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1. When does the assonance take place?

A) Two or more words repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
B) A number of words in a series, having the same first consonant sound
C) The repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect
D) There is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds
E) The repetition of a word or words so that the second clause starts with the same word which
marks the end of the previous clause
2. Where is the assonance among the following sentences?

A) Johnny went here and there and everywhere
B) But a better butter makes a batter better
C) The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator
D) “Eat to live, not live to eat.”
E) “And being no stranger to the art of war, I have him a description of cannons, culverins,
muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles
3. Find the assonance among the following sentences?

A) The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle
B) The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free
C) “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call.”
D) The books fell on the table with a loud thump
E) “I’m getting married in the morning! Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.”
4. What is the origin of the word “alliteration”?

A) Latin
B) Greek
C) French
D) German
E) Danish
5. Alliteration is derived from a Latin “Latira”, what does it mean?

A) letters of alphabet
B) vowels
C) sound
D) sentence
E) consonant
6. Where is the alliteration among the following sentences?

A) A big bully beats a baby boy
B) I feel depressed and restless
C) My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.
D) New verities, new inklings in the velvet hummed Of dynamos, where hearing’s leash is
strummed
E) The moan of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees…”
7. What is the alliteration?

A) a number of words occur close together in a series, having the same first consonant sound
B) two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different
consonant sounds
C) there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds
D) the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
E) Repetition of words at the start of clauses or verses
8. What imitates the natural sounds of a thing, which it describes?

A) Onomatopoeia
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Cacophony
E) Antimetabole
9. Find the most famous example of alliteration:

A) Coca-Cola
B) American Airlines
C) Caged Bird Sings
D) BMW
E) McDonald’s
10. Where is the onomatopoeia among the following sentences?

A) The rustling leaves kept me awake
B) Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
C) O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed
D) Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love
E) New York is not an ordinary city
11. What indicates irregularities or carelessness of pronunciation, supplies information about the
speaker’s origin, social and educational background and etc?
A) Graphon
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Antimetabole
E) Denotation
12. Where the example of graphon from the following sentences?

A) The b-b-b-ast-ud seen me c-c-coming
B) A dove is used to suggest peace or gentility
C) My brother was boiling mad
D) England decides to keep check on immigration
E) If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with
13. What stylistic devices are the words “Meow”, “Moo”, “Whoosh”?
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Cacophony
E) Antimetabole
14. What stylistic device is it: Ah like ma droap o’Scatch, d’ye ken?
A) Graphon
B) Alliteration
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Assonance
E) Metaphor
15. What stylistic device is it: Hish mishish, it ish hish mishish. Yesh”?
A) Graphon
B) Oxymoron
C) Cacophony
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
16. What is the simile?

A) is a figure of speech that compares two different things
B) implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words
C) substitution of 1 word for another which it suggests
D) use of similar sounding words; often etymological word-play
E) repetition of the same sound n words close to each other
17. What is the end of the simile: Jesse is as sly as a..?

A) Fox
B) Fly
C) Snake
D) Elephant
E) Fish
19. What is the end of the simile: That fence is as solid as…?
A) a rock
B) a pillow
C) fog
D) an open window
E) bird
19. Which of the following lines contains a simile?

A) Does it stink like rotten meat?
B) Or does it explode?
C) Maybe it just sags
D) Or crust and sugar over
E) He had big feet
20. What stylistic device has a comparison that uses "like" or "as"?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Hyperbole
D) Personification
E) Onomatopoeia
21. What stylistic device is here: Does it dry up like a raising in the sun?
A) Indirect comparison
B) Personification
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Hyperbole
22. Which of the following is an example of a simile?

A) His feet were like baby dolphins
B) He had big feet
C) His feet were huge dolphins
D) His feet looked enormous
E) His feet were dirty
23. What sentence provides an example of a simile?

A) The sky is blue as the ocean
B)The baby's skin is dry
C) He returned whole after all these years
D) The boy is very selfish and mean
E) Amir already knows he will win
24. What type of figurative language is used here: He was as blind as a bat?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Hyperbole
E) Idiom
25. What figurative language that uses "as" or "like" is called?

A) Simile
B) Hyperbole
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Alliteration
26. What is the hyperbole?

A) exaggeration is used to create a strong effect
B) is a figure of speech that compares two different things
C) use of similar sounding words; often etymological word-play
D) expression that means something different from what it says
E) repeating of a sound, word, or phrase in a poem or song
27. Complete the sentence: You could have knocked me over with a …?
A) Feather
B) by tripping me
C) push
D) bang
E) noise
28. Which of the following is not an example of hyperbole?

A) The smoke smelled so bad it made my nose burn
B) The noise was so loud it shook the earth
C) I ate so much I might explode
D) The tree was so tall it may have touched space
E) The wind grabbed my arm
29. What is it an example of: I had tried to open my locker a thousand times before someone
came to help me?
A) Hyperbole
B) Personification
C) Metaphor
D) Simile
E) Alliteration
30. What is the term used to describe this: I have a million things to do?
A) Hyperbole
B) Metaphor
C) Simile
D) Idiom
E) Alliteration
31. What kind of figurative language is it: He threw the football so far it went into space!?
A) Hyperbole
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Alliteration
E) Metaphor
32 What ST is used here: The music was so loud you could hear it in the next time zone?
A) Hyperbole
B) Flashback
C) Metaphor
D) Simile
E) Personification
33. What is this sentence an example of: My feet are killing me.?
A) Hyperbole
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Simile
E) Idiom
34. What ST is used here: I jumped so high I touched the sky?

A) Indirect exaggeration
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Idiom
E) Metaphor
35. What is extreme exaggeration for effect called?

A) Indirect exaggeration
B) Irony
C) Allusion
D) Oxymoron
E) Euphemism
36. What is a play on words that has the same sound but different meanings?
A) Pun
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
E) Parallelism
37. What is a condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together?
A) Oxymoron
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
E) Parallelism
38. What is a stylistic device, which emphasizes some quality of a person, thing, idea or
phenomenon and reveals the evaluating subjective attitude of the writer towards the thing
described?
A) Epithet
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
E) Parallelism
39. What SD is it: Alexander the Great?

A) Epithet
B) Alliteration
C) Inversion
D) Hyperbole
E) Anaphora
40. What SD is it: Charles put his best foot forward, and thoughts of the mysterious woman
behind him?
A) Epithet
B) Simile
C) Inversion
D) Hyperbole
E) Anaphora
41. What SD does this sentence contain: Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health?
A) Oxymoron
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
E) Parallelism
42. What SD does this sentence contain: O heavy lightness! Serious vanity?
A) Oxymoron
B) Personification
C) Epithet
D) Anaphora
E) Parallelism
43. What SD does this sentence contain: Of anything, of nothing first create?
A) Oxymoron
B) Simile
C) Inversion
D) Hyperbole
E) Anaphora
44. What SD does this sentence contain: You held your breath and the door for me?
A) Zeugma
B) Personification
C) Epithet
D) Anaphora
E) Parallelism
45. What SD does this sentence contain: We were partners, not soul mates, two separate people
who happened to be sharing a menu and a life?
A) Zeugma
B) Alliteration
C) Inversion
D) Hyperbole
E) Anaphora
46.What SD does this sentence contain: He lost his coat and his temper ?
A) Zeugma
B) Personification
C) Epithet
D) Anaphora
E) Parallelism
47. What SD does this sentence contain: A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor?
A) Pun
B) Simile
C) Metaphor
D) Personification
E) Parallelism
48. Where is pun?

