Lexical stylistic means. Test.

Answer the questions and write an explanation of your answers

1. Beautiful are the feet that bring the good news.

A) epithet

B) synecdoche

C) ellipsis

D) asyndeton

2. Which of the following answers contains an example of litotes?

A) There were no students at his lecture.

B) I didn't take any books from the table.

C) He had no friends.

D) He is not unlike his dad.

3. Which of stylistic devices was used in the picture?

A) metaphor

B) metonymy

C) simile

D) irony

4. Which of the following statements is the correct oxymoron definition?

A) a four-component structure, in which two antonyms help to contrast things not opposite to each other when taken out of the context.

B) a two-component structure, in which two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation.

C) a structure of two successive words, the meaning of which clash, being opposite in sense.

5. John can speak seven languages, but Ron can speak only two.

A) ellipsis

B) break-in-the-narrative

C) detachment

D) hyperbola

6. Choose a sentence without simile.

A) This math problem is as easy as pie.

B) I turned as white as a ghost when you jumped out at me.

C) And now, as I said before, it is in full recovery mode.

D)Her dancing was a smooth as a flowing river.

7. She killed time and the mailman.

A) periphrasis

B) zeugma

C) metonymy

D) polysyndeton

8. Find a personification.

A) The cup is quite tasty.

B) Reading that book kindled my interest in politics.

C) Harry lost his job after a heated argument with his boss.

D)When I know I need a holiday or a break from work, it's as good as hearing Goa calling out my name.

9. There is much of Cicero in this letter.

A) antonomasia

B) metonymy

C) irony

D) oxymoron

10. Do I love you because you're beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?

A) rhetorical question

B) question-in-the-narrative

C) chiasmus

D) repetition