Stylistics Test

(Shelly) belongs to … style: metonymy (The Times)” belongs to…style: antonomasia
…(Dickens)” belongs to…style: pun a penny in one’s pocket” belongs to…style: irony belong to…style: oxymoron belongs to the....style. : belles-lettres cake, and called Summit, of course" is: simile The sentence "I would give you the whole world to know " contains: hyperbole;
The sentence "I'm writing in connection with your account" is typical of.... *business letter
The sentence "In the quietness of these winter evenings there is one clock: the sea"
The sentence "The long arm of the law will catch him in the end" contains: personification.
The sentence “…to rob Peter to pay Paul” belongs to…style: alliteration
The sentence “A fine friend you are! That’s pretty kettle of fish!” belongs to…style: irony
The sentence “Dear Nature is the kindest Mother still. (Byron)” belongs to…style : metaphor
The sentence “Dot’s mother never stood on anything but her active little feet
The sentence “For East is East, West is West (Kipling)” belongs to…style: tautology
The sentence “It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without
The sentence “It’s his Achilles heel (myth of vulnerability)” belongs to…style: allusion
The sentence “May’s mother always stood on her gentility… (Dickens)” belongs
The sentence “Mr. Facing – Both- Ways does not get very far in this world/
The sentence “My heart is like a singing bird (Rosetti)” belongs to…style: simile
The sentence “Posthumous papers of the Pickwick club (Dickens) ” belongs to…style: alliteration
The sentence “The camp, the pulpit and the low For rich man’s sons are free”
The sentence “The cock is covering, the stream is flowing ” belongs to…style: parallelism
The stylistic device in the sentence "There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-
The word-combinations “peopled desert, populous solitude, proud humility ” to…style : zeugma
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