A) The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in a chord
B) You held your breath and the door for me
C) The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky
D) Look at my car. She is a beauty, isn’t it so
E) Two Sunflowers move in the Yellow Room
49. Where is epithet?

A) It was a sweet beginning to a tragic end
B) The moon winked at me through the clouds above
C) Two peanuts walk into a bar. One was a salted
D) Tonight you voted for action, not politics as usual. You elected us to focus on our jobs, not
ours
E) Man proposes God disposes
50. What is zeugma?

A) A figure of speech in which a word applies to more than one noun blending together
grammatically and logically different ideas
B) Giving human traits to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas)
C) Emphasizes some quality of a person, thing, idea or phenomenon and reveals the evaluating
subjective attitude of the writer towards the thing described
D) A play on words that has the same sound but different meanings
E) A form of parallelism where a word or several words are repeated at the beginning of
successive lines, sentences or paragraphs
51. What SD does this sentence contain: The pond was a crystal mirror reflecting the sun's rays
on the cold winter's morning?
A) metaphor
B) analogy
C) alliteration
D) personification
E) simile
52. Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

A) My dad won't go hiking, he is a couch potato!
B)Those girls are like two peas in a pod
C) He's as lazy as a dog
D) She was as cold as ice
E) Her eyes shone like stars in the night
53. What SD does this sentence contain: The darkness was a blanket that both smothered and
comforted?
A) Metaphor
B) Alliteration
C) Simile
D) Personification
E) Irony
54. How does metaphor differ chiefly from simile?

A) does not use an explicit comparative word such as like or as
B) author flashes back in time to a previous events
C) is used to describe non-human objects in the natural world
D) contains many layers of significance
E) may be extended over many lines of verse
55. Which of the following is an example of metaphor?

A) No one invites Chuck to parties because he's a wet blanket
B) The sniper kills his own brother
C) Those girls are like two peas in a pod
D) Ted was as nervous as a cat
E) The sky smiled down on me
56. What SD does this sentence contain: We're on for tonight," Julio said with a tightness in his
voice. And I haven't got a thing to wear!" Ben cried...?
A) Verbal Irony
B) Traditional Irony
C) Situational Irony
D) Dramatic Irony
E) All of the above
57. What SD does this sentence contain: Romi, did you notice that our names are almost like the
ones in the play, only backwards? Do you think that means something?
A) Situational Irony
B) Dramatic Irony
C) Traditional Irony
D) Verbal Irony
E) None of the above
58. A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a
mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.?
A) dramatic irony
B) traditional irony
C) situational irony
D) verbal irony
E) none of the above
59. What is it called when the audience knows something that the character does not?
A) dramatic irony
B) situational irony
C) verbal irony
D) traditional irony
E) none of the above
60. When actions have a different outcome than that which is expected, you have?
A) situational irony
B) traditional irony
C) verbal irony
D) dramatic irony
E) all of the above
61. What is the best example of a metaphor?

A) O, speak again, bright angel!
B) Ted was as nervous as a cat
C) Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?
D) Peace you mumbling fool!
E. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!
62. Which line from the poem contains a metaphor?

A) I am a bee shuffling through the leaves
B) She leans her pink elbow on the green grass
C) and my sneakers imprint dents on the field
D) We are a world apart in the same backyard
E) How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!
63. Which sentence is an example of a metaphor?

A) The ocean's the biggest snowflake ever
B) The ocean is like the biggest snowflake ever
C) Ocean is to snowflake as water is to ice
D) The ocean is cold like a snowflake
E) The ocean’s snowflake is as cold as ice
64. Which of the following is an example of situational irony?

A) A vampire has a cross in his house
B) Those girls are like two peas in a pod
C) The cat ran away from the dog
D) She told everyone what a beautiful day it was
E) Penny is beautiful
65. What SD does this sentence contain: I am so glad the elevator is stuck; it has been a lifelong
dream that this would happen?
A) Verbal Irony
B) Traditional Irony
C) Situational Irony
D) ramatic Irony
E) None of the Above
66. Complete the sentence: What are generally associated with a definite branch of science and
therefore with a series of other terms belonging to that particular branch of science?
A) Terms
B) Archaic words
C) Barbarisms
D) Literary coinages
E) Slang
67. Where are the professionalisms used?

A) in a definite trade, profession
B) in historical novels, in official and diplomatic documents
C) in colloquial, or, esp. in unrefined or low, speech
D) in a definite branch of science
E) in Old English
68. What are the words of foreign origin which have not entirely been assimilated into the
English language called?
A) Barbarisms
B) Slang
C) Literary coinages
D) Terms
E) Jargonisms
69. What are the words which in the process of integration of the English national language
remained beyond its literary boundaries, and their use is generally confined to a definite locality
called?
A) Dialectal words
B) Slang
C) Literary coinages
D) Terms
E) Jargonisms
70. What is the function of vulgarisms as that of interjections?

A) to express strong emotions
B) to indicate the technical peculiarities of the subject dealt with
C) to make some reference to the occupation of a character
D) to show the development of a language
E) to indicate the professionalism
71. What style is used to exert a constant and deep influence on public opinion, to cause the
reader or the listener to accept the point of view expressed in the speech, essays or article?
A) The publicistic style
B) The official business style
C) The professional style
D) The literary colloquial style
E) The scientific style
72. What is a literary composition of moderate length on philosophical, social, aesthetic or

literary subject?
A) The essay
B) The article
C) The speech
D) The complaint letter
E) The letter of agreement
73. What is regarded as the quintessence of colloquial speech and therefore stands above all the
laws of grammar?
A) Slang
B) Terms
C) Archaic words
D) Barbarisms
E) Literary coinages
74. What does indicate the technical peculiarities of the subject dealt with, or make some
reference to the occupation of a character whose language would naturally contain special words
and expressions
A) Terms
B) Archaic words
C) Barbarisms
D) Literary coinages
E) Slang
75. How is the second group of archaic words called?

A) Obsolete
B) Obsolescent
C) Archaic proper
D) Primarily
E) Archaisms
76. How is the third group of archaic words called?

A) Archaic proper
B) Primarily
C) Archaisms
D) Obsolete
E) Obsolescent
77. What is the definition of slang

A) the special vocabulary used by persons of a low or disreputable character
B) a noun or compound word used in a specific context: meaning
C) the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current
D) a philosophical and historiographical theory
E) a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings
78. What language did the word “barbarism” come from?

A) Greek
B) Latin
C) Spanish
D) French
E) Italian
79. What is called the study of terms and their use?

A) Terminology
B) Lexicography
C) Stylistics
D) Lexicology
E) Grammar
80. What may include errors of pronunciation, misspellings?

A) Vulgarisms
B) Terms
C) Professionalisms
D) Archaisms
E) Historisms
81. What is stylistics by P. Simpson?

