C. The authors attitude to his personages and described reality

A) official style B) publicist style C) newspaper style D) belles-lettres style
132. Which is famous for its explicit pragmatic function of persuasion directed at influencing the reader and shaping his views?
A) official style B) publicist style C) newspaper style D) belles-lettres style.
133. Which of the styles can be achieved mostly in oral form? A) official style B) publicist style C) newspaper style D) scientific style.
134. Fill the oxymoron: the biggest-
A) beautiful girl B) little town C) caring mother D) gold comb
135.What is the highest point of the action? A) Climax B) Story C) Plot D) Theme
136. Special mention should be made of functional stylistics which is a branch of lingua-stylistics that investigates functional styles,

a) with the contrastive study of stylistic phenomenon in the level of more than one language. It analyses the stylistic resources not inherent in a separate language but at the crossroads of two languages, or two literatures and is obviously linked to the theory of translation.

b) with analyses of the text from both author’s and reader’s point of view. It makes literary and linguistic analyses simultaneously.
c) that is special sublanguages or varieties of the national language such as 1) the belles-lettres style; 2) the publicist style; 3) the newspaper style; 4) the scientific prose style; 5) the style of official documents.
d) with the study of special vocabulary which helps the writer to create specific stylistic coloring in a text with the help of literary and colloquial vocabulary.
137. . … is contained of words that imitate natural sounds, as ding-dong, burr, bang, cuckoo.
a) Direct onomatopoeia b) Indirect onomatopoeia
c) Natural onomatopoeia d) Artificial onomatopoeia

138. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed syllables of a phrase.

a) Assonance b) Alliteration c) Rhythm d) Onomatopoeia
139.  Stylistic devices based on the interaction between the logical and nominal meanings of a word. (the use of a proper name in place of a common one or vice versa to emphasize some feature or quality)
a) Epithet b) Oxymoron c) Antonomasia d) Hyperbole

140. Which of the following is the correct definition for Metaphor?

a) Comparing two similar things by using like or as
b) Comparing two similar things without using like or as
c) Comparing two unlike things by using like or as