2014年文体学试卷

湖南科技学院二○一四年下学期期末考试英语专业2012 年级英语文体学试题考试类型：开卷试卷类型：A卷考试时量：120 分钟出卷人：唐建福

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I

1. Style can defined as the ⑴linguistic habit of different people or characteristic of typical social situations.

2. Stylistics may be defined as the study of or the investigation of ⑵style.

3. Phoneme is the smallest ⑶sound unit in a specific language capable of semantic distinction.

4. Dialect is a subtype of language which may be determined by ⑷geographical locality or particular social groupings.

5. The three factors of register are ⑸field, tenor, and mode.

6. General stylistics is chiefly concerned with the investigation of the ⑹linguistic features of all kinds of language use.

7. A sentence made up of two or more simple sentences, joined together by conjunctions or punctuations is a ⑺compound sentence.

8. Pause can be divided into voiced pause and ⑻silent pause.

9. The rise-fall pitch is employed to give people a sincere praise or to show the feeling of

⑼shock.

10. The fall-rise pitch is used to give people some encouragement or give people a ⑽warning.

11. The rising pitch is employed to show the meaning of indefiniteness, uncertainty and ⑾incompleteness.

12. The falling pitch is used to show the meaning of definiteness, certainty and ⑿completeness.

13. There are ⒀5 pitches in phonetics.

14. With ⒁consultative style people usually offer some background information. It is usually employed in business activities.

15. To attract readers’⒂attention is one of the functions of English advertisements.

16. The relationship between irony and humor is that irony is a language means while humor is an ⒃effect.

17. People usually use casual style between friends, acquaintances, or insiders. Its main

feature is that people usually employ ellipsis, ⒄slangs or cants with it.

18. Stress, ⒅intonation, pause, and voice quality are the 4 phonetic means in English.

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II．Multiple-choice (Attention: there is only one or more than one choice to one question). (2′×10=20′)

1. The smallest unit in a language that carries meaning is .

A. pheme

B. morpheme

C. phone

D. word

2. What figure of speech has been used in “the young hunter was as strong as a lion”?

A. metaphor

B. metonymy

C. synecdoche

D. simile

3. Which of the following are the types of change of meaning of English words?

A. extension

B. specialization

C. degradation

D. elevation (ABCD)

4. What are the basic components of the English vocabulary. (ACD)

A. Anglo-Saxon

B. Greek

C. Latin

D. French

5. Stylistics is the study or the investigation of style.

A. yes

B. no

6. What figure of speech has been used in “many hands make light work”?

A. irony

B. overstatement

C. synecdoche

D. oxymoron

7. Which of the following originate from Anglo-Saxon? (AB)

A. members of the family

B. time

C. law

D. science

8. What are the functions of inverted sentence? (BCD)

A. For effect

B. For emphasis

C. For balance

D. For cohesion and conjunction

9. What are the levels of stylistic analysis? (ABCD)

A. Phonological level

B. Lexical level D. Syntactic level D. Discoursal level

10. What are the grammatical functions of stress? (ABCD)

A. Emphasize a certain word or meaning.

B. Distinguish words, phrases, same spelling, different meaning.

C. Change of stress in words causes change of phonemes

D. Means of expressing strong emotions.

1. What is the methodology of stylistic analysis? (A)

A. linguistic analysis

B. discourse analysis

2. What are the stylistic functions of syntactic deviations in literature? (ABCD)

A. As a marker of one’s social background

B. As a means of characterization

C. Social position

D. Irony, satire, emphasis, comical effects

3. Structurally speaking, sentences may classified into: (ACD)

A. Simple sentence

B. Exclamatory sentence

C. Compound sentence

D. Complex sentence

4. What are the differences between language and speech? (ABCD)

A. Language is abstract whereas speech is concrete.

B. Language is potential whereas speech is actual.