Stylistics multiple choice test
1 ) A literary mode! intended to produce a particular effect in a work of literature.
A.: device C: foot
B: meter D: sign
2) Repetition of the same consonants or sound group at the beginning of two or
more words that are close to each other.
A: assonance C: consonalism
B: accumulation D: alliteration
3) Topicalization (communicative emphasis) of the "theme" is the stylistic function of
A: prolepsis C: anticipatory construction
B: aposiopesis D: inversion
4) A metrical trisyllabic foot that consists of one accented syllable followed by two
unaccented ones.
A: iambus C: anapaest
B: dactyl D: amphibrach
5) In prosody - the running on of a sentence from one line to the next without a
syntactical break.
A: enjambment C: epenalepsis
B: euphony D: empathy
6) The example "Her body was white ivory and her tail was of silver and pearl. Silver
and pearl was her tail" (Wilde) illustrates
A: anaphora C: aposiopesis
B: epiphora D: chiasmus
7) Rhythm in verse; measured patterned arrangement of syllables according to stress or
length.
A: stanza C: meter
B: pitch D: verse
8) The formation of a word by imitating the natural sound; the use of words whose
sounds reinforce their meaning or tone, esp. in poetry.
A: paronomasia C: cacophony
B: euphony D: onomatopoeia
9) The words originally borrowed from a foreign language but assimilated into the
native vocabulary.
A: barbarisms C: obsolescent words
B: denizens D: obsolete words
10) The science or art of versification, including the study of metrical structure, stanza
form, etc.
A: semasiology C: prosody
B: onomasiology D: paradigmatics
11) A regular recurrence of corresponding sounds at the ends of lines in verse.
A: accent C: rhyme
B: rhythm D: foot
12) A group of lines in a repeating pattern forming a division of a poem.
A: stanza C: verse
B: meter D: extract
13) A metrical disyllabic foot: a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed one.
A: trochee C: dactyl
B: iambus D: anapaest
14) A disyllabic foot which is completely unstressed (the loss of stress in a disyllabic
foot).
A: spondee C: free foot
B: Pyrrhic foot D: dimeter
15) A type of verse in which only the number of stresses in a line is taken into account.
A: accented verse C: poetic prose
B: free verse D: stanza
16) The reiteration of the same word or a group of words at the beginning of two or
more successive clauses or sentences.
A: anadiplosis C: ordinary repetition
B: epiphora D: anaphora
17) A metrical foot which consists of three syllables: the first and the last are unstressed.
A: dactyl C: anapaest
B: amphibrach D: trochee
| C: ring D: irregular |
18) The rhyme - aabb- is called A: adjacent B: crossing
19) The euphonic effect in the sentence "... culled cash, or cold cash, and then it turned
into a sold cache " (E.L.Doctorow) is created by
A: onomatopoeia C: assonance
B: paronomasia D: polysyndeton
20) The psychological reason for the appearance and existence of these words is the
striving for novelty of expression.
A: vulgar words C: colloquial words
B: archaisms D: slang
21) Partial rhyme created by the stressed vowel sounds.
A: vocalism C: resonance
B: assonance D: alliteration
22) What lexico-stylistic device is used in this sentence "A smile would come into
Mr. Pickwick's face: the smile extended into a laugh: the laugh into a roar, and the
roar became general. " (Dickens)?
A: enumeration C: anadiplosis
B: epiphora D: anaphora
23) The number of sublanguages is
| C: 15 D: infinite |
A: 2
B: 5
24) Little Miss Muffet,
| C: prolepsis D: appended statement |
She sat on a tuffet... is an example of
A: repetition
B: personification
25) A combination of anaphora and epiphora in two or more adjacent utterances is
called
A: framing C: symploca
B: anadiplosis D: chiasmus
26) Intentional misspelling to show deviations from received pronunciation: individual
manner, mispronunciation, dialectal features, etc.
A: syncope C: homograph
B: slip D: graphon
27) A form of ellipse by which sl speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome
by passion (fear, excitement, etc.) or modesty.
A: anadiplosis C: anacoluthon
B: antistrophe D: aposiopesis
28) The lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.
A: asyndeton C: hendiadys
B: hyperbaton D: pleonasm
29) The anticipatory use of personal pronoun is illustrated in the following sentence
A: He knows everything, this chap. B: This chap, he_know everything. C: He. only he. knows everything. D: It was he that knows everything.
30) Which of the following words is not a barbarism?
A: macho C: figurative
B: nouveau riche D: patio
31) Which of the following sentences is not elliptical?
| C: That enough? D: Haven't read them. |
A: Glad to know that.
