Test Stylistic Devices (B)

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Test Stylistic Devices
04.03.2026
1
Fill in the names of the sty­li­stic de­vices that fit the cor­re­spon­ding de­scrip­ti­ons and ex­amp­les.
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Sty­li­stic de­vice

De­scrip­ti­on

Ex­amp­le(s)

di­rect com­pa­ri­son of two dif­fe­rent things wit­hout using the words as or like

He's a couch po­ta­to

tech­ni­que of re­pre­sen­ting ani­mals or ob­jects as if they were (like) human beings

The city never sleeps.

re­pe­ti­ti­on of a sound at the

be­gin­ning of neigh­bou­ring words

fun fact, weak and weary, live love laugh

form of par­al­le­lism which re­pe­ats the same word(s) at the be­gin­ning of

neigh­bou­ring sen­ten­ces

Come in, I say. Come in and eat with us.

ex­pres­si­on of me­a­ning by using

lan­guage that ty­pi­cal­ly means the op­po­si­te

Well done! Now you broke it.

a ques­ti­on to which the ans­wer seems

ob­vious and is the­re­fo­re not necess­a­ry

Do birds fly?

state­ment in which the true ma­gni­tu­de of an idea or event is pre­sen­ted as less va­lu­a­ble or im­portant than it ac­tu­al­ly is

Glo­bal warming is a bit of a pro­blem.

2
Match the fol­lo­wing sty­li­stic de­vices and de­scrip­ti­ons.
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ono­ma­to­po­eia
hy­per­bo­le
syn­ech­do­che
word­play/pun
oxy­mo­ron
si­mi­le
enu­me­ra­ti­on

a) lis­ting of words, phra­ses or ideas



b) ap­par­ent­ly con­tra­dic­to­ry terms ap­pearing toge­ther



c) strong ex­a­g­ge­ra­ti­on used for se­rious or co­me­dic ef­fect



d) use of a word which may be un­der­stood in mul­ti­ple ways



e) com­pa­ri­son using the words as or like



f) a part re­pre­sen­ting the whole or vice versa



g) use of a word that imi­ta­tes the sound it re­fers to



3
Write down two ex­amp­les each for the fol­lo­wing sty­li­stic de­vices.
a) ono­ma­to­po­eia
b) per­so­ni­fi­ca­ti­on
c) par­al­le­lism
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time: 15 minutes
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Test Stylistic Devices (B)

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