Stylistics Contest is designed to help students assess their knowledge of main concepts of stylistics in three directions:

1) Stylistic devices and expressive means

2) Key notions of literary stylistics

3) Literary stylistics: understanding and interpreting 

The multiple-choice tasks will deepen students understanding of  English emotive prose and polish their skills of text interpretation.

The extracts presented cover a wide range of emotive prose from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present.