大学 英语修辞整理及例子

1.Alliteration 头韵heart,home
2.Assonance 元韵late,make
“The rain in spain falls mainly in the plain.”
The kind guide said aside he would chop the way for us.好心的导游在一旁说他将替我们开路。

3.Consonance 辅韵
They left half a loaf in the safe.
4.Onomatopoeia 拟声The stream murmurs through the woods.
5.Aposiopesis [æ'pəʊsaɪəʊpi:sɪs] 说话中断法，跳脱“You’d better do this or else…”
6.Apostrophe 呼语Captain!my captain!rise up and hear the bells:
7.Pun 双关ball:(1)any round or spherical object (2)a formal social dance
8.Repetition 重复The rain pours and pours.
9.Anaphora 首语重复法Light come, light go.
10.Epiphora 句末重复法Waste not,want not.
11.Simploce首结语重复法This is the world’s fight, This is civilization’s fight.
12.anadiplosis 顶针With Bewick on my knee,I was then happy:happy at least in my way.
13.Parallelism 平行结构The young actor was tall,dark,and handsome.
14.Antithesis 对偶Marriage is easy,housekeepin g is hard.
15.Climax 层进法We want peace,we want freedom,we want a better life.
16.Anticlimax 突降法Where shall I find hope, happiness ,friends, cigarettes?
17.Syllepsis 一语双叙He lost his coat and his temper.
18.Zeugma 轭式修辞法We ate a bun and a glass of milk.
19.Chiasmus 回文One should eat to live,not live to eat.
20.Asyndeton 连词省略法Nothing is insider them, they were sealed up before the creation of pestilence.
21.Polysyndeton 连词叠用法I am a soul，or a body, a mind.
22.Rhetorical question 反问Isn’t it the best choice?
23.Simile 明喻Time flies like an arrow.
24.Metaphor 暗喻You are my sunshine.
25.Metonymy 借喻He has a good ear for music.
26.Synecdoche 提喻He paid the workers $5 per head.
27.Antonomasia
换称He is modern Hitler---a tyrant.
Jack is Michael Jordan on our basketball team.
28.Personification 拟人The bird is singing joyfully.
29.Parody 仿拟I had no outlook,but an uplook rather.
30.Synesthesia 通感The music breathing from her face.
31.Transferred epithet 移情a sleepless bed
32.. understatement 轻描淡写，低调陈述
1.AUTHOR &WORKS
1>William Faulkner is the author of ______.
A. Far From the Madding Crowd
B. Sound and Fury
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D. Scarlet Letter
Key B
2>The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by _____.
A. Jack London
B. Charles Dickens
C. Samuel Coleridge
D. Ernest Hemingway
Key: D
3>James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.
A. Dubliners
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Jude the Obscure
D. Ulysses
Key: C
4>Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
A. This is my letter to the world.
B. / heard a fly buzz —when I died.
C. This is just to say.
D. Because I could not stop for death. Key: C (William Carlos Williams)
5>Francis Bacon' s _____ is a great essay on education.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. The Importance of Being Earnest
C. The New Atlantic
D. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses
Key: A
6>William Makepeace Thackeray' s most famous work is ______.
A. The School for Scandal
B. Past and Present
C. Major Barbara
D. Vanity Fair
Key: D
7>Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?
A. She Walks in Beauty.
B. The Solitary Reaper.
C. When We Two Parted.
D. Childe Harold' s Pilgrimage.
Key: B
8> William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.
A. Coral Island
B. Lord of the Flies
C. Treasure Island
D. The Brass Butterfly
Key: B
9> Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.
A. Jack London
B. Herman Melville
C. Sinclair Lewis
D. Ralph Ellison
Key: B
10>Stephen Crane is famous for ______.
A. An American Tragedy
B. The Ambassadors
C. Main Street
D. The Red Badge of Courage Key: D11>Robert Frost is a famous _____.
A. novelist
B. playwright
C. poet
D. literary critic
Key: C
12>Eugene 0' Neil is an American ______.
A. novelist
B. playwright
C. poet
D. essayist KEY:B
13>_____ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
A. Richard Sheridan
B. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Bernard Shaw
KEY:D
14>Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?
A. Pearl Buck.
B. Virginia Woolf.
C. Tony Morrison.
D. Katharine Mansfield.
KEY: A
15> ______ is NOT among the postwar poets in modem American literature.
A. Robert Lowell
B. Gary Synder
C. Alien Ginsberg
D. e. e. cummings
KEY: D
16>Shylock is a character in ______.
