《英语修辞》题库及答案
《英语修辞》题库及答案
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 conson ant 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 comparison, in which a word or phrase ordin
arily and pri marily 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 w hich 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 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
11. 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
12. It’s a figure of speec h in which human qualities and abilities 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 whi ch 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. Antithesistickle
C. Oxymoron
D. Metonymy
17. 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
18. 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.