VARIANT 1

1. Which of the following definitions adequately defines the notion of ‘style’ in stylistics?
a) linguistic or situational encirclement of a language unit c) an instrument made of metal or bone used for writing
in which it finds itself in speech; on waxed tablets;
b) a set of certain rules which in a certain epoch and in a d) the specificity (manner) of expression in speech and in
certain society is considered to be most correct and writing.
standard for a definite functional style;

2. Which type of meaning is “the objective relationship between a word and the reality to which it refers”?
a) connotative; c) denotative;
b) contextual; d) lexical.

3. What is the subject of study of Linguistic Stylistics?

a) the peculiarities of functional styles and expressive c) stylistic potentialities of two or more languages in
means of language; comparison;
b) text interpretation which is based upon certain d) the styles of particularly literary texts, authors, periods
objective language codes; or genres.

4. Expressive means of any language may be divided into:

a) stylistic, morphological, syntactic, word-building, c) phonetic, expressive, syntactic, word-building, lexical;
lexical; d) lexical and syntactical.
b) phonetic, morphological, syntactic, word-building,
lexical;

5. What words belong to colloquial vocabulary?

a) terms, archaic words, barbarisms, foreign words, c) slang, jargonisms, neologisms, occasionalisms;
neologisms, occasionalisms; d) archaisms, terms, professionalisms, dialectal words.
b) slang, jargonisms, professionalisms, vulgar words,
dialectal words;

6. State the type of literary words in the following example: If manners maketh man, then manner and grooming
maketh poodle.
a) archaic words; c) neologisms;
b) barbarisms; d) slang.

7. What type of vocabulary is used in the following fragment?

"Hundred dollars," I said. "Iron men. Fish. Bucks to the number of one hundred. Me no money, me no come. Savvy?" I
began to count a hundred with both hands.
a) literary; c) colloquial;
b) neutral; d) vulgar words.

8. Which of the following lists of words belong to colloquial vocabulary?

a) associate, aerial, accommodation, disposition, abandon; c) betimes, forby, heyday, twixt;
b) friend, antenna, flat, mood, leave; d) buddy, rabbit ears, digs, guts, kick.

9. Difference between the traditional usage of neutral word and its situational (stylistic) usage is called:
a) morphological stylistics; c) diversification;
b) transposition; d) evaluation.

10. Find the case of transposition of nouns:

a) Heaven remained rigidly in its proper place on the
other side of death, and on this side flourished the
injustices, the cruelties, the meannesses, that elsewhere
people so cleverly hushed up.
b) "Lion tamer wants tamer lion."
c) "I must say these are fine biscuits!" Exclaimed the
young husband. "How could you say those are fine
biscuits?" inquired the young wife's mother, in a private
interview. "I didn't say they were fine. I only said I must
say so."
 d) And for that offence immediately do we exile him
hence.

11. Find the case of transposition of articles:

a) This is the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. Its
members are called "Neurotics."
b) I don't want to turn into a Teddy Bolan.
c) "Your hair wants cutting badly, sir," said a barber
insinuatingly to a customer. "No, it doesn't," replied the
man in the chair "it wants cutting nicely. You cut it badly
last time."
d) "Lion tamer wants tamer lion."

12. Find the case of transposition of adjectives:

a) He was the most married man I've ever met.
b) Lion tamer wants tamer lion.
c) I don't want to turn into a Teddy Bolan.
d) And for that offence immediately do we exile him hence.

13. Find the case of transposition of verbs:

a) You are being very absurd, Laura, he said coldly.
b) "Her husband didn't leave her much when he died, did he?" – "No; but he left her very often when he was alive."
c) "Shay, pardon me, offisher, but where am I?" – "You're on the corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street." –
"Cut out the details. What town am I in?"
d) It was Robert Ackly, this guy, that roomed right next to me.

14. The science that studies association acoustic properties of phonemes with certain perceptions, images, ideas
is called:
a) phonetics; c) phonosemantics;
b) phonemics; d) phonology.

15. Find an example of chiasmus in the following examples:

a) He went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over.
b) Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down.
с) 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?

16. Find the example of assonance:

a) She mimicked a lisp: "I don't weally know wewer I'm a good girl."
b) You did. You're doing nothing else.
c) The wind was singing in the trees.
d) We’ll croon in tune, beneath the moon.

