Introduction to Stylistics (Multiple-Choice Type) Quiz. This test covers various topics in Stylistics including varieties of speech, literary devices, and examinations of oral and written texts. You may use the items below for a pretest or for summative assessment purposes.
- It (stylistic device) is a reference to a concept, a person or an object that has served as a prototype of its kind and is the original idea that has come to be used over and over again.
- Archetype
- Authorial Intrusion
- Aphorism
- Caesura
- It is a literary device wherein the writer or author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following, or events that have happened before the events that are currently being unfolded in the story.
- Foil
- Juxtaposition
- Flashback
- Inversion
- In linguistics, it is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
- Register
- Diatype
- Dialect
- Creole
- It is a variety of speech closest to a standard prestige language.
- Acrolect
- Mesolect
- Basilect
- Creole
- It is an ancient discipline which taught how to structure an argument, how to make effective use of figures of speech, and generally how to vary a speech or a piece of writing so as to produce the maximum impact.
- Poetics
- Dialectics
- Rhetoric
- Linguistics
- In literature, this device refers to the practice of joining together two or more words in order to create an entirely new word; this is often done in order to create a name or word for something combining the individual characters of two or more other words.
- Portmanteau
- Prologue
- Satire
- Spoonerism
- It refers to a single, related chunk of lines in poetry which forms one particular faction in poetry.
- Stanza
- Rhythm and Rhyme
- Setting
- Poetic Foot
- It is a language developed by mixing the vocabulary and grammar of other languages.
- Creole
- Acrolect
- Mesolect
- Basilect
- It is an intermediate dialect or a variety of language lower than the high prestige acrolect.
- Creole
- Mesolect
- Basilect
- Acrolect
- It is defined as a way of speech and/or a kind of utterance which is formed by means of conscious and intentional selection, systematic patterning and implementation of linguistic and extra-linguistic means with respect to the topic, situation, function, etc.
- Language Style
- Register
- Morpheme
- Phoneme
- As an art of creating dialogues, it further deals with the study of the methods of persuasion.
- Rhetoric
- Dialectics
- Poetics
- Semantics
- It is a modern verse without any formal structure; without systematic regularity in rhythm and in rhyme.
- Free Verse
- Blank Verse
- Diamond Verse
- Nursery Rhyme
- It is a style in spoken English which requires private vocabulary and emphasis on intonation more than wording or grammar.
- Intimate
- Formal
- Casual
- Informal
- In a traditional line of metered poetry, it is the rhythmical unit bearing the strong and weak syllables.
- Poetic Line
- Poetic Foot
- Meter
- Rhyme Scheme
- It is a language style common among friends, that involves the usual use of ellipsis and slangs
- Formal
- Intimate
- Causal
- Informal
- It is used when the writer employs two sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another to create a stark contrast using two divergent elements that come together to create one uniform whole.
- Antithesis
- Anthropomorphism
- Bibliomancy
- Denotation
- Adding a little insight to some interesting developments that happen once the major plot is over; it acts as a teaser trailer to any possible sequels that might be created at the latter part of the piece.
- Epithet
- Epilogue
- Internal Rhyme
- Hyperbaton
- It refers to the incidence where an implausible concept or character is brought into the story in order to make the conflict in the story resolve and to bring about a pleasing solution.
- Diction
- Deus ex Machina
- Litotes
- Malapropism
- It is a literary device used for expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving his aims and dreams; it is a discord that can have external aggressors or can even arise from within self.
- Connotation
- Cacophony
- Circumlocution
- Conflict
- Derived from the German language and literally translates into “double walker,” it refers to a character in the story that is actually a counterfeit of a real or genuine character.
- Ekphrastic
- Doppelganger
- Epilogue
- Diction
- It refers to the use of indicative words or phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.
- Foreshadowing
- Faulty Parallelism
- Flashback
- Euphony
- Its use in literature is a concept promoted by John Keats, who was of the opinion that literary achievers especially poets, should be able to come to terms with the fact that some matters might have to be left unsolved and uncertain.
