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《英语修辞》作业
一．单选题
1. It’
s repetition of an
initial sound, usually of a consonant or cluster,
in two or more words 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 compa
rison, 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 sou
nded 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
na
me
of
one
thing
for
that
of
something
else
with
which
it
is
associated.
A.
Parallelism
B.
Metonymy
C. Alliteration
D. Metaphor
5. It’s a statement that is not strong
enough to express facts or feelings with full
force; or It’s
a statement that
expresses
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
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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
II.
Identify the rhetorical devices employed by the
boldfaced words in the following sentences.
（
10%
）
11. 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
12.
Australia is so
kind
, just
tickle her
with a hoe, and
she
laughs
with harvest.
A. Metaphor
B.
Hyperbole
C. Simile
D.
Personification
13. My heart is
like a singing bird.
A. Metaphor
B. Parody
C. Simile
D.
Oxymoron
14. 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
15. 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
16. I know he is honest, and I wish I
could add he were capable
.
A. Understatement
B. Metaphor
C. Pun
D. Paradox
17.
How does it happen that children learn their
mother tongue so well? Let us compare with adults
learning a
foreign language for the
comparison is both interesting and
instructive…
A. Parallelism
B. Climax
C.
Rhetorical Question
D. Understatement
18.
Little did I
then know the meaning of war and what
it was in reality.
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A. Anastrophe
B.
Anticlimax
C. Rhetorical Question
D. Understatement
19.
The news is a
dagger
to his heart.
A.
Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Allusion
D.
Synecdoche
20.
Spare
the rod, and
spoil
the child.
A. Paradox
B. Assonance
C. Alliteration
D.
Simile
21.
—
Was it
in 1969
the American
astronaut succeeded
landing on the
moon ?
—Yes , that’s
right .
A
．
when on
B
．
that on
C
．
which in
D
．
that; in
22.
is known to everybody ,
Taiwan is a part of China . We must unify it .
A
．
It
B
．
As
C
．
That
D
．
What
23.I shall never forget the day
Shen Zhou V was launched ,
has a great effect on my
life .
A
．
when ,
which
B
．
that , which
C
．
which ,that
D
．
when , that
it be in the restaurant
we
had dinner last Sunday
you left your wallet?
A
．
where;where
C
．
that;where
B
．
where;that
D
．
that;that
25.“
I live there are plenty of sheep.” said
the boy
pride.
A
．
Where; with
C
．
That; in
B
．
When; in
D
．
Why; with
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. It’s a figure of speech
in which 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
27
. It’s a
figure of speech in which human qualities and
abilities are attributed to inanimate objects,
animals, abstractions,
and events
A. Metaphor
B.
Hyperbole
C. Simile
D.
Personification
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. 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
29
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
30
. It’s a figure
of speech that greatly exaggerates the
truth.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
31. 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
32
. It refers 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
33
. It’s a method of
humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which
the intended meaning of the words used is the
direct opposite of their usual sense.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Irony
D. Simile
34
.
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
35. 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
II. Identify
the rhetorical devices employed by the bold-faced
words in the following sentences.
36. O, wind, if winter comes, can
spring be far behind?
A. Parallelism
B. Climax
C. Rhetorical Question
D.
Understatement
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37. Of all the students in the class I
like him the best.
A. Anastrophe
B.
Anticlimax
C.
Rhetorical Question
D. Understatement
38. You
can ask him for the meaning of the word. He is
like a walking dictionary.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
39. Books are
the ever-burning lamps.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
40. Money makes
the mare go.
A. Paradox
B. Assonance
C. Alliteration
D. Simile
41. We must all
hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all
hang separately.
A. Pun
B.
Anticlimax
C.
Rhetorical Question
D. Understatement
42 He got
me into such nets as made me his slave. I was
always in debt to him, always under his thumb,
always working
for him, always getting
into danger.
A. Metonymy
B. Climax
C. Hyperbole
D. Repetition
43. He sat
there and watched them, so changelessly changing,
so bright and dark, so grave and gay.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
44. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor
disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the emotions
that she had been prepared for.
A.
Anastrophe
B. Parallelism
C. Zeugma
D. Antithesis
45. The cheque fluttered to the floor
like a bird with a broken wing.
A.
Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Hyperbole
D. Oxymoron
46. If I
________ you, I would give up the job.
A. am
B. be
C. was
D. were
47 He aimed his gun
________ me.
A. to
B.
at
C. on
D. into
48. You can use my car, ________ you
promise to be back before lunch.
