《英语修辞》作业

《英语修辞》作业

I. Transference of Terms of Rhetorical Devices

1. Transference of Terms of Rhetorical Devices from English to Chinese

Simile------

Allusion------

Personification------

Parallelism------

Synaesthesia------

Oxymoron------

Synecdoche------

Anticlimax------

Euphemism------

Alliteration------

Metaphor------

Antithesis------

Transferred Epithet------

Paradox------

Metonymy------

climax------

Understatement------

Repetition------

Hyperbole------

Assonance------

2. Transference of Terms of Rhetorical Devices from Chinese to English

隐喻

------

对照

------

移就

------

隽语

------

转喻

------

层递

------

低调陈述

------

重复

------

夸张

------

元韵

------

明喻

------

引喻

------

拟人

------

平行

------

通感

------

矛盾修饰

----

提喻

------

突降

------

委婉语

------

头韵

------

II. Identify the rhetorical devices according to the given definitions.

1. It’s repetition of an initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster, in two or more wor

ds of a phrase, line of poetry,

etc.

A. Parallelism

B. Metonymy

C. Alliteration

D. Metaphor

2. It’s a figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of

one thing is applied to another.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

3. It’s the humorous use of words, or of words which are formed or sounded alike but have different meanings, in such a

way as to play on two or more of the possible applications; a play on words.

A. Allusion

B. Pun

C. Climax

D. Oxymoron

4.

It’s

a

figure

of

speech

that

consists

in

using

the

name

of

one

thing

for

that

of

something

else

with

which

it

is

associated.

A. Parallelism

B. Metonymy

C. Alliteration

D. Metaphor

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5. It’s a statement that is not strong enough to express facts or feelings with full force; or It’s a statement that expresse

s

an idea, etc, too weakly.

A. Parallelism

B. Climax

C. Rhetorical Question

D. Understatement

6.

It’s

a

figure

of

speech

in

which

something

of

an

unpleasant,

distressing,

or

indelicate

nature

is

described

in

less

offensive terms, as in the expressions “under the weather” for “ill” or “passed away” for died”.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Euphemism

D. Parallelism

7. It’s usually an implicit reference, perhaps to another work of literature or art, to a person or an event.

A. Allusion

B. Simile

C. Metaphor

D. Synecdoche

8. It’s a figure of speech that consists of phrases or sentences of similar construction and meaning placed side by side,

balancing each other.

A. Parallelism

B. Antithesis

C. Irony

D. Repetition

9.

It’s a figure of speech that combines incongruous and apparently contradictory words and meaning for a special effect.

A. Allusion

B. Pun

C. Climax

D. Oxymoron

10. It is a sentence in which the last part expresses something lower than the first. In fact, a bathetic declension from a

noble tone to one less exalted. The effect can be comic and is often intended to be so.

A. Repetition

B. Anticlimax

C. Paradox

D. Climax

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1. It’s a figure of speech in whi

ch one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance an image. It is

an explicit comparison.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

12. It’s a figure of speech in which human qualities and abi

lities are attributed to inanimate objects, animals, abstractions,

and events

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

13. It’s a figure of speech in which a sensation produced in one

modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality,

as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color

A. Synaesthesia

B. Antithesis

C. Oxymoron

D. Metonymy

14. It’s a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole, an

individual for a class, a material for thing, or reverse of

any of these.

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Allusion

D. Synecdoche

15. It’s a figure of speech that greatly exaggerates the truth.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

16. The rhetorical opposing or contrasting of ideas by means of grammatically paralleled arrangements of words, clauses,

or sentences

A. Synaesthesia

B. Antithesis

C. Oxymoron

D. Metonymy

17. It ref

ers to the repeating of any element in an utterance, including sound… a word or phrase, a pattern of accents.. or

an arrangement of lines…

A. Repetition

B. Antithesis

C. Alliteration

D. Parallelism

18. It’s a method of humorous or s

ubtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the

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direct opposite of their usual sense.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Irony

D. Simile

19. It’

s a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.

A. Metaphor

B. Pun

C. Simile

D. Parody

20. A figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, is syntactically related to two or more words,

with only one of which it seems logically connected.

A. Repetition

B. Antithesis

C. Zeugma

D. Parallelism

III. Identify the rhetorical devices employed by the boldfaced words in the following sentences.

1. O dear! O dear! What shall I do? I have lost my love and my

lipstick

too.

A. Repetition

B. Anticlimax

C. Paradox

D. Climax

2. Australia is so

kind

, just

tickle her

with a hoe, and she

laughs

with harvest.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

3. My heart is

like a singing bird.

A. Metaphor

B. Parody

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron

4. When Della had finished crying, she went to the window and looked out sadly at a

grey

cat walking along a

grey

fence in a

grey

back-yard.

A. Parallelism

B. Antithesis

C. Irony

D. Repetition

5. On the 14

th

of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the great living thinker

ceased to think

. He had been left

alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in his armchair,

peacefully gone to sleep but----

forever

.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Euphemism

D. Parallelism

6.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

A. Parallelism

B. Climax

C. Rhetorical Question

D. Understatement

7.

