赣南医学院2010年修辞学试卷(已考

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英语修辞学试卷 (A)（20102011学年度第一学期 2010年11月16日）闭卷，试卷共8页，答题时间90分钟学号 姓名 专业、层次 2007级英语专业本科 年级、班级 出题人：吴学飞（说明：请把所有答案写在“赣南医学院考试答卷”纸上并标明题号，否则不得分。）I. Explain the following terms with appropriate examples. (2 points for each, 10 points)1 Alliteration2 Simile3 Irony4 Transferred Epithet5 Personification

2、. Identify the figure of speech used in the following sentences. (1 point for each, 60 points)6. You can go there on foot, by bus or by train.7. And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. (W. Shakespeare: As You Like It)8. Is

3、 Tsingtao winning the Cold War?.Tsingtao has taken the offensive and invadedRussian vodka strongholds previously regardedas secure. (Ad in The New York Times Magazine, Mar. 23, 1980)9. A Farewell to Arms10. The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the

4、game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest st

5、akes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated -without haste, but without remorse. (T. H. Huxley)11. He was like a cock who thought the sun has risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot: Adam Bede)12. It was t

6、he best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything bef

7、ore us, we had nothing before us.13. Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?14. The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armour against fate;Death lays his icy hand on kings;Sceptre and CrownMust tumble downAnd in the

8、 dust be equal madeWith the poor crooked Scythe and Spade. (J. Shirley:“Death the Leveller”)15. Then he cut me open and took out the appendix and stitched me up again.16. While the Vietnam vet was fighting, and losing limb and mind, and dying, others stayed behind to pursue education and career. (Th

9、e Atlantic, June, 1980)17. My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began,So is it now I am a man,So be it when I shall grow oldOr let me die!The Child is father of the ManAnd I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.18. At once, as far as angel

10、s ken, he viewsThe dismal situation waste and wild:A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flamesNo light, but rather darkness visible. (John Milton: Paradise Lost)19. Arise, arise, arise!There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;Be ye wounds like ey

11、es,To weep for the dead, the dead, the dead. (Percy B. Shelly: An Ode)20. The hallway was zebra-striped with darkness and moonlight.(Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Slaughterhouse-Five)21. Macbeth: What hands are here? Ha! They pluck put mine eyes.With all great Neptunes ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand?

12、 No, this my hand will ratherThe multitudinous seas incarnadine,Making the green one red. (W. Shakespeare: Macbeth)22. The pen is to a writer what the gun is to a fighter. (Bovee)23. There is also poverty, convincingly etched in the statistics, and etched, too, in the lives of people like Hortensia

13、Cabrera, mother of 14, widow."Money," she says with quiet understatement, "is kind of tight. But I manage." (Griffin Smith, Jr.: National Geographic, June 1980)24. And an old man driven by the TradesTo a sleepy corner. (Ibid)25. That expectation could prove the Achilles heel of t

14、he project. (The Economist, Sep. 28, 1992)26. and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln: “Gettysburg Address”)27. If the economy stays down, can the conservatives stay up? (Time, Sep. 28, 1981)28. In fact, it appears that the t

15、eachers of English teach English so poorly largely because they teach Grammar so well. (Wendell Johnson)29. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo)30. I came, I saw, I conquered. (Veni, Vidi, Vici.)31. When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies o

16、f Windsor, when the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister, and Mr. Vincy was mayor of the old corporation in Middlemarch, Mrs. Casaubon, born Dorothea Brooke, had taken her wedding journey to Rome. (George Eliot: Middlemarch)32. Girl, bathing on bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing

17、 girl.33. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a dog at the roadside, washed at the public fountain,(Gibort Higher: Diogenes and Alexander)34. O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumns being. (P. B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”)35. A smile would come into

18、Mr. Pickwicks face: a smile extended into a laugh; the laugh into a roar, and the roar became general. (C. Dickens: The Pickwick Papers)36. Father is rather vulgar， my dear. The word Papa， besides， gives a pretty form to the lips. Papa， potatoes， poultry， prunes， and prism are all very good words fo

19、r the lips; especially prunes and prism. (Dickens: Little Dorrit)37. I shall never see her moreWhere the reeds and rushes quiver,Shiver, quiver;Stand beside the sobbing river, Sobbing, throbbing, in its fallingTo the sandy lonesome shore.(Jean Ingelow: “The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire(157

20、1)”)38. Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king;Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing,Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!(Thomas Nash: “Spring”)39. My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle,

21、had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs. (Sydney Smith)40. no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history. (John Scopes: The Trial That Rocked the World)41. Edelweiss, edelweiss,Every morning you greet me,Small a

22、nd whiteClean and brightYou look happy to meet me.42. The kettle is boiling.43. No eye saw him, but a second later every ear heard a gunshot. (Samuel Lover: The Death of a Great President)44. Men were nominated for seats through personal contacts made in their trade unions, local councilsThis is the

23、 entrée to Parliament which a woman must penetrate is she is to make policy instead of tea. (The Times, Nov. 24, 1981)45. When commemorating the great soul, the friends of his went to the graveyard with weeping eyes and hearts. (A. S. Hill)46. Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelica! Dove-feathered ra

24、ven! wolfish ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what justly seemst, A damned saint, an honorable villain!47. Stand still in Shanghai for two minutes and ten million people will rush at you like pins at magnet.48. Do you think all the programs are good?- Some of the

25、programs are interesting. But others could be better.49. On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest 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 sleepbut forever

26、. (Frederick Engels: Speech at the Graveside of Karl Marx)50. "It's no use going to see little Hans in winter," the Miller used to say to his wife. "When people are in trouble we must leave them alone and not bother them. That is my idea of friendship, and I am sure I am right. So

27、 I shall wait till spring comes, and then I shall visit him and he will give me a large bouquet of primroses, and that will make him very happy.""You think so much about others," said his wife. "It is a pleasure to hear what you say about friendship. I am sure the priest himself

28、cannot say such beautiful things as you do, though he lives in a three-storeyed house, and wears a gold ring on his little finger." (Oscar Wilde: The Devoted Friend)51. Ma is as selfless as I am.52. She has expensive tastes in clothes.53. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

29、 (George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four)54. -Where is Washington?-Hes dead.-I mean, the capital of the United States.-They loaded it all to Europe.-Now do you promise to support the constitution?-Me? How can I? Ive got a wife and five children to support.55. Who is here so base that would be a bondman

30、? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply. (William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar)56. He is not the man

31、who lets his heart rule his head. Metonymy57. If we tried to implement these harebrained ideas (English should be replaced by Hindi and the 15 recognized state languages), India will become a Tower of Babel. (Anita Pratap)58. Men make houses, women make homes.59. He has been a doctor a year now and

32、has had two patientsno three, I thinkyes, it was three; I attended their funerals. (Mark Twain)60. “one of my kids wrote four-letter words in his composition,” the teacher said.61. At that sleepless night I replayed the moment those black gloves came up to the car window. (Ruth Reichl: Theres Only Luck)62. A little boy came up to his mother. “Ma,” he said, “I have something to tell you. My teacher kissed me.” “Well, were you a good boy and did you kiss her back?” “Of course not!” he denied indignantly, “I kissed her face.