第二章测试1.
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.
A:simile B:metaphor C:synecdoche D:metonymy
答案:A
2.
The sentence by Lord Acton "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. " takes the rhetorical figure of .
A:homeoteleuton B:parallelism C:alliteration D:polyptoton 3.
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.
A:
difficult
B:abstract
C:concrete
D:strange
4.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) Hiroshima
My spoon was lifted when the bomb came down
That 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.
A:
mode
B:genre C:tenor D:field 5.The coinage of a new word such as unchilding, unfathering is an example showing how to achieve certain stylistic effect by taking the method.
A:
qualitative deviation or deflection
B:qualitative deviation or incongruity
C:quantitative deviation or deflection
D:quantitative deviation or incongruity
