2. What makes Epenthesis difficult to read?
(a) Letters added to the ends of the words.
(b) Letters omitted from the ends of the words.
(c) Letters added to the beginnings of the words.
(d) Letters added to the middles of the words.

3. What does the narrator of Biased notice about the nearby passengers?
(a) They are all reading newspapers.
(b) They are all carrying briefcases.
(c) They are all male.
(d) They are all female.

4. What does the rhyming slang replace in Rhyming Slang?
(a) Adjectives.
(b) Adverbs.
(c) Nouns.
(d) Verbs.

5. What letters are mixed up with adjoining words in Spoonerisms?
(a) The middle.
(b) All of them.
(c) The last.
(d) The first.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of Modern Style describe the events witnessed?

2. How is Telegraphic signed?

3. What is one characteristic of Casual?

4. How many acts are in Opera English?

5. What animal describes the young man in Portrait?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a haiku and how is it used in Exercises in Style?

2. What makes the variation "Abusive" so confrontational?

3. Explain how the author can write the variation "Gustatory" without tasting anything that happens in the story?

4. Compare and contrast "Back Slang" and "Dog Latin."

5. Explain the variation "Olfactory."

6. Why do you think the author includes the variation "Interjections?"

7. What affect does "Proper Noun" create by replacing common nouns with proper names?

8. What makes the variation "Awkward" seem awkward?

9. Why does Raymond Queneau include variations containing unintelligible words and phrases, such as in the "Permutations" variations?

10. Explain the variation "Reactionary," and why it is titled "Reactionary."

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