西南政法大学普通本、专科2006 ---2007英语修辞学

课程考试试题及参考答案

2006 ---2007    学年第  1  学期

课  程       英语修辞学                  （  A  卷）

专  业         英语                      年级  04级        

满分： 100   分；考试时间： 120  分钟；考试方式： 闭卷      

I. Matching.                  （本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）

Directions: the following are some figures of speech and their corresponding definitions. Match each figure of speech on the left with the right definition on the right.

1.___I______  2_____D____   3___B______     4____H_____      5_____G____   6_____J____  7___C______   8____A_____      9___F______     10____E_____

II. Find out the correponding figures of speech that are contained in the following sentences.

（本大题共10小题，每小题3分，共30分）

1.       Punning   2 Transferred Epithet  3_Irony_     4__hyperbole      5_oxymoron 

6__paradox   7_synecdoche    8_Metonymy      9_ oxymoron      10_metaphor_ 

III. The following is an extract from A Modest Proposal published by English writer Jonathan Swift in 1729. Comment on the extract by applying the knowledge you learnt in class. Your writing shall contain at least 150 words.

（本大题共1小题，每小题25分，共25分）

Answers may vary.

IV Suppose you are runnig for the chairman of the students union. You are going to write a compaign speech about 150 to 200 words. You are not confined to any writing styles, applying the rhetorical knowledge learnt in class.  

（本大题共1小题，每小题25分，共25分）

Answers may vary.