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Worksheetscnb 29-50
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: Director Rippleton had also married money
metonymy
epithet
simile
metaphor
Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: Director Rippleton had also married money
metonymy
epithet
simile
metaphor
What term stands for the following definition: a unit of poetic speech which both names and describes
periphrasis
metaphor
metonymy
simile
What stylistic device is demonstrated in phrases: better sex, man in the street:
periphrasis
metaphor
metonymy
simile
Define the stylistic device in the following sentence: He couldn’t shut out the fact that he was doing a cruel and unlovely thing.
epithet
simile
metaphor
allusion
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”:
tone
stress
accent
voice
What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the first word or word - group in several successive sentences, clauses or phrases”?
anaphora
epiphora
anadiplosis
framing
What term stands for the following definition: “repetition of the final word or word - group”?
epiphora
anaphora
anadiplosis
framing
What term stands for “catch repetition”
anadiplosis
epiphora
anaphora
ring repetition
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?
ring repetition
anaphora
epiphora
parallelism
What term stands for the following definition: “an insistent repetition of a connective between words, phrases or clauses in an utterance”?
polysyndeton
asyndeton
zeugma
repetition
What term stands for the following definition: “a deliberate avoidance of connectives in a sentence”?
asyndeton
polysyndeton
zeugma
repetition
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 ”?
zeugma
polysyndeton
asyndeton
repetition
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”?
antithesis
oxymoron
hyperbole
pun
What term stands for the following definition: “a statement based on contrast, contradictory to what is accepted as a self –evident or proverbial truth”?
paradox
pun
oxymoron
zeugma
What term stands for the following definition: “a specific form of understatement which consists in the use of negative for the contrary”?
litotes
hyperbole
understatement
aposiopesis
What term stands for the following definition: “a sudden intentional break in the narration, dialogue or speech”?
aposiopesis
pun
zeugma
litotes
What term stands for the following definition: “an intentional omission from the utterance of one or more words”?
ellipses
pun
litotes
aposiopesis
What term stands for the following definition: “a kind of antithesis which is based upon a contrast between two words”?
oxymoron
hyperbole
pun
paradox
How do we call “the persons” in a work of fiction or drama?
characters
heroes
personalities
persons
Translate the allegory in the proverb Every cloud has a silver lining
нет худа без добра / жаман айтпай жақсы жоқ
у каждого облака своя серебряная подкладка / әр бұлттың өзінің күміс астары бар
нет добра без худа / жаксы айтпай жаман жоқ
за облаком что-то скрывается / бұлттың астында бір нәрсе бар
Translate the allegory in the proverb Make the hay while the sun shines
куй железо пока горячо / темірді қызғанда соқ
собирай сено, пока солнце светит / күн батпай егінді жина
куй железо горячим / қызған темірді соқ
торопись, пока железо горячее / темір ыстық болғанда асық бол
