TEST IN STYLISTICS FOR STATE EXAMINATIONS
1. Insert the necessary word into the following definition of the stylistic device:
_________ is a needless repetition of the meaning in other words.
a. tautology
b. pleonasm
c. zeugma
d. hyperbole
2. Insert the necessary word into the following definition of the stylistic device:
In ___________ the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used; usually taking the form of sarcasm or ridicule in which laudatory expressions are used to imply condemnation or contempt.
a. irony
b. humor
c. zeugma
d. pun
3. Insert the necessary word into the following definition of the stylistic device:
____________ is a kind of repetition in which the opening word is repeated at the end of a sense-group or a sentence (in prose), or at the end of a line (in verse).
a. framing
b. anaphora
c. epiphora
d. chain repetition
4. Insert the necessary word into the following definition of the stylistic device:
____________ is a sudden break in the narration.
a. aposiopesis
b. anadiplosis
c. framing
d. suspense
5. Insert the necessary word into the following definition of the stylistic device:
____________ is an over-fullness of words in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the bare idea, either as a fault of style or as a device purposely used for special force or clearness
a. pleonasm
a. tautology
c. anadiplosis
d. suspense
6. Insert the necessary word into the following definition of the stylistic device:
_________ is the use of the word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context, one metaphorical and the other literal in sense.
a. zeugma
b. pun
c. hyperbole
d. metaphor
7. Archaisms may be used in a literary text
a. to create the historic atmosphere
b. to show that the speaker is attached to usage of unusual words
c. to produce humorous effect
d. to persuade the reader in the author’s feelings and ideas
8. If bookish words are used in the colloquial context
a. they produce humorous effect
b. they elevate the speech
c. they characterize the speaker as a well-educated person
d. they give additional information on the main idea of the text
9. Elliptical sentences and nominative sentences
a. perform different functions
b. perform the same functions
c. perform aesthetic functions
d. perform humoristic functions
10. Aposiopesis is
a. a deliberate abstention from bringing the utterance up to the end
b. a case when the speaker doesn’t bring the utterance up to the end being overwhelmed by emotions
c. a case when the speaker doesn’t want to finish the sentence
d. a case when the speaker cannot finish the sentence being overwhelmed by emotions
11. Anadiplosis is based
a. upon the interaction of syntactical structures
b. upon the absence of the indispensable elements in the sentence
c. upon the excessive use of syntactical elements
d. upon the abundance of indispensable elements in the sentence
12. In case of inversion the emphasized elements occupy
a. the initial position
b. the final position instead of the initial position
c. either initial position or final position instead of the initial position
d. both the initial and final position
13. Parallelism is used
a. to underline the ideas expressed in the similar constructions in the sentences
b. to make the recurring parts more conspicuous than their surroundings
c. to make the speech expressive
d. to connect two similar constructions and sentences
14. The syntactical device used to reproduce two parallel lines of thought is termed:
a. parallel construction
b. detachment
c. parenthesis
d. suspense
15. The sentence “You don’t know what a nice - a beautiful, nice - gift I’ve got to you” contains
a. repetition in the form of detachment
b. repetition
c. detachment
d. framing
16. Find the word, which is bookish in style:
a. harmony
b. daddy
c. foolish
d. glad
17. Find the word, which is colloquial in style:
a. dad
b. parent
c. father
d. ancestor
18. Find a non-literary word (slang)
a. missus
b. wife
c. sister
d. mother
19. Find a non-literary word (professionalism)
a. a lab
b. a shop
c. a store
d. a barn
20. Find a non-literary word (low-colloquial)
a. bloody
b. bad
c. negative
d. awful
21. Find a non-literary expression (vulgarism)
a. to shut up
b. to be quiet
c. to be silent
d. to stop talking
22. Find the word in which the emotive charge is heavier
a. tremendous
b. large
c. big
d. vast
23. Find an example of proper metaphor
a. The moon is riding in the sky
b. She is like a snake in the grass
c. He bought a head of cabbage
d. The moon is like a silver coin
24. Find an example of metonymy
a. He had only a few coppers in the pockets
b. We got to the mouth of the river
c. He was a lion in the fight
d. The valley was silent
25. Find an example of dead (trite) metaphor
a. the hand of the watch
b. cold reason
c. cruel heart
d. the flower of his life
26. Find a case of synecdoche
a. All hands abroad!
