西南大学《英语文体学引论》复习思考题及答案

(0099) 《英语文体学引论》复习思考题

I. Explain in brief the following terms. (10 points; in test it contains 10 terms)

1. stylistics

2. style

3. dialect

4. morpheme

5. phoneme

6. language

7. register 8. acoustic phonetics 9. auditory phonetics

10. syllable 11. general stylistics 12. literary stylistics

13. form 14. content 15. phonological analysis

16. lexical analysis 17. syntactical analysis 18. discoursal analysis

19. paralinguistic features 20. social dialect 21. taboo

22. whispery voice 23. breathy voice 24. creaky voice

25. falsetto 26. common core words 27. technical words

28. standard words 29. non- standard words 30. spoken words

31. literary words 32. extension 33. specialization

34. elevation 35. degradation 36. metaphor

37. litotes 38. irony 39. compound sentence

40. periodic sentence 41. loose sentence 42. elliptical sentence

43. inverted sentence 44. antithesis 45. parallelism

46. repetition 47. deviation 48. cataphora

49. progressive conjunction 50. field of discourse

II. Answer the following questions. (50 points; in test it contains 5 questions)

1. What is the relationship between form and content?

2. What are the differences between language and speech?

3. What is the methodology of stylistic analysis? What are the levels of stylistic analysis?

4. Define paralinguistic features. What are they?

5. What are the three ways of studying the sound of language?

6. What are the four typical meters in English poetry?

7. What is the relationship between sound and meaning?

8. What is the relationship between style and the choice of words, according to the

stylisticians?

9. How many kinds of word meanings may be classified? And what are they?

10. What are the three basic components of the English vocabulary?

11. Functionally speaking, what are the four types of English sentences?

12. What are the conjunctions used in combining English sentences?

13. What are the gestures may be used in a casual conversation?

14. What are the three types of substitution? Can you give some examples?

15. What is the relationship between dialect and register?

16. Name at least five kinds of figures of speech in English.

17. Can you give some examples of rhetorical questions?

18. What are the stylistic features of the Bible?

19. What are the five kinds of reference in the English language?

20. What are the three factors of register?

21. Give examples to illustrate power relationship and solidarity relationship.

22. What are the non-linguistic features of casual conversation?

23. What are the linguistic features of the language of news reporting?

24 .What are the linguistic features of the language of advertisement?

25. What is the relationship between literary language and ordinary language?

III. Stylistic analysis (20 points):

1. Explain the connotative meaning of the italicized words or expressions in the following

sentences (12 points; in test it may or may not appear; it contains 3 words or expressions):.

1) Don’t trust her; she is a snake in the grass.

2) The enemy will attack us tomorrow morning, but we are still not well prepared. The

Da mocles’ sword is hanging over us.

3) We have to consult him, you know, he is the real Titan in our class.

4) News from Pentagon today says …

5) She knows nothing about the cruelty of the world. She is a lily.

6) Hamlet, according to some psycho-analysis theory, is a character who has the

Oedipus complex.

7) He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Don’t believe what he says.

8) The doctor told him it is not cancer, however, it is only a white lie.

9) He is always ready to help people when they are in need. He’s a real Robin Hood.

10) Their policy is all sticks and no carrots.

11) 0China never stands on the side of Chauvinism.

12) Children are flowers of our country.

2. What possible social relationships exist between the participants in the following

sentences? (12 points; in test it may or may not appear)

1) Excuse me, could you tell me the right time, please?

2) What time is it, please?

3) What’ the time?