Stylistic Devices Quiz

The perfect luxury of his latter days had embedded him like a fly in sugar. The device is:

• simile

• comparison

• metonymy

• zeugma

• oxymoron

The kindly thought was not unmixed with the inevitable longing to get something out of everything you do. The underlined device is:

• negation

• metonymy

• epithet

• metaphor

• litotes

He had introduced a good deal of change and china into the drawing-room. The device is:

• oxymoron

• zeugma

• repetition

• epithet

• object

He sat for half an hour in the dawn and the arm-chair where he had slept. The device is:

• repetition

• zeugma

• simile

• metonymy

• chiasmus

The engaging rascal is the device of:

• oxymoron

• litotes

• metaphor

• repetition

• antonym

There's my young rascal of a son! The device is:

• metonymy

• catch repetition

• reversed epithet

• ordinary repetition

• zeugma

Restitution of conjugal right, legal separation, bring a suit for divorce are …terms.

• law

• business

• biological

• poetic

• technical

A stormy petrel of a chap! The device is:

• reversed epithet

• metaphor

• metonymy

• alliteration

• repetition

He had removed his grief and his paintbox abroad. The device is:

• a semantically false chain

• repetition

• metaphor

• zeugma

• simile

Net sum, income tax, life interest in fifteen thousand pounds, consols are words referring to:

• business

• literature

• botany

• zoology

• everyday life