b. Everything smiled at him
c. The childhood of the earth
d. The leg of the table was broken
27. Find an example of personification
a. The wind was singing in the trees
b. The kettle is boiling
c. He is not a Pushkin, but his poems are good
d. I don’t like her sharp tongue
28. Find an example of chiasmus
a. Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down.
b. He went to a bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over.
c. We were talking about how bad we were. Bad from the medical point of view.
d. You have been busy, busy, busy, haven’t you?
29. Find an example of anadiplosis
a. With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy; happy at least in my own
b. I am sorry, I am so very sorry, I am so extremely sorry
c. Money is what he is after money!
d. Those evening bells! Those evening bells!
30. Find an example of climax
a. It was a lovely city, a beautiful city, a fair city, a veritable gem of city
b. They talked and talked all night
c. Youth is lovely, age is lonely
d. He played a tune over and over again
31. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
A devil of a sea rolls in that bay (Byron)
a. reversed epithet
b. chain epithet
c. metonymy
d. metaphor
32. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
My mother was wearing her best grey dress and gold brooch and a faint pink flush under each cheekbone. (W. Golding)
a. zeugma
b. metaphor
c. metonymy
d. pun
33. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
Have you been seeing any spirits? Or taking any?
a. pun
b. antithesis
c. zeugma
d. metaphor
34. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
Every Creaser has his Brutus
a. antonomasia
b. metaphor
c. simile
d. zeugma
35. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
He’s a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nose peacock. (D)
a. epithet
b. climax
c. detachment
d. metonymy
36. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
Women are not made for attacks. Wait they must.
a. inversion
b. gradation
c. ellipsis
d. represented speech
37. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
We are met here as the guests of – what shall I call them? – The three Graces of the Dublin musical World. The table burst into applause (J. Joice)
a. metonymy
b. simile
c. allusion
d. metaphor
38. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
Oh! Sweetness of the pain (J.Keats)
a. oxymoron
b. antithesis
c. metaphor
d. metonymy
39. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
He had all the confidence in the world and not without reason.
a. litotes
b. irony
c. zeugma
d. repetition
40. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
He had not been unhappy all day (E. Hemingway)
a. litotes
b. metonymy
c. metaphor
d. climax
41. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
They speak like saints, and act like devils.
a. simile
b. epithet
c. repetition
d. gradation
42. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
No wonder, his father wanted to know what Bossiney meant, no wonder.
(J. Galsworthy)
a. framing
b. anaphora
c. epiphora
d. anadiplosis
43. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman.
(O. Henry)
a. antonomasia
b. personification
c. metonymy
d. simile
44. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
He sings, and he sings and forever sings he – “ I love my Love and my Love loves me ”. (Coldridge)
a. chiasmus
b. framing
c. chain repetition
d. epiphora
45. Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device:
Of course, it’s important. Incredibly, urgently, desperately important.
a. climax
b. enumeration
c. hyperbole
d. anaphora
46. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
The next speaker was a tall gloomy man, Sir Something Somebody.
a. antonomasia
b. pun
c. metonymy
d. irony
47. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Money burns a hole in my pocket.
A. metaphor
B. personification
C. zeugma
D. hyperbole
48. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. zeugma
d. pun
49. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
He seemed doomed to liberty!
a. oxymoron
b. epithet
c. irony
d. metaphor
50. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
His forehead was narrow, his face wide, his head large, and his nose all in one side.
a. detached construction
b. epithet
c. oxymoron
d. metaphor
51. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
- Did you hit a woman with a child?
