I. Choose the rhetorical or figurative device from the list below that best describes the underlined words. All of the devices listed are used once. Markyour answer with capital letters like A, B, C, …or J . (10%)
Model: The difference, for example, between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International is not like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile.
Answer:D
List of devices:strcmp was not declared in
A. understatementB. simileC. metaphor
D. antithesisE. repetitionF. transferred epithet
G. hyperboleH. sarcasmI. metonymy
J. personification
1. They lean this way and that, hanging on to their bases precariously, and one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping though the streaks.
2. And so, my fellow Americansask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your county.
3. …… and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.
4. The headquarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at another forlorn town, a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line.
5. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.
6. Here was the wealth beyond computation, even beyond imagination—and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.
7. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.
8. And this is true, whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair.
9. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questioningsby the young.
10. But in the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion.It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.
II. Determine whether the following statements are True or False. Mark them with T or F to indicate your answer. (15%)
1. In “Marrakech” Orwell describes objectively the suffering and misery of the colonial people in Marrakech.
2. A good conversation needs a focal subject to talk about, according to the author of “Pub Talk and the King’s English”.
3. The “Inaugural Address” made by Kennedy is well organized and highly rhetorical.
4. Menckenin his “The Libido for the Ugly” thinks that all the people living in Westmorland county love ugly things.
5. According to Erich Fromm, the author of “The Worker as Creator or Machine”, the change of meaning of work, that is, workers have become the slaves of work is the core of all the problem of the contemporary capitalist world.
6. “The Lost Generation” and “the Sad Young Men” refer to the same group of people.
7. The future of the English lies in the hands of the younger generation only, according to the essay “The Future of the English”.
8. The English should be written about in the usual left-center-right stuff, according to the author of “The Future of the English”.
9. In the city of Marrakech, only males have the right to attend the funeral.
10. The communication between animals can also be called conversation, according to the author of “Pub Talk and the King’s English”.
III. Explain, in your own words, the meaning of the underlined part of each sentence. (10%)
1. English has come royally into its own.
2. None of these people, I suppose, works less than twelve hours a day, and every one of them looks on a cigarette as a more or less impossible luxury.
3. But they chose that clapboarded horror with their eyes open, and having chosen it, they let it mellow into its present shocking depravity.
4. To put cars and motorways before houses seems to Englishness a communal imbecility.
5. They have outgrown towns and families.
IV. Fifteen words are taken away at irregular intervals from the passage below.Choose the most appropriate one of the given words or expressions and fill in the blanks. Markyour answer with capital letters like A, B, C, …or O. (15%)
A. overloadingB. hardlyC. invisibilityD.hobbledE. truly
F. bridle            G. devotedH.howI.beneathJ. reduced
K. willing        L. whereuponM. beforeN. muleO.what
But what is strange about these people is their  1  . For several weeks, always at about the same time of day, the file of old women had   2  past the house with their firewood, and though they had registered themselves on my eyeballs I cannot   3 say that I had seen them. Firewood was passing —that was  4  I saw it. It was only that one day I happened to be walking behind them, and the curious up-and-down motion of a load of wood drew my attention to the human

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