同济大学硕士研究生课程期终考核试卷

（2008 — 2009 学年第 1 学期）

课名：   修辞                             考试考查：考试

 

年级           专业                    学号           姓名             得分     

 

 

Part I (30%)

Write out the definition for the following rhetoric terms

 

1.      Simile

2.      Hyperbole:

3.      Euphemism:

4.      Synecdoche

5.      Oxymoron:

6.      Pun:

7.      Syllepsis:

8.      Paradox:

9.      Transferred Epithet:

10.     Onomatopoeia:

 

Part II (20%)

Directions: In this section there are twenty sentences, each having a figure of speech. Identify what rhetorical device is employed in the following sentences respectively.

 

1. A doctor must have the heart of a lion and the hand of a lady.

A. Personification                                                B. Metaphor

C. Syllipsis                                                      D. Simile

2. If you wish to succeed, you should use persistence as your good friends, experience as your reference, prudence as your brother and hope as your sentry.

A. Antithesis                                                     B. Hyperbole

C. Parallelism                                                    D. Irony

3. There are two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

A. Paradox                                                   B. Parody

C. Allusion                                                  D. Synecdoche

4. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.

A. Simile                                                       B. Antithesis

C. Metonymy                                                     D. Metaphor

5. Where there is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

A. Hyperbole                                                     B. Antithesis

C. Irony                                                         D. Paradox

6. Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

A. Parody                                                          B. Paradox

C. Simile                                                          D. Repetition

7. It’s said that Jane has fallen in love with Jack.

Yes, but she says she had hesitated for a long time before she finally walked into love.

A. Parody                                                       B. Euphemism

C. Assonance                                                    D. Climax

8. But just how long Walton can hold firm to his folksy habit with celebrity hunters keeping following him wherever he goes is anyong’s guess.

A. Metaphor                                                    B. Simile

C. Synecdoche                                                  D. Antithesis

9. She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair.

A. Oxymoron                                                     B. Allusion

C. Syllepsis                                                    D. Alliteration

10. I sandwiched myself between two fat men on the bus.

A. Metonymy                                             B. Understatement

C. Irony                                                D. Metaphor

11. When England’s Liverpool team journeyed to Italy in 1965 to play Inter of Milan, fans of the Milan team circled the visitor’s hotel all night on 500 coughing motorcycles.

A. Personification                                     B. Euphemism

C. Innuendo                                            D. Oxymoron

12. A thousand moustaches can live together, but not four breasts.

A. Metaphor                                            B. Innuendo

C. Metonymy                                            D. Ridicule

13. The moon was above, cold and beautiful, and the music reminded Soapy of those days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and clean thoughts and collars.

A. Parody and Innuendo                               B. Paradox Assonance

C. Simile and Allusion                               D. Synecdoche and Syllepsis

14. A university degree is no longer the open sesame to a good job.

A. Allusion                                            B. Hyperbole

C. Oxymoron                                            D. Irony

15. The boy used to take things without permission and has just been out of the rehabilitation home in the country.

A. Innuendo                                                    B. Euphemism

C. Parody                                                      D. Sarcasm

16. She opened the door and her heart for the homeless boy.

A. Pun                                                         B. Pun

C. Syllepsis                                                   D. Innuendo

17. But when I say that there will soon be a high tide of revolution in China, I am emphatically not speaking of something which in the words of some people is “possibly coming”, something illusory, unattainable and devoid of significance for action. It’s like a ship far out at sea whose mast-head can already be seen from the shore; it is like the morning sun in the ease whose shimmering rays are visible from a high mountain top; it is like a child about to be born moving restlessly in its mother’s womb.

A. Sustained Metaphor                                    B. Extended Metaphor

C. Mixed Metaphor                                        D. Dead Metaphor

18. China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! When he wakes he will move the world.

A. Mixed Metaphor                                        B. Extended Metaphor

C. Sustained Metaphor                                    D. Dead Metaphor

19. The planes left mountains of flame and smoke behind them, they crippled our Pacific fleet, sank five of biggest warships, and killed more than 3000 American soldiers and sailors.

A. Hyperbole                                                           B. Metaphor

C. Syllepsis                                                           D. Simile

20. I despise its very vastness and power. It has the poorest millionaires, the littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw.

A. Paradox and Hyperbole                                    B. Parody and Climax

C. Oxymoron and Parallelism                                 D. Irony and Pun

 

 

Part III (20%)

Read the following article carefully and pick out ten sentences containing rhetorical devices

 

01  (Transferred epithet)

02  (Personification)

03 （Parillelism）

04  (Simile)

06  (Metaphor)

07  (Hyperbole)

08 （Pun ）

09  (Climax)

10  (Euphemism)

11  (Allteration)

12  (Metonymy)

13  (Antithesis)

14  (Inversion)

 

A TRIBUTE TO THE DOG

               By George Graham West

 

　　The best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter whom he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith.

  　　The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolute, unselfish friend a man may have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

　　A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground when the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the sores and wounds that come in the encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince.

When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes and death takes its master in its embrace and the body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there, by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness faithful and true even to death.

 

Part IV (30%)

Translate the following epigrams into Chinese and make short comments on each of them:

 

1Bad news travels fast.

2Barking dogs seldom bite.  

3Beauty is only skin-deep.

4Better die with honor than live with shame.

5Better late than never.

6Blood is thicker than water.    

7Doing everything is doing nothing.  

8Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.

9Everybody's business is nobodys business.

10Experience is the best teacher    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

同济大学硕士研究生课程期终考核试卷（B卷）

2008 — 2009 学年第 1 学期

课名：   修辞                          考试考查：考试

 

年级           专业                    学号           姓名             得分     

 

 

Part I (30%)

Write out the definition for the following rhetoric terms

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Part II (20%)

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Part III (20%)

01 (Transferred epithet) 02  (Personification) 03 （Parillelism） 04  (Simile)  05  (Inversion) 06  (Metaphor) 07  (Hyperbole) 08 （Pun ） 09   (Antithesis) 10  (Euphemism) 11  (Alliteration) 12  (Metonymy)

Part IV  (30%)