Of all the students in the class

I like him the best.

A. Anastrophe

B. Anticlimax

C. Rhetorical Question

D. Understatement

8. You can ask him for the meaning of the word. He is

like a walking dictionary

.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron

9.

Books

are the

ever-burning lamps

.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron

10.

Money

makes

the

mare

go.

A. Paradox

B. Assonance

C. Alliteration

D. Simile

11. There was an

audible stillness

, in which the common voice sounded strange.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron

12. Praise

is like sunlight

to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron

13. One teacher writes

that instead of drowning students’ compositions in

critical red ink

, the teacher will get far more

constructive results by finding one or two things which have been done better than last time, and commenting favorably

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on them.

A. Parallelism

B. Transferred Epithet

C. Alliteration

D. Metaphor

14. He looked at me with

a bitter look.

A. Synaesthesia

B. Antithesis

C. Oxymoron

D. Metaphor

15. ---Why are Sunday and Saturday the strongest days in a week?

---Because the rest are

week (weak)

days.

A. Metaphor

B. Pun

C. Simile

D. Irony

16. All the

world’s a stage

, and

all the men and women merely players

.

A. Antithesis

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

17. ---Why can you never expect a fisherman to be generous?

---Because his business make him

sell fish (selfish).

A. Metaphor

B. Pun

C. Simile

D. Irony

18. Women were

running

out to the line of march, crying and

laughing

and

kissing

the men good- bye.

A. Antithesis

B. Hyperbole

C. Repetition

D. Parallelism

19. Money is

a bottomless sea

, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.

A. Metaphor

B. Pun

C. Simile

D. Irony

20.I

wish

I

could write better.

A. Pun

B. Hyperbole

C. Climax

D. Understatement

IV

. Identify the rhetorical devices employed in the following sentences.

1. Praise

is like sunlight

to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it. (

)

2. One teacher writes that instead of drowning students’ compositions in

critical red ink

, the teacher will get far more

constructive results by finding one or two things which have been done better than last time, and commenting favorably

on them.

(

)

3. And, it being low water he

went out with the tide

.(

)

4. They were short of

hands

at harvest time.

(

)

5. In the dock, she found

scores of arrows piercing her chest.

(

)

6. With this faith we will be able to

work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to

stand up for freedom together,

knowing that we will be free one day.

(

)

7. The drunkard

smashed the glasses

,

upturned the table

, and

hit an old woman

.

(

)

8. One

mad

action is not enough to prove a

man

mad

.

(

)

9. He intended to take an opportunity this afternoon of speaking to Irene.

A word in time saves nine.

(

)

10.

No X in Nixon.

(

)

11. All the

world’s a stage

, and

all the men and women merely players

.

(

)

12. He looked at me with

a bitter look.

(

)

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13. The man is

no

fool.

(

)

14. You want your

pound of flesh

, don’t you?

(

)

15.

The child is father of the man.

(

)

16.

Perhaps, perhaps

Mera might come.

(

)

17. A professor tapped on his desk and shouted, “Gentlemen,

order

!”

The entire class yelled, “Beer.”

(

)

18. I used to

organize my father’s tools, my mother’s kitchen utensils, my sister’s boyfriends.

(

)

19. A man from the continent was traveling in England. He had caught a very bad cold. He coughed day and night… He

put on his coat and hat and went to a c

hemist’s. When asked what he wanted, the traveler said, “I want something for my

cow

, please.”

(

)

20.

Have you ever been to an Irish Wedding? I have just returned from one…

21. Wit without learning

is like a tree without fruit

.

(

)

22. I fall upon

the thorns of life

! I bleed!

(

)

23.

The

senator

pledged

to

oppose

war,

fight

poverty,

protect

individual

freedom

and

name

a

new

state

flower.

(

)

24. It is a quarter to five in the morning, the sun has already

climbed

above the horizon; the birds are busy

celebrating

the new day and have eagerly been in search of food. (

)

25.

Who wouldn’t have dreamed of becoming rich overnight?

(

)

26.

What she had said

I didn’t hear. (

)

V

.

Two

or

more

than

two

rhetorical

devices

are

used

in

the

following

sentences.

Read

and

select

the

rhetorical

devices in each sentence.

1. Time is

like a fashionable host, that slightly shakes his passing guest by the band; and with his arms

stretched, a

s

he

would fly, grasps in the comer.

The welcomes ever smile, and farewell goes out sighing.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

2. The seed ye sow, another reaps;

The wealth ye find, another keeps;

The robes ye weave, another wears;

The arms ye forge, another bears.

A. Parallelism

B. Antithesis

C. Alliteration

D. Repetition

3. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Allusion

D. Synecdoche

4. Miss Bolo went straight home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Syllepsis

5. These little thoughts are the rustles of leaves; they have their whisper of joy in my mind.

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Simile

D. Personification

6. A drop of ink may make a million think.

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