1. I've never seen anything more obscene in all my 80 years on this Earth. a) metaphor b) periphrasis c) euphemism ✓
2. He was deep in thought and in debt.
a) oxymoron b) zeugma c) parallelism
3. Soldiers face powder, girls powder faces.
a) anadiplosis b) contrast c) chiasmus
4. He was not disinclined to take a certain cynical pleasure in observing and labeling his fellow wanderers.
a) litotes b) meiosis c) periphrasis
5. If I had only known it, this was a bad sign; a sign he was becoming stuffed up with spiritual pride and imagining himself better than his neighbors. (F. O’Connor)
a) framing b) anaphora c) anadiplosis
6. Ellen thought of herself as a very happy and very lucky person, because she had a good job, was able to buy herself a fair number of soft-colored dresses and skirts and sweaters and coats and hats. (S. Jackson)
a) asyndeton b) polysyndeton c) enumeration
7. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls. (A. Tennyson)
a) personification b) hyperbole c) simile
8. His mind was working like a first-class motor, and it already had a plan of action. (P. Wodehouse)
a) metaphor b) epithet c) simile
9 ...Similarly a woman of twelve is still in a way, – indeed in a whole lot of ways – undeveloped, she has scarcely seen enough of life to be able to select a mate with the same certainty with which the shipping companies pick them. (S. Leacock)
a) pun b) paronomasia c) metaphor
10. Not a bad guess, dad; you haven't missed it far. (O. Henry)
a) anadiplosis b) inversion c) understatement
11. … After all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. (J. Galsworthy)
a) litotes b) chiasmus c) antithesis
12. “No, I wouldn’t say he was exactly… but there was something queer… there was something uncanny about him. I’ll tell you my opinion…”
He began to puff again at his pipe without giving us his theory. (J. Joyce)
a) understatement b) parallelism c) aposiopesis
13. My little man! My little mannie! Was ‘ou frightened, love?... There now, love! There now!... Lambabaun! Mamma's little lamb of the world!... There now! (J. Joyce)
a) hypocorism b) euphemism c) antonomasia
14. The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on. (Jerome K. Jerome)
a) contrast b) pun c) paradox
15. I think we have reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all humanity, but for life upon earth.
a) polysyndeton b) gradation c) synechdoche
She hasn't eaten since three o'clock
They have been married since 1972
How long have you had your kitten?
I have had it since April 4th
He hasn't worked for three months
They have been at school since eight
o'clock
How long has she worked in Paris?
She has worked there for two years.
How long have you been in this team?
I have played for Arsenal since I was
a teenager.
It hasn't rained for a long time.
How long have they known each other?
They have known each other for ages.
On the delicate petals of a flower of rose history of mankind composed legends, wrote poetry, composed tales. Rose with drops of morning dew on the petals - beautiful. She looks wonderful even on a bed of autumn, when its petals have become stricter from the weather, withered on the edges.
But generally resistant rose flower, as well as in humans are resistant true queen. Often you can find a red rose in the cold, powdered with snow on a bed strewn with ice crystals of frost. Great show!
Stem roses dotted with spikes. I've always wondered: why do they need such a beautiful flower? And I thought: the flower is protected so that it is not stripped from the beds passers-by on the first request. And the animals a hundred times, "think" before you tumble into the rose bushes and trample them.
My favorite flower has different colors and shades. After all, on breeding and cultivation of rose bushes of different shades labored so many breeders scientists, many gardeners, agronomists, growers, gardeners! Yellow Rose - poster printing, Red Rose - the emblem of passionate love, white - pure love and tenderness. Purple Rose - the attribute of kings, black rose - a symbol of elegance, pink - the best gift for the holiday. Even green rose, and she bred by scientists as the flower variety.
One day I was with my parents in the rose garden, where gardeners arranged a real "ball of flowers." I saw a stunningly beautiful cream rose, decorated with light "rozovinkoy" on the edge of the petals. She became a model for me of a flower.