- Nemesis
- Negative Capability
- Oxymoron
- Pathetic Fallacy
- It is a type of literary device whereby the author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his or her characters to non-human objects or nature or phenomena; it is also a type of personification, and is known to occur more by accident and less on purpose.
- Motif
- Periodic Structure
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Point of View
- It refers to the use of phrases and words that are noted for possessing an extensive degree of notable loveliness or melody in the sound they create.
- Flashback
- Verisimilitude
- Euphony
- Hubris
- It is evident in a literary piece through the use of words or phrases to create mental images for the reader.
- Imagery
- Internal Rhyme
- Juxtaposition
- Malapropism
- It refers to a definitive stance the author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject of the literary work.
- Metonymy
- Kennings
- Mood
- Metaphor
- It examines oral and written texts in order to determine crucial characteristic linguistic properties, structure, and patterns influencing perception of the text.
- Linguistics
- Stylistics
- Semantics
- Literary Criticism
- It is the evaluation and interpretation of literary works on the basis of literary theories or of historical, biographical, Freudian, and feministic approaches.
- Literary Criticism
- Literary Analysis
- Stylistics
- Linguistics
- It is the artistic way of creating poems, an art which aims to study a piece and focuses on the problem of expressing the ideas before the actual utterance.
- Dialectics
- Poetics
- Rhetoric
- Pragmatics
- It is the systematic study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and its modification.
- Linguistics
- Stylistics
- Phonetics
- Morphology
- It is termed as an artistically motivated deviation.
- Defamiliarization
- Foregrounding
- Estrangement
- Literature
- In a certain poem, the word SMOG, built in combining FOG and SMOKE is used by a poet to mean something that has the properties of both. In formal stylistic analysis, what device best defines the practice?
- Spoonerism
- Verisimilitude
- Portmanteau
- Cacophony
- What literary device is employed in the poetic line: “He spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be”?
- Anagram
- Allusion
- Anastrophe
- Aphorism
- What evident literary device is used by the poet in the line: The soft whistling teapot informed him it was time for breakfast?
- Paradox
- Negative Capability
- Nemesis
- Pathetic Fallacy
- Which functional style of the English language has an aesthetic-cognitive function and employs genuinely imaginative means and stylistic devices, the use of words in their contextual meaning and the peculiar individual selection of syntax?
- Publicist Style
- Official Documents Style
- Scientific Prose
- Belles-Letters
- What French classical theory of language style posses a high aesthetic characteristics and is used by poets and other literary artists?
- Stylus Altus
- Stylus Humilis
- Stylus Mediocris
- Explication de Texte
- In essay writing, this paragraph accomplishes three purposes; it captures the reader’s interest, it suggests the importance of the topic and ends with a thesis sentence.
- Introduction
- Argument
- Body
- Conclusion
- It usually restates the thesis and leaves the reader something about the topic to think about.
- Conclusion
- Thesis Statement
- Body
- Introduction
- It is very subjective and the most colloquial of all the sub-styles; it makes use of expressive means.
- Oratorical Piece
- Essay
- Emotive Prose
- Drama
- In this essay, the writer tries to convince the reader by demonstrating the truth or falsity of a topic; the writer’s position will be backed up with certain kinds of evidence, like statistics.
- Descriptive
- Argumentative
- Narrative
- Contrast
- It is a branch of linguistics that studies the nature and organization of the meanings conveyed by language.
- Semantics
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Morphology
- It is a useful all-purpose name for a short sequence of words (or even a single word, considered as an element in a clause or sentence), especially a grouping which could be replaced by a single word.
- Phrase
- Word
- Morpheme
- Clause
- It is a phrase containing a noun or noun-like word (such as pronoun), which is the head, and other elements, either before or after.
- Verb Phrase
- Noun Phrase
- Noun Clause
- Sentence
- In clause syntax, it is anything that adds to the meaning of the subject or object.
- Object
- Complement
- Indirect Object
- Determiner
- It is phrase formed from the head, a preposition, followed by a noun phrase.
- Noun Phrase
- Prepositional Phrase
- Adverb
- Verb Phrase