The disyllabic foot in which the stress is upon the second syllable is called

b) Anticlimax;

Asyndeton is   

b) the deliberate omission of the connective where it is generally expected to be according to the norms of the literary language;

A stressed vowel is followed by the same sounds in

b) perfect rhyme;

Anaphora is

c) the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences.

The three-syllabic foot in which the stress is upon the second syllable is called

c) amphibrach.

11. Graphon is used to reflect                                                                                                          a) the authentic pronunciation of words;                                                                                     

12. Fill in the gap: ______is used to create the second plane, or background, to the narrative, to reproduce two parallel lines of thought.

b) Parenthesis;

13. Fill in the gap: _______ is a combination of sounds the aim of which is to make the sound of the utterance an echo of its sense.

a) Indirect onomatopoeia;

If we can indicate the exact word in whose meaning there is contradiction between the said and the implied, this type of irony is called

b) verbal irony;

Meiosis is

a) understatement;

Intentional treating idioms as if they were word combinations (or single words) used in their primary sense results in the formation of

b) pun;

17. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used instead of another to suggest likeness or analogy between them is called:      

b) metaphor.

18. Fill in the gap: ______ is the repetition of the general scheme of a sentence, by means of the pronominal subject and an auxiliary or modal verb, representing the predicate of the main sentence.

a) Syntactic tautology;

Belles-lettres style is known for

b) its imagery;

20. Fill in the gap:_________ is a confrontation of two separate phrases (sentences or even paragraphs) of opposite meaning.

b) Antithesis;

The stylistic device based on peculiar use of negative constructions is called

c) litotes.

Aesthetical-cognitive” function distinguishes

a) Belles-Lettres style;

Archaisms are included into the group of

b) elevated (literary) words;

The stylistic device which is often used in fables and parables for didactic purposes is called

c) allegory.

Parenthesis is based on

a) redundancy of syntactical elements;

A milder word replacing another word which is obscene, profane or having unpleasant associations is

b) euphemism;

Colloquialisms are

c) not used in formal speech though they have a slight tinge of informality or familiarity about them.

28. Fill in the gap: ______denotes such an arrangement of notions expressed by words, word combinations or sentences in which what precedes is less significant than what follows.

b) Climax;

The main function of publicistic style is

c) to influence the reader and to shape his views in accordance with the argumentation of the author.

An attributive or an adverbial combination of two contradictory words is called

c) oxymoron.

The stylistic device which is based on the relation between the part and the whole is called

a) synecdoche;

Objectivity, impartiality in rendering facts or events, “inverted pyramid” structure - these are the peculiar features of

a) Newspaper style;

The use of impersonal passive constructions is typical of

d) Scientific style.

If a secondary part of the sentence is torn away from the word it refers to and gains some sort of independence and greater degree of significance, it is a

a) detachment;

The reiteration of the final unit of one utterance at the beginning of the next utterance is

b) anadiplosis;

If poetic or archaic words are used in the colloquial context,

b) they produce humorous effect;

The stylistic device that shows likeness of two objects, belonging to two different classes is

a) an imaginative comparison;

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