第一章 单元测试

1、单选题:
What is not the purposes of using rhetorical devices?
选项:
A:To reduce clarity
B:To heighten effect
C:To increase vividness of language
D:To lend force to an idea
答案: 【To reduce clarity

2、单选题:
What are style and stylistics not about?
选项:
A:A taste of Stylistics
B:Knowledge on how to find out stylistic features at different levels of text language
C:Rhetoric
D:Style
答案: 【Rhetoric

3、单选题:
Please compare the following three sentences and point out the stylistic effect of “(3) No spitting”.(1) Expectoration is forbidden.(2) Please do not spit!(3) No spitting.
选项:
A:formal
B:slangy
C:concise and conspicuous (obvious)
D:colloquial
答案: 【concise and conspicuous (obvious)

4、单选题:
About style, which description is not right?
选项:
A:From the perspective of the users of language, style is different speakers using language in different ways (to different group of people).
B:From the perspective of the content, the events and activities described, style is saying different things in different contexts in different ways.
C:From the perspective of the function of the text, style is the functions of texts for different purposes.
D:From the perspective of the ways of expression used, style is saying the same thing in the same ways.
答案: 【From the perspective of the ways of expression used, style is saying the same thing in the same ways.

5、单选题:
Style is a result of in the uses of language; and in the users of language, those who come from different places, from different social backgrounds, from different races, from different historical periods, etc.
选项:
A:identical
B:sameness
C:differences
D:similarities
答案: 【differences

第二章 单元测试

1、单选题:
The rhetorical figure used in the sentence “He is as poor as a church mouse, and a church mouse like him eats like a horse.” is , which produces a humorous effect.
选项:
A:simile
B:metaphor
C:metonymy
D:synecdoche
答案: 【simile

2、单选题:
The sentence by Lord Acton "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. " takes the rhetorical figure of .
选项:
A:alliteration
B:homeoteleuton
C:parallelism
D:polyptoton
答案: 【polyptoton

3、单选题:
In the example “I am a draper mad with love. I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world. [Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood]”, the rhetorical series of the names of cloth are employed to stress his tremendous amount of abstract love for his lover.
选项:
A:concrete
B:abstract
C:strange
D:difficult
答案: 【concrete

4、单选题:
The following two examples present the different stylistic effects produced by different selection of words.(1) Hiroshima: a city (pop. 542 000) of Honshu, Japan. It was largely destroyed by an American atomic bomb (6 Aug. 1945), the first used in warfare. After reconstruction the city became an active port, with paper and canning industries.(2) HiroshimaMy spoon was lifted when the bomb came downThat left no face, no hand, no spoon to hold.Two hundred thousand died in my hometown,This came to pass before my soup was cold.In terms of ( )example (1) objectively presents information about a place, and example (2) affectively exposes certain evil action with subdued anger towards the action.
选项:
A:mode
B:field
C:tenor
D:genre
答案: 【tenor

5、单选题:
The coinage of a new word such as unchilding, unfathering is an example showing how to achieve certain stylistic effect by taking the method.
选项:
A:quantitative deviation or deflection
B:qualitative deviation orincongruity
C:qualitative deviation or deflection
D:quantitative deviation or incongruity
答案: 【qualitative deviation orincongruity

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