Типовой промежуточный контрольный тест

Find and analyze stylistic devices in the given sentences:

-        Dear Nature is the kindest Mother still.

-        The leaves fell sorrowfully.

-        The hall applauded.

-        It must be delightful to find oneself in a foreign country without a penny.

-        Dora plunged into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room.

-        Curly – headed good – for – nothing.

-        It is this do – it – yourself; go – it – alone attitude.

-        It has the poorest millionaires, the plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers.

-        Sir John Potter, the mighty drinker.

-        The countryside seems to faint from its own loveliness.

-        To expire, to be no more, to depart, to give up the ghost.

-        Out of sight, out of mind.

-        Rude am I in my speech.

-        Sir Pitt came in first, very much flushed and rather unsteady in his gait.

-        I bring him news will raise his drooping spirits.

-        Yes, it’s a little things make the difference.

-        «You just come home or I’ll…»

-        I don’t want to hear what you’ve come for. I don’t want to hear.

-        I am exactly the man to be placed in a superior position in such a case like  

that. I can act with philosophy in such a case like that.

-        A smile would come into Mr. Pickwick’s face: the smile extended into a

laugh: the laugh into a roar; the roar became general.

-        If she married a husband he beats her; if she employed a broker he cheated

her; if she engaged a cook she drank.

-        In the days of old men made the manners, Manners now make men.

-        The poetry of earth is never dead. The poetry of earth is ceasing never.

-        He was the only survivor: no one else was saved.

-        God knows I loved you. For eight years I worshipped the ground you trod

on.

-        A saint abroad and a devil at home.

-        It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom,

it was the age of foolishness.

-        Soames turned away: he had an utter disinclination for talk, like one

standing before an open grave, watching a coffin slowly lowered.

-        The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage

over him in only one respect.

-        Are these the remedies for a starving and desperate populace?

-        It’s a bad thing. – It’s a good thing.

-        He wasn’t without taste…

-        He found that this way no easy task…

-        She was wearing a fur coat… Carr, the enthusiastic appreciator of smart

women and as good a judge of dress as any man to be met in a Pall Mall

club, saw that she was no country cousin. She had style as he preferred to

call it.

-        Through the open window the dust danced and was golden.

-        The marble spoke.

-        A mischief – making monkey.

-        A plump, rosy – cheeked, apple – faced young man.

-        She looked like china – shepherd.

-        It’s a rare bird that can fly to the middle of the Dnieper.

-        First come, first served.

-        Down dropped the breeze.

-        Beautiful lady. Going to kidnap us.

-        There’s something wants to speak to you.

-        Good intentions but…

-        He is no coward – He is a brave man.