英语修辞学期末B卷试卷

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三江学院 2012 至 2013学年第 2 学期期末考试试卷
课程名称 英语修辞学 使用班级 110011ABCDEF, 310011A （考试时间 120 分钟）
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I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and mark the corresponding letter on your ANSWER SHEET. (1.5x10=15)
1. Rhetoric implies ________, for both the speaker or writer and the audience or reader. A. choices B. figures of speech C. symbols D. creation
2. The specific word tends to give all the following except ____. A. color B. tang C. humor D. the imagination
3. Formal words may be termed all the following except ________. A. learned words B. written words C. big words D. literary words
4. The most effective sentences are of all the qualities below except ________. A. the most direct in their meaning B. the smoothest in rhythm
C. the most arbitrary in their judgment
D. the most appropriate in their emphasis
5. The compound-complex sentence is good for ___________. A. a show of accuracy B. a show of emphasis C. a show of eloquence D. a show of exaggeration
6. A periodic sentence has a dramatic quality: it combines the principle of ______ with the principle of __________.
A. climax… subordination
B. Memory… parallelism
C. climax… Memory
D. Memory… subordination
7. In prose writing, long sentences are used to describe or indicate all the following except________. A. actions or feelings coming in quick succession
B. simultaneous or continuous action
C. a close cause-and-effect relationship
D. an absolute conclusion
8. What is the figure of speech adopted in sentence “She made up her mind and her face.”? A. zeugma B. syllepsis C. simploce D. chiasmus
9. Assonance is the repetition or resemblance of _______sounds in the stressed syllables of a sentence of words, preceded and followed by different consonants. A. vowel B. onomatopoeic C. repeated D. diphthong 10. Pun is, in nature, a ________. A. metaphor B. connotation C. word-play D. humor
II. Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false. If it is true, mark A on the ANSWER SHEET. If it is false, mark B on the ANSWER SHEET. (1.5x10=15) 11. The purpose of oratory is to impress, convince, or move the audience to action.
12. Anticlimax is a figure of speech that involves stating one's thought in an ascending order of
significance or intensity, from the ridiculous to the sublime, from weak to strong, from light or frivolous to weighty.
13. Denotation is the specific, direct, and figurative meaning of a word.
14. We call a word “general” when it refers to group or a class; we call it "specific" when it refers to a member of that class.
15. In choosing words, the overriding consideration will always be the general information that the writer wishes to obtain.
16. Long sentences are particularly useful for presenting a set of complex, contrasting ideas. 17. In onomatopoeia, the sound reflects the form.
18. To make antithesis, the element should be antonyms or direct opposites in meaning.
19. Lexically, repetition can be divided into two categories --- repetition of the same words and repetition of synonyms.
20. To make the structure parallel, the ideas that are to be equally stressed should be paired and sequenced in the same grammatical form.
III. Match the sentences in Column A with the corresponding figures of speech in Column B. (1x10=10) 1. Column A Column B 21) I came, I saw, I conquered. a. Onomatopoeia 22) To err is human; to forgive divine. b. Anaphora 23) Speech is silver, but silence is golden. c. Alliteration
24) In nature there is neither left nor right d. Pun
nor wrong. (John Masefield)
25) I wish people wouldn’t rustle their programs e. Antithesis
while the orchestra is playing.
2. Column A Column B
26) Constant dropping wears the stone. (proverb) a. Metaphor
27) He met his Waterloo in 1940, when the project b. Allusion
he heavily invested was collapsed.
28) This hard-working boy seldom reads more than c. Irony
one hour per day.
29) I am sorry to hear that your grandfather passed on. d. Euphemism
30) His voice sounded like a thunder in the hall. e. Simile
IV. Complete the following statements with proper words according to the course book. (2x10=20)
31. The meaning of a word has two aspects: denotation and ____________.
32. As we have discussed, words that refer to ideas, qualities, and charact e ristics are usually abstract; words that name classes of objects and classes of actions are usually _________.
33. Whenever we want to make a certain assertion clear and emphatic enough, we use the __________ sentence.
34. Sentences can be classified in different ways: grammatical, functional, and ____________.
35. The overall effect of a periodic sentence is of a slow sentence building to a ________.
36. In a way, zeugma is similar to__________: they both involve a key word that is used to modify or govern two or more words in the sentence.
37. The word _____________ derives from Latin, meaning "repeating and playing upon the same letter".
38. Simploce is in most cases employed to achieve___________, and it also serves as sentence or stanza binder.
39. Parallelism is the repetition of ____________ similar constructions of coordinate sentences or phrases.
40. ________ is a figure of speech in which an idea is deliberately expressed too weakly. It is the opposite of hyperbole..
V. Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions. (2x10=20)
Read each of the following sentences carefully. If it is a loose sentence, change it into a periodic one; if it is a periodic sentence, change it into a loose one. 41. He chased the robber, ignoring his own safety and the likelihood that robber was armed.
42. Wondering what to say, nervously rubbing his nose, he stood silently for a moment.
Combine the following three pairs of sentences by using one of the following: although, when, as, because, while.
43. Carl has trouble understanding algebra. His father is a math teacher.
44. The sounds of the music faded. The audience reluctantly filed out of the theater.
45. The understudy nervously rehearsed his lines. He waited for news of the star’s condition. Combine or rearrange each of the following three groups of sentences into a single smoother sentence by condensing one of the sentences into a phrase.
46. Doris avoided talking nonsense. She decided to memorize her campaign speech.
47. The children were fascinated by the magician. They pressed closer in order to study his hands.
48. The Olympic Games are held every four years. They have developed political overtones.
Revise each of the faulty sentences, using the figure of speech stated in the brackets.
49. Time will not get this done, and not money, not laws, but willing diligence will get this done. (anaphora)
50. Gary is not a good track man, and neither is his swimming. (parallelism)
VI. Analyze the following poem written by William Wordsworth. (20)
Question: If analyzed from the perspective of aesthetic rhetoric (美学修辞), what figures of speech have been used in the poem? Why are they used?
The Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay；
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
I gazed --- and gazed --- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought;
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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