32. Match the definition with suitable term

1. Simile

2. Periphrasis

3. Euphemism

4. Allusion

5. Quotation

A. used to avoid some unpleasant things, or taboo things.

B. 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.

C. set one object against another regardless of the fact that they may be completely alien to each other

D. is a round - about way of speaking used to name some object or phenomenon. Longer-phrase is used instead of a shorter one.

E. 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.

1. c

2. d

3. a

4. b

5. e

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

Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then have ceased to beat; many of the looks that shone so brightly then have ceased to glow.

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

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players.

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

They think we have come by this horse in some dishonest manner.

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

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

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

It’s a rare bird that can fly to the middle of the Dnieper.

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

The White House supports the bill.

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

Two of them, a man with long fair moustaches and silent dark man…Definitely, the moustache and I had nothing in common.

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

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

41. 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.

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

The silence whistles

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

"O heavy lightness! Serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!"

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

He was so tall that I was not sure he had a face.

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

Tall, dark and handsome.

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

Early to bed and early to rise.

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

Here lies my wife; here let her lie,

Now she’s at rest – and so am I.

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

Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known” a pleasant.

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

Christy didn’t like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except she bare necessities.

50. 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

1. B.

2. A

3. D

4. C

5. E