Mid Test Stylistics

What does “style” primarily refer to in stylistics?

• The study of grammar rules

• The choice of words and expressions in a given context

• The meaning of words in isolation

• The structure of literary texts

Which of the following best describes the nature of stylistics?

• It only studies written literature

• It is unrelated to linguistics

• It bridges language and literature

• It rejects multidisciplinary approaches

Stylistics focuses on language use in:

• Only poetic texts.

• Only spoken language

• Both literary and non-literary texts

• Only advertising texts

Aesthetic appreciation in stylistics involves examining:

• Syntactic deviations

• Metaphors, similes, and rhetorical devices

• Morphological structures

• Phonetic transcription

The analysis of sound patterns and rhythm belongs to:

• Lexical analysis

• Grammatical analysis

• Pragmatic analysis

• Phonological analysis

the genuine grammatical rules of a language are:

• Arbitrary conventions imposed by grammar teachers

• Prescriptive rules that forbid double negatives

• The structural principles that constitute the language

• Optional stylistic preferences in writing

In stylistic analysis, the most important grammatical unit is often the:

• Sentence

• Clause

• Phrase

• Word

The smallest unit in the grammatical rank scale is the:

• Morpheme

• Clause

• Phrase

• Word

In clause structure, the Predicator is always filled by:

• A noun phrase

• A verb phrase

• An adjective phrase

• A prepositional phrase

An imperative clause such as “Close the door” lacks which grammatical element?

• Subject

• Predicate

• Object

• Adjunct