Stylistics Test I. THE STRUCTURE AND SEMANTICS OF THE IMAGE 1. His eyes are as blue as skim milk. (A) T – milk V – eyes G – blue (B) T – eyes V – blue - вопрос №3681560

G – milk © T – eyes V – milk G – blue 2. Her black hair had the soft crispness of fern stem. (A) T – hair V – fern stems G – crispness (B) T – crispness V – hair G – fern stems © T – fern stems V – hair G – crispness 3. Sometimes she seemed invisible like peace. (A) T – peace V – she G – invisible (B) T – she V – peace G – invisible © T – invisible V – she G – peace II. EXTENDED IMAGES 4. But George had mounted one of his hobby horses and was careering away through a dust of words. (A) central image – a dust of words; contributory images – mounted, one of his hobby horses, careering away (B) central image – mounted; contributory images – a dust of words, one of his hobby horses, careering away © central image – careering away; contributory images – a dust of words, one of his hobby horses, mounted (D) central image – one of his hobby horses; contributory images – a dust of words, careering away, mounted 5.Hamlet is his own termite, and from a tower has eaten himself down to a heap of sawdust. (A) central image – a heap of sawdust; contributory images – termite, has eaten himself down (B) central image – termite; contributory images – has eaten himself down, a heap of sawdust © central image –has eaten himself down; contributory images – termite, a heap of sawdust III. STYLISTIC DEVICES 6. There is too much petticoat in business today. (A) metaphor (B) metonymy © simile (D) irony 7. I remember thinking before I went to sleep how convenient it would be if there were an attack and you were killed. A hero’s death. (A) irony, detachment (B) metaphor, detachment © sarcasm, detachment (D) sarcasm, parcellation 8. Dark fell like a curtain. (A) simile (B) metaphor © irony (D) sarcasm 9. Her eyes were shifting from side to side like an animal’s when it looks for ways for escape. (A) synecdoche (B) metaphor © simile (D) inversion 10. Everyone seems to like the young man. But still… (A) detachment (B) aposiopesis © hyperbole (D) quotation 11. There’s no law forbids it. (A) oxymoron (B) onomatopoeia © apakoinu (D) paradox 12. The pain came roaring back like a train in a tunnel. (A) simile, onomatopoeia (B) metaphor, paradox © simile, synecdoche (D) metaphor, irony 13. They hated each other cordially. (A) sarcasm (B) irony © oxymoron (D) hyperbole 14. He had never seen anything so old and ugly. (A) irony (B) hyperbole © oxymoron (D) simile 15. The telegram that had awaited me in Hanoi I kept in my pocket. (A) inversion (B) detachment © metonymy (D) asyndeton 16. Every Caesar has his Brutus. (A) simile (B) irony © antonomasia (D) antithesis 17. Medora took heart, a cheap hall bedroom and two art lessons from professor Angelini. (A) hyperbole (B) antithesis © sarcasm (D) zeugma 18. Familiarity breeds contempt, – and children. (A) apakoinu (B) simile © violation of a phraseological unit (D) inversion 19. She is colder than all the ices of the Arctic. (A) sarcasm (B) simile © metaphor (D) irony 20. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who has no young children like him? (A) aposiopesis (B) quotation © detachment (D) rhetorical question 21. Take away love and our earth is tomb. (A) metaphor (B) simile © synecdoche (D) inversion 22. The pen is stronger than the sword. (A) irony (B) metonymy © sarcasm (D) onomatopoeia 23. Parting is such sweet sorrow. (A) inversion (B) antithesis © oxymoron (D) hyperbole 24. Cecil was immediately shushed. (A) oxymoron (B) pun © zeugma (D) onomatopoeia 25. She went to bed again, and thought and thought and thought it over and over again. (A) anaphora (B) anadiplosis © epiphora (D) ordinary repetition 26. That statement of his was purely an effect of imagination. (A) logical periphrasis (B) euphemistic periphrasis © metaphorical periphrasis (D) metonymical periphrasis 27. Bella soaped his face and rubbed his face, and soaped his hands, and rubbed his hands, and splashed him, and rinsed him, and toweled him, until he was as red as beetroot. (A) irony (B) asyndeton © polysyndeton (D) inversion 28. I have to beg you for money. Daily! (A) detachment (B) parcellation © hyperbole (D) sarcasm 29. East or West – home is best. (A) proverb (B) saying © violation of phraseological unit (D) sarcasm 30. To be or not to be, that is the question. (A) saying (B) proverb © pun (D) quotation 31. All hands on deck! (A) saying (B) quotation © synecdoche (D) detachment 32. By hook or by crook. (A) anadiplosis (B) proverb © saying (D) irony 33. She put on a white frock that suited the sunny riverside and her. (A) sarcasm (B) simile © zeugma (D) chiasmus 34. Youth is lovely, age is lonely, youth is fiery, age is frosty. (A) hyperbole (B) antithesis © polysyndeton (D) allusion 35. The next speaker was a tall gloomy man, Sir Something Somebody. (A) parallelism (B) zeugma © quotation (D) antonomasia 36. She felt that she didn’t really know these people, that she would never know them; she wanted to go on seeing them, being with them, and living with rapture in their world. But she didn’t do this. (A) anticlimax (B) climax © pun (D) violation of a phraseological unit 37. You just come home, or I’ll… (A) detachment (B) parcellation © personification (D) aposiopesis