Test No 3: Stylistic Syntax

1. Elliptical sentences and nominative sentences

1. perform the same functions;

2. perform different functions.

2. Asyndeton is used

1. to accelerate the tempo of the speech;

2. to characterize the emotional state of the speaker;

3. to impart expressiveness to the speech.

3. Aposiopesis is

1. a case when the speaker does not bring the utterance up to the end being overwhelmed by emotions;

2. a deliberate abstention from bringing the utterance up to the end;

3. a case when the speaker does not want to finish the sentence or cannot finish the sentence being overwhelmed by emotions.

4. Anadiplosis is based

1. upon the absence of the indispensable elements in the sentence;

2. upon the interaction of syntactical structures;

3. upon the excessive use of syntactical elements.

5. Prolepsis is used by characters of literary works

1. to make speech more expressive;

2. to emphasize the subject of speech;

3. to make the speech sound less formal.

6. In case of inversion the emphasized element occupies

1. the initial position;

2. the final position instead of the initial position;

c) either initial position or final position instead of the initial position.

7. Parallelism is used

a) to make the recurring parts more conspicuous than their surroundings;

b) to make the speech expressive.

8. Anaphora is used

1. to express the speaker's attitude toward the object of speech;

2. to imprint the elements repeated in the reader's mind;

3. to create poetic atmosphere.

9. The syntactical device used to reproduce two parallel lines of thought is termed

1. detachment;

2. parenthesis.

10. The sentence «You don't know what a nice - a beautiful, nice - gift I've got to you» contains

1. repetition;

2. detachment;

3. repetition in the form of detachment.