- No, sir. I hit her with a brick.
a. pun
b. zeugma
c. metonymy
d. antonomasia
52. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
I closed my eyes, smelling the goodness of her sweat and the sun-shine-in-the- breakfast-room smell of her lavender water.
a. epithet
b. metaphor
c. antonomasia
d. pun
53. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
That’s a nice girl, that’s a very nice girl, a promising girl.
a. climax
b. simile
c. epithet
d. metaphor
54. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands.
a. metonymy
b. metaphor
c. periphrasis
d. antonomasia
55. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
H.G. Wells reminded her of the rice paddies in her native California.
a. simile
b. irony
c. periphrasis
d. metaphor
56. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
She‘s been in a bedroom with one of the young Italians, Count Something.
a. antonomasia
b. metaphor
c. metonymy
d. simile
57. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Most women up London nowadays seem to furnish their rooms with nothing but orchids, foreigners and French novels.
a. zeugma
b. simile
c. epithet
d. metaphor
58. State the lexico-syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Leaving Daniel to his fate, he was conscious of joy springing in her heart.
a. metaphor
b. oxymoron
c. hyperbole
d. pun
59. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
His voice was a dagger of corroded brass (S.L.)
a. metaphor
b. oxymoron
c. epithet
d. simile
60. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He may be poor and shabby, but beneath those ragged trousers beats a heart of gold (E.)
a. pun
b. epithet
c. metaphor
d. metonymy
61. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Except for a lack of youth, the guests had no common theme, they seemed strangers among strangers; indeed, each face, on entering, had struggled to conceal dismay at seeing others there. (T.C.)
a. metonymy
b. epithet
c. metaphor
d. pun
62. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
“Don’t ask me,” said Mr. Owl Eyes washing his hands of the whole matter
(Sc. F.)
a. antonomasia
b. irony
c. simile
d. metonymy
63. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Babbitt respected bigness in anything: in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth or words (S.L.)
a. zeugma
b. metonymy
c. pun
d. irony
64. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He acknowledged an early-afternoon customer with a be-with-you-in-a-minute nod (D. U.)
a. epithet
b. metaphor
c. pun
d. metonymy
65. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains forever an infinite field for mistakes. You can’t know beforehand (D.H.L)
a. metaphor
b. epithet
c. pun
d. metonymy
66. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war (I. Sh.)
a. irony
b. epithet
c. zeugma
d. simile
67. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
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. (A.B.)
a. metonymy
b. metaphor
c. oxymoron
d. framing
68. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all nor for how long she will stay. (Gr. M.)
a. simile
b. oxymoron
c. pun
d. framing
69. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He felt the first watery eggs of sweat moistening the palms of his hands. (W. S.)
a. metaphor
b. epithet
c. pun
d. metonymy
70. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I know);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.(R.K.)
a. antonomasia
b. metaphor
c. epithet
d. metonymy
71. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He loved the after swim salt-and-sunshine smell of her hair (Jn. B.)
a. epithet
b. oxymoron
c. metaphor
d. metonymy
72. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Some remarkable pictures in this room, gentlemen. A Holbein, two Van Dycks and if I am not mistaken, a Velasquez. I am interested in pictures.”(Ch.)
a. metonymy
b. anaphora
c. zeugma
d. epiphora
73. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Men, pals, red plush seats, white marble tables, waiters in white aprons. Miss Moss walked through them all (M.)
a. zeugma
b. epithet
c. framing
d. metonymy
74. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
I was scared to death when he entered the room. (S.)
