C. The authors attitude to his personages and described reality

A. belles-lettres; B. scientific; C. newspaper; D. official;
38. What is Metonymy based on?
A. associations between two things; B. contrast of two ideas; C. similarity of two objects; D. exaggeration;
39. When the author uses a longer descriptive phrase instead of direct naming of an object it is called:
A. periphrasis; B. repetition; C. metaphor; D. inversion;
40. What stylistic device is based on repetition of sounds?
A. alliteration; B. onomatopoeia; C. parallelism; D. pun;


41. “He remembered the dog whose eyes were as big as saucers” (Michael Ondaatje) is an example of:
A. periphrasis; B. repetition; C. metaphor; D. simile;
42. “But what can one expect from a woman like her, who wastes her days snuffling around behind Leo Nikolayevich’s back like a dog, trying to unearth some new bone of discord.” (Jay Parini) Identify the tenor of the sentence.
A. dog B. woman C. some new bone of discord D. Leo Nikolayevich’s
43. Periphrases are divided into:
A. Logical and Figurative B. Figurative C. Euphemistic periphrases D. Logical, Figurative and Euphemistic periphrases
44. “You are becoming a little thin on top.” Is an example of :
A metaphor.; B. repetition; C. periphrasis; D. simile;
45. Stylistics is…
a) a branch of general linguistics. It is the study and interpretation of texts in regard to their phonetic, lexical, morphological, semantic, syntactical features and to the style.

2. 
   defined as the study of the style of different readers and types of literature and elements of language.
   
3. 
   the study of written style, and how it changes within different circumstances.
   
4. 
   a linguistic context is the encirclement of a language unit by other language units in speech.