《英语修辞》作业
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 consonant or cluster, in two or more wor ds 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 ordinarily and primarily 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 which 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
tickle
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 whi ch 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 speech in which human qualities and abi lities 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 which 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. Antithesis
C. Oxymoron
D. Metonymy
17. It ref ers 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 s ubtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words used is the
direct opposite of their usual sense.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Irony
D. Simile
19. It’s a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
A. Metaphor
B. Pun
C. Simile
D. Parody
20. A figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, is syntactically related to two or more words, with only one of which it seems logically connected.
A. Repetition
B. Antithesis
C. Zeugma
D. Parallelism
III. Identify the rhetorical devices employed by the boldfaced words in the following sentences.
1. O dear! O dear! What shall I do? I have lost my love and my lipstick too.
A. Repetition
B. Anticlimax
C. Paradox
D. Climax
2. Australia is so kind, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with harvest.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
3. My heart is like a singing bird.
A. Metaphor
B. Parody
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
4. When Della had finished crying, she went to the window and looked out sadly at a grey cat walking along a grey fence in a grey back-yard.
A. Parallelism
B. Antithesis
C. Irony
D. Repetition
5. On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the great 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 sleep but---- forever.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Euphemism
D. Parallelism
6. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
A. Parallelism
B. Climax
C. Rhetorical Question
D. Understatement
7. Of all the students in the class I like him the best.
A. Anastrophe
B. Anticlimax
C. Rhetorical Question
D. Understatement
8. You can ask him for the meaning of the word. He is like a walking dictionary.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
9. Books are the ever-burning lamps.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
10. Money makes the mare go.
A. Paradox
B. Assonance
C. Alliteration
D. Simile
11. There was an audible stillness, in which the common voice sounded strange.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
12. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Oxymoron
13. One teacher writes that instead of drowning students’ compositions in critical red ink, the teacher will get far more constructive results by finding one or two things which have been done better than last time, and commenting favorably
on them.
A. Parallelism
B. Transferred Epithet
C. Alliteration
D. Metaphor
14. He looked at me with a bitter look.
A. Synaesthesia
B. Antithesis
C. Oxymoron
D. Metaphor
15. ---Why are Sunday and Saturday the strongest days in a week?
---Because the rest are week (weak) days.
A. Metaphor
B. Pun
C. Simile
D. Irony
16. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
A. Antithesis
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
17. ---Why can you never expect a fisherman to be generous?
---Because his business make him sell fish (selfish).
A. Metaphor
B. Pun
C. Simile
D. Irony
18. Women were running out to the line of march, crying and laughing and kissing the men good-bye.
A. Antithesis
B. Hyperbole
C. Repetition
D. Parallelism
19. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
A. Metaphor
B. Pun
C. Simile
D. Irony
20.I wish I could write better.
A. Pun
B. Hyperbole
C. Climax
D. Understatement
IV. Identify the rhetorical devices employed in the following sentences.
1. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it. ( )
2. One teacher writes that instead of drowning students’ compositions in critical red ink, the teacher will get far more constructive results by finding one or two things which have been done better than last time, and commenting favorably on them. ( )
3. And, it being low water he went out with the tide.( )
4. They were short of hands at harvest time.( )
5. In the dock, she found scores of arrows piercing her chest.( )
6. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
( )
7. The drunkard smashed the glasses, upturned the table, and hit an old woman.
( )
8. One mad action is not enough to prove a man mad.( )
9. He intended to take an opportunity this afternoon of speaking to Irene. A word in time saves nine.
( )
10. No X in Nixon.( )
11. All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.( )
12. He looked at me with a bitter look. ( )
13. The man is no fool.( )
14. You want your pound of flesh, don’t you?( )
15. The child is father of the man.( )
16. Perhaps, perhaps Mera might come.( )
17. A professor tapped on his desk and shouted, “Gentlemen, order!”
The entire class yelled, “Beer.” ( )
18. I used to organize my father’s tools, my mother’s kitchen utensils, my sister’s boyfriends.
( )
19. A man from the continent was traveling in England. He had caught a very bad cold. He coughed day and night… He put on his coat and hat and went to a c hemist’s. When asked what he wanted, the traveler said, “I want something for my cow, please.”( )
20. Have you ever been to an Irish Wedding? I have just returned from one…
21. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.( )
22. I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!( )
23. The senator pledged to oppose war, fight poverty, protect individual freedom and name a new state flower. ( )
24. It is a quarter to five in the morning, the sun has already climbed above the horizon; the birds are busy celebrating the new day and have eagerly been in search of food. ( )
25.Who wouldn’t have dreamed of becoming rich overnight? ( )
26. What she had said I didn’t hear. ( )
V. Two or more than two rhetorical devices are used in the following sentences. Read and select the rhetorical devices in each sentence.
1. Time is like a fashionable host, that slightly shakes his passing guest by the band; and with his arms stretched, a s he would fly, grasps in the comer.The welcomes ever smile, and farewell goes out sighing.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
2. The seed ye sow, another reaps;
The wealth ye find, another keeps;
The robes ye weave, another wears;
The arms ye forge, another bears.
A. Parallelism
B. Antithesis
C. Alliteration
D. Repetition
3. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Allusion
D. Synecdoche
4. Miss Bolo went straight home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Syllepsis
5. These little thoughts are the rustles of leaves; they have their whisper of joy in my mind.
A. Metaphor
B. Hyperbole
C. Simile
D. Personification
6. A drop of ink may make a million think.

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