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Check your knowledge of Stylistics

TEST

1. Stylistics is a branch of linguistics dealing with

a) vocabulary of the language;

b) morphology;

c) stylistic devices and expressive means of the language and functional styles.

2. Expressive means

a) exist in the language and are fixed in dictionaries;

b) is a conscious use of a language to achieve a stylistic effect;

c) peculiar use of the language means.

3. The common literary, neutral and common colloquial words are grouped under the term

a) non-standard English vocabulary;

b) standard English vocabulary;

c) core vocabulary.

4. The belles-lettres style has varieties:

a) the language of poetry, emotive prose, the language of drama;

b) the newspaper style, emotive prose, the publicistic style;

c) the language used in articles, the language used in essays, the language used in oratory.

5. The newspaper style includes:

a) oratory, essays, articles;

b) brief news items, advertisements and announcements, headlines, the editorial;

c) poetry, emotive prose, the drama.

6. Idiolect is

a) the speech of an individual which is characterized by peculiarities typical of that particular individual;

b) sphere of linguistic and literary science;

c) expressive means of the language.

7. A functional style of the language is

a) a conscious and intentional intensification of some typical structural property of a language unit;

b) a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication;

c) expressive means of the language.

8. Syntactical SD are devices based on

a) the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical organization of the utterance;

b) the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics;

c) the opposition of meanings of phonological elements.

9. Graphical expressive means include

a) interjections;

b) words belonging to special groups;

c) inversion, the arrangement of the material;

d) punctuation, different types of print.

10. Terms are characterized by a tendency to be

a) monosemantic;

b) emotional;

c) neutral;

d) polysemantic.

11. Stylistic devices based on the interaction between logical and emotive meanings

a) epithet, oxymoron, hyperbole;

b) metaphor, metonymy, epithet;

c) irony, similar, hyperbole.

12. How is called the process when terms pass into the common literary or neutral vocabulary?

a) de-terminization;

b) coinage of new words;

c) creation of a new meaning.

13. What is metaphor?

a) Metaphor is a stylistic device based on the interaction between two logical meanings of the word.

b) It is a clash of two opposite meanings.

c) It is a device reflecting relations between a part and the whole.

14. Archaisms belong to

a) colloquial style;

b) literary style;

c) neutral style.

15. Barbarisms are used mainly to

a) supply the narrated events with the proper local colouring;

b) to insult the addressee;

c) to make speech more emotive;

d) to cause a humorous effect.

16. Literary vocabulary includes

a) archaisms, terms, foreign words, neologisms;

b) slang, vulgarisms, jargonisms, dialectal words;

c) neutral words.

17. Jargonisms function

a) in limited spheres of society;

b) in any context;

c) to create a humorous effect;

d) to insult the addressee.

18. Hyperbole is

a) the clash of two diametrically opposite meanings;

b) a deliberate exaggeration of some quantity, quality, size;

c) logical association between the name itself and the quality.

19. A word or phrase used to replace an unpleasant word or expression by conventionally more acceptable is

a) synonym;

b) euphemism;

c) homonym;

d) similar.

20. When likeness is observed between inanimate objects and human qualities we speak of

a) antonomasia;

b) metaphor;

c) personification;

d) metonymy.

21. Metaphor is the expression of

a) true picture of the world;

b) a writer's individual vision;

c) the contextual meaning.

22. Oxymoron

a) joins two synonyms into one syntagm;

b) joins two antonyms into one syntagm;

c) joins two phraseological meanings.

23. Chiasmus belongs to the group of stylistic devices based on

a) association;

b) the repetition of a syntactical pattern;

c) similarity.

24. He was interested in everybody. His mind was alert, and people asked him to dinner not for old times' sake but because he was worth his salt.

a) metonymy;

b) oxymoron;

c) metaphor.

25. He made his way through the perfume and conversation.

a) metonymy;

b) irony;

c) personification.

26. Stoney smiled the sweet smile of an alligator.

a) antonomasia;

b) irony;

c) epithet;

d) zeugma.

27. God, I cried buckets. I saw it ten times.

a) hyperbole;

b) oxymoron;

c) zeugma.

28. "Can you tell me what time that game starts today?" The girl gave him lipsticky smile.

a) metonymy;

b) epithet;

c) slang;

d) metaphor.

29. He... caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks.

a) epithet;

b) oxymoron;

c) zeugma.

30. Mr. Stiggins ... took his hat and his leave.

a) pun;

b) zeugma;

c) oxymoron;

d) metonymy.

31. Up came the file and down sat the editor, Mr. Pickwick at his side

a) inversion;

b) parallelism;

c) ellipsis.

32. It was a mistake ... a blunder ... lunacy ...

a) ellipses;

b) climax;

c) pun.

33. Don't use big words. They mean so little.

a) antithesis;

b) irony;

c) pun;

d) similar.

34. His mind went round and round like a squirrel in a cage, going over the past.

a) irony;

b) metaphor;

c) similar;

d) metonymy.

35. Money burns a hole in my pocket.

a) metaphor;

b) metonymy;

c) personification.

36. The laugh in her eyes died out and was replaced by something else.

a) metaphor;

b) metonymy;

c) personification

37. The face of London was now strangely altered.

a) personification;

b) climax;

c) metaphor;

d) similar.

38. Mother nature always blushes before disrobing.

a) antonomasia;

b) personification;

c) epithet

39 The next speaker was a tall gloomy man, Sir Something Somebody.

a) antonomasia;

b) metonymy;

c) epithet;

d) pun.

40. In marriage the upkeep of woman is often the downfall of man.

a) metonymy;

b) antithesis;

c) pun;

d) repetition.

41. Gentleness in passion! What could have been more seductive to the scared, starved heart of that girl?

a) inversion;

b) rhetorical questions;

c) climax;

d) repetition.

42. What is it? Who is it? When was it? Where was it? How was it?

a) parallelism;

b) inversion;

c) climax;

d) repetition.

43. First the front, then the back, then the sides, then the superscription, then the seal, were objects of Newman's admiration.

a) polysyndeton;

b) asyndeton;

c) parallelism.

44. "Funny how ideas come", he said afterwards. "Like a flash of lightning".

a) similar;

b) inversion;

c) parallelism.

45. The clock had struck, time was bleeding away.

a) metaphor;

b) chiasmus;

c) hyperbole;

d) parallelism.

46. She has always been as live as a bird.

a) hyperbole;

b) similar;

c) epithet;

d) personification.

47. The sky was dark and gloomy, the air damp and raw, the streets wet and sloppy.

a) parallelism;

b) chiasmus;

c) polysyndeton;

d) asyndeton.

48. And the coach, and the coachman, and the horses, rattled, and jangled, and whipped, and cursed, and swore till they came to Golden Square.

a) polysyndeton;

b) asyndeton;

c) parallelism;

d) inversion.

49. He stood immovable like a rock in a torrent.

a) similar;

b) comparison;

c) irony;

d) hyperbole.

50. State the type of the archaism

If manners maketh man, then manner and grooming maketh poodle.

a) obsolescent words;

b) obsolete words;

c) historical words;

d) archaic proper.

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