

c. on syntactical level 

d. on lexical level,

Question 25

Jargon words are used within a certain professional group …………….

a. to make speech incoherent to outsiders.

b. To produce humorous effect

c. to show that the speaker also belongs to this group;

d. to facilitate the communication;

Question 26

Slang is used…

a. to show that the speaker shares the same idea as are possessed by his communicants

b. to produce humorous effect.

c. to imprint the elements repeated in the reader's mind;

d. to create poetic atmosphere; 

Question 27

Find the stylistic device in this example: a killing news

a. periphrasis

b. an epithet

c. metonymy 

d. Oxymoron

Question 28

Find the stylistic device in this example: England needs every man to do his duty

a. personification 

b. a gradation;

c. an antithesis;

d. an epithet;

Question 29

Find the stylistic device in this example: The White House has reused to comment.

a. an antithesis;

b. Metaphor

c. metonomy

d. an epithet; 

Question 30

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

a. Irony

b. oxymoron

c. antonomasia 

d. Euphony

Test 2

Question 1

Synonyms of variation are used ……………….

a. to produce humorous effect;

b. to produce ironic effect

c. to make the speech less monotonous; 

d. to characterize the object spoken about precisely;

Question 2

In the sentence «The pennies were saved by bulldozing the grocer» we come across

a. allusion.

b. irony;

c. metaphor; 

d. metonymy;

Question 3

Find the stylistic device in this example: my better half;

a. epithet

b. Metonymy 

c. periphrasis;

d. oxymoron;

Question 4

Inversion is….

a. broken word order 

b. play on words

c. a transfer of the name of one object to another.

d. Displacement of the predicate

Question 5

Find the stylistic device in this example: Of course it's important, urgently, desperately important.

a. enumeration

b. an antithesis;

c. climax 

d. Framing

Question 6

Choose the definition for ‘allusion’

a. a reference to specific places, persons, literary characters, mythology and Bible. 

b. a repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

c. a SD based on analogy between two things, which are discovered to possess some features in common, otherwise being entirely dissimilar.

d. the use of a milder word or phrase instead of the one that seems rough, rude or unpleasant.

Question 7

Find the stylistic device in this example: She turned with the sweet smile of an alligator.

a. simile

b. Metaphor

c. antithesis

d. irony

Question 8

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

a. anaphora

b. framing

c. Anadiplosis

d. epiphora

Question 9

Find the stylistic device in this example: Youth I lovely, age is lonely

a. antithesis

b. metaphor

c. irony

d. Simile

Question 10

Find the stylistic device in this example: Don’t use big words. They mean so little.

a. a gradation;

b. an epithet;

c. Framing

d. an antithesis 

Question 11

Find the stylistic device in this example: He ordered a bottle of the worst possible port wine at the highest possible price.

a. an antithesis

b. Personification

c. a gradation;

d. an epithet;

Question 12

Find the stylistic device in this example: the fair sex

a. hyperbole

b. Euphemism 

c. oxymoron

d. periphrasis

Question 13

The sentence "I would give you the whole world to know "contains …………….

a. zeugma;

b. Understatement

c. inversion.

d. hyperbole;

Question 14

What type of transfer is metaphor based ……….…

a. on the principle of contiguity.

b. on the principle of affinity

c. on the principle of proximity 

d. on the principle of contrast or incompatibility

Question 15

Periphrasis is based upon ………………

a. transfer by identity

b. transfer by similarity; 

c. transfer by contrast;

d. transfer by contiguity;

Question 16

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

a. She was a damned nice woman, too.

b. Welcome to Reno, the biggest little town in the world.

c. He was magnificently imbecile.

d. The rich arrived in pairs and in Rolls Royces.

Question 17

A comparison of two things which are quite different, but which have one important quality in common is….

a. epithet

b. Irony

c. zeugma;

d. simile.

Question 18

Antonomasia is a …………….. SD.

a. graphical;

b. phonetical

c. syntactical.

d. lexical;

Question 19

Onomatopeia should be referred to ……………..

a. lexical expressive means & SD.

b. phonetic expressive means & SD; 

c. syntactical expressive means & SD

d. graphical expressive means & SD

Question 20

Match the words to different layers of the vocabulary: decease, attire, decline;

a. bookish;

b. colloquial;

c. Professionalism 

d. neutral;

Question 21

Match the words to different layers of the vocabulary: die, clothes, refuse;

a. Neologism

b. colloquial;

c. neutral;

d. bookish;

Question 22

Rhetorical question is….

a. a sentence where one member is omitted

b. a statement in the form of a question which needs no answer 

c. a comparison of two things.

d. A transfer of the name of one object to another with which it is in some way connected

Question 23

The sentence "I'm writing in connection with your account" is typical of ..............

a. Business letters

b. Scientific style

c. Belles-letres style

d. Newspaper style

Question 24

The most typical oxymoron is … or … word combination.

a. a verbal, an adverbial

b. a verbal, an attributive

c. an attributive, an adverbial 

d. a nominative, an adverbial

Question 25

Find the stylistic device in this example: Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

a. repetition

b. Gradation

c. anaphora

d. Rhetorical question

Question 26

Find the stylistic device in this example: scared to death

a. periphrasis

b. Euphemism

c. oxymoron

d. hyperbole

Question 27

Find the stylistic device in this example: It is not bad

a. hyperbole

b. Euphemism 

c. periphrasis

d. oxymoron

Question 28

Find the stylistic device in this example: Their bitter-sweet union did not last long.

a. antonomasia

b. metaphor

c. Simile

d. oxymoron

Question 29

The sentence "In the quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea" belongs to the .... style.

a. Newspaper style

b. Belles-letres style

c. Official documents style

d. Scientific style

Question 30

The sentence “The former ambassador to Britain had been arrested in Chile.” Belongs to …… style

a. Official documents style

b. Newspaper style

c. Belles-letres style

d. Scientific style