STYLISTICS

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

I. MULTIPLE-CHOICE.

1. It provides a way of recapitulating felt experience by matching up patterns of language to a

connected series of events.
a. Discourse Analysis
b. Narrative Discourse
c. Textual medium
2. All of the following sentences are examples of metaphor, except for one. Which one is NOT a
metaphor?
a. Love is a game that I don't want to play.
b. My mom's a tiger when she's mad and upset.
c. You are as beautiful as the sunrise
3. Which of the sentences reflects the correct meaning of Pun?
a. Pun is a figure of speech in which a thing or idea is not called by its own name, but by the name
of another thing closely related to that thing or idea.
b. A Pun is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses,
sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
c. Pun is making fun on words to produce a humorous effect with the use of a word that suggests
two or more meanings or by utilizing equivalent sounding words that possess divergent
meanings.
4. Which one is an example of a pun?
a. Math class is full of drama. There are so many problems to work out.
b. Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of spring
c. She’s as lean as a toothpick.
5. Pick out the statement that best describes 'parody'.
a. Parody is an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate
exaggeration for comic effect.
b. Parody is nothing but a mere word.
c. Parody is the repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses,
sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect
6. This refers to the abstract storyline of a narrative.
a. Narrative plot
b. Narrative Discourse
c. Textual medium
7. It is often characterized by the use of stylistic devices such as flashback, prevision, and repetition– all
of which serve to disrupt the basic chronology of the narrative's plot.
a. Narrative plot
b. Narrative discourse
c. Narrative stylistics
8. A figure of speech which makes an understood, indirect or hidden contrast between two things or
objects that are poles apart from each other but have a few characteristics common between them.
a. Metonymy
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
9. It is a figure of speech that draws resemblance with the assistance of the words such as "like" or
"as".
a. Metaphor
b. Simile
c. Metonymy
10. "An elephant's opinion carries a lot of weight." Is an example of–?
a. Pun
b. Metaphor
c. Parody

II. Give what is asked in the following:

1–5. Examples of metaphor

6–10. Examples of pun