Test On Analytical Reading

1. Identify the correct sd according to its definition:

1. the clash of two opposite meanings within the same context –

2. a deliberate exaggeration of some quantity, quality, size, etc. –

3. the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two adjacent words in the context –

4. the re-naming of an object by a phrase that brings out some particular feature of the object –

5. an arrangement of sentences (or of the homogeneous parts of one sentence) which secures a gradual increase in significance, importance, or emotional tension in the utterance –

6. a SD consisting of a peculiar use of negative constructions –

7. a combination of speech-sounds which aims at imitating sounds produced in nature, by things, by people and by animals –

8. transference of meaning on the basis of contiguity –

9. transference of meaning on the basis of similarity and association –

10. a SD based on the interaction of 2 well-known meanings of a word or phrase –

11. a word or phrase expressing some quality of a person, thing or idea –

12. a combination of 2 antonymous words (mostly an adjective and a noun or an adverb with an adjective) in one syntagma –

13. words we use when we express our feelings strongly and which may be said to exist in lg as conversational symbols of human emotions –

14. if a SD involves likeness between inanimate and animate objects –

15. the interplay between the logical and nominal meanings of a word, the two kinds of meaning must be materialized in the context simultaneously –

16. an indirect reference, by word or phrase, to a historical, literary, mythological, biblical fact or to a fact of everyday life made in the course of speaking or writing –

17. a structure consisting of two steps, the lexical meanings of which are opposite to each other –

18. a SD by which separate things, objects, phenomena, properties, actions are named one by one so that they produce a chain –

19. the essence of this device lies in the repetition of similar sounds, in particular consonant sounds, in close succession, particularly at the beginnings of successive words –

20. repetition involving the whole structure of the sentence –

21. repetition of conjunctions or connecting words –

22. if the repeated word comes at the beginning of 2 or more sentences or phrases we have –

23. when the initial parts of a paragraph are repeated at the end of it we have –

24. the structure of this device is the following the last word or phrase of one part of an utterance is repeated at the beginning of the next part, thus hooking the two parts together –

25. a statement in the form of a question which presupposes the possible answer –

26. parts of structures (secondary parts of a sentence) by some specific consideration of writer placed so that it seemed formally independent of the word they logically refer to –

27. a SD that offers no conjunctions or connecting words –

28. a stopping shot for rhetorical effect –

29) intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word used to reflect its authentic pronunciation –

30. when the shape, size, dimensions, etc of the object are intentionally underrated we deal with –