Match the definition with suitable term.

1. Metaphor

2. Ellipsis

3. Irony

4. Metonymy

5. Slang

A. is the omission of a word necessary for the complete syntactical construction of a sentence, but not necessary for understanding.

B. is a relation between the dictionary and contextual logical meanings based on the affinity or similarity of certain properties or features of the two corresponding concepts

C. based on a different type of relation between the dictionary and contextual meanings, a relation based not on affinity, but on some kind of association connecting the two concepts which these meanings represent on a proximity

D. is a stylistic device also based on the simultaneous realization of two logical meanings - dictionary and contextual, but the two meanings are in opposition to each other.

E. the special vocabulary used by any set of persons of low or disreputable character; language of a low and vulgar type

2. Find the statement containing metaphor.

A. She was a faded white rabbit of a woman.

B. The next speaker was a tall gloomy man, Sir Something Somebody.

C. The guy is a rock

D. It was a warship that sent out its benzina to catch us and look for guns.

3. Find the statement containing metonymy.

A. Streaked by a quarter moon, the Mediterranean shushed gently into the beach.

B. Society is now one now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the bores and bored.

C. If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry

D. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

4. Choose Stylistic Devices from the list.

Onomatopoeia, alliteration, metaphor, irony, metonymy, zeugma

5. Choose types of onomatopoeia.

A. trite and genuine

B. direct and indirect

C. simple and compound

D. compound and complex

6. Match the definition with suitable term.

1. pun

2. zeugma

3. epithet

4. vulgarism

5. archaism

6. barbarism

A. words of foreign origin which have not entirely been assimilated into the English language

B. the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two adjacent words in the context, the semantic relations being on the one hand literal, and on the other, transferred

C. stylistic devise based on interaction of two well-known meanings of a word or phrase.

D. based on the interplay of emotive and logical meaning in an attributive word, phrase or even sentence, used to characterize an object and pointing out to the reader some of the properties or features of the object with the aim of giving an individual perception and evaluation of these features or properties.

E. vulgar phrase or expression, or one used only in colloquial, or, esp. in unrefined or low, speech

F. the use of a form of speech or writing that is no longer current

1. c

2. b

3. d

4. e

5. f

6. a

7. Choose the correct SD or EM.

Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming, dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.

1. pun

2. metaphor

3. metonymy

4. ellipsis

5. zeugma

6. alliteration

8. Match the definition with suitable term.

1. Terms

2. Jargonisms

3. Professionalisms

4. Dialectal words

A. is a recognized term for a group of words that exist in almost every language and whose aim is to preserve secrecy within one or another social group

B. a word or compound word used in a specific context

C. are those which in the process of integration of the English national language remained beyond its literary boundaries, and their use is generally confined to a definite locality

D. the words used in a definite trade, profession or calling by people connected by common interests both at work or at home

1. b

2. a

3. d

4. c

9. What SD or EM is used in this example?

Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the gloom of the gloaming when ghosts go aghast.

10. The SD based on dictionary and contextual meaning are:

A. epithet and metonymy

B. metaphor, metonymy, irony

C. zeugma and pun

D. epithet and oxymoron

E. metaphor and epithet

11. The SD based on primary and derivative meaning are:

A. epithet and metonymy

B. metaphor, metonymy, irony

C. zeugma and pun

D. epithet and oxymoron

E. metaphor and epithet

12. The SD based on logical and emotive meaning are:

A. epithet and metonymy

B. metaphor, metonymy, irony

C. zeugma and pun

D. epithet and oxymoron

E. metaphor and epithet

13. Choose types of metaphor.

A. trite and genuine

B. direct and indirect

C. simple and compound

D. compound and complex

14. What SD or EM is used in this example?

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 a Babylonian collar.

Answer: metonymy.

15. SD based on substitution of the object for another is:

A. Metonymy

B. Metaphor

C. Irony

D. Pun

E. Zeugma

16. What is any word formed according to the productive structural patterns and felt by the speaker as something new?

A. vulgarism

B. term

C. neologism

D. slang

E. Jargonism

17. A combination of two words in which the meaning of the clash, being opposite in sense is:

A. zeugma

B. pun

C. oxymoron

D. alliteration

E. metaphor

18. Choose the correct SD or EM

Dora, plunging at once into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room.