同济大学硕士研究生修辞课程期终考核试卷（样卷）
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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 nobodys 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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6
7
8
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10
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%)