17. Find the example of alliteration:

a) Weather forecast for today: Hi 59, Lo 32, Wind lite.
b) "My daddy's coming tomorrow on an airplane."
c) He swallowed the hint with a gulp and a gasp and a grin.
d) Those evening bells! Those evening bells!

18. Find the example of onomatopoeia:

a) "Here, lemme handle this, kiddar," said Tiger.
b) "My daddy's coming tomorrow on a nairplane."
c) He caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks.
d) Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff. Ding-dong, ding-dong. The little train rumbled over the tracks.

19. Find the example of graphon:

a) "And remember, Mon-sewer O'Hayer says you got to straighten up this mess sometime today."
b) Don’t try to make a mountain out of a molehill.
c) The quick crackling of dry wood aflame cut through the night.
d) Full fathom five thy father lies.
20. Define the type of the following graphical expressive means: He missed our father very much. He was s-1-a-i-
n in North Africa.
a) multiplication; c) capitalization;
b) hyphenation; d) italics.

21. Pick out the stylistic device of metaphor:

a) She looked down on Gopher Prairie. The snow stretching without break from street to devouring prairie beyond,
wiped out the town's pretence of being a shelter.
b) 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.
c) He behaved pretty lousily to Jan.
d) I thought I'd come up and have a word with you, father.
22. Pick out the stylistic device of metonymy:
a) I was staring directly in front of me, at the back of the driver's neck, which was a relief map of boil scars.
b) She wanted to have a lot of children, and she was glad that things were that way, that the Church approved. Then
the little girl died. Nancy broke with Rome the day her baby died. It was a secret break, but no Catholic breaks with
Rome casually.
c) The Fascists, or extreme Nationalists, which means black-shirted, knife-carrying, club-swinging, quick-stepping,
nineteen-year-old-pot-shot patriots, have worn out their welcome in Italy.
d) Dear aunt, you frightened me out of my senses.

23. Pick out the stylistic device of antonomasia:

a) I've had such a lot of worry lately that I don't know whether I'm on my head or heels.
b) I saw him down at the hotel shouting the drinks for Sam. I think he's pretty fond of the bottle now.
c) "You cheat, you no-good cheat – you tricked our son. Took our son with a scheming trick, Miss Tomboy, Miss
Sarcastic, Miss Sneerface.
d) During the past few weeks she had become most sharply conscious of the smiling interest of Hauptwanger. His
straight lithe body – his quick, aggressive manner – his assertive, seeking eyes.

24. Pick out the stylistic device of epithet:

a) In the moon-landing year what choice is there for Mr. and Mrs. Average – the programme against poverty or the
ambitious NASA project?
b) We're ruled by the inventors and human nature, and we live in Queer Street, Mr. Desert.
c) 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.
d) He has that unmistakable tall lanky "rangy" loose-jointed graceful closecropped formidably clean American look.

25. Pick out the stylistic device of oxymoron:

a) Better a glorious death than a shameful life.
b) Sprinting towards the elevator he felt amazed at his own cowardly courage.
c) Darkness when once it fell, fell like a stone.
d) The conversations she began behaved like green logs: they fumed but would not fire.

26. Choose the example of decomposition of a phraseological unit:

a) You’re pulling my leg c) John is killing two birds with one stone.
b) Don’t cry, the milk is spilt d) It’s raining cats and dogs.

27. Pick out the example of violation of the phraseological unit:

a) Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
b) He was standing there nearly two hours, shifting from foot to unaccustomed foot.
c) Failure is the foundation of success and success is the lurking place of failure.
d) Good words cost nothing and are worth much.

28. What proverb is decomposed in the following example: You know which side the law’s buttered.
a) His bread is buttered on both sides.
b) It is no use crying over spilt milk!
c) Give a thief rope enough and he’ll hang himself.
d) Laws without punishment are like bells with no clackers.

29. Pick out the example of quotation:

a) Plan ahead. It was not raining when Noah built the Ark.
b) As the cave’s roof collapsed, he was swallowed up in the dust like Jonah, and only his frantic scrabbling behind a
wall of rock indicated that there was anyone still alive.
c) The commitment in Britain to basic freedoms of worship, assembly, speech and press began to emerge in the 16th
and 17th centuries alongside a rejection of religious persecution. ‘If not equal all, yet all equally free’ wrote Milton in
Paradise Lost.
d) Don't use big words. They mean so little.