A) Stylistics is a method of textual interpretation in which primacy of place is assigned to
language
B) It is the study of style which can be defined as the analysis of distinctive expressions in
language and the description of its purpose and effect
C) It is primarily the study of various language resources of human emotions and each stylistic
form is marked either by expressivity or emotivity
D) It is a branch of linguistics dealing with variants, varieties of linguistic expressions and,
hence, with subsystems making up the general system of language
E) It is a separate branch of linguistics studying the expressive possibilities of the English
language
82. Who said that: Stylistics is the study of style which can be defined as the analysis of
distinctive expressions in language and the description of its purpose and effect?
A) P. Verdonk
B) P. Simpson
C) O.M. Morokhovsky
D) V.I. Shakhovsky
E) M.P. Ivashkin
83. How many types of stylistic research are there?

A) 7
B) 5
C) 6
D) 8
E)4
84. Which of stylistics’ type studies the semantic structure of the word and the interrelation of
the connotative and denotative meanings of the word?
A) Stylistic Lexicology
B) Stylistic grammar
C) Stylistic Phonetics
D) Functional stylistics
E) Decoding stylistics
85. How many components has cоnnоtаtive meaning?

A) 4
B) 6
C) 7
D) 3
E) 5
86. Which of the connotative meaning expresses various feelings оr emotions?

A) Emotive connotations
B) The evaluative component
C) Expressive connotation
D) Stylistic connotation
E) Inherent connotation
87. Which of the Connotative meanings charges the word with negative, positive, ironic
conveying the speaker's attitude in relation to the object of speech?
A) The evaluative component
B) Emotive connotations
C) Stylistic connotation
D) Inherent connotation
E) Expressive connotation
88. What does content matter express?

A) Voices for sad and happy, comic and tragic subjects
B) Expressivity markers” that indicate the narrators’ education, beliefs, convictions, interests
C) Ideological orientation, attitude towards people, events and things
D) The narrator’s awareness of an audience and the degree of his/her orientation towards it
E) A story of personal experience
89. How many Narrative Modes are there?

A) 6
B) 4
C) 5
D) 3
E) 8
90. What is Trope?

A) It is a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words, i.e. using a word in a way
other than what is considered its literal or normal form
B) It is transference of names based on contiguity, on extralinguistic, actually existing relations
between the phenomena
C) It is a metaphor that involves likeness between inanimate and animate objects
D) It is transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects
E) It is a device which denotes the use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter and
plainer form of expression
91. How many figures of inequality there are in stylistics?

A) 7
B) 5
C) 6
D) 4
E) 9
92. What does the Scientific Prose Style include?

A) Exact sciences, humanitarian sciences, popular- science prose
B) Diplomatic documents, business letters, military documents
A lot of terms
C) Oratory, essays
D) Articles in newspapers and magazines, brief news items
E) Poetry, emotive prose, drama
93. Which components does Arnold’s system of styles include?

A) Poetic, scientific, newspaper, colloquial
B) Belles-lettres style, publicist newspaper, scientific prose, official documents
C) Literary/bookish style, free/colloquial
D) Official business style, scientific professional style
E) Publicist style, literary style, familiar style
94. Where can be Literary Colloquial Style used?

A) In written and spoken varieties
B) In short simple sentences
C) In rhetorical questions and interrogatives in oratory speech,
D) In news items and articles
E) In passive and participial constructions, numerous connectives
95. What does Pragmatic signals of Voice Markers’ express?

A) The narrator’s awareness of an audience and the degree of the orientation towards it
B) Appropriate voices for sad and happy
C) Comic and tragic subjects
D) Education, his/her beliefs, convictions
E) Interests, values, political and ideological orientation, attitude towards people, events and
things
96. Where is the inversion: Only when we got home did we find out why the car was making
such a strange noise?
A) Only when
B) we got home
C) the car was making
D) a strange noise
E) we find out
97. What sentence is with the inversion?

A) Only by starting again from the beginning were we able to get to the solution
In came the man and announced the victory
B) I don't think we can use 'could' here, because it's a single action in the past
C) Such appalling incompetence is virtually unheard of in this company
D) This is the first time that so many people have died as a result of a signal failure
E) It was the biggest family gathering since Alison’s wedding
98. What sentence is with the inversion?

A) Not since Alison’s wedding was there such a big family gathering
B)The day was unbearably hot until the sun went down
C)The plane had only just taken off when the engine trouble started
D) I don’t think the children have the faintest idea what we have planned for them
E) It wasn’t until we got home that we found out why the car was making such a strange noise
99. What stylistic device is a direct successor of repetition as an expressive language means,
which serves to emphasize certain statements of the speaker, and so possesses considerable
emotive force?
A) Repetition
B) Epithet
C) Inversion
D) Oxymoron
E) Allusion
100. What is a repetition of the final word or phrase?

A) Epiphora
B) Detachment
C) Inversion
D) Allusion
E) Oxymoron
101. What sentence contains the parallel construction?

A) When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead –When the cloud is scattered The
rainbow's glory is shed
B) But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first
C) Beauty is truth, truth beauty- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
D) Let the long contention cease: Geese are swans, and swans are geese
E) "I want to go", he said, miserable
102.What is the repetition of the same word at the beginning of two or more phrases?
A) Anaphora
B) Epiphora
C) Chiasmus
D) Detached construction
E) Parallel construction
103. Where is the sentence with detached construction?

A) Steyne rose up, grinding his teeth, pale, and with fury in his eyes
B) Down dropped the breeze, The sails dropped down
C) Ignorant of how Soams watched her, ignorant of her reckless desperation, ignorant of all this
D) He was the only survivor; no one else was saved
E) There were real silver spoons to stir the tea with, and real china cups to drink tea out of, and
plates of the same to hold the cakes and toast in
104. What syntactical device has been used in the following sentence: She was gone. For good.
A) Detached construction
B) Repetition
C) Inversion
D) Chiasmus
E) Anaphora
105. What stylistic device is based on repetition of syntactical patterns, but it has a reversed
order in one of the utterances.
A) Chiasmus
B) Epiphora
C) Anaphora
D) Detached construction
E) Inversion
106. Where is the sentence with inversion?

A) My dearest daughter, at your feet I fall.
B) I am tired, let me go
C) What's wrong with you?
D) I find the right way
E) Let's go home!
107 Where is the sentence with inversion?

A) A good generous prayer it was
B) We don't care about the future
C) There is a thorn tree in the orchard
D) He has failed his exam
E) They get on very well with relatives
108 Where is the sentence with detached construction?

A) She was crazy about you. In the beginning
B) Of all my old association, of all my old pursuits and hopes of all the living and the dead
world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me
C) In my opinion you are right
D) If I were you , I would act like a man
E) There are many firs and yews on the meadow
109. What is a figure of speech in which the subject is compared to another subject?
A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Allusion
D) Oxymoron
E) Inversion
110. What device is a combination of two words in which their meaning clash, being opposite in
sense?
A) Oxymoron
B) Allusion
C) Inversion
D) Simile
E) Metaphor
111. What does repetition include?

