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