Stylistic Devices Quiz

The engaging rascal is the device of…

• oxymoron

• litotes

• metaphor

• repetition

• antonym

There's my young rascal of a son! The device is:

• reversed epithet

• metonymy

• catch repetition

• ordinary repetition

• zeugma

Restitution of conjugal right, legal separation, bring a suit for divorce are …terms.

• law

• business

• biological

• poetic

• technical

A stormy petrel of a chap! The device is…

• reversed epithet

• metaphor

• metonymy

• alliteration

• repetition

They were vain, pig-headed and odd. The device is:

• a string of epithets

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• zeugma

• adjectives

Their tables groaned with food. The device is…

• personification

• alliteration

• repetition

• simile

• chiasmus

Name the stylistic device: Mrs. Trafford exercised a gentle violence on him.

• oxymoron

• antithesis

• metaphor

• epithet

• pun

State the type of the colloquial words in the following example: "... some thief in the night boosted my clothes whilst I slept." "Somebody boosted...?" "Pinched. Jobbed. Swiped. Stole." he said happily.

• jargon

• teenagers' slang

• dialectal words

• vulgarisms

• colloquial coinages

Name the types of Onomatopoeia

• direct and indirect

• triple, cross, framing

• general and special

• full and incomplete

• vowel and consonant

What SD is based on repetition of the same sounds or sound-combinations at relatively short intervals?

• alliteration

• rhyme

• rhythm

• graphical means

• onomatopoeia