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Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

A) Oxymoron ascribes some feature to an object incompatible with that feature

B) Simile is close to metaphor in that the latter is also based on analogy in dissimilar things

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

A) Polysyndeton also serves the purpose of accentuating each tact introduced after the connective

B) The writer heed not explain what he mean: he merely mentions some detail, of what he thinks analogous in fiction or history to the topic discussed

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

A) The word "flame" here is used metaphorically; it stands for "love" and accentuates the passion of this feeling

B) An expressive hyperbole, as distinct from trite ones (used in everyday speech), is an exaggeration on a big scale

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

A) There metaphors which are commonly used in speech and sometimes even fixed in the dictionaries

B) The objects personified may be substituted by personal pronouns he/she and used with the verbs of speech, mental activity, wish, etc

Верна ли грамматическая конструкция в данных предложениях?

A) You could not hope for a dinner in "Heartbreak House"

B) Trying to comfort Ellie after the first blow was useless

Due to weaknesses in performance, and ___ because of Noam Chomsky's theoretical attack on language learning as a set of habits, audio-lingual methods are rarely the primary method of instruction today

First item was a dialogue in the foreign language to be memorized ___ the student

However, elements of ___ method still survive in many textbooks

A look at the prizes is awarded at the leading international film festivals will also demonstrate that as an art form, the American film ___ to enjoy considerable prestige

All these details, the language and the fantastic history of the portrait create the mysterious ___ of the tale

Also examples from the text should be ___ to show how the author creates this or that kind of atmosphere, what words and stylistic devices help him to do it

Also examples from the text ___ required to prove each idea of the student

Another variety of ___ concerns two different objects opposed to each other and being given opposite characteristics

As British Airways___ magazine put it, "the effect was breathtaking; words were hardly needed; the pictures said it all".

By leaving denouement out the author achieves a certain effect ___ he invites the reader to reflect on all the circumstances that accompanied the character of the story and to imagine the outcome of all the events

Can any instances of bookish and colloquial vocabulary ___ found?

Conflicts are ___ into internal and external

Diplomacy usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of

Do not talk ___ your phone or "text" at the table, or otherwise do something distracting, such as read or listen to a personal music player

Does the author use stylistic ___ amply or sparingly?

Educational psychologists may also work ___ consultants in designing and creating educational materials, classroom programs and online courses.

He ___ is a series of interlinked events in which the characters of the story participate

However, school psychologists are generally more individual oriented ___ students

If possible the student should ___ a few words about the novel from which the excerpt is taken

In "The Oval Portrait" ___ sets the story in a remote turret of an abandoned castle

In international politics, protocol is

In addition to conducting assessments, school psychologists ___ services such as academic and behavioral intervention, counseling, teacher consultation, and crisis intervention.

In fact, only a handful of worldwide agency networks have the capacity to ___ the world's biggest brands.

In many cases, ___ American films, old or new, are shown more often than are the home­grown variety

Internal conflicts, often termed as ”man ___ himself”, take place within one character

Is his style ___ general vivid, clear and emotional or matter-of-fact and constrained?

Never slouch or tilt ___ while seated in your chair

One should ___ in mind that the events in a plot need not always involve physical movement, the movement may be psychological

Social graces include

Some data about the ___ biography, creative activities and outlook are required

Some work in university settings where they carry ___ research on the cognitive and social processes of human development, learning and education.

The attitude of the author ___ his subject matter determines the tone of the story

The author's attitude to the characters, is it expressed clearly enough or ___ it not expressed?

The characters of the extract, whether they are ___ directly or indirectly, what kind of people they are judging by the text, what kind of relations can be, observed between them

The focus of social graces has changed over the last century, recently with an emphasis on

The general ___ of the text may be dry, unemotional, emotional, vivid, bright, tense, dramatic, pathetic, tragic, humorous, ironical, satirical, sarcastic, etc

The great blockbusters of film entertainment that stretch from Gone with the Wind to Star Wars receive the ___ attention

The internal conflict is localized in the inner world of the character and is rendered ___ his thoughts, feelings, intellectual processes

The main ___ of the text. i.e. what the author wanted to tell the reader by this extract, the underlying thoughts and ideas of the author

The message of the story is the ___ idea that the author expresses in the process of developing the theme

The people who have lost their work often ___.

The structural component, the___, is the unwinding of the actions, the events which follow the climax

The student should say whether the text is the first or the ___ person narration

The students are obliged to present ___ own attitude to the characters and to ground it substantially

The summary of the extract ___ be short (1/4 of the original text) and logical