A) Anaphora
B) Metaphor
C) Metonymy
D) Hyperbole
E) Dialog
A) Epiphora
B) Metaphor
C) Oxymoron
D) Suspense
E) Irony

A) Framing
B) Simile
C) Climax
D) Litotes
E) Paraphrase

A) Anadiplosis
B) Fake repetition
C) Climax
D) Epithet
E) Dialog

A) Chain repetition
B) Fake repetition
C) Climax
D) Colloquial words
E) Dialects

A) Ordinary repetition
B) Syntax
C) Irony
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy

A) Successive repetition
B) Fake repetition
C) Oxymoron
D) Paraphrase
E) Dialog
118. What is called a reversed parallelism?

A) Chiasmus
B) Hyperbole
C) Metonymy
D) Synecdoche
E) Dialog
119. What is the main function of epiphora?

A) To add stress to the final words of the sentence
B) To connect words
C) To point out main parts of the sentence
D) To use in a language for particular purposes and is never merely decorative
E) To distinguish types of sentences
120. What is the function of framing?

A) To elucidate the notion mentioned in the beginning of the sentence
B) To distinguish types of sentences
C) To connect words
D) To use in a language for particular purposes and is never merely decorative
E) To create a realistic flavor
121. What is a catch repetition (anadiplosis)?

A) The end of one clause is repeated in the beginning of the following one
B) The beginning of one clause isn’t repeated
C) The end of one clause is in the end of the following one
D) In the middle of one clause of the following one
E) After reported speech in the sentence
122. What does the chain repetition present?

A) Several successive anadiplosis -...a, a...b, b...c, c...
B) Several successive- a b…, a b….
C) Several successive anadiplosis- a….a….b, ….b
D) Several successive anadiplosis- b…a, a….b
E) Several successive anadiplosis -a….b, b….a
123. What is the successive repetition?

A) A string of closely following each other reiterated units - ...а, a, a...
B) A string of closely following each other reiterated units - a, …a
C) A string of closely following each other reiterated units – a a…. b b
D) A string of closely following each other reiterated units – ba ….ba
E) A string of closely following each other reiterated units- ..ab…ab
124. What is the main stylistic function of anaphora?

A) Not so much to emphasize the repeated unit
B) In forming grammatical sentence
C) To use lexical stylistic devices
D) To differentiate stylistic devices
E) Anaphora hasn’t stylistic function
125. Where is a sentence with a repetition?

A) On her father's being groundlessly suspected, she felt sure. Sure. Sure
B) The Italian trio tut-tutted their tongues at me
C) Dreadful young creatures-squealing and squawking
D) Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into the beach
E) Well, I dunno. I'll show you summat
126. What is the functional style ?

A) The system of interrelated language means serving a definite aim in communication
B) The science that studies the different styles of language, and the rules and methods of their
use in terms of linguistic communication
C) The study of the language's vocabulary
D) The science of texts of literary works, establishing the authenticity of a text
E) Determined by their content and objectives - as accurately as possible and fully explain the
facts surrounding reality
127. What is the correct definition?

A) Stylistics - the science that studies the different styles of language, and the rules and methods
of their use in terms of linguistic communication
B) Stylistics - is the study of the language's vocabulary
C) Stylistics –is the science of texts of literary works, establishing the authenticity of a text
D) Stylistics- is the product consisting of sentences located in a certain sequence and a common
sense and the combined structure
E) Stylistics – is this proposal, united by a common theme
128. What is the correct definition?

A) Scientific style - a style of newspapers, magazines, which is designed to respond quickly to
events occurring in society
B) Scientific style - this style of scientific articles, reports, monographs, textbooks, etc. , which is
determined by their content and objectives - as accurately as possible and fully explain the facts
surrounding reality
C) Scientific style - a style of artistic works of science fiction novels and short stories, allowing a
glimpse into the future
D) Scientific style - this style of scientific articles, reports, science fiction novels and short
stories , allowing a glimpse into the future
E) Scientific style - is determined by their content and objectives - as accurately as possible and
fully explain the facts surrounding reality
129. What layer of vocabulary is used in all functional styles?

A) Common lexicon
B) Colloquial vocabulary
C) Terminological lexicon
D) Scientific style
E) Official business
130. In what style of speech there is an appropriate use of interjections?

A) Research
B) Elementary
C) official business
D) Humor
E) Aestheticism
131. What style of speech has inherent aesthetic function?

A) Art
B) Journalistic
C) Elementary
D) Scientific style
E) Official business
132. What style of speech is characterized by complicated proposals of complex structures?

A) Official business
B) Research
C) Elementary
D) Journalistic
E) Scientific style
133. What style of speech is used at meetings and rallies?
A) Publicist
B) Elementary
C) Official business
D) Research
E) Scientific
134.What SD is the expression Happy Wind?

A) Epithet
B) Metaphor
C) Comparison
D) Metonymy
E) Simile
135.What style of speech is used in the media?

A) Research
B)Elementary
C) Publicist
D) Journalist
E) Scientific
136.What genres do not apply to journalistic style?

A) Interview
B) Oral presentation
C) Humorous story
D) Essay
E) Story
137.What phrase does not correspond to the scientific vocabulary?

A) Red sundress
B) Nuclear Physics
C) Related industries
D) Industrial load
E) Put forward hypothesis
138.What type of speech is it: How to capture the mystery of the poet's personality in his works?
Explore the poet is not only familiar with his works, but feel, survive them. Every true poet ever
invented nothing - it reflects real life?
A) Narration
B) Description
C) Reasoning
D) Humorous story
E) Media
139. What is the correct definition of journalistic style?

A) A style of socio-political literature, periodicals, and oratory. It is intended to influence the
masses, to urge them to take action, to communicate information
B) A style of scientific articles, reports, monographs, which are fully and accurately explain the
laws of nature and society
C) A style of artistic works, novels, stories that affect public opinion
D) A style of scientific articles, reports, science fiction novels and short stories, allowing a
glimpse into the future
E) A style of newspapers, magazines, which is designed to respond quickly to events occurring
in society
140.Which style of speech are these genres of speech - laws, orders, statements?
A) Publicist
B) Elementary
D) Research
E) Official business and Research
141.What is zeugma?
A) A figure of speech in which a word applies to more than one noun blending together
grammatically and logically different ideas
B) Giving human traits to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas)
C) Emphasizes some quality of a person, thing, idea or phenomenon and reveals the evaluating
subjective attitude of the writer towards the thing described
D) A play on words that has the same sound but different meanings
E) A form of parallelism where a word or several words are repeated at the beginning of
successive lines, sentences or paragraphs
142.What ST device is it: Two heads are better than one?

A) synecdoche
B) epithet
C) assonance
D) parallel construction
E) epiphora
143. What ST device is it: Your satin. The skirts will be a mass of wrinkles in the back?
A) metonymy
B) oxymoron
C) anaphora
D) zeugma
E) alliteration
144.What ST device is it: Dark they were and shattered?

A) inversion
B) metaphor
C) pun
D) zeugma
E) alliteration
145. What ST device is it: These people talked to me like this because they don’t know who I’m.
If only they knew--?
A) aposiopesis
B) asyndeton
C) litotes
D) zeugma
E) alliteration
146.What ST device is it: Every Caesar has his Brutus?

A) antonomasia
B) epithet
C) oxymoron
D) allusion
E) chiasmus
147.What ST device is it: De old foolosopher, like Hickey calls yuh, ain’t yuh?
A) graphon
B) assonance
C) simile
D) euphemism
E) epithet
148.Which of the following is an example of a simile?

