Основа стилистики Модул 1. Ан (11) 18 -к 2
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Вопрос 1
The following phrase “He took his hat and his leave " is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Antonomasia
- Zeugma
- Pun
- Metaphor
Вопрос 2
The following phrase “Money burns a hole in my pocket. (T. Capote)” is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Epithet
- Antonomasia
- Pun
- Metaphor
Вопрос 3
The following phrase “And she still has that look, that don't-you-touch-me look, that women who were beautilul carry with them to the grave (J.B.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Alliteration
- Epithet
- Onomatopoeia
- Hyperbole
Вопрос 4
The following phrase “In the moon-landing year what choice is there for Mr. and Mrs. Average-the programme against poverty or the ambitious NASA project? (M.St.) " is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Zeugma
- Pun
- Antonomasia
- Metaphor
Вопрос 5
What do literary words serve to satisfy?
Варианты ответов
- communicative demands of official messages
- communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
- communicative demands of poetic messages
- non-official everyday communicative demands
Вопрос 6
What do colloquial words serve to satisfy?
Варианты ответов
- communicative demands of official, scientific, poetic messages
- non-official everyday communicative demands
- communicative demands of official messages
- communicative demands of poetic messages
Вопрос 7
The following phrase “It was his habit not to jump or leap at anything in life but to crawl at evetything. (Dickens) ”is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Antonomasia
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Epithet
Вопрос 8
What two major subgroups constitute special literary words?
Варианты ответов
- Terms and archaisms
- Slang and archaisms
- archaisms and jargons
- Terms and slang
Вопрос 9
Terms are:
Варианты ответов
- words denoting such concepts and phenomena that have gone out of use in modern times
- 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 objects, processes, phenomena of science, humanities, technique
- archaic forms of otherwise non-archaic words
Вопрос 10
The following phrase “I expect you‘d like a wash,’ Mrs. Thompson said. ‘The bathroom’s to the right and the usual offices next to it ’. (J. Braine) ." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Simile
- Euphemism
- Hyperbole
- Antonomasia
Вопрос 11
The following phrase “I was violently sympathetic, as usual (Jn.B.)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Oxymoron
- Metaphor
- Antonomasia
- Epithet
Вопрос 12
The following phrase “To look at Montmorency, you would imagine that he was an angel sent upon the earth. But when I had paid for about a dozen chickens that he had killed... then I began to think that maybe they would let him remain on earth a bit longer. (Jerome)." is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Euphemism
- Hyperbole
- Zuegma
- Irony
Вопрос 13
"These are expletives and swear words which are of an abusive character, obscene word like "damn", "bloody" etc". The given definition is appropriate for ...
Варианты ответов
- Jargon words
- Noncence words
- Vulgar words
- Borrowed words
Вопрос 14
The following phrase “She wore a pink hat, the size of a button (J.R.).” is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Oxymoron
- Epithet
- Hyperbole
- Metaphor
Вопрос 15
Obsolete words are the words which:
Варианты ответов
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
Вопрос 16
The following phrase “The money she had accepted was soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills. (Dreiser) " is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Hyperbole
- Epithet
- Simile
- Irony
Вопрос 17
"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:
Варианты ответов
- Professionalisms
- Barbarisms
- Vulgarism
- Jargonisms
Вопрос 18
The following phrase“ / ... came to the place where the Stars and Stripes stood shoulder to shoulder with the Union Jack. (Steinbeck) " is an example of:
Варианты ответов
- Metaphor
- Hyperbole
- metonymy
- Irony
Вопрос 19
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. The given definition is appropriate for ... .
Варианты ответов
- Allitiration
- Assonance
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
Вопрос 20
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. The given definition is appropriate for ... .
Варианты ответов
- Alliteration
- Irony
- Assonance
- Onomatopoeia
Вопрос 21
The given definition: "intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation" is true for:
Варианты ответов
- Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia
- Graphon
- Assonance
Вопрос 22
The following phrase “Cats and canaries had added to the already stale house an entirely new dimension of defeat. As I stepped down, an evil-looking Tom slid by us into the house (W.Gl.)” is the example of ...
Варианты ответов
- Antonomasia
- Pun
- Metaphor
- Zeugma
Вопрос 23
Find simile in the sentences:
Варианты ответов
- I like chocolate
- I like darkness so much
- She was like a beautiful exotic flower
- She was a teacher
Вопрос 24
"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
Варианты ответов
- Jargonisms
- Barbarisms and foreignism
- Dialectal words.
- Archaic, obsolescent and obsolete words
Вопрос 25
The stylistic device based on simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings stand in opposition to each other. The given definition is appropriate for ... .
Варианты ответов
- irony
- simile
- metonymy
- epithet