30. Pick out the example of allusion:

a) As the cave’s roof collapsed, he was swallowed up in the dust like Jonah, and only his frantic scrabbling behind a
wall of rock indicated that there was anyone still alive.
b) They could keep the Minden Street Shop going until they got the notice to quit; which mightn't be for two years. Or
they could wait and see what kind of alternative premises were offered.
c) Their father who was the poorest man in town kept turning to the same jokes when he was treated to a beer or two.
d) He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent.

31. Pick out the list of syntactic stylistic devices based on the extension of the sentence model:
a) repetition, enumeration, pleonasm, tautology, polysyndeton, parenthetic sentences;
b) polysyndeton, rhetorical question, chiasmus, antithesis;
c) inversion, apokoinu construction, ellipsis, asyndeton, enumeration, aposiopesis;
d) apokoinu construction, ellipsis, asyndeton, aposiopesis.

32. Find an example of personification:

a) The kettle is boiling.
b) He is not a Pushkin, but his poems are good.
c) I don’t like her sharp tongue.
d) The wind was singing in the trees.

33. What stylistic device is the repetition of the structure of the first sentence in a second one only in a reversed
manner?
a) anaphora; c) chiasmus;
b) antithesis; d) tautology.

34. Identify stylistic device in the following example: The dinner was so good; I ate the chicken, and the salad, and
the turkey, and the wild rice, and the bread, and the mashed potatoes, and the cranberry sauce.
a) periphrasis c) polysyndeton
b) asyndeton d) chiasmus

35. Narrative compositional forms are subdivided into:

a) narrative proper, description, argumentation;
b) narrative proper, description, distribution;
c) personages’ narrative, author’s narrative, argumentation;
d) narrative proper, dialogue, inner monologue.

36. A deliberate exaggeration of some quantity or quality is:

a) irony;
b) hyperbole;
c) metonymy;
d) metaphor.

37. The given definition is appropriate for: "These are the words of foreign origin which have not been entirely
been assimilated into the English language."
a) jargonisms;
b) vulgarisms;
c) barbarisms;
d) obsolete words.

38. Define the type of transference in "foot of a bed"

a) metaphor;
b) antonymy;
c) metonymy;
d) periphrases.
39. The following phrase "She went home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair" is an example of:
a) antonomasia;
b) zeugma;
c) onomatopoeia;
d) metaphor.

40. In modern English linguistics the terms register, genre, and style are used to refer
a) three identical viewpoints on text varieties
b) three different perspectives on text varieties
c) varieties of functional styles;
d) a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication.

VARIANT 2

1. Find the case of transposition of articles:

a) "What are the comparative and superlative of bad, Berty?" - "Bad - worse - dead."
b) I thought it was fine - especially the Chopin.
c) "Can you tell me where this road goes, please?" - "It don't go anywhere; it just stops where it is."
d) These foreigners! They laughed at the old man!

2. Find the case of transposition of adjectives:

a) The fine, the large, the florid — all off!
b) I thought it was fine - especially the Chopin.
c) "Can you tell me where this road goes, please?" - "It don't go anywhere; it just stops where it is."
d) These foreigners! They laughed at the old man!

3. Find the case of transposition of verbs:

a) "What are the comparative and superlative of bad, Berty?" - "Bad - worse - dead."
b) I thought it was fine - especially the Chopin.
c) "Can you tell me where this road goes, please?" - "It don't go anywhere; it just stops where it is."
d) These foreigners! They laughed at the old man!

4. Terms are:
a) antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones
b) words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
c) professional words with the fixed sphere of colloquial usage
d) words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique

5. Pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear is called:

a) cacophony; c) euphony;
b) onomatopoeia; d) phonosymbolism.

6. Find the example of assonance:

a) Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
b) Fire at the private eye hired to pry in my business.
c) Slowly but surely man is conquering Nature.
d) He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic.
7. Find the example of alliteration:
a) Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
b) Fire at the private eye hired to pry in my business.
c) Slowly but surely man is conquering Nature.
d) He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic.