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. The Twelfth Night
C. The Winter's Tale
D. Macbeth
KEY: A
17>This line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' is quoted from ______.
A. Don Juan.
B. Kubla Khan
C. To Autumn
D. Ode to the West Wind KEY: D
18>The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is quoted from Shakespeare' s ______.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. histories
D. sonnets
KEY : D
19>"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
KEY: A
19>"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley KEY: A
20>Tess is a character created by ______.
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. James Joyce
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Dylan Thomas Key: C
21>As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in ______.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Oliver Twist
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Middlemarch Key: C
22>Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by ______.
A. Willa Gather
B. Doris Lessing
C. William Faulkner
D. Nathaniel Hawthorn Key: C
23> Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.
A. comic
B. tragic
C. round
D. sophisticated Key: A
24> Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.
A. Tess of the D' Urhervilles
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Happy Prince
D. The Mill on the Floss Key: B
25> The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by______.
A. Washington Irving
B. Fennimore Cooper
C. Edith Wharton
D. William Dean Howells Key: A
26> ______ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A. Romance
B. Novel
C. Sonnet
D. Drama Key: A
27> ______ was the most important person of the transcendental club.
A. Hawthorn
B. Whitman
C. Emerson
D. Thoreau Key: C
28> The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be _____.
A. O'Neil
B. Pound
C. Robert Frost
D. Scott Fitzgerald Key: D
29>Together with Lawrence and Joyce, ______ is considered one of the three giants of the modern English novel and a master of English prose.
A. Henry James
B. Joseph Conrad
C. E. M. Forster
D. Aldous Huxley Key: B
30>_____,the author of The Interpretation of Dreams has great impact on literary creation and criticism.
A. Carl Jung
B. Jean-Paul Sartre
C. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
D. Sigmund Freud Key: D
31> Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B. To put the stress on traditional values.
C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.
D.To advocate a conscious break with the past. Key: B
32>Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT _____.
A. a strict poetic form
B. a simple and conversational language
C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern
D. an easy flow of feelings Key: A
33> Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?
A. Hemingway.
B. Fitzgerald.
C. Gertrude Stein.
D. William Faulkner. Key: C
34> The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______.
A. 1820
B. 1850
C. 1880
D. 1920 Key: A
35> The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first _____ heroine.
A. explorer
B. peasant
C. worker
D. governess Key: D
36> _____ is the representative work of the Beat Generation.
A. The Great Gatsby
B. On the Road
C. Look Back in Anger
D. The Sun Also Rises Key: B
37>The most significant idea of the Renaissance is ______.
A. humanism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. skepticism Key: A
38>The title of Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" is taken from __
A. The Holy Bible
B. The Faerie Queen
C.The Pilgrim's Progress
D. Paradise Lost Key: C
39>Who is considered the father of American poetry?
A. Philip Freneau.
B. William Cullen Bryant.
C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
D. Henry David Thoreau.
Key: A ( The Wild Honey Suckle)
40>Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed
by_______.
A. Jack London
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. William Faulkner
D. Earnest Hemingway Key: D
41> _____ is featured by black humor.
A. Caricature
B. Catch-22
C. The Catcher in the Rye
D. Death of a Salesman Key: B
42>______ has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and Nobel Prize.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. John Steinbeck
C. Eugene 0' Neil
D. William Faulkner Key: C
43> ______ is known as "the poet' s poet".
A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe
C. Spenser
D. Donne Key: C
44> Robert Burns is a poet from ______.
A. England
B. New England
C. Ireland
D. Scotland Key: D
45>Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _____ and _____ centuries.
A. 14th/mid-17th
B. 14th/mid-18th
C. 16th/mid-18th
D. 16th/mid-17th Key: A
46>O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _____.
A. Walt Whitman
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Martin Luther King Key: C
47>The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.
A. Exodus
B. Numbers
C. Leviticus
D. Genesis Key: D
48>William Blake' s The Tiger is collected in ______.
A. Songs of Innocence
B. Songs of Experience
C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D. Poetical Sketches Key: B
49>Who is the father of English poetry?
A. Shakespeare.
B. Edmund Spencer.
C. John Milton.
D. Geoffrey Chaucer. Key: D
50>The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to _____ for his "mastery of the art of modem narration".
A.William Faulkner
B. John Steinbeck
C. Saul Bellow
D. Ernest Hemingway Key: D
51>It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of___.
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet Key: A
52> 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his _____.
A. novels
B. poems
C. short stories
D. dramas Key: C
53> Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.
A. George Eliot
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte
D. Virginia Woolf Key: D
54>Who of the followings is a playwright of the "theater of absurd" ?