B) He had big feet
E)His feet were dirty
149.What sentence provides an example of a simile?

A) The sky is as blue as the ocean
B) The baby's skin is dry
E) Amir already knows he will win.
150. What style of speech is used at meetings and rallies?

A) Publicist
B) Elementary
D) Research
E) Scientific
151. The word-stock of any given language can be roughly divided into the following groups:
A) Literary, neutral and colloquial vocabulary
B) Literary and colloquial vocabulary
C) Only literary
D) Only colloquial
E) Neutral and colloquial
152.What do Literary words serve to satisfy?

A) communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
B) non-official everyday communicative demands
C) communicative demands of official messages
D) communicative demands of poetic messages
E) communicative demands of scientific messages
153.What do colloquial words serve to satisfy?

A) non-official everyday communicative demands
B) communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
154.The biggest division of vocabulary is made up of:

A) Neutral words
B) Literary words
C) Colloquial words
D) Historical words
E) Poetic words
155.Where can we find literary words?

A) in authorial speech, descriptions, considerations
B) in the types of discourse, simulating (copying) everyday oral communication
C) in the dialogue (or interior monologue) of a prose work
D) In streets
E) At home
156.The main source of synonymy and polysemy are considered to be

A) Neutral words
B) Colloquial words
C) Literary words
D) Neutral and common literary words
E) Neutral and common colloquial words
157.What two major subgroups constitute special literary words?

A) Terms and archaisms
B) Slang and jargonisms
C) Professionalisms and jargons
D) Dialectisms and foreignisms
E) Argo and slang
158. Terms are:

A) words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
B) antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones
C) words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
D) archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the
function of imbuing the work of art with a lofty poetic colouring
E) archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
159.Archaisms are:
A) words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
B) words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
C) words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and
expressive
D) words, used by limited groups of people
E) barbarisms and foreign words
160.Historical words are...

C) archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the
D) archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
161."These are expletives and swear words which are of an abusive character, obscene word like
"damn", "bloody" etc". The given definition is appropriate for
A) Vulgar words
B) Jargon words
C) Colloquial coinages
D) Borrowed words
E) Barbarisms
162.Obsolete words are the words which:

A) have already gone completely out of use but are still recognized by the English-speaking
community: e.g. methinks^it seems to me); nay(=no)
B) are no longer recognizable in modern English, words that were in use in Old English and
which have either dropped out of the language entirely or have changed their in their appearance
so much that they have become unrecognizable, e.g. troth(=faith), a losel(=a worthless, lazy
fellow)
C) are in the beginning of the aging process when the word becomes rarely used, i.e. they are in
the stage of gradually passing out of general use, e.g. pronouns thy, thee, thine, thouh
D) are used exactly in Modern English Literature and which are created by the English
Contemporary Poets, thus belonging to concrete style of the concrete author, e.g. hateships,
weatherology
E) are generally defined as "a new word or a new meaning for an established word"
163."it is a recognized term for a group of words that exists in almost every language and whose
aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group. These are generally old words with
entirely new meanings imposed on them". The given definition is appropriate for:
A) Jargon-isms
B) Barbarisms
C) Vulgarism
D) Terminology
E) Professionalisms
164.Morphological or partial archaisms are...

A) archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
165. Obsolescent words are the words which:

A) are in the beginning of the aging process when the word becomes rarely used, i.e. they are in
B) have already gone completely out of use but are still recognized by the English-speaking
community: e.g. methinks{—\X seems to me); nay{~no)
C) are no longer recognizable in modern English, words that were in use in Old English and
so much that they have become unrecognizable, e.g. troth(=faith), a losel(—a worthless, lazy
fellow)
weatherology
E) are generally defined as "a new word or a new meaning for an established word"
166.Archaism proper 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
167. "These are the words of foreign origin which have not been entirely been assimilated into
the English language. They bear the appearance of a borrowing and are left as something alien to
the native tongue".
The given definition is appropriate for
A) Barbarisms and foreignism
B) Jargonisms
C) Vulgarisms
D) Archaic, obsolescent and obsolete words
E) Dialectal words
168. Slang is:

A) words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and
expressive
169.Jargonisms are:
expressive
170.Professionalisms are:
A) words, used by limited groups of people, united professionally
D) words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and
expressive
171.Archaisms are:
A) words, used by limited groups of people, united socially
expressive
172.Vulgarisms are:
A) coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite
conversation
expressive
E) words, used by limited groups of people
173.Dialectal words are:

A) normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects, but used outside of them,
carry a strong flavour of the locality where they belong
expressive
174.In the USA the following dialectal varieties are distinguished:

A) New England, Southern and Midwestern (Central, Midland)
B) Northern and Southern
C) Eastern and Western
D) Northern, Southern and Eastern
E) Northern, Southern and Western
175. In Great Britain four major dialects are distinguished:

A) Lowland Scotch. Northern, Midland (Central) and Southern
B) Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western
C) New England, Southern, Northern and Midwestern
D) Highland. Northern, Southern and Western
E) New England, Southern, Eastern and Midwestern
176.Poetic and Highly literary words belongto_______layer

A) Literary
B) Neutral
C) Colloquial
D) Both Colloquial and Literary
E) Both Neutral and Colloquial
177. The actual situation of the communication has evolved two varieties of language:
A) The spoken and written varieties
B) Monological and dialogical varieties of language
C) The language of gestures and body
D) Syntactical and lexical varieties of language
E) Phonetic and morphological varieties
178.Poetic words are...

A) archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the
179.Syntactical stylistic devices are...

A) SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
B) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical
organization of the utterance
C) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical
organization of employed lexical units
D) SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
E) SD based on the opposition of meanings of phonological elements of the language
180. Lexical stylistic devices are...

A) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical
B) SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
181.Phonetical stylistic means are ...

A) SD based on the opposition of meanings of phonological elements of the language
C) SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
D) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical
E) SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
182. 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 interplay between the logical and nominal meanings of a
word.
D) Is a word phrase used to replace an unpleasant word or expression by a conventionally more
acceptable one.
E) The stylistic device based on the interaction of two well-known meanings of a word or phrase.
183. Alliteration is:

A) A phonetic stylistic device which aims at impacting melodic effect to the utterance. The
essence of this device lies in the repetition of similar sounds, in particular consonants sounds.
B) A combination of speech-sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature (wind,
sea, thunder, etc.), by things (machines or tools, etc.), by people (sighing, laughter, etc.), and by
animals.
C) A repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combination of words.
D) A phonetic stylistic device based on the combination of the ideal metrical scheme and the
variations of it, variations which are governed by the standard.
E) The stylistic device based on the interplay between the logical and nominal meanings of a
word.
184. Define the type of transference in "foot of a bed"

A) metonymy
B) metaphor
C) synonymy
D) antonymy
E) homonymy
185. Expressive means of a language are:

A) Those phonetic, morphological, word-building, lexical, phraseological and syntactical forms
existing in a language as-a-system for the purpose of logical and emotional intensification of the
utterances.
B) The conscious and intentional intensification of some typical, structural and semantic
property of a language unit promoted to a generalized status and thus becoming a generative
model
C) The systems of interrelated language means that serves a definite aim in communication
D) a unique combination of language units (expressive means and stylistic devices) peculiar to a
given writer, which makes that writer's works or even utterances easily recognizable
E) Linguo-stylistics, a branch of general linguistics
186.Lexico-syntactical stylistic devices are:

A) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical
187. Find simile in the sentences:

A) She was like a beautiful exotic flower
B) She was a teacher
C) I like darkness so much
D) I like chocolate
E) I like little stones very much
188. Find metonymy in the sentences:

A) I never read Balzac.
B) I translate an article
C) I read a lot of books
D) I like ice-cream
E) I book a set in the theatre
189. Stylistic device of language is:

A) The conscious and intentional intensification of some typical, structural and semantic
property of a language unit (neutral or expressive) promoted to a generalized status and thus
becoming a generative model
B) Those phonetic, morphological, word-building, lexical, phraseological and syntactical forms
existing in a language as-a-system for the purpose of logical and emotional intensification of the
utterances.
C) The systems of interrelated language means that serves a definite aim in communication
D) Is a unique combination of language units (expressive means and stylistic devices) peculiar
to a given writer, which makes that writer's works or even utterances easily recognizable
E) Linguo-stylistics, a branch of general linguistics
190. Graphical stylistic means are:

A) SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
D) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings accompanied by fixed syntactical
191. What is onomatopoeia?

A) the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action
B) the repetition of consonants, usually-in the beginning of words
C) the stylistic device based on simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and
contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other
D) a combination of two words in which the meaning of the two clash, being opposite in sense
E) the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables
192. What is alliteration?

A) the repetition of consonants, usually-in the beginning of words
B) the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action
C) the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables
D) The stylistic device based on simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary
and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other
E) A combination of two words in which the meaning of the two clash, being opposite in sense
193. What is assonance?

A) the repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables
B) the repetition of consonants, usually-in the beginning of words
C) the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action
and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other.
194. Such words as "hiss", "bowwow", "murmur", "bump", "grumble", "sizzle" and many more
are examples of:
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
195. What two phonetic stylistic devices may produce the effect of euphony or cacophony?
A) Assonance and Alliteration
B) Capitalization and Multiplication
C) Onomatopoeia and Assonance
D) Metaphor and Metonymy
E) Irony and Epithet
196. What is euphony?

A) a sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing or hearing
B) asense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing or hearing
197. What is cacophony?

A) asense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing or hearing
B) a sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing or hearing
198. As an example of_________the famous lines of E.A. Рое may serve:

...silken sad uncertain
rustling of each purple curtain...
A) Euphony
B) Metaphor
C) Metonymy
D) Irony
E) Cacophony
199. An example of________is provided by the unspeakable combination of sounds foundin R.

Browning: Nor soul helps flesh now more than flesh helps soul.
A) Cacophony
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Euphony
200. The given definition: "intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word
combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation" is true for:
A) Graphon
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
201. What is an effective way of supplying information about the speaker's origin, social and
educational background, physical or emotional condition, etc?
A) Graphon
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
202. What does graphon indicate?
A) irregularities or carelessness of pronunciation
B) Standard pronunciation
C) the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action
D) the repetition of consonants, usually-in the beginning of words
203. The words "sellybrated" (celebrated), "bennyviolent" (benevolent), "illygitmit"

(illegitimate), "jewinile" (juvenile) are examples of:
A) Graphon
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Alliteration
E) Metonymy
204. The following "gimme" (give me), "lemme" (let me), "gonna" (going to), "gotta" (got to)
are examples of:
A) Alliteration
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Graphon
E) Metonymy
205.То purely graphical means, not involving the violations, we should refer:
A) All the above-mentioned means
B) Italics
C) Capitalization
D) Hyphenation
E) Multiplication
206. The following phrase "А1Ш1 aboarrrrrd" is an example of:

A) Multiplication
B) Italics
C) Capitalization
D) Hyphenation
E) Metaphor
207. The following phrase: "Help. Help. HELP." is an example of:

A) Capitalization
B) Italics
C) Hyphenation
D) Multiplication
E) Metaphor
208. The following phrase: "grinning like a chim-pan-zee" is an example of:

A) Hyphenation
B) Italics
C) Capitalization
D) Multiplication
E) Alliteration
209. The following phrase: "Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into
the beach" is an example of:
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Irony
E) Hyperbole
210. The following phrase: "He swallowed the hint with a gulp and a gasp and a grin" is an
example of
A) Alliteration
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
211. The following phrase: "Then, with an enormous, shattering rumble, sludge-puff, sludge-
puff, the train came into the station." is an example of:
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
212. State the type of the following graphical expressive means:

Piglet, sitting in the running Kanga's pocket, substituting the kidnapped Roo, thinks:
this shall take
"If is I neverto
flying really it." (M.)
A) Spacing of lines
B) Italics
C) Capitalization
D) Hyphenation
E) Multiplication
213. How can we also call a stylistic device (SD)?

A) a trope
B) a functional style
C) expressive means
D) transference
E) jargonism
214. Substitution of the existing names approved by long usage and fixed in dictionaries by new,
occasional, individual ones is ...
A) transference
B) a trope
C) a functional style
D) expressive means
E) stylistic device
215. What is a metaphor?

A) transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects
B) likeness between inanimate and animate objects
C) a sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing or hearing
D) asense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing or hearing
216. What is a personification?

A) likeness between inanimate and animate objects
B) transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects
217. In "the face of London", or "the pain of the ocean" we deal with ...
A) Personification
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
218. Such words as the "pancake", or "ball", or "volcano" for the "sun"; "silver dust", "sequins"
for "stars"; "vault", "blanket", "veil" for the "sky" are the examples of:
A) Metaphor
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
219. Metaphor can be expressed by:

A) all notional parts of speech
B) only verbs
C) only adjectives
D) only nouns
E) onlyasdverbs
220. A group of metaphors, each supplying another feature of the described phenomenon, creates
...
A) A sustained (prolonged) metaphor
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
221. What lexical SD is based on contiguity (nearness) of objects or phenomena?

A) Metonymy
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metaphor
222. Which lexical SD is based on the relations between a part and the whole?
A) Synecdoche
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
223. The conversational cliche "Will you have another cup?" is a case of...
A) Metonymy
B) Alliteration
C) Assonance
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metaphor
224.In the following abstract "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." We can
find the examples of:
A) Metonymy
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metaphor
225. The following phrase ""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."" is an example of:
A) Metonymy
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metaphor
226. The following phrase "You have nobody to blame but yourself. The saddest words of
tongue or pen." is an example of:
A) Metonymy
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metaphor
227. The following phrase "He made his way through the perfume and conversation" is an
example of:
A) Metonymy
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metaphor
228. The following phrase "His mind was alert and people asked him to dinner not for old times'
sake, but because he was worth his salt." is an example of:
A) Metonymy
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Alliteration
E) Metaphor
229. Which lexical SD is also referred as paronomasia?

A) Pun
B) Zeugma
C) Metaphor
D) Metonymy
E) violation of phraseological units
230. What is pun?

