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cnb 29-50

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: Director Rippleton had also married money

a)

metonymy

b)

epithet

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

2.

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: Director Rippleton had also married money

a)

metonymy

b)

epithet

c)

simile

d)

metaphor

3.

What term stands for the following definition: a unit of poetic speech which both names and describes

a)

periphrasis

b)

metaphor

c)

metonymy

d)

simile

4.

What stylistic device is demonstrated in phrases: better sex, man in the street:

a)

periphrasis

b)

metaphor

c)

metonymy

d)

simile

5.

Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: He couldn’t shut out the fact that he was doing a cruel and unlovely thing.

a)

epithet

b)

simile

c)

metaphor

d)

allusion

6.

What term stands for the following definition: “the attitude, as it is revealed in the language of a literary work, of a personage, narrator or author towards the other personages in the work or towards the reader”:

a)

tone

b)

stress

c)

accent

d)

voice

7.

What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the first word or word - group in several successive sentences, clauses or phrases”?

a)

anaphora

b)

epiphora

c)

anadiplosis

d)

framing

8.

What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the final word or word - group”?

a)

epiphora

b)

anaphora

c)

anadiplosis

d)

framing

9.

What term stands for “catch repetition”

a)

anadiplosis

b)

epiphora

c)

anaphora

d)

ring repetition

10.

What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the same unit at the beginning and at the end of the same sentence, stanza, or paragraph?

a)

ring repetition

b)

anaphora

c)

epiphora

d)

parallelism

11.

What term stands for the following definition: “an insistent repetition of a connective between words, phrases or clauses in an utterance”?

a)

polysyndeton

b)

asyndeton

c)

zeugma

d)

repetition

12.

What term stands for the following definition: “a deliberate avoidance of connectives in a sentence”?

a)

asyndeton

b)

polysyndeton

c)

zeugma

d)

repetition

13.

What term stands for the following definition:  “a figure of speech which consists of one main element and a number of adjuncts which represent semantically different word – classes differing in the type and degree of cohesion with the main element ”?

a)

zeugma

b)

polysyndeton

c)

asyndeton

d)

repetition

14.

What term stands for the following definition: “a phrase, a sentence or a group of such in what a thing (or a concept) is measured against, or contrasted to its opposite”?

a)

antithesis

b)

oxymoron

c)

hyperbole

d)

pun

15.

What term stands for the following definition: “a statement based on contrast, contradictory to what is accepted as a self –evident or proverbial truth”?

a)

paradox

b)

pun

c)

oxymoron

d)

zeugma

16.

What term stands for the following definition: “a specific form of understatement which consists in the use of negative for the contrary”?

a)

litotes

b)

hyperbole

c)

understatement

d)

aposiopesis

17.

What term stands for the following definition: “a sudden intentional break in the narration, dialogue or speech”?

a)

aposiopesis

b)

pun

c)

zeugma

d)

litotes

18.

What term stands for the following definition: “an intentional omission from the utterance of one or more words”?

a)

ellipses

b)

pun

c)

litotes

d)

aposiopesis

19.

What term stands for the following definition: “a kind of antithesis which is based upon a contrast between two words”?

a)

oxymoron

b)

hyperbole

c)

pun

d)

paradox

20.

How do we call “the persons” in a work of fiction or drama?

a)

characters

b)

heroes

c)

personalities

d)

persons

21.

Translate the allegory in the proverb Every cloud has a silver lining

a)

нет худа без добра / жаман айтпай жақсы жоқ

b)

у каждого облака своя серебряная подкладка / әр бұлттың өзінің күміс астары бар

c)

нет добра без худа / жаксы айтпай жаман жоқ

d)

за облаком что-то скрывается / бұлттың астында бір нәрсе бар

22.

Translate the allegory in the proverb Make the hay while the sun shines

a)

куй железо пока горячо / темірді қызғанда соқ

b)

собирай сено, пока солнце светит / күн батпай егінді жина

c)

куй железо горячим / қызған темірді соқ

d)

торопись, пока железо горячее / темір ыстық болғанда асық бол