Stylistic Analysis and Discourse Analysis

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Q1

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Which among the following figures in Stylistics established the framework for modern objective
analysis of Stylistics?

Leo Spitzer
Roman Jakobson
Jan Mukařovský
Peter Barry

Q2

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Which of the following pertains to the concrete manifestation of langue resulted from the
selection of linguistic repertoire?

Parole
Dulce
Style
Morpheme

Q3

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It refers to the writer's unique set of linguistic tendencies that somehow reveal himself in
everything he writes.
Linguistic thumbprint
Linguistic Style
Authorial Habits
Preferred Genre

Q4

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Which analysis fuses concepts from literary criticism and linguistics to analyze and interpret a
literary piece?

Stylistics
Literary Appreciation
Rhetoric Analysis
Pragmatics

Q5

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The romantic movement sprang writers such as Wordsworth and Shelley, who focused on
nature as a subject for their poetry. The langauge of the common man was also emphasized as
the language style during this time. Which style does this base from?

Genre
Period
Writer
School of Thought

Q6
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Instapoets such as Lang Leav and Rupi Kaur emerged after the advent of social media. Their
style is characterized by byte-sized verses that consider political and social subjects. Which
style does this base from?

Genre
Period
Writer
School of Thought

Q7

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One of the core characteristics of modernism is the Stream of consciousness. It is a narrative
style that tries to capture a character's thought process in a realistic way. What style does this
base from?

Movement
Genre
Period
Writer

Q8

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The style of Victorian novels frequently depicts idealized versions of challenging lives in which
tenacity, love, and good fortune ultimately triumph; virtue would be rewarded, and wrongdoers
would receive just punishment. What style does this base from?

Period
School of Thought
Genre
Writer

Q9

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Jose Garcia Villa can be characterized by the excessive use of commas that forces the reader
to pause after every word which he described as "a lineal pace of dignity and movement".
Which style does this base from?

Writer
Period
School of Thought
Genre

Q10

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It refers to how an individual uses a specific language for a specific goal in a specific setting.

Style
Genre
Langue
Parole

Q11

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What does Stilus virum arguit mean?
The style proclaims the man.
The man proclaims the style.
The style is the man himself.
The man selects the style.

Q12

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It deals with the analysis and interpretation of samples of language-based communication using
ideas from linguistics and related disciplines.

Stylistics
Pragmatics
Discourse
Rhetorics

Q13

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The following underlines the difference between Stylistics and Literary Criticism EXCEPT; which
one?

Literary criticism uses theories to justify the analysis while stylistics dismisses it over linguistic
devices and techniques.
Stylistic analysis is based on linguistic orientation, while literary criticism analyzes texts from a
literary perspective.
The distinction of stylistics from literary criticism is that it serves as a bridge between the two.
Literary criticism makes fewer claims to scientific impartiality than stylistics does.

Q14
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It refers to the practice of speaking or writing effectively and persuasively, particularly when
using compositional devices like figures of speech.

Rhetoric
Discourse
Stylistics
Pragmatics

Q15

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Write TRUE if the statement is TRUE; otherwise, write FALSE.

Peter Barry defines stylistics as "the modern version of the ancient discipline known as rhetoric".

Q16

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Which rhetorical device is considered when a speaker starts his/her speech with academic
distinctions or shares his/her experience and expertise in a certain field?

Ethos
Bathos
Logos
Pathos

Q17
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"I work a lot in the slums of Tondo Manila and the life there is very it’s poor." - Catriona Gray,
Miss Universe 2018

The statement above used rhetorical appeals effectively. Which two rhetorical appeals are used
in this statement?

Pathos and Logos

Q18

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My old studies in alchemy and my sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed
in the kindly properties of simples, have made a better physician of me than many that claim the
medical degree.

This excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter exemplifies which rhetorical appeal?

Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Bathos

Q19

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Which appeal employs rhetorical devices such as analogies, examples, and citations of
research or statistics?

Logos
Ethos
Pathos
Bathos

Q20

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Sixty-three thousand Americans since 9/11 have been killed by illegal aliens. This isn't a
problem that's going away; it's getting bigger.

This excerpt from Former U.S President Trump exemplifies which rhetorical appeal?

Logos
Pathos
Ethos
Bathos

Q21

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"Little black boys and black girls joining hands with little white boys and white girls."

This excerpt from the speech of Martin Luther King illustrates the use of which rhetorical
appeal?

Pathos
Logos
Bathos
Ethos

Q22
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Which concept of Russian Formalism refers to the elusive quality of language that distinguishes
the poetic from the ordinary?

Literariness
Poetic
Defamiliarization
Naturalization

Q23

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Which Russian formalist concept serves as the story's foundation and encompasses the
occurrences in the narrative's chronological order?