B: Dusk-of a summer night.
32) What stylistic device is used in the following example "There were half a pork pie
and a bit boiled bacon left, and we put them in ... I finished out a couple of eggs that
had got cracked, andwe put those in"?
A: anaphora C: symploca
B: epiphora D: redublication
33) Stylistic device by means of which homogeneous parts of an utterance are made
heterogeneous from the semantic point of view.
A: decomposition C: enumeration
B: inversion D: appended statement
34) The sentence "I went there yesterday, I did" is an example of
A: inversion C: prolepsis
B: appended statement D: repetition proper
35) Archaisms are used in official documents for A: creating historical colouring B: creating emotional colouring
36) A secret lingo of the underworld (of thieves and robbers).
A: vulgarisms C: cant
B: barbarisms' D: slang
37) Words which appear in professional or social groups as informal, often humorous
replacers of words that already exist in the neutral or superneutral sphere.
A: jargon words C: special terms
B: vulgar words D: dialectal words
38) Which word among the following is archaic?
A: mace C: losel
B: thane D: yeoman
39) The underlined word$ in the sentence below is an example of...
"She displayed wonders of horsemanship and horseman-woman-ship " (Tarkington)
A: colloquialism C: nonce-word
B: jargon word D: barbarism
40) The words of the stylistically lowest group which are considered too offensive for
the polite usage.
A: nonce-words C: jargon words
B: barbarians D: vulgar words
MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST - 2
| C: quasi-identity D: replacers |
1) Figures of identity do not include
A: simile
B: specifiers
2) The sentence "She greeted him with arms and expectations wide " is an example of
A: oxymoron C: quasi-identity
B: bathos D: zeugma
| C: metonymy D: meiosis |
3) Figures of quality do not include A: irony B: metaphor
4) A story, poem, painting, etc. in which the characters and actions represent general truths, good and bad qualities, etc.
A: affinity C: antithesis
B: allegory D: allusion
5) Renaming of an object by a phrase that emphasizes some particular feature of the
object.
A: renomination C: rephrasing
B: secondary nomination D: periphrasis
6) The use of a proper name in place of a common one or vice versa to emphasize
some feature or quality.
A: hypocorisma C: personification
B: antonomasia D: understatement
7) The sentence "She was not disappointed by the news " is an example of
A: diminishment C: litotes
B: euphony D: anti-hyperbole
8) A rhetorical series of ideas, images, etc. arranged progressively so that the most
forceful is last.
A: climax C: exposition
B: bathos D: denouement
9) What stylistic devise does the following phrases illustrate: "lowest skyscrapers",
poorest millionaires ", "plainest beauties " (O.Henry)?
A: pun C: zeugma
B: oxymoron D: meiosis
10) An adjective or descriptive phrase used to characterize a person or object with the
aim to give them subjective evaluation.
A: euphonic adjective C: cliche
B: intensifier D: epithet
11) Exaggeration for effect not meant to be taken literary.
A: hyperbole C: overestimation
B: gradation D: anastrophe
12) What stylistic device is used in the following sentence "I suspect that the Noes and
Don't Knows would far outnumber the Yesses " ?
A: paronomasia C: implication
B: onomatopoeia D: antonomasia
13) The transfer of name of one object onto another to which it is related or of which it
is a part.
A: metonymy C: metaphor
B: simile D: allegory
14) A stylistic device in which the words express a meaning that is often the direct
opposite of the intended meaning.
A: metaphor C: irony
B: catachresis D: understatement
15) The application of a word or phrase to an object or concept it does not literary
denote, in order to suggest comparison with another object or concept.
A: simile C: metonymy
B: metaphor D: meiosis
16) A figure of speech which ascribes some feature to an object incompatible with that
feature.
A: antithesis C: oxymoron
B: zeugma D: synecdoche
17) The reference to some literary, historical, mythological, biblical, etc. character or
event commonly known.
A: allegory C: periphrasis
B: allusion D: pun
18) A figure of speech based on transfer by contiguity in which a part is used for a
whole, an individual for a class, a material for a thing or the reverse of any of these;
a variety of metonymy.
A: antonomasia C: personification
B: epiphora D: synecdoche
19) A figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, is
syntactically related to two or more words, though having a different sense in
relation to each.
A: zeugma C: stylistic tautology
B: oxymoron D: stanza
20) Understatement for effect, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by a
negation of the contrary.
A: litotes C: anti-climax
B: negative replacer D: quasi-negation