英文文体与修辞

1What is not the purposes of using rhetorical devices？

3Please compare the following three sentences and point out the stylistic effect of （3） No spitting（1） Expectoration is forbidden（2） Please do not spit!（3） No spitting

4About style， which description is not right？

5Style is a result of ；in the uses of language； and in the users of language， those who come from different places， from different social backgrounds， from different races， from different historical periods， etc

6The rhetorical figure used in the sentence He is as poor as a church mouse， and a church mouse like him eats like a horse is ；， which produces a humorous effect

7The sentence by Lord Acton "；Power tends to corrupt， and absolute power corrupts absolutely"； takes the rhetorical figure of ；

8In the example I am a draper mad with loveI love you more than all the flannelette and calico， candlewick， dimity， crash and merino， tussore， cretonne， crepon， muslin， ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world[Dylan Thomas， Under Milk Wood

9The following two examples present the different stylistic effects produced by different selection of words（1） Hiroshim

10The coinage of a new word such as unchilding， unfathering is an example showing how to achieve certain stylistic effect by taking the ；methoD

11The typical type of sentences in news reports， science and technology， narration， expository writing， etcis ；sentence as its function is to provide information which serves the purpose of the texts

12The rhetorical device used in the passage United， there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative venturesDivided， there is little we can do， for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder is（）

13The rhetorical device used in the following poem attributed to Benjamin Franklin and others is；， which achieves not only an emphatic effect but also a humorous effectFor want of a nail the shoe was lost

14The sentence Out of his other property， out of the things he had collected， his silver， his pictures， his houses， his investments， he got a secret and intimate feelin

15is an example of violation of grammatical rulesIt often takes local and dialectal style with non-standard pronunciation， colloquial expressions， elliptical sentences， which show the speaker’s low social status

16Which one is not the type of reference？

17Which one of the following is not the kind of reiteration？

18Which one of the following is not the feature of argumentation？

19Which one of the following is not the feature of genre？

20Which one of the following can not describe the purpose of；generic structure potential？

21Some implications are best represented by special sound features（egrising tone）， not by syntactic features

22Spoken and written languag

23Sound features can represent the features of regional dialect or social dialect

24Which one of the following is not included in the sound pattern？

25Suprasegmental features is difficult to be represented in writing， but sometimes it is more effective than phonemes， words and clauses

26News report refers to a general variety of language， which sends out hot news， news of important events， and interesting events to all parts of the country or region by mass media

27For news， in written medium， as time is limited， the speaker has to select the most important information， and drop the details and unimportant parts

28All of the headlines are elliptical sentences

29Generally speaking， guide consists of six elements：location， character， event， mode， time， and cause， in which event and character are two obligatory elements

30One feature of news report is meaning contraction， that is， using the least amount of form to encode the most amount of meaningOf the following choices， which one does not belong to meaning contraction？

31All public speeches share a lot of things in common as they are different in mode and in purposes

32For the features of words used in the public speech， big words are often used in complex structures， and there are also unfamiliar words， nominalized words， abstract words， etc

33There are many types of oral genresOf the following choices， which does not belong to oral genres？

34In mode of spontaneous commentary， they may be about different activities， such as different types of sports， parades and rallies， the launching of a rocket， etc

35The connections between the elements or clauses in the text are loose and the train of thought is often interruptedThis is because， in the development of the events， any new scenes， climax， novel happenings may occur， and the commentator has to capture a

36Business English is a general name for a variety which consists of many subcategoriesIn terms of mode， it includes business letters， business reports， business contracts， business advertisements， etc

37Which is not Cliché？

38You-Attitude is a very important principle in business communication， that is， we should think ourselves back into the shoes of others so as to cooperate sincerely

39The grammatical features of business English includ

40Mixed use of simple， compound， complex and compound-complex sentences， can make business English vivid and readable

41Legal vocabulary mainly comes from French

42Statutes were written in（）until about 1300， in French until 1485， in English and French for a few years， and in English alone from 1489

43Studies from the historical perspective have shown that legal English is very（）in form

44As legal language is produced by careful phrasing and tested over a long time， nobody dares to alter the structure of legal English， so that its structures become（）

45After the（）Conquest， French became the official language used for all state affairs including law in Great Britain

46Scientific words have the following functions：

47When people invented something， they must also create a word to represent it in language， so scientific words occurred the earliest in the register of science and technology

48Scientific English develops from abstract to concrete， from empirical to rational， and from dynamic to static

49The language of science and technology includes texts of a large variety of registers

50For the style of science and technology， in terms of mode， it includes texts of all registers concerned with the natural science and social science， such as physics， engineering， medicine， agriculture， linguistics， psychology， computer， etc

51The judgment of the quality of literary texts is whether they truly， accurately and systematically record the historical events or not， while that of non-literary texts is whether they are artistic， affectionate and illuminative or not

52Fictional language does not directly recount what is happening in the external world， but presents the outward experiences of humans through（）

53The first level meaning is entirely implied； the second is partly implicit and the third（）

54The situation presented by the（）is very limitedIt mainly focuses on the world of individual persons， so it is an effective device for describing the world of individual characters， which can be used as a life model or example of individual persons

55（）are created in much similarity to the actual situations in the real world and are generalized events and serve as miniatures of the real world events

56Which of the following is not the meta-function in visual context？

57Which is not the feature of color？

58（）between image and language means a semiotic system relays the expression of another and adds new meaning to it

59In the stylistic analysis of a multimodal text， at the level of meaning， the focus should be put on which（）is more appropriate for the realization of some type of meaning

60In the process of stylistic analysis of a multimodal text， which of the following problem is not stylisticians concerned？

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