智慧树知到《英文文体与修辞（校内课）》章节测试答案

第一章单元测试

1、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、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、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、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、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、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、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、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.