Variant 1 1.1. То each of the following words marked with a number match the most suitable word marked with a letter so that an image is formed:
l)Rain
is
a) a firework
2) Anger
is
b) a prison
3) Peace
is
c) a rose
4) Poverty
is
d) sadness
1.2. What stylistic device is realised in the formed images: a) metaphor, b) metonymy?
2.1. Decide what style [ a) newspaper, b) colloquial, c) scientific] is
represented in the following extract:
It's no good worrying and trying to look ahead and plan and scheme and weigh your every action, because you never can tell when doing such-and-such won't make so-and-so happen - while, on the other hand, if you do so-and-so it may just as easily lead to such-and-such.
2.2. What does the sentence contain: a) enumeration and framing
repetition, b) polysyndeton and ellipsis, c) enumeration and chiasmus,
d) polysyndeton and framing repetition?
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3.1. What meanings are effective in the following joke: a) neutral
and colloquial, b) neutral and literary?
"What did you find out about the salivary glands?" "I couldn't find out a thing, they're too secretive."
3.2. What stylistic device is observed in the joke: a) zeugma
b) pun?
4. Decide what the sentences contain: a) direct meaning, b) meta
phor, c) metonymy:
The head of the pin is rather large.
The dinner cost two dollars a head.
He is the head of the firm.
The man has a large head.
Her name is at the head of the list.
5. What does the sentence contain: a) metaphor and metonymy,
b) only metaphor?
His eyes fell on the picture of Anne.
6. What stylistic device(s) is/are used in the following sentenc
es: a) hyperbole and metaphor, b) hyperbole and metonymy, c) only
hyperbole?
The whole town was there.
There was an uneasy sea of doubt and hope.
7. Group the following word combinations into two columns, con
taining /) descriptive attributes, 2) epithets:
a) black-winged bird, b) iron will, c) wooden manners, d) honey-coloured air, e) blooming flowers, f) cold water.
8. What stylistic device is the following sentence based on: a) oxy
moron, b) antithesis?
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9. Decide in each case whether the sentence: a) contains litotes,
b) has simple negation:
Don't you think that the problem is really great?
Jack was unpredictable.
It was unillegal business.
10. Define the kind of metaphor in the following sentence: /: a) nom-
inational, b) cognitive, c) imaginative; II: a) simple, b) sustained:
Don't jump to conclusions - you might get a nasty fall.
11. Distinguish between: a) ellipsis and b) nominative sentence:
(at an examination) "How far are you from the correct answer?" "Two seats."
The program said, 'Second Act, Two Years Later' I couldn't wait to see the second act of the play.
Committee: body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
Two seats. Isn't it enough?
12. Indicate the type of repetition out of the following: a) simple,
b) consecutive, c) anaphora, d) epiphora, e) linking, f) framing, g) chain,
h) chiasmus:
Leave me all alone. I want to stay all alone.
Oh, they know me! They know me!
The suggestion is interesting, indeed. I like the suggestion.
Time waits for no man. Thus, don't lose time.
13. Choose from the syntactic stylistic devices [ a) polysyndeton,
b) tautology, c) ellipsis, d) asyndeton, e) enumeration, f) a nominative
clause, g) parallel constructions, h) parceling] those that are used the
following sentence:
It was the money, of course; money which did strange things to human beings, making them greedy, panicked, at times sub-human.
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14.1. Indicate the type of decomposition of the phraseological
unit [ a) shortening, b) expansion, c) insertion, d) substitution, e) word
order change, f) contextual change, g) complex change] in the following:
Where there's a will there's an heir of expectation.
14.2. What stylistic device is observed in the utterance: a) meta
phor, b) metonymy?
15. Name expressive means and stylistic devices and group them as follows:
expressive means: a) phonetic, b) morphological, c) lexical, d) syntactic, e) graphic;
stylistic devices: a) phonetic, b) lexical (lexico-semantic), c) syntactic.