A.John Osborn.
B. Wystan Hugh Auden.
C. Bernard Shaw.
D. Samuel Beckett. Key: D
55>In the works of such aesthetics, as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of "art for art' s sake" is advocated.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Mrs. Gaskell
C. Alexander Pope
D. Charles Lamb Key: A
56>The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of
______.
A. Jane Austin
B. Walter Scott
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. William Wordsworth Key: B
57>The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A. pessimism
B. naturalism
C. modernism
D. critical realism Key: D
58>In which novel can "Yahoo" be found?
A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.
B.Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen.
C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
D. Henry Fielding' s Tom Jones.
Key: C (Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Yahoo)
59>The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.
A. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Agnes Grey Key: A
60>Beowulf narrates a story taking place in _____.
A. the Mediterranean
B. Northern Europe
C. England
D. Scandinavia Key: D
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.
A . Robin Hood B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. Beowulf
2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. Piers the Plowman
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Beowulf
3. Most of the ballads of the 5th century focused on the legend about
____ as a heroic figure.
A. Green Nights
B. Gawain
C. Robin Hood
D. Hamlet
4.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.
A. Paradise Lost
B. A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates
C. Of Beauty
D. Utopia
5. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.
A. Amoretti
B. The Shepherd’s Calendar
C. The Faerie Queen
D. Four Hymns
6. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.
A. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
B. “To be or not to be: that is the question”
C. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”
D. “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”
7. The vivid portrayal of ____ by Shakespeare in Henry IV has earned for him an enviable place in the history of English literature.
A . Julius Caesar B. Falstaff C. Hamlet D. King Henry
8.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Julius Caesar
C. Twelfth Night
D. King Lear
9. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?
A. Twelfth Night
B. The Tempest
C. As You Like It
D. The Merchant of Venice
10.The hero who has fallen a victim to his own ambition must be ______.
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth
11. ______ is acclaimed as “the poets‘poet”,
A. Shakespeare
B. Spenser
C. Keats
D. Chaucer
12. The allusion “A Pound of Flesh”comes from Shakespeare‘s ______.
A. Hamlet
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. King Lear
D. Othello
13. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries ______ appeared in England as a new trend in literature.
A. Renaissance
B. Reformation
C. Romanticism
D. Sentimentalism
14. Of studies was written by ______.
A. John Bunyan.
B. John Donne.
C. Francis Bacon.
D. William Blake.
15. Which of the following is the highest form of literary expression?
A. Prose.
B. Poetry.
C. Novel.
D. Speech.
16. The 18th century in English literature is an age of ______.
A. novel
B. poem
C. prose
D. play
17. Which of the following work tells how Satan rebelled against God and how Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained.
C. L' ALLegro.
D. Lycidas.
18. Who is the creator and a great master of the historical novel?
A. John Keats.
B. Walter Scott.
C. Jane Austen.
D. Charles Lamb.
19. Bunyan‘s most important work is ______, written in the
old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.
A. The Footprint
B. On His Blindness
C. Vanity Fair
D. The Pilgrim's Progress
20. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England early in the latter half the ______ century.
A. 16th
B. 17th
C. 18th
D. 19th
21. The novel Oliver Twist was written by ______.
A. Jane Austen
B. John Keats C . Charles Dickens D. George Eliot
22. In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf”represented the ______poetry.
A. pagan
B. religions
C. romantic
D. sentimental
23. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was ______who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Thomas Lodge
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Thomas More
24. At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist
______wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people‘s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.
A. Thomas More
B. Thomas Marlowe
C. Francis Bacon
D. William Shakespeare
25. Of the following plays ______ is not a comedy.
A. A Midsummer Night‘s Dream
B. The Merchant of V enice
C. Twelfth Night
D. Romeo and Juliet
26. The first poem in The lyrical Ballads is Coleridge‘s masterpiece
A. Kubla Khan
B. The Prelude
C. The Rime of Ancient Mariner
D. Tintern Abbey
27.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel______.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Great Expectations
C. Hard Times
D. David Copperfield
28. Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in ______ after the Norman Conquest.
A. French
B. Latin
C. English
D. Greek
29. Beowulf was written in ______.
A. Old English
B. Middle English
C. Early Modem English
D. French
30. The English Renaissance period was an age of______.
A. drama and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. novel and poetry
D. romance and poetry
1---5 D C C D C 6-10 C B D B D
11-15 B B C C B 16-20 C A B D C
21-25 C A A A D 26-30 C A C A B。