Stylistic Devices and Functional Styles

Old Mathew's mouth closed like a nut cracker. The device is…

• simile

• metaphor

• zeugma

• epithet

• litotes

Then she took the finger away, and smiled directly and simply across the thousand miles of leather cushion between them. The device is…

• zeugma

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• litotes

He smiled and his full lips revealed great horse teeth. The device is…

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• epithet

• litotes

"He is a cheerful pessimist." The device is…

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

• antithesis

• metonymy

Words trembled on his lips - caustic words. The device is …

• epiphoric repetition

• anaphoric repetition

• frame repetition

• chain repetition

• catch repetition

Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms; authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape. The sentence contains the following stylistic device:

• antonomasia

• zeugma

• oxymoron

• simile

• chain repetition

Publicist style has features in common with the style of …

• scientific prose and the emotive prose

• emotional appeals

• newspaper slyle

• official documents

• poetry

Publicist style has 3 oratorical substyles. They are ….

• speeches and articles, lyrics

• speeches and oratory and books

• speeches, essays

• oratory, poetry

• oratory, essays and articles

What is the most obvious purpose of oratory?

• combination

• interpretation

• persuasion

• relation

• parody

Oratorical style is evident in speeches on …

• political and social problems

• newspaper articles

• social and radio commentary

• social and scientific problems

• political and literary problems