I. Find corresponding stylistic devices of the following definitions:

1. A hint of something, presumably known to the reader, frequently from literature or mythology.

1. A kind of repetition in which the opening word is repeated at the end of a sense-group or a sentence (in prose) or at the end of a line or stanza (in verse).

2. The sudden breaking off in speech, without completing a thought, as if the speaker was unable or unwilling to state what was in his mind.

3. A stereotyped expression, a trite phrase that has lost its novelty through frequent usage (in newspapers).

4. A syntactic stylistic figure consisting in separating a secondary member of a sentence with the aim of emphasizing it.

5. A figure of speech in which an inoffensive word or expression is substituted for an unpleasant one.

6. A syntactic figure of speech in which a member of ideas are so arranged that each succeeding one rises its preceding element in expressiveness, or force.

7. A stylistic device in which the negative contextual meaning of a word is realized through a positive dictionary meaning for purpose of ridicule.

8. A stylistic device based on resemblance of things belonging to different classes, the comparison between them is implied

10. The use of a word in more than one meaning, a play on words.

1. pun, b) gradation, c) detachment, d) cliché, e) metaphor, f) framing,

g) aposiopesis, h) irony, i) allusion, j) euphemism.

II. Comment on stylistic devices in the following examples:

1. He seemed prosperous, extremely married and unromantic.

1. Betty loosed fresh tears.

2. He smelled the ever-beautiful smell of coffee, imprisoned in the can.

3. They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.

1. She and the kids have filled his sister's house and their welcome is wearing thinner and thinner.

4. The man looked a rather old forty-five, for he was already going gray.

5. He went about the room, after his introduction, looking at her pictures, her bronzes and clays, asking after the creator of this, the painter of that, where a third thing came from.

6. He earns his living by his pen.

9. "'Someone at the door," he said blinking. "Somefour, I should say by the sound," said Fili.

10. Babbit respected bigness in anything: in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth or words.

10. Hooper laughed and said to Broody, "Do you mind if I give Ellen something?' '"What do you mean?" Broody said. He thought to himself, give her what? A kiss? A box of chocolates ? A punch in the nose? " “A present. It's nothing, really."

12. Bookcases covering one wall boasted a half-shelf of literature.

13. Several months ago a magazine named Playboy which concentrates editorially on girls, books, girls, art, girls, music, fashion; girls and girls, published an article about old-time science-fiction.

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

13. And she still has that look, that don't-you-touch-me look, that women who were beautiful carry with them to the grave.

14. Ten-thirty is a dark hour in a town where respectable doors are locked at nine.

15. The girls were dressed to kill.

16. He caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks.

17. You have got two beautiful bad examples for parents.

18. Constantinople is noisy, hot, hilly, dirty and beautiful. It was packed with uniforms and rumors.

19. An enormous grand piano grinned savagely at the curtains as if it would grab them, given the chance.

20. The neon lights in the heart of the city flashed on and off. On and off. On. Off. On. Off. Continuously.

23. I wake up and I am alone and I walk round Warley and I'm alone, and I talk with people and I am alone and I look at his face when I'm home and it's dead,

24. And a great desire for peace, peace of no matter what kind, swept through her.

24. He ran away from the battle. He was an ordinary human being that didn't want to kill or to be killed. So he ran away from the battle.

24. There was no breeze came through the door.

25. Mrs. Nork had a large home and a small husband.

26. It was an unforgettable face and a tragic face.

29 Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will come at all nor for how long she will stay.

30. Jane set bathing-suited self to washing the lunch dishes.