A) the simultaneous realization of two meanings
B) transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects
231. The following phrase ""There comes a period in every man's life, but she is just a semicolon
in his."" is an example of:
A) Pun
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
232. The following phrase "He took his hat and his leave" is an example of:
A) Zeugma
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
233. The following phrase "She went home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair" is an example
of:
A) Zeugma
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
234. Combination of polysemantic verbs with nouns of most varying semantic groups,which are
not connected semantically, is called:
A) Zeugma
B) Assonance
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
235. When the number of homogeneous members, semantically disconnected, but attached to the
same verb, increases, we deal with...
A) Semantically false chains
B) Zeugma
C) Pun
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
236. The following case "A Governess wanted. Must possess knowledge of Romanian, Russian,
Italian, Spanish, German, Music and Mining Engineering." from S. Leacock may serve an
example of:
A) Semantically false chains
B) Zeugma
C) Pun
D) Metonymy
E) Metaphor
237. Zeugma restores the literal original meaning of the word, which also occurs in ...
A) Violation of phraseological units
B) Metaphor
C) > Semantically false chains
D) Pun
E) Metonymy
238. The following phrase "Little Jon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth which was
rather curly and large" is an example of:
A) Violation of phraseological units
B) Semantically false chains
C) Pun
D) Metaphor
E) Metonymy
239. Which stylistic device rests on the extension of syntactical valency and results in joining
two semantically disconnected clauses into one sentence?
A) Nonsense of non-sequence
C) Violation of phraseological units
D) Pun
E) Metonymy
240. The following phrase "Emperor Nero played the fiddle, so they burnt Rome." is an example
of:
A) Nonsense of non-sequence
C) Violation of phraseological units
D) Pun
E) Metonymy
241. The word-stock of any given language can be roughly divided into the following groups:
A) Literary, neutral and colloquial vocabulary
B) Literary and colloquial vocabulary
C) Only literary
D) Only colloquial
E) Neutral and colloquial
242. What do Literary words serve to satisfy?

A) communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
B) non-official everyday communicative demands
243. What do colloquial words serve to satisfy?

A) non-official everyday communicative demands
B) communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
244. The biggest division of vocabulary is made up of:

A) Neutral words
B) Literary words
C) Colloquial words
D) Historical words
E) Poetic words
245. Where can we find literary words?

A) in authorial speech, descriptions, considerations
B) in the types of discourse, simulating (copying) everyday oral communication
C) in the dialogue (or interior monologue) of a prose work
D) In streets
E) At home
246. The main source of synonymy and polysemy are considered to be

A) Neutral words
B) Colloquial words
C) Literary words
D) Neutral and common literary words
E) Neutral and common colloquial words
247. What two major subgroups constitute special literary words?

A) Terms and archaisms
B) Slang and jargonisms
C) Professionalisms and jargons
D) Argo and slang
E) Dialectisms and foreignisms
248. Terms are:

A) words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
E) archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
249. Archaisms are:

expressive
250. Historical words are...

251."These are expletives and swear words which are of an abusive character, obscene word like
"damn", "bloody" etc". The given definition is appropriate for
A) Vulgar words
B) Jargon words
C) Colloquial coinages
D) Borrowed words
E) Barbarisms
252. Obsolete words are the words which:

A) have already gone completely out of use but are still recognized by the English-speaking
community: e.g. methinks^it seems to me); nay(=no).
B) are no longer recognizable in modern English, words that were in use in Old English and
so much that they have become unrecognizable, e.g. troth(=faith), a losel(=a worthless, lazy
fellow)
C) are in the beginning of the aging process when the word becomes rarely used, i.e. they are in
the stage of gradually passing out of general use, e.g. pronouns thy, thee, thine, thouh.
weatherology.
E) are generally defined as "a new word or a new meaning for an established word".
253. "it is a recognized term for a group of words that exists in almost every language and whose
aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group. These are generally old words with
entirely new meanings imposed on them". The given definition is appropriate for:
A) Jargon-isms
B) Barbarisms
C) Vulgarism
D) Terminology
E) Professionalisms
254. Morphological or partial archaisms are...

A) archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
255. Obsolescent words are the words which:
A) are in the beginning of the aging process when the word becomes rarely used, i.e. they are in
B) have already gone completely out of use but are still recognized by the English-speaking
community: e.g.methinks{—\X seems to me); nay{~no).
C) are no longer recognizable in modern English, words that were in use in Old English and
so much that they have become unrecognizable, e.g. troth(=faith), a losel(—a worthless, lazy
fellow)
weatherology
E) are generally defined as "a new word or a new meaning for an established word".
256. Archaism proper are...

A) antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones
257. "These are the words of foreign origin which have not been entirely been assimilated into
the English language. They bear the appearance of a borrowing and are left as something alien to
the native tongue".
The given definition is appropriate for
A) Barbarisms and foreignism
B) Jargonisms
C) Vulgarisms
D) Archaic, obsolescent and obsolete words
E) Dialectal words
258. Slang is:

expressive
259. Jargonisms are:

expressive
260. Professionalisms are:

A) words, used by limited groups of people, united professionally
expressive
261. Archaisms are:

A) words, used by limited groups of people, united socially
expressive
262. Vulgarisms are:
A) coarse words with a strong emotive meaning, mostly derogatory, normally avoided in polite
conversation
expressive
E) words, used by limited groups of people
263. Dialectal words are:

A) normative and devoid of any stylistic meaning in regional dialects, but used outside of them,
carry a strong flavour of the locality where they belong
expressive
264. In the USA the following dialectal varieties are distinguished:

A) New England, Southern and Midwestern (Central, Midland)
B) Northern and Southern
C) Eastern and Western
D) Northern, Southern and Eastern
E) Northern, Southern and Western
265. In Great Britain four major dialects are distinguished:

A) Lowland Scotch. Northern, Midland (Central) and Southern
B) Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western
C) New England, Southern, Northern and Midwestern
D) Highland. Northern, Southern and Western
E) New England, Southern, Eastern and Midwestern
266. Poetic and Highly literary words belongto_______layer

A) Literary
B) Neutral
C) Colloquial
D) Both Colloquial and Literary
E) Both Neutral and Colloquial
267. The actual situation of the communication has evolved two varieties of language:
A) The spoken and written varieties
B) Monological and dialogical varieties of language
C) The language of gestures and body
D) Syntactical and lexical varieties of language
E) Phonetic and morphological varieties
268. Poetic words are...

A) archaic words with the fixed sphere of usage in poetry and elevated prose and with the
269. Syntactical stylistic devices are...

A) SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
D) SD based on the opposition of meanings of phonological elements of the language
E) SD based on the opposition of meanings of graphical elements of the language
270. Lexical stylistic devices are...

A) SD based on the binary opposition of lexical meanings regardless of the syntactical
B) SD based on the binary opposition of syntactical meanings regardless of their semantics
271. What is assonance?

A) Two or more words repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
B) The repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect
C) A number of words in a series, having the same first consonant sound
D) There is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds
E) The repetition of a word or words so that the second clause starts with the same word which
marks the end of the previous clause
272. Find the example of assonance:

A) Johnny went here and there andeverywhere
B) But a better butter makes a batter better
C) The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator
D) “Eat to live, not live to eat.”
E) “And being no stranger to the art of war, I have him a description of cannons, culverins,
muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, battles
273. Find the example of assonance:

A) The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle
B) The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free
C) “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Agape they heard me call.”
D) The books fell on the table with a loud thump
E) “I’m getting married in the morning!Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.”
274.What is the source of the word “alliteration”?