8. Find the example of onomatopoeia:

a) The river slushed and rushed, bubbling and gurgling along the rocks.
b) The river wove hither and thither, glistening and misting over slivers of rocks.
c) Sally slipped on the slide and slid off sloppily.
d) The rising world of waters dark and deep.

9. Find the example of graphon:

a) His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the
descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
b) All the people like us are We, and everyone else is they.
c) “Ah, ah, ah,” he intoned, shaking his head dolefully, “ze poor lizzie fellow. Buz we musz work... please to continuez
wiz your reading, mon ami”
d) A world without goodness - it'd be Paradise. But it wouldn't no more than now.

10. Define the type of the following graphical expressive means: Silence! Silen-n-n-n-nce
a) hyphenation; c) italics;
b) capitalization; d) multiplication.

11. Pick out the stylistic device of metaphor:

a) The machine sitting at the desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker.
b) A bonnet and a dress floated down the street.
c) Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war. (irony
d)
12. Pick out the stylistic device of metonymy:
a) The machine sitting at the desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker.
b) A bonnet and a dress floated down the street.
c) Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war.
d) In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony…

13. Pick out the stylistic device of antonomasia:

a) The machine sitting at the desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker.
b) A bonnet and a dress floated down the street.
c) Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war.
d) In November a cold, unseen stranger, whom the doctors called Pneumonia, stalked about the colony…

14. What type of narration is when the author renders thoughts and feelings of many characters:
a) first-person narration;
b) represented speech;
c) third-person unlimited;
d) third-person omniscient.

15. Pick out the stylistic device of zeugma:

a) At noon Mrs. Turpin would get out of bed and humor, put on kimono, airs, and water to boil for coffee.
b) A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
c) She climbed with the quickness of a cat.
d) The money she had accepted was two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills.

16. Pick out the stylistic device of pun:

a) At noon Mrs. Turpin would get out of bed and humor, put on kimono, airs, and water to boil for coffee.
b) A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
c) She climbed with the quickness of a cat.
d) The money she had accepted was two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills.

17. Pick out the example of violation of the phraseological unit:

a) I wish Jane Fairfax very well; but she tires me to death.
b) It is too late to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen.
c) Little Jon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth which was rather curly and large.
d) I’ve had my day and I’ve enjoyed it. It’s only fair to give others a chance now.

18. Which type of meaning is “the communicative power of a word by virtue of what it refers to”?
a) connotative c) denotative
b) contextual d) lexical

19. What stylistic device is based on the use of the word in the same grammatical but different semantic
relations with two or more adjacent words in the context?
a) metaphor c) pun
b) metonymy d) zeugma

20. Pick out the example of allusion:

a) People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
b) An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.
c) I didn’t have any bus fare, but fortunately some good Samaritan helped me out!
d) What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

21. Pick out the example of repetition:

a) The robbery. Long Ago. Very valuable emeralds, so I've heard. The lady's made and the tweeny.
b) The smile extended into laugh; the laugh into roar, the roar became general.
c) He had been nearly killed, ingloriously, in a jeep accident.
d) They looked at hundreds of houses; they climbed thousands of stairs; they inspected innumerable kitchens.

22. Pick out the example of parallelism:

a) He had been nearly killed, ingloriously, in a jeep accident.
b) They looked at hundreds of houses; they climbed thousands of stairs; they inspected innumerable kitchens.
c) Weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning.
d) It is a northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts.

23. Pick out the example of asyndeton:

a) He had been nearly killed, ingloriously, in a jeep accident. (detachment)
b) They looked at hundreds of houses; they climbed thousands of stairs; they inspected innumerable kitchens.(climax)
c) To all appearances he—the fellow—lived alone.
d) He beat her—in cold blood—and she was carrying a child.

24. Pick out the example of polysyndeton:

a) Let the white folks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and
lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness.
b) Some people have much to live on, and little to live for.
c) Better to borrow, better to beg, better to die!
d) When I ask him to aid me with help, do his lesson for homework, and eat some dinner in the evening, he says he’ll
do it tomorrow or the next day.