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. climax
d. irony
75. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Bookcases covering one wall boasted a half-shelf of literature (T.C.)
a. irony
b. metonymy
c. metaphor
d. zeugma
76. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
You have got two beautiful bad examples for parents. (Sc. F.)
a. oxymoron
b. irony
c.metaphor
d. metonymy
77. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
The topic of the Younger Generation spread through the company like a yawn. (E. W.)
a. simile
b. framing
c. metaphor
d. climax
78. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
For several days he took an hour after his work to make inquiry taking with him some examples of his pen and inks (Dr.)
a. metonymy
b. epithet
c. metaphor
d. pun
79. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
The girls were dressed to kill (J.Br.)
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. epithet
d. irony
80. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
We talked and talked and talked, easily, sympathetically, wedding her experience with my articulation (Jn.B.)
a. metaphor
b. epithet
c. pun
d. metonymy
81. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
After a while and a cake he crept nervously to the door of the parlor. (A. T.)
a. zeugma
b. oxymoron
c. pun
d. metonymy
82. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
“She’s a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she has washed her hair since Coolidge’s second term, I’ll eat my spare tire, rim and all” (R.Ch.)
a. simile
b. irony
c. metaphor
d. antonomasia
83. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Her mother is perfectly unbearable. Never met such a Gorgon”. (O. W)
a. oxymoron
b. metaphor
c. zeugma
d. irony
84. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
In the cold, gray, street-washing, milk-delivering, shutters-coming-off-the-shops early morning, the midnight train from Paris arrived in Strasbourg (H.)
a. epithet
b. metaphor
c. pun
d. metonymy
85. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate. (W.G.)
A. metaphor
B. epithet
C. oxymoron
D. antonomasia
86. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He was rather like a Christmas tree whose lights wired in series, must all go out if even one bulb is defective. (S.)
a. simile
b. epithet
c. oxymoron
d. antonomasia
87. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
There are two things I look for in a man. A sympathetic character and full lips.(I. Sh.)
a. zeugma
b. metaphor
c. pun
d. antonomasia
88. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He felt like an old book: spine defective, covers dull, slight foxing, fly missing, rather shaken copy (J. Br.)
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. epithet
d. antonomasia
89. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
There is only one brand of tobacco allowed here-‘three nuns’. None today, none tomorrow, and none the day after” (Br. B.)
a. pun
b. zeugma
c. irony
d. oxymoron
90. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
I was violently sympathetic, as usual (Jn. B.)
a. hyperbole
b. epithet
c. climax
d. antonomasia
91. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
When the war broke out she took down the signed photograph of the Kaiser and, with some solemnity, hung it in the men-servants’ lavatory (E.W.)
a. irony
b. metaphor
c. pun
d. climax
92. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
He has that unmistakable tall lanky “rangy” loose-jointed graceful close cropped formidably clean American look. (I.M)
a. epithet
b. framing
c. oxymoron
d. anaphora
93. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
You’re like the East, Dinny. One loves it at first sight foxing, fly missing, rather shaken copy. (J. Br.)
a. epithet
b. metaphor
c. simile
d. antonomasia
94. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
Sprinting towards the elevator, he felt amazed at his own cowardly courage. (G. M.)
a. oxymoron
b. simile
c. metaphor
d. pun
95. Define the following lexical stylistic device:
“Someone at the door”, he said, blinking.
Some four, I should say by the sound,” said Fili. (A. T.)
a. pun
b. metaphor
c. zeugma
d. irony
96. State the syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Gay and merry was the time.
a. inversion
b. epiphora
c. repetition
d. chiasmus
97. State the syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Women are not made for attack. Wait they must.
a. inversion
b. chiasmus
c. anaphora
d. parallelism
98. State the syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
He ran away from the battle. He was an ordinary human being that didn’t want to kill or to be killed so he ran away from the battle.
a. framing
b. parallelism
c. chain repetition
d. chiasmus
99. State the stratum of the vocabulary the underlined words belong to:
“How are you, Cartwright? This is the very devil of a business you know”
a. vulgarism
b. foreign word
c. archaic word
d. literary word
100. State the syntactical stylistic device used in the following sentence:
Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley.