A) Latin
B) Greek
C) Italian
D) German
E) Spanish
275.Alliteration is derived from:

A) letters of alphabet
B) vowels
C) sentence
D) sound
E) consonant
276.Find the example of alliteration:

A) A big bully beats a baby boy
B) I feel depressed and restless
C) My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration
D) New verities, new inklings in the velvet hummed Of dynamos, wherehearing’s leash is
strummed
E) The moanof doves in immemorial elms, Andmurmuringof innumerable bees…”
277.Choose the correct definition of alliteration:

A) a number of words occur close together in a series, having the same first consonant sound
B) two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different
consonant sounds
C) there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds
D) the deliberate repetitionof the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect
E) Repetition of words at the start of clauses or verses
278. Imitation of natural sounds of a thing is called:

A) Onomatopoeia
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Cacophony
E) Antimetabole
279.The most famous examples of alliteration are:

A) Coca-Cola
B) American Airlines
C) Caged Bird Sings
D) BMW
E) McDonald’s
280. Find the example of onomatopoeia among the following sentences:

A) The rustling leaves kept me awake
B) Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
C) O Lord, for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed
D) Love as if you would one day hate, and hate as if you would one day love
E) New York is not an ordinary city
281. Indication of irregularities or carelessness of pronunciation, supplies information about the

speaker’s origin, social and educational background and etc. is:
A) Graphon
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Antimetabole
E) Denotation
282 Find the example of graphon from the following sentences:

A) The b-b-b-ast-ud seen me c-c-coming
B) A dove is used to suggest peace or gentility
C) My brother was boiling mad
D) England decides to keep check on immigration
E) If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with
283 “Meow”, “Moo”, “Whoosh” are the examples of:

A) Onomatopoeia
<variantright> Words that are sounds
B) Assonance
C) Alliteration
D) Cacophony
E) Antimetabole
284. “Ah like ma droap o’Scatch, d’ye ken?” is the example of:
A) Graphon
B) Alliteration
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Assonance
E) Metaphor
285. “Hish mishish, it ish hish mishish. Yesh”? is the example of:
A) Graphon
B) Oxymoron
C) Cacophony
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Metonymy
286. Choose the correct definitions of simile?

A) is a figure of speech that compares two different things
B) implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words
C) substitution of 1 word for another which it suggests
D) use of similar sounding words; often etymological word-play
E) repetition of the same sound n words close to each other
287. Choose the correct ending: Jesse is as sly as a..?

A) Fox
B) Fly
C) Snake
D) Elephant
E) Fish
288. Choose the correct ending: That fence is as solid as…?
A) a rock
B) a pillow
C) fog
D) an open window
E) bird
289. Find the examples of a simile?

A) Does it stink like rotten meat?
B) Or does it explode?
C) Maybe it just sags
D) Or crust and sugar over
E) He had big feet
290. Stylistic device of comparison that uses "like" or "as"?

A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Hyperbole
D) Personification
E) Onomatopoeia
291 “Does it dry up like a raising in the sun?” is the example of:
A) Simile
B) Personification
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Hyperbole
292. Choose examples of a simile:

B) He had big feet
E) His feet were dirty
293. Choose examples of a simile:

A) The sky is blue as the ocean
B) The baby's skin is dry
E) Amir already knows he will win
294. “He was as blind as a bat.” Is the example of:

A) Simile
B) Metaphor
C) Personification
D) Hyperbole
E) Idiom
295. "As" or "like" is peculiar for:

A) Simile
B) Hyperbole
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Metaphor
E) Alliteration
296. Hyperbole is:

A) exaggeration is used to create a strong effect
B) is a figure of speech that compares two different things
C) use of similar sounding words; often etymological word-play
D) expression that means something different from what it says
E) repeating of a sound, word, or phrase in a poem or song
297 Choose the correct ending: You could have knocked me over with a …?
A) Feather
B) by tripping me
C) push
D) bang
E) noise
298. Find which of the following is NOT an example of hyperbole?

A) The smoke smelled so bad it made my nose burn
B) The noise was so loud it shook the earth
C) I ate so much I might explode
D) The tree was so tall it may have touched space
E) The wind grabbed my arm
299. “I had tried to open my locker a thousand times before someone came to help me?” is the
example of:
A) Hyperbole
B) Personification
C) Metaphor
D) Simile
E) Alliteration
300. “I have a million things to do?” is the example of:

A) Hyperbole
B) Metaphor
C) Simile
D) Idiom
E) Alliteration

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1. When does the assonance take place?

2. Where is the assonance among the following sentences?

3. Find the assonance among the following sentences?

4. What is the origin of the word “alliteration”?

5. Alliteration is derived from a Latin “Latira”, what does it mean?

6. Where is the alliteration among the following sentences?

7. What is the alliteration?

8. What imitates the natural sounds of a thing, which it describes?

9. Find the most famous example of alliteration:

10. Where is the onomatopoeia among the following sentences?

12. Where the example of graphon from the following sentences?

16. What is the simile?

17. What is the end of the simile: Jesse is as sly as a..?

19. Which of the following lines contains a simile?

22. Which of the following is an example of a simile?

23. What sentence provides an example of a simile?

25. What figurative language that uses "as" or "like" is called?

26. What is the hyperbole?

28. Which of the following is not an example of hyperbole?

34. What ST is used here: I jumped so high I touched the sky?

35. What is extreme exaggeration for effect called?

39. What SD is it: Alexander the Great?

48. Where is pun?

49. Where is epithet?

50. What is zeugma?

52. Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

54. How does metaphor differ chiefly from simile?

55. Which of the following is an example of metaphor?

61. What is the best example of a metaphor?

62. Which line from the poem contains a metaphor?

63. Which sentence is an example of a metaphor?

64. Which of the following is an example of situational irony?

67. Where are the professionalisms used?

70. What is the function of vulgarisms as that of interjections?

72. What is a literary composition of moderate length on philosophical, social, aesthetic or

75. How is the second group of archaic words called?

76. How is the third group of archaic words called?

77. What is the definition of slang

78. What language did the word “barbarism” come from?

79. What is called the study of terms and their use?

80. What may include errors of pronunciation, misspellings?

81. What is stylistics by P. Simpson?

83. How many types of stylistic research are there?

85. How many components has cоnnоtаtive meaning?

86. Which of the connotative meaning expresses various feelings оr emotions?

88. What does content matter express?

89. How many Narrative Modes are there?

90. What is Trope?

91. How many figures of inequality there are in stylistics?

92. What does the Scientific Prose Style include?

93. Which components does Arnold’s system of styles include?

94. Where can be Literary Colloquial Style used?

95. What does Pragmatic signals of Voice Markers’ express?

97. What sentence is with the inversion?

98. What sentence is with the inversion?

100. What is a repetition of the final word or phrase?

101. What sentence contains the parallel construction?

103. Where is the sentence with detached construction?

106. Where is the sentence with inversion?

107 Where is the sentence with inversion?

108 Where is the sentence with detached construction?

111. What does repetition include?