25. Pick out the example of tautology:

a) Let the white folks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and
lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness.
b) Some people have much to live on, and little to live for.
c) Better to borrow, better to beg, better to die!
d) When I ask him to aid me with help, do his lesson for homework, and eat some dinner in the evening, he says he’ll
do it tomorrow or the next day.

26. Third person narration may be in the following types:

a) third person omniscient, third person unlimited, third-person objective;
b) third person limited, third person not objective, third-person objective;
c) third person limited, third person unlimited, third-person objective
d) Third person omniscient, third person limited, third-person objective

27. According to I.R. Galperin, a functional style is

a) a system of language means used in communication;
b) brief news items, advertisements and announcements;
c) logical proof of scientific theories;
d) a system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication.

28. What stylistic devices are used in the following fragment: Oh Lord! What an evening! What a crew! What a
silly tomfoollery!
a) parallelism and detachment; c) parallelism and anaphora;
b) parallelism and chiasmus; d) pleonasm and meiosis.

29. A negative construction that can be used for making positive statement, thus creating a peculiar stylistic
effect is called:
a) rhetorical question; c) litotes;
b) meiosis; d) represented speech.

30. Repetition of identical or similar sounds or sound combinations at the end of successive lines is called:
a) alliteration; c) assonance;
b) rhyme; d) rhythm.

31. What is the main aim of the language of official documents?

a) the logical proof of scientific theories;
b) to influence the public opinion;
c) to fix the conditions of an agreement between two or more sides;
d) to express a critical attitude.

32. Find a case of synecdoche:

a) Everything smiled at him.
b) All hands aboard!
c) The childhood of the earth.
d) The leg of the table was broken.

33. What stylistic device is used in the following fragment: He sings, and he sings, and forever sings he - "I love
my Love and my Love loves me.”
a) framing; c) chain repetition;
b) chiasmus; d) anaphora.

34. What stylistic device is used in the following fragment: They sat up with gaiety as with a corpse?
a) irony; c) simile;
b) epithet; d) metonymy.

35. Three types of climax are

a) logical, emotive, quantitative;
b) nominal, expressive, quantitative;
c) nominal, evaluative, quantitative;
d) logical, expressive, nominal.

36. Stylistics can be seen as a direct descendant of

a) linguistics; c) semasiology;
b) rhetoric; d) lexicology.

37. What is “image” in stylistics?

a) a certain picture drawn of the objective world by an artist;
b) a verbal subjective description of a person, event, occurrence;
c) verbs used in the descriptions;
d) the peculiarities of language means functioning in descriptions.

38. The following phrase: "Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into the beach" is an
example of:
a) assonance;
b) alliteration;
c) synecdoche; ?
d) hyperbole.

39. How can we also call a stylistic device?

a) a trope;
b) a functional style;
c) expressive means;
d) scheme.

40. Specific literary vocabulary includes:

a) terms, common literary words, archaic words, barbarisms and foreign words, neologisms;
b) terms, poetic words, nonce-words, barbarisms and foreign words, neologisms;
c) terms, poetic words, archaic words, barbarisms and foreign words, neologisms;
d) professionalisms, poetic words, archaic words, barbarisms and foreign words, neologisms;

VARIANT 3

1. Which of the following definitions adequately defines the notion of ‘stylistic devices’:
a) phonetic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic units and forms which are used in speech to strengthen the meaning
of the utterance, to make it definite;
b) reflection of reality in linguistic and extralinguistic contexts from the speaker’s/ writer’s point of view;
c) phonetic, morphological, lexical and syntactic figures of speech formed on the basis of language units and forms;
d) the invariant of the phonemic, morphological, lexical and syntactical patterns in circulation during a given period in
the development of the given language.

2. What is pun?
a) transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects;
b) a sense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing or hearing;
c) the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables;
d) the simultaneous realization of two meanings.

3. What is the subject of study of Literary Stylistics?

a) real texts and their communicative potential;
b) the individual style of the author;
c) expressive morphological and syntactic language units;
d) stylistic potentialities of two or more languages in comparison.

4. Which lexical stylistic device is also referred as paronomasia?

a) pun; c) metaphor;
b) zeugma; d) metonymy.

5. Emphatic word-order belongs to:

a) phonetic expressive means;
b) morphological expressive means;
c) syntactic expressive means;
d) lexical expressive means.

6. Coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite conversation are
called:
a) jargonisms; c) vulgarism;
b) professionalisms; d) barbarisms.

7. The following phrase "You have nobody to blame but yourself. The saddest words of tongue or pen" is an
example of:
a) assonance; c) metaphor;
b) onomatopoeia; d) metonymy.

8. State the type of literary words used in the following example: "He of the iron garment," said Daigety,
entering, "is bounden unto you, MacEagh, and this noble lord shall be bounden also."
a) terms; c) barbarisms;
b) archaic words; d) neologisms.

9. The following phrase: "A Madame Sappho would have called him a pig; a Shakespeare would have said “my
merry child " is an example of:
a) assonance; c) metaphor;
b) onomatopoeia; d) antonomasia.

10. Which of the following lists of words belong to literary vocabulary?

a) associate, aerial, accommodation, disposition, abandon;
b) friend, antenna, flat, mood, leave;
c) buddy, rabbit ears, digs, guts, kick;
d) alluring, beautiful, drop-dead.

11. Find the case of transposition of nouns:

a) They would put away the card-table and empty the ash-receivers with many "Oh, I beg your pardon's" and "No, no
– I was in your way's."
b) “It's better to be late, Mr. Motorist, than to be the late, Mr. Motorist.”
c) You cannot be deader than the dead.
d) It was yesterday and looked this way. The perpetrator comes to his victim, takes a long dagger out of his inner
pocket and stabs the poor man right into his belly without saying a word.

12. Find the case of transposition of adjectives:

a) They would put away the card-table and empty the ash-receivers with many "Oh, I beg your pardon's" and "No, no
– I was in your way's."
b) “It's better to be late, Mr. Motorist, than to be the late, Mr. Motorist.”
c) You cannot be deader than the dead.
d) It was yesterday and looked this way. The perpetrator comes to his victim, takes a long dagger out of his inner
pocket and stabs the poor man right into his belly without saying a word.

13. Find the case of transposition of verbs:

a) They would put away the card-table and empty the ash-receivers with many "Oh, I beg your pardon's" and "No, no
– I was in your way's."
b) “It's better to be late, Mr. Motorist, than to be the late, Mr. Motorist.”
c) You cannot be deader than the dead.
d) It was yesterday and looked this way. The perpetrator comes to his victim, takes a long dagger out of his inner
pocket and stabs the poor man right into his belly without saying a word.

14. The basic unit of phonological level of a language is the:

a) phoneme; c) grapheme;
b) lexeme; d) syntagm.
15. A word or a group of words giving an expressive characterization of the object described is
a) metaphor; c) metonomy;
b) simile; d) epithet.

16. Find the example of assonance:

a) The Italian trio tut-tutted their tongues at me.
b) "Ye've a duty to the public don'tcher know that, a duty to the Kreat English public?" said George reproachfully.
c) Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese.
d) The next speaker was a tall gloomy man. Sir Something Somebody.

17. Find the example of alliteration:

a) "Ye've a duty to the public don'tcher know that, a duty to the Kreat English public?" said George reproachfully.
b) The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free.
c) On a proud round cloud in white high night.
d) The human tide is rolling westward.

18. Find the example of onomatopoeia:

a) Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
b) How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night!
c) His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible.
d) The human tide is rolling westward.

19. Find the example of graphon:

a) Ralph’s reindeer rose rapidly and ran round the room.
b) His wife was shrill, languid, handsome and horrible.
c) "It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothing else you can do. We ain't gonna die out. People is
goin' on – changin' a little may be – but goin' right on."
d) A fat cat sat on a mat.

20. A sentence where one of the main members is omitted is

a) rhetorical question; c) elliptical sentence;
b) parallelism; d) detached.

21. Pick out the stylistic device of metaphor:

a) And the skirts! What a sight were those skirts! They were nothing but vast decorated pyramids; on the summit of
each was stuck the upper half of a princess.
b) Ten years ago I used to go there not infrequently.
c) I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran toward me with a chainsaw.
d) There was a drop of water left in the bucket.

22. Pick out the stylistic device of metonymy:

a) The houses were black specks on a white sheet.
b) Hollywood has been releasing a surprising amount of sci-fi movies lately.
c) She was handsome in a rather leonine way. Where this girl was a lioness, the other was a panther – lithe and quick.
d) She turned with the sweet smile of an alligator.