a. anadiplosis
b. chiasmus
c. framing
d. anaphora
101. |
A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare to dissimilar things is called: |
a. simile |
b. metaphor c. personification d. alliteration
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102. Define the lexical or phonetic stylistic device Sally sells seashells by the seashore. This is an example of: a. alliteration |
b. | metaphor |
c. | simile |
d. | idiom |
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103. |
Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device My sister's room is a pig pen. This is an example of: |
a. | idiom |
b. | metaphor |
c. | simile |
d. | alliteration | |
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104. | Define the lexical or phonetic stylistic device Sounds words such as BANG, BAM, and BOING are examples of: |
a. | onomatopoeia |
b. | idiom |
c. | sounds |
d. | metaphor |
105. |
Repetition of the first consonant in several of the words in the same phrase is called: |
a. | Alliteration |
B. | Simile |
C. | Idiom |
D. | Metaphor |
E. | Onomatopoeia |
106. |
When Sponge bob talks, the writers are using a type of figurative language called: |
a. | comedy |
b. simile c. personification d. epithetAlliteration
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107. |
The type of figurative language that has a special meaning different from the actual meaning is called: |
a. | idiom |
b. | alliteration |
c. | simile |
d. | onomatopoeia |
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108. | Define the lexical or phonetic stylistic device I love mashing melted marshmallows. This is an example of: |
a. | alliteration |
b. | metaphor |
c. | simile |
d. | onomatopoeia |
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109. | Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device Her feet are as cold as ice! This is an example of which type of figurative language? |
a. | simile |
b. | metaphor |
c. | personification |
d. | onomatopoeia |
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110. | A figure of speech that compares two unlike things by stating that one is the other is called |
a. | simile |
b. | onomatopoeia |
c. | personification |
d. | metaphor |
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111. | Animals talking in a childhood story is an example of... |
a. | personification |
b. | cliché |
c. | metaphor |
d. |
hyperbole
epithet
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113. | 112. State the stratum of the vocabulary the underlined words belong to The Lord giveth and He taketh away, Ridges thought solemnly. a. archaism b. foreign word c. term d. barbarism
The plates danced on the shelves during the earthquake. This is an example of what type of figurative language? |
a. | metaphor |
b. | simile |
c. | personification | |
d. | alliteration |
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114. |
Define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device This type of figurative language is used when words immitate the actual sound(s) made by the action or event. |
a. | onomatopoeia |
b. | alliteration |
c. | simile |
d. | metaphor |
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115. |
The following statement is an example of a which figurative language? "I have told you a million times to come home at 9:00pm!" |
a. | hyperbole |
b. | symbolism |
c. |
d. |
Tone
metonymy mood |
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116. |
A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. |
a. | allusion |
b. |
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c. | |
d. | |
round
similie
personification |
epithet |
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117. |
A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements, but on closer inspection may be true. |
a. | paradox |
b. c. |
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Epithet
similie
| personification |
d. | dynamic |
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118. |
An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. |
a. | hyperbole |
b. | paradox |
c. d. |
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personification
analogy |
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119. |
"Jumbo Shrimp" and "Pretty Ugly" are both examples of: |
a. | oxymoron |
b. c. d. | hyperbole onomatopoeia metonymy
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C. |
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120. |
"Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone"-Taylor Swift-love story |
a. | allusion |
b. | alliteration |
c. connotation |
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d. denotation |
