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1 Семестр Образец теста по лексическим стилистическим приемам

I variant

1. In the slanting beams that streamed through the open window the dust danced and was golden (O. Wilde).

2. Mr. Dombey’s cup of satisfaction was so full at this moment, however, that he felt he could afford a drop or two of its contents, even to sprinkle on the dust in the by-path of his little daughter (Ch. Dickens).

3. Then they came in. Two of them, a man with long fair moustaches and a silent dark man … Definitely, the moustache and I had nothing in common (Doris Lessing).

4. The round game table was boisterous and happy (Ch. Dickens).

5. I like a parliamentary debate,

particularly when ‘t is not too late (G. Byron).

6. …and May’s mother always stood on her gentility; and Dot’s mother never stood on anything but her active little feet (Ch. Dickens).

7. “Well, Mr. Weller,” says the gentl’mn, you are a very good whip, and can do what you like with your horses, we know” (Ch. Dickens).

8. “God!” – she cried.

9. A well-matched, fairly-balanced give-and-take couple.

10. Sweet sorrow

11. Mr. Zero

12. I say this to our American friends. Mr. Facing-Both-Ways does not get very far in this world. (The Times).

13. Busy as a bee

14. The cap and gown

15. My better half

16. The object of his admiration

17. To tie the knot

18. It’s a rare bird that can fly to the middle of the Dnieper. (N. Gogol)

19. To cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth

20. Scared to death

21. The drying up a single tear has more

22. Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore (G. Byron).

II variant

1. The leaves fell sorrowully.

2. Miss Tox’s hand trembled as she slipped it through Mr. Dombey’s arm, and felt herself escorted up the steps, preceded by a cocked hat and Babylonian collar. (Ch. Dickens).

3. The hall applauded.

4. The marble spoke.

5. As the sword is the worst argument that can be used, so should it be the last. (Byron)

6. It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without a penny in one’s pocket.

7. “Bow to the board”, said Bumble. Oliver brushed away two or three tears that were lingering in his eyes; and seeing no board but the table, fortunately bowed to that. (Ch. Dickens).

8. Such was the background of the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city.

9. Isabel shrugged an indifferent shoulder.

10. Horribly beautiful

11. A deafening silence

12. Emily Barton was very pink, and looked like a Dresden-china-shepherdess.

13. Industrious as an ant

14. Vain (proud) as a peacock

15. The fair sex

16. Servant of all work (Ch. Dickens).

17. A thousand pardons

18. He was so tall that I was not sure he had a face. (O. Henry)

19. First come, first served.

20. Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose. (Somerset Maugham).

2 Семестр Образец теста по лексическим и синтаксическим стилистическим приемам и по стилистической классификации словарного состава английского языка

Part I

1. Find the word which is bookish in style:

a. darkness b. harmony

c. foolish d. glad

2. Find the word which is colloquial in style:

a. parent b. father

c. dad d. ancestor

3. Find a non-literary word (slang):

a. wife b. sister

c. missus d. mother

4. Find a non-literary word (professionalism): a. a shop c. a store

b. a lab d. a bam

5. Find a non-literary word (low-colloquial): a. bad c. awful

b. negative d. bloody

6. Find a non-literary expression (vulgarism):

a. to shut up c. to be silent

b. to be quiet d. to stop talking

7. Find the word in which the emotive charge is heavier:

a. large c. tremendous

b. big d. vast

8. Find an example of personal metaphor:

a. She is like a snake in the grass. b. He bought a head of cabbage. с. The moon is riding in the sky d. The moon is like a silver coin

9. Find an example of metonymy:

a. He had only a few coppers in the pocket. b. We got to the mouth of the river.

c. He was a lion in the fight d. The valley was silent

10. Find an example of a dead (trite) metaphor:

a. cold reason b. cruel heat

c. the flower of his life d. the hand of the watch

11. Find a case of synecdoche:

a. Everything smiled at him. b. All hands aboard!

c. The childhood of the earth. d. The leg of the table was broken.

12. Find an example of personification:

a. The kettle is boiling. b. He is not a Pushkin, but his poems are good

c. I don’t like her sharp tongue. d. The wind was singing in the trees.

13. Find an example of chiasmus:

a. He went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over.

b .We were talking about how bad we were. Bad from the medical point of view.

с Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down.

d. You have been busy, busy, busy, haven't you?

14. Find an example of anadiplosis:

a. I am sorry, I am so very sorry, I am so extremely sorry.

b. With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy; happy at least in my own

c. Money is what he is after money!

d. Those evening bells! Those evening bells!

15. Find an example of climax:

a. They talked and talked all night,

b. Youth is lovely, age is lonely.

c. It was a lovely city, a beautiful city, a fair city, a veritable gem of city.

d. He played a tune over and over again

Part II

Task: define the lexical or syntactical stylistic device (SD):

16. A devil of a sea rolls in that bay. (Byron)

a. chain epithet b. reversed epithet c. metonymy

17. My mother was wearing her best grey dress and gold brooch and a feint pink flush under each cheekbone. (W. Golding)

a. metaphor b. metonymy c. zeugma

l8. Have you been seeing any spirits? Or taking any?

a. antithesis b. pun c. zeugma

19. Every Caesar has his Brutus.

a. antonomasia b. metaphor c. simile

20.I should answer, I should tell you (Longfellow)

a. climax b. suspense c. detachment

21. Women are not made for attacks. Wait they must.

a. inversion b. gradation c. ellipsis

22. We are met here as the guests of - What shall I call them? – The three Graces of the Dublin musical World. The table burst into applause. (J. Joyce)

a. simile b. metonymy c. allusion

23. Oh! Sweetness of the pain. (J. Keats)

a. antithesis b. oxymoron c. metaphor

24. I think that is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it. (0. Wilde)

a. irony b. pun c. zeugma

25. He had not been unhappy all day. (E. Hemingway)

a. metonymy b. metaphor c. litotes

26. They speak like saints, and act like devils.

a. antithesis b. repetition c. gradation

27. No wonder, his father wanted to know what Bossiney meant, no wonder. (J. Galsworthy)

a. anaphora b. epiphora c. framing

28. Mr. Pneumonia was not what you would call a chivalric old gentleman. (0. Henry)

a. personification b. metonymy c. simile

29. He sings, and he sings, and forever sings he - "I love my Love and my Love loves me". (Coleridge)

a. framing b. chiasmus c. chain repetition

30. Of course, it's important. Incredibly, urgently, desperately important.

a. enumeration b. climax c. hyperbole

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ОБРАЗЕЦ БИЛЕТА К ЗАЧЕТУ (1 семестр)

Card # 1

1. Write a test on the use of EM and SD

2. Present the stylistic analysis of the extract you have chosen.

3. Analyze the following extract: