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Stylistics Tests

1. Stylistics is a branch of linguistics that investigates the expressive resources available in a language. It is subdivided into branches that each treat a different linguistic level, such as phonetic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic stylistics. 2. A functional style is a system of language means that serves a specific communicative purpose and is used in a particular sphere of communication, fulfilling social functions like informing, convincing, or regulating. 3. Stylistic devices are linguistic forms that exist in a language to intensify utterances logically or emotionally, and their intentional use and generalization constitutes a stylistic figure.

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Stylistics Tests

1. Stylistics is a branch of linguistics that investigates the expressive resources available in a language. It is subdivided into branches that each treat a different linguistic level, such as phonetic, morphological, lexical, and syntactic stylistics. 2. A functional style is a system of language means that serves a specific communicative purpose and is used in a particular sphere of communication, fulfilling social functions like informing, convincing, or regulating. 3. Stylistic devices are linguistic forms that exist in a language to intensify utterances logically or emotionally, and their intentional use and generalization constitutes a stylistic figure.

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ENGLISH STYLISITCS.

EXAM TEST
1) A branch of linguistics that investigates the entire system of expressive resources available
in a particular language is called ...
a) stylistics
b) rhetoric
c) lexicology
d) linguistics
e) semasiology

2) Stylistics is subdivided into separate, quite independent branches, each treating one level
and having its own subject of investigation, they are
a) stylistic phonetics, stylistic morphology, stylistic lexicology, stylistic syntax, text stylistics
b) reader’s stylistics, author’s stylistics, text stylistics
c) functional stylistics, general stylistics
d) linguistic stylistics, literary stylistics
e) practical stylistics, historical stylistics, comparative stylistics

3) A unique combination of language units, expressive means and stylistic devices peculiar to
a given author, which makes this writer’s works or even utterances easily recognizable
a) individual author style
b) manner of writing
c) functional style
d) specificity of style
e) handwriting

4) A system of interrelated language means which serves a definite aim in communication and
is used in a definite sphere of communication thus fulfilling social functions: aesthetic,
informative, convincing, regulating, etc. is called …
a) functional style
b) discourse
c) style
d) register
e) genre

5) According to I. R. Galperin, phonetic, morphological, word-building, lexical, phraseological


and syntactical forms which exist in the language-as-a-system for the purpose of logical
and/or emotional intensification of the utterance
a) expressive means
b) stylistic device
c) trope
d) expressiveness
e) stylistic figure

6) According to I. R. Galperin, a conscious and intentional intensification of some typical


structural and /or semantic property of a language unit (neutral or expressive) promoted to a
generalized status and thus becoming a generative model is ...
a) stylistic device
b) expressive means
c) trope
d) expressiveness
e) stylistic figure

7) Determine the phonostylistic device used in the given example:


She seems to beam rays of sunshine with her eyes of green.
a) assonance
b) onomatopoeia
c) alliteration
d) rhythm
e) rhyme

8) Determine the phonostylistic device used in the given example:


And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman … (D. Thomas)
a) rhythm
b) rhyme
c) alliteration
d) assonance
e) onomatopoeia

9) Determine the phonostylistic device used in the given example:


Young women form the offices, who smelt of scent and powder, scuttled, giggling, arm-in-arm, after
hissing trams, and screeched, as they splashed their stockings in the puddles (D. Thomas)
a) onomatopoeia
b) alliteration
c) assonance
d) rhythm
e) rhyme

10) Define the stylistic device underlined in the following example: Life’s but a walking
shadow; a poor player…(Shakespeare):
a) metaphor
b) epithet
c) allusion
d) hyperbole
e) metonymy

11) Define the stylistic device underlined in the following example: In the sunlight – in the
daytime, when Nature is alive and busy all around us, we like the open hillsides and the deep woods
well enough: but in the night, when our Mother Earth has gone to sleep, and left us waking, oh! the
world seems so lonesome, and we get frightened, like children in a silent house. (Jerome K.
Jerome)
a) personification
b) epithet
c) allusion
d) hyperbole
e) onomatopoeia

12) Define the stylistic device underlined in the following example: Aunt Petunia often said
that Dudley looked like a baby angel – Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. (J.
K. Rowling)
a) simile
b) epithet
c) allusion
d) hyperbole
e) onomatopoeia
13) Define the type of epithet underlined in the following example: And she still has that
look, that don't-you-touch-me look that women who were beautiful carry with them to the grave.
(Barth)
a) sentence
b) simple
c) compound
d) inverted
e) string

14) Define what figure of quantity is underlined in the given example: "Yeah, what the hell,"
Anne said and looking at me, gave that not unsour smile. (Warren)
a) litotes
b) hyperbole
c) meiosis
d) metaphor
e) euphemism

15) Define what figure of quantity is underlined in the given example: The little woman, for
she was of pocket size, crossed her hands solemnly on her middle. (Galsworthy)
a) meiosis
b) hyperbole
c) litotes
d) metaphor
e) simile

16) Define what stylistic figure is underlined in the following example: He caught a ride
home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks. (Jones)
a) oxymoron
b) antithesis
c) metaphor
d) hyperbole
e) simile

17) Define what stylistic figure is underlined in the following example: His coat-sleeves
being a great deal too long, and his trousers a great deal too short, he appeared ill at ease in his
clothes.
a) antithesis
b) oxymoron
c) metaphor
d) hyperbole
e) simile

18) What stylistic device is used in the following example: “You have nobody to blame but
yourself. The saddest words of tongue or pen”:
a) metonymy
b) euphemism
c) periphrasis
d) allegory
e) personification

19) State what stylistic device is used in the following example:


My leg weighs three tons. I can’t move. I haven’t moved for thousand years (T. Aldrich)
a) metaphor
b) hyperbole
c) meiosis
d) litotes
e) metonymy
20) The given example A stout middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles,
was sitting on the edge of a great table. I turned to him. “Don’t ask me”, said Mr.Owl Eyes
washing his hands of the whole matter (F.Scott Fitzgerald) contains
a) antonomasia
b) oxymoron
c) hyperbole
d) periphrasis
e) allusion

21) What syntactic stylistic means are used in the given sentence:
She was earnest. She was intelligent. She was determined. She was scared, even though her eyes
were lit with humor (J. Le Carre)
a) parallelism
b) ordinary repetition
c) polysyndeton
d) asyndeton
e) enumeration

22) Define syntactical stylistic means used in the given sentence “In manner, close and dry.
In voice, husky and low. In face, watchful behind a blind”:
a) detachment
b) inversion
c) parenthesis
d) ellipsis
e) split

23) State the type of repetition employed in the example “Failure meant poverty, poverty
meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation of B. Inn Alley”:
a) ordinary
b) epiphora
c) chain
d) anaphora
e) string

24) Define syntactical stylistic means used in the given sentence:


I love my love, and my love loves me (S.Coleridge)
a) ordinary repetition
b) polysyndeton
c) asyndeton
d) chiasmus
e) enumeration

25) What type of connection is used in the given sentence:


“By the time he had got all the bottles and dishes and knives and forks and glasses and plates and
spoons and things piled up on bog trays, he was getting very hot, and red in the face, and
annoyed”:
a) ordinary repetition
b) polysyndeton
c) asyndeton
d) parallelism
e) enumeration

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