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121. The clock had struck; time was bleeding away (A.Huxley)
a. metaphor
b. periphrasis
c. metonymy
d. antonomasia
122. His disease consisted of spots, bed, and honey in spoons, tangerine oranges and high temperature (J. Galsworthy)
a. a semantically false chain
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metonymy
123. While love, unknown among the blest, \ Parent of thousand wild desires (S. Johnson)
a. periphrasis
b. metonymy
c. synecdoche
d. antonomasia
124. The laugh in her eyes died out and was replaced by something else (M.Spillane)
a. genuine metaphor
b. genuine oxymoron
c. trite oxymoron
d. trite epithet
125. The young lady who burst into tears, has been put up together again (Ch. Dickens)
a. metaphor
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metonymy
126. She always glances up and glances down and does not know where to look, but looks all the prettier (Ch.Dickens)
a. zeugma
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metaphor
127. I have only one good quality – overwhelming belief in the brains and hearts of our nation, our state, our town (S. Lewis)
a. metonymy
b. epithet
c. simile
d. personification
128.... They sat up with gaiety as with a corpse (S. Lewis)
a. irony
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metonymy
129. Macomb was an old town but it was a tired old town when I first knew it (H. Lee)
a. epithet
b. irony
c. simile
d. metonymy
130. He’d behaved pretty lousily to Jan
a. trite oxymoron
b. genuine oxymoron
c. trite epithet
d. genuine metaphor
131. Death is at the end of that devious, winding maze of paths (Fr. Norris)
a. genuine metaphor
b. genuine oxymoron
c. trite oxymoron
d. trite epithet
132. She was a sunny, happy sort of a creature. Too fond of the bottle (A. Christie)
a. metonymy
b. epithet
c. simile
d. repetition
133. All at once there is a goal, a path through a shapeless day (A.Miller)
a. epithet
b. metonymy
c. simile
d. repetition
134....she has a nose that is at least three inches too long (I.Shaw)
a. hyperbole
b. irony
c. litotes
d. metonymy
135. England has two eyes, Oxford and Cambridge. They are the two eyes of England, and two intellectual eyes (Ch. Taylor)
a. periphrasis
b. Metonymy
c. synecdoche
d. antonomasia
136. He finds time to have a finger or a foot in most things that happen round here (J.Lindsay)
a. violation of a phraseological unit
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metonymy
137. The young girl who had a yellow smock and a cold in the head that did not go too well together was helping an old person (J.B.Priestly)
a. zeugma
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metaphor
138. The face of London was now strangely alerted...the voice of Mourning was heard in every street (D.Defoe)
a. personification
b. epithet
c. simile
d. metaphor
139. Stoney smiled the sweet smile of an alligator (J.Steinbeck)
a. epithet
b. irony
c. simile
d. metonymy
140. The girl gave him a lipsticky smile (J.D.Sallinger)
a. epithet
b. irony
c. simile
d. metonymy
141. She was a damned nice woman too (A. Huxley)
a. trite oxymoron
b. genuine oxymoron
c. trite epithet
d. genuine metaphor
142... for every look that passed between them, and every word they spoke and every card they played, the dwarf had eyes and ears (Ch. Dickens)
a. trite metonymies
b. genuine oxymoron
c. trite epithets
d. genuine simile
143. Jargon words are used within a certain professional group.
a. to stress the informal character of communication.
b. to show that the speaker also belongs to this group;
c. to facilitate the communication;
d. to make the speech more bright
144. Slang is used
a. to make speech more expressive
b. to show that the speaker shares the same idea as are possessed by his communicants;
c. to produce humorous effect.
d. to show that the speaker is an educated person
145. A word or a group of words giving an expressive characterization of the object described is
a. epithet;
b. simile;
c. metaphor
d. repetition
146. The sentence "I would give you the whole world to know» contains
a. hyperbole;
b. zeugma
c. inversion
d. hyperbole.
147.... joins two antonymous words into one syntagma.
a. oxymoron
b. metaphor
c. hyperbole
d. zeugma
148. Metonymy is
a. a transfer of a name of one object to another with which it is in some way connected
b. a description of an object;
c. a comparison of two things.
d. the usage of two anonymous words in one syntagma
149. A sentence where one of the main members is omitted is
a. elliptical sentence
b. parallelism;
c. rhetorical question
d. anadiplosis
150. In the sentence "I went out and caught the boy and shook him until his freckles rattled we
come across"
a. hyperbole
b. metonymy;
c. metaphor
d. simile
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