23. Pick out the stylistic device of antonomasia:

a) She was handsome in a rather leonine way. Where this girl was a lioness, the other was a panther – lithe and quick.
b) Across the ditch Doll was having an entirely different reaction. With all his heart and soul, furiously, jealously,
vindictively, he was hoping Queen would not win.
c) Now let me introduce you – that's Mr. What's-his-name, you remember him, don't you? And over there in the
corner, that's the Major, and there's Mr. What-d'you-call-him, and that's an American.
d) She turned with the sweet smile of an alligator.

24. Pick out the stylistic device of epithet:

a) We sat down at a table with two girls in yellow and three men, each one introduced to us as Mr. Mumble.
b) He’s a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed peacock.
c) There was a drop of water left in the bucket.
d) Hollywood has been releasing a surprising amount of sci-fi movies lately.

25. Pick out the stylistic device of oxymoron:

a) She’s been in a bedroom with one of the young Italians, Count Something.
b) He caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks.
c) Mr. Du Pont was dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American
millionaire.
d) Hollywood has been releasing a surprising amount of sci-fi movies lately.

26. Professionalisms are:

a) words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique;
b) words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times;
c) the words used in a definite trade;
d) barbarisms and foreign words.

27. Jargonisms are:

a) words whose aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group;
b) words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique;
c) words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times;
d) words, used by limited groups of people.

28. The irony is ...

a) the stylistic device based on simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the
two meanings stand in opposition to each other;
b) a combination of two words in which the meaning of the two clash, being opposite in sense;
c) the stylistic device based on the association between the logical and nominal meanings of a word;
d) a word phrase used to replace an unpleasant word or expression by a more acceptable one.

29. The following phrase: "grinning like a chim-pan-zee" is an example of:

a) italics; c) hyphenation;
b) capitalization; d) multiplication.

30. Pick out the example of allusion:

a) Christy didn’t like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare
necessities.
b) She didn’t answer. She rose from the table. She went to her room to see that nothing her been forgotten and side by
side with him walked down the steps.
c) Last time it was a nice, simple, European-style war.
d) Watching the skirts you start to flirt.

31. In "the face of London", or "the pain of the ocean" we deal with ...
a) assonance; c) onomatopoeia;
b) alliteration; d) personification.

32. Metaphor can be expressed by:

a) all notional parts of speech;
b) only verbs and nouns;
c) only adjectives and adverbs;
d) all parts of speech.

33. What lexical stylistic device is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena?
a) assonance; c) metaphor;
b) onomatopoeia; d) metonymy.

34. What does Literary stylistics occupy itself with?

a) functional styles of the language, their development and establishment;
b) the styles of particularly literary texts, authors, periods or genres;
c) linguistic choices in literary texts relate;
d) the linguistic nature of the expressive means of the language, their systematic characteristics and their functions.

35. Find an example of anadiplosis:

a) I am sorry, I am so very sorry, I am so extremely sorry.
b) Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
c) Money is what he is after money!
d) Those evening bells! Those evening bells!

36. Pick out the list of syntactic stylistic devices based on the reduction of the sentence model:
a) repetition, enumeration, pleonasm, tautology, polysyndeton, parenthetic sentences;
b) polysyndeton, rhetorical question, chiasmus, antithesis;
c) ellipsis, apokoinu construction, polysyndeton, rhetorical question;
d) apokoinu construction, ellipsis, asyndeton, aposiopesis.

37. Rhetorical question is

a) a sentence where one member is omitted;
b) a question which needs answer;
c) a statement in the form of a question which needs no answer;
d) a comparison of two things.

38. What stylistic devices are used in the sentence "There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and
called Summit, of course"?
a) simile and irony;
b) comparison and hyperbole;
c) irony and exaggeration;
d) comparison and epithet.

39 What stylistic device is used in the sentence: The girl gave him a lipsticky smile
a) epithet;
b) irony;
c) simile;
d) metonymy.

40. What stylistic device is there in this example?

Women are not made for attacks. Wait they must.
a) anadiplosis;
b) ellipsis;
c) gradation;
d) inversion.