1. Zeugma

2. Pun

3. Metaphor

4. Alliteration

5. Ellipsis

6. Antonomasia

19. Choose the correct SD or EM

Bow to the board, said Burnble. Oliver brushed away two or three tears that were lingering in his eyes; and seeing no board but the table, fortunately bowed to that.

A. Zeugma

B. Pun

C. Metaphor

D. Alliteration

E. Ellipsis

F. Antonomasia

20. Find the cliché in the following examples.

A. apple - faced man

B. awfully beautiful

C. rosy dreams of youth

D. Never say never

E. A thousand pardons

21. Match the definition with suitable term

1. Quotation

2. Proverbs

3. A cliché

4. Allusion

5. Hyperbole

6. Periphrasis

A. short, well-known, supposedly wise sayings, usually in simple language.

B. is a phrase or sentence taken from a work of literature or other piece of writing and repeated in order to prove a point or support an idea.

C. an expression that has become hackneyed and trite.

D. an indirect reference, by word or phrase, to a historical. literary, mythological fact or to a fact of everyday life made in the course of speaking or writing.

E. a round - about way of speaking used to name some object or phenomenon.

F. deliberate overstatement or exaggeration, the aim of which is to intensify one of the features of the object in question to such a degree as to show its utter absurdity.

1. b

2. a

3. c

4. d

5. f

6. e

22. Choose direct and indirect onomatopoeia

1. Direct

2. Indirect

A. ding-dong, burr, bang, cuckoo

B. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

1. a

2. b

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

I despise its very vastness and power. It has the poorest millionaires, the littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw.

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

Society is now one polished horde,

Form’d of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

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

Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before.

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

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

27. Complete the text with suitable words

________words, which form the bulk of the English vocabulary, are used in both literary and colloquial language. Neutral words are the main source of synonymy and polysemy. It is the neutral stock of words that is so far prolific in the production of new meanings.

_________ words are chiefly used in writing and in polished speech.

__________ vocabulary overlaps into the standard English vocabulary and is therefore to be considered part of it. It borders both on the neutral vocabulary and on the special colloquial vocabulary, which falls out of the standard English altogether.

-----------, which form the bulk of the English vocabulary, are used in both literary and colloquial language. Neutral words are the main source of synonymy and polysemy. It is the neutral stock of words that is so far prolific in the production of new meanings.

Common literary words are chiefly used in writing and in polished speech. Common colloquial vocabulary overlaps into the standard English vocabulary and is therefore to be considered part of it. It borders both on the neutral vocabulary and on the special colloquial vocabulary, which falls out of the standard English altogether.

28. Fill in the gap.

Maidens, _________moths, are ever caught by glare.

29. 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

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

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

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

Papa, love I am a mother. I have a child who will soon call Walter by the name by which I call you.