第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：What is not the purposes of using rhetorical devices?
A:
To increase vividness of language
B:
To reduce clarity
C:
To heighten effect
D:
To lend force to an idea
正确答案:【
To reduce clarity
】
2、单选题：What are style and stylistics about?
A:
A taste of Stylistics
B:
Knowledge on how to find out stylistic features at different levels of text language
C:
Style
D:
Rhetoric
正确答案:【
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.
A:
concise and conspicuous (obvious)
B:
formal
C:
slangy
D:
colloquial
正确答案:【
concise and conspicuous (obvious)
】
4、单选题：About style, which description is not right?
A:From the perspective of the content, the events and activities described, style is saying different things in different contexts in different ways.
B:
From the perspective of the users of language, style is different speakers using language in different ways (to different group of people).
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.
正确答案:【
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.
A:
differences
B:
similarities
C:
identical
D:
sameness
正确答案:【
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.
A:metonymy
B:synecdoche
C:simile
D:metaphor
正确答案:【simile】
2、单选题：The sentence by Lord Acton “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. ” takes the rhetorical figure of .
A:polyptoton
B:parallelism
C:alliteration
D:homeoteleuton
正确答案:【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.
A:
concrete
B:
difficult
C:
strange
D:
abstract
正确答案:【
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.
A:field
B:genre
C:
mode
D:tenor
正确答案:【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.
A:
qualitative deviation or incongruity
B:
quantitative deviation or deflection
C:
qualitative deviation or deflection
D:
quantitative deviation or incongruity
正确答案:【
qualitative deviation or incongruity
】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：The typical type of sentences in news reports, science and technology, narration, expository writing, etc. is sentence as its function is to provide information which serves the purpose of the texts.
A:
declarative
B:
interrogative
C:
imperative
D:
subjunctive
正确答案:【
declarative
】
2、单选题：The rhetorical device used in the passage “United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.” is __________.
A:
parallelism
B:
chiasmus
C:
antithesis
D:
repetition
正确答案:【
antithesis
】
3、单选题：The rhetorical device used in the following poem attributed to Benjamin Franklin and others is , which achieves not only an emphatic effect but also a humorous effect.For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.”
A:syntactic anaphora
B:symploce
C:ploce
D:syntactic epiphora
正确答案:【symploce 】
4、单选题：The sentence “Out of his other property, out of the things he had collected, his silver, his pictures, his houses, his investments, he got a secret and intimate feeling: out of her he got none. [J. Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga: The Man of Property, Ch.V]” is a , which creates an ironic effect.
A:main clause
B:loose sentence
C:periodic sentence
D:subordinate clause
正确答案:【periodic sentence】
5、单选题：is an example of violation of grammatical rules. It often takes local and dialectal style with non-standard pronunciation, colloquial expressions, elliptical sentences, which show the speaker’s low social status.
A:
Modern English
B:Poetry
C:Old English
D:Black English
正确答案:【Black English】
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：Which one is not the type of reference?
A:
comparative reference
B:
personal reference
C:
demonstrative reference
D:
cohesive reference
正确答案:【
cohesive reference
】
2、单选题：Which one of the following is not the kind of reiteration?
A:
meronymy
B:
hyponymy
C:
synonymy
D:
metonymy
正确答案:【
metonymy
】
3、单选题：Which one of the following is not the feature of argumentation?
A:
descriptions of settings
B:
complicated reasoning
C:
logical relations
D:
complicated relationships
正确答案:【
descriptions of settings
】
4、单选题：Which one of the following is not the feature of genre?
A:
staged
B:
educational
C:
purposeful
D:
goal-oriented
正确答案:【
educational
】
5、单选题：Which one of the following can not describe the purpose of generic structure potential?
A:
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