Fabula
Syuzhet
Naturalization
Carnivalization

Q24

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I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

The repetitive underlying structure in the excerpt above is an example of

Q25

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It refers to the poetic technique that makes readers see things in unexpected and unfamiliar
ways in order to convince them to alter or improve their impressions of a familiar object.

Ostranenie
Foregrounding
Carnivalization
Retradation

Q26

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Who established the Prague Linguistic Circle in 1926?

Mikhail Bakhtin
Jan Mukařovský
Roman Jakobson
Viktor Shklovsky

Q27

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Which style refers to an invariant, which ought to include all variable phonemic, morphological,
lexical, and syntactic patterns with their characteristic properties circulating in the language at a
specific time?

Norm Style
Genre Style
Individual Style
Functional Style

Q28

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Which style refers to the peculiarities of the writer's manner of using the language to achieve an
effect he desires?

Individual Style
Norm Style
Functional Style
Genre Style

Q29

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Journalistic writing style presents objective stories based on facts. This is an example of what
types of style?

Functional Style
Individual Style
Norm Style
Genre Style
 Q30

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What branch of language study deals with the meaning of words and sentences?

Semantics
Discourse
Pragmatics
Phonetics

Q31

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Scansion identifies the metrical structure of a poem by breaking each line of verse into feet and
identifying the accented and unaccented syllables. Which area of linguistics is focused on this
analysis?

Phonology
Graphology
Semantics
Lexicology

Q32

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What branch of language study deals with the word use and the vocabulary of the language?

Lexicology
Morphology
Semantics
Pragmatics

Q33

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The coining of new words such as Lewis Caroll's "frumious" and "frabjous" can be best studied
through the lens of which linguistic area?

Lexicology
Morphology
Semantics
Graphology

Q34

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What branch of language study deals with the way words combine with other words to form
phrases and sentences?

Syntax
Morphology
Graphology
Semantics

Q35

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It refers to a kind of intensification of an utterance or a part of it.
Emotive
Expressiveness
Emotive Means
Stylistic Means

Q36

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What branch of language study deals with the patterns of written language; the shape of
language on the page?

Graphology
Semantics
Syntax
Morphology

Q37

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Which expressive means focused on the pitch, melody, stress, manner of speaking, and pauses
of the utterance?

Phonetic Means
Lexical Means
Morphological Means
Syntactic Means

Q38
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“I came, I saw, I conquered”

Which expressive means is exemplified in this famous quotation of Julius Ceasar?

Syntactic Means
Phonetic Means
Lexical Means
Morphological Means

Q39

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"Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt the truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love”

-Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Which expressive means is exemplified in the repetition of the word doubt?

Lexical Means
Morphological Means
Syntactic Means
Phonetic Means

Q40

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Which expressive means is employed when an utterance's meaning changes as the speaker
switches emphasis on different words around the utterance?
Phonetic Means
Morphological Means
Syntactic Means
Lexical Means

Q41

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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

The use of hyperbole in this statement is a form of which expressive means?

Lexical Means
Phonetic Means
Syntactic Means
Morphological Means

Q42

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The use of sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds in the poem Jabberwocky illustrates
the use of which expressive means?

Phonetic Means
Lexical Means
Syntactic Means
Morphological Means

Q43
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Which style is focused on the register?

Functional Style
Norm Style
Individual Style
Authorial Style

Q44

Exact Value

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Write True if the statement is True; otherwise, write False.

From a stylistic point of view, the closest thing to a uniform and specialized usage of language
that we can find is in a text. As a result, it is the obvious place to begin when studying style.

Q45

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Write True if the statement is True; otherwise, write False.

Mukařovský asserted that students who study rhetoric learn how to organize an argument,
employ rhetorical devices wisely, and generally shape and alter a speech or a piece of writing
for optimum impact.

Q46

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Write True if the statement is True; otherwise, write False.
According to Mukařovský, deviation creates a defamiliarizing effect on the reader.

Q47

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Write True if the statement is True; otherwise, write False.

Formalists believe that the literariness of a work of literature resides solely in its devices,
techniques, and context.

Q48

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Write True if the statement is True; otherwise, write False.

Formalists value what is said more than the way it is said.

Q49

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Which concept of formalism is a result of defamiliarization when readers are being slowed
down, drawn out, or interrupted by the literariness of a text?

Retardation of Narrative
Baring the Device
Naturalization of Techniques
Dialogized Heteroglossia
 Q50

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Write True if the statement is True; otherwise, write False.

Leo Spitzer embraced the purely impressionistic criticism; while rejecting the scientific notion of
objectivity in analysis.