A. as
well as
B.
as good as
C. as much as
D. as long as
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49. Mary listened carefully ________
she might discover exactly what John wanted.
A. so as that
B.
in order that
C. in case
D. provided
50
. He didn’t permit me
________.
A. explain
B. to explain
C. explaining
D.
explained
5
1.
It’
s a figure of speech in which the
epithet is transferred from the appropriate noun
to modify another to which it does
not
really belong.
A. Parody
B. Paradox
C. Antithesis
D. Transferred Epithet
52.
It refers to the use of any part of speech
comparably related to other words or phrases,
correctly with respect to each
taken
separately, ad to both syntax and meaning, but in
different ways, so as to produce a witty effect
A. Syllepsis
B. Metaphor
C. Hyperbole
D. Repetition
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3.
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. Metaphor
5
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
5
5.
It’s a figure of s
peech that greatly
exaggerates the truth.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
5
6. It refers to the
inversion of the natural or usual order of words,
as “Homeward directly he went.”
A. Antithesis
B. Parallelism
C. Alliteration
D. Anastrophe
5
7. It’s a question asked,
as in oratory or writing, only for rhetorical
effect, to emphasize a point, introduce a topic,
etc,
no answer being
expected.
A. Pun
B.
Anticlimax
C. Rhetorical Question
D.
Understatement
5
8. It’s a
figure of speech
in which 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
59.
I
t’s a figure of speech in which human
qualities and abilities are attributed to
inanimate objects, animals, abstractions,
and events
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
6
0.
It’s
a
figure
of
speech
in
which
somethi
ng
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
61. There was an
audible
stillness
, in which the common voice
sounded strange.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
62. Praise
is like
sunlight
to the human spirit we cannot
flower and grow without it.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
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3.
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.
A. Parallelism
B. Transferred
Epithet
C. Alliteration
D. Metaphor
64. He looked at me with
a
bitter look.
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A. Synaesthesia
B. Antithesis
C. Oxymoron
D.
Metaphor
65. ---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
66. You want your
pound of
flesh
?
A. Metonymy
B. Climax
C. Alluaion
D.
Pun
67. They were short of
hands
at harvest time.
oche
B. Climax
C. Hyperbole
D. Repetition
68. In the dock, she found
scores of arrows piercing her
chest
.
A. Metaphor
B. Oxymoron
C. Simile
D.
Hyperbole
69. They
prolonged the clasp for the photographer,
exchanging
smiling words.
A. Oxymoron
B. Pun
C. Transferred
Epithet
D. Parody
70. Australia is
so
kind
, just
t
ickle her
with a hoe, and
she laughs with a harvest.
A. Metonymy
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
71. Many
of them died ________ the disease.
A.
in
B. for
C. of
D.
among
72. Our house________.
A. is getting paint
B. is getting painted
C. is got
painted
D. has got to paint
73. He arrived in Beijing, where
he________ his friend.
A. was met by
B.
was met
C. was meeting
D.
met by
74. The war ________
in 1937.
A. was broken out
B. had been broken out
C. has broken out
D. broke out
75.
My brother and I have __________her birthday
party.
A. been
invited
B.
been invited for
C.
invited to
D. been invited to
76
. 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
77
. 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
78
. It’s a figure of speech
in which the epithet is transferred from
the
appropriate noun to modify another
to which it does
not really belong.
A. Parody
B. Paradox
C. Antithesis
D. Transferred Epithet
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.
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
80
. It’s a figure of speech
that greatly exaggerates the truth.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
81. The
rhetorical opposing or contrasting of ideas by
means of grammatically paralleled arrangements of
words, clauses,
or sentences
A. Antithesis
B. Synaesthesia
C.
Oxymoron
D.
Metonymy
82. It refers to the repeating
of any element in an u
tterance,
including sound… a word or phrase, a pattern of
accents.. or
an arrangement of
lines…
A. Repetition
B. Antithesis
C. Alliteration
D.
Parallelism
83
. It refers to
the inversion of the natural or usual order of
words, as “Homeward directly he went.”
A. Antithesis
B.
Parallelism
C.
Alliteration
D. Anastrophe
84
It’s a question asked, as in oratory or
writing, only for rhetorical effect, to emphasize
a point, introduce a topic, etc, no
answer being expected.
A.
Pun
B. Anticlimax
C. Rhetorical
Question
D. Understatement
85
. It’s a figure of speech
in which 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
86. All the
world’s a
stage
, and
all the men and
women merely players
.
A.
Antithesis
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
87.
---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
88. Women were
running
out to the line of
march, crying and
laughing
and
kissing
the men good-
bye.
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