Стилистика (тест с ответами Синергия/МОИ/ МТИ /МОСАП)

1. “ Her mother is perfectly unbearable. Never met such a Gorgon (O.W.)." is an example of

*antonomasia

*zeugma

*pun

*Epithet

2. “"Eliza: you are an idiot, waste the treasures of my Miltonic mind by spreading them before you (B.SH.).” is an example of

*oxymoron

*epithet

*simile

*Allusion

3. “He loved the afterswim salt-and-sunshine smell of her hair. (Jn.B.)” is an example of

*epithet

*metonymy

*metaphor

*Onomatopoeia

4. “He´s a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-nosed peacock (D.)" is an example of

*zeugma

*epithet

*metaphor

*Metonymy

5. “Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old (Sc.F.)” is an example of

*hyperbole

*epithet

*simile

*Metaphor

6. “I am thinking an unmentionable thing about your mother. (I.Sh.)” is an example of

*zeugma

*periphrasis

*graphon

*Anaphora

7. “I do not consult physicians, for I hope to die without their help. (W.T.)” is an example of

*inversion

*repetition

*pun

* Irony

8. “Mr. Stiggins… took his hat and his leave” is the example of

*pun

*metaphor

*zeugma

*Antonomasia

9. “Of course it is important. Incredibly, urgently, desperately important (D.Sayers).” is an example of

*chiasmus

*detachment

*parallel constructions

*climax

10. “She was crazy about you. In the beginning. (R. W.) ” is an example of

*inversion

* detachment

*parallel constructions

*chiasmus

11. “Some people have much to live on, and little to live for (O.Wilde).” is an example of

*litotes

*metonymy

* antithesis

*Understatement

12. “Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into the beach (I.Sh).” is an example of:

*onomatopoeia

*metaphor

*assonance

*Alliteration

13. “The girls were dressed to kill (J.Br.)" is an example of

*irony

*epithet

*simile

* Hyperbole

14. “There comes a period in every man´s life, but she is just a semicolon in his.” is an example of

*metonymy

*onomatopoeia

*metaphor

*Pun

15. “There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books (E.W.)." is an example of

* oxymoron

*epithet

*hyperbole

*Irony

16. “You have nobody to blame but yourself. The saddest words of tongue or pen.” is an example of

*litotes

* metonymy

*alliteration

*Understatement

17. A recognized term for a group of words with entirely new meanings imposed on them existing in almost every language, whose aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group is

* jargonisms

*barbarisms

*vulgarism

*Professionalisms

18. Archaism proper are...

*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

*words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times

*antiquated or obsolete words replaced by new ones

*barbarisms and foreign words

19. Archaisms are…

*words denoting objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique

*words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times

*barbarisms and foreign words

*words, used by limited groups of people

20. At the lexical level stylistics studies

*a set of morphological, syntactical, transpositional representations

*tropes

*graphical shapes of texts

*hierarchical system of sounds, words and clauses

21. Brief news items (newspaper style) are characterized by

* terms (political or economic)

*emotional colouring

*the use of the first person singular

*obsolete words

22. Dialectal words are:

* 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

*words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times

*words, used by most speakers in very informal communication, highly emotive and expressive

*words, used by limited groups of people

23. Expressive means are ...

*abstract in nature

*fixed in dictionaries and grammars

* abstract in nature but fixed in dictionaries

*used in everyday speech

24. Galperin’s classification of functional styles embraces

*6 groups

*7 groups

* 5 groups

*3 groups

25. In Great Britain four major dialects are…

*New England, Southern, Northern and Midwestern

*Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western

* Lowland Scotch. Northern, Midland (Central) and Southern

*Highland. Northern, Southern and Western

26. In the USA the dialectal varieties are…

* New England, Southern and Midwestern (Central, Midland)

*Northern and Southern

*Northern, Southern and Western

*Northern, Southern and Eastern