2014年文体学试卷(共6页)

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上湖南科技学院二一 四 年 下 学期期末考试 英语 专业 2012 年级 英语文体学 试题考试类型：开卷 试卷类型：A卷 考试时量：120 分钟 出卷人：唐建福题号IIIIIIIVV总分统分人得分阅卷人复查人 IFill in the following blanks. (210=20)1. Style can defined as the linguistic habit of different people or characteristic of typical social situations. 2. Stylistics may be defined as

2、 the study of or the investigation of style.3. Phoneme is the smallest sound unit in a specific language capable of semantic distinction.4. Dialect is a subtype of language which may be determined by geographical locality or particular social groupings.5. The three factors of register are field, ten

3、or, and mode.6. General stylistics is chiefly concerned with the investigation of the linguistic features of all kinds of language use.7. A sentence made up of two or more simple sentences, joined together by conjunctions or punctuations is a compound sentence.8. Pause can be divided into voiced pau

4、se and silent pause.9. The rise-fall pitch is employed to give people a sincere praise or to show the feeling of shock.10. The fall-rise pitch is used to give people some encouragement or give people a warning.11. The rising pitch is employed to show the meaning of indefiniteness, uncertainty and in

5、completeness.12. The falling pitch is used to show the meaning of definiteness, certainty and completeness.13. There are 5 pitches in phonetics.14. With consultative style people usually offer some background information. It is usually employed in business activities.15. To attract readers attention

6、 is one of the functions of English advertisements.16. The relationship between irony and humor is that irony is a language means while humor is an effect. 17. People usually use casual style between friends, acquaintances, or insiders. Its main feature is that people usually employ ellipsis, slangs

7、 or cants with it. 18. Stress, intonation, pause, and voice quality are the 4 phonetic means in English. 19. IIMultiple-choice (Attention: there is only one or more than one choice to one question). (210=20)1. The smallest unit in a language that carries meaning is .A. pheme B. morpheme C. phone D.

8、word2. What figure of speech has been used in “the young hunter was as strong as a lion”?A. metaphor B. metonymy C. synecdoche D. simile3. Which of the following are the types of change of meaning of English words?A. extension B. specialization C. degradation D. elevation (ABCD)4. What are the basic

9、 components of the English vocabulary. (ACD)A. Anglo-Saxon B. Greek C. Latin D. French5. Stylistics is the study or the investigation of style.A. yes B. no6. What figure of speech has been used in “many hands make light work”?A. irony B. overstatement C. synecdoche D. oxymoron7. Which of the followi

10、ng originate from Anglo-Saxon? (AB)A. members of the family B. time C. law D. science 8. What are the functions of inverted sentence? (BCD)A. For effect B. For emphasis C. For balance D. For cohesion and conjunction9. What are the levels of stylistic analysis? (ABCD)A. Phonological level B. Lexical

11、level D. Syntactic level D. Discoursal level10. What are the grammatical functions of stress? (ABCD)A. Emphasize a certain word or meaning. B. Distinguish words, phrases, same spelling, different meaning.C. Change of stress in words causes change of phonemesD. Means of expressing strong emotions.1.

12、What is the methodology of stylistic analysis? (A)A. linguistic analysis B. discourse analysis2. What are the stylistic functions of syntactic deviations in literature? (ABCD)A. As a marker of ones social backgroundB. As a means of characterizationC. Social positionD. Irony, satire, emphasis, comica

13、l effects3. Structurally speaking, sentences may classified into: (ACD)A. Simple sentence B. Exclamatory sentence C. Compound sentence D. Complex sentence4. What are the differences between language and speech? (ABCD)A. Language is abstract whereas speech is concrete.B. Language is potential whereas

14、 speech is actual.C. Language is code whereas speech is message.D. Language is stable and systematic whereas speech is subject to personal and situational constraint. 5. Functionally speaking, what types do English sentences have? (ABCD)A. Declarative B. Interrogative C. Exclamatory D. Imperative6.

15、What are the gestures that may be used in a casual conversation? (ABCD)A. Facial expressions B. eye-contact C. environment D. clothing 7. Five styles were advanced by Martin Joos in the book “The Five Clocks”. And they are: (BD) A. strict style B. frozen style C. polite style D. casual style 8. The

16、differences between oral communication and written communication are: (ABC) A. Use some gestures ( body language ) in oral communicationB. Use a statement as a question in oral communicationC. Use some pure oral words in oral communicationD. Use some characters in written communication 9. Stress has

17、 several apparent stylistic and grammatical functions. And they are: (ABCD)A. The first function is for emphasis.B. The second function is to change the meaning or the part of speech of some words, or both. C. The third function is to differ some English wordsD. The fourth function is to show someon

18、es surprise, anger, fear, doubt, pleasure, etc. 10. How do we express ourselves in a proper way? Several factors do work. And they are: (ABCD)A. PhoneticsB. VocabularyC. GrammarD. Some knowledge concerning English stylisticsIIIPlease judge whether the following statements are true or false. (Attenti

19、on: if it is true, please mark T; otherwise, F)(110=10)1. Euphemism is a kind of mild expression for an offensive or harsh one. ()2. Content is the style that may be different from case to case although the meaning may remain the same. ()3. Exophora is an item that refers to something in another tex

20、t. ()4. Simply speaking, registers refer to languages which are determined by situation. ()5. In this example: “Is this a non-smoker? I dont know”, there is a Verbal ellipsis. ()6. Rhetorical question is a question which does not need an answer or the answer is obvious. ()7. Contrastive conjunction

21、is achieved by the use of conjunctive words of addition or progression, such as and, furthermore, moreover, etc. ()8. A not-text is a group of sentences that are typically or logically linked together. This kind of linkage is called cohesion. So cohesion is the quality that makes a text a text. ()9.

22、 Tenor of discourse is the social relationships between the participants in the communication. ()10. The compositions written by a class of middle school students can be called different styles? ()1. Syllable refers to a vowel sound either with or without a consonant or consonants in clusters. ()2.

23、Lexical analysis is chiefly concerned about how the words in a text are put together to produce meaning and other kinds of message. ()3. Syntactical analysis is chiefly concerned about how sentences are joined together to produce a cohesive and coherent text. ()4. Taboo refers to words forbidden to

24、be used in public because of their being dirty or offensive. ()5. Technical words refer to those words used in special professions. ()6. Loose sentence is one that is not grammatically complete until the end is reached. ()7. Parallelism is a rhetorical device in which identical words are used but no

25、t necessarily in identical position. ()8. Repetition is a rhetorical device in which two or more than two similar syntactic structures with different words are placed side by side. ()9. Pause can be divided into structural pause and emotive pause. ()10. Intimate style is usually used between husband

26、 and wife. Moreover it is employed in jargons sometimes. ()IVAnalyze the following passage. (Attention: please give the definition of this kind of sentence structure, its characteristics and its stylistic effects) (12%)VIndicate what kind of figures of speech is used in the following examples. (210=

27、20)1. Where have you been for the last four years? At college taking medicine. And did you get well? (pun)2. Life is but a brief candle. (metaphor)3. From the cradle to the grave (metonymy)4. Many hands make light work. (synecdoche)5. Shes as old as a mountain. (hyperbole)6. What weather do the mice

28、 dislike? When it rains cats and dogs. (pun)7. He is a fool. He never knows where his personal interest lies. His whole heart is concerned about the interest of other people. (irony)8. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. (overstatement/hyperbole)9. The drunkard loves his bottle better than hi

29、s wife. (metonymy)10. Why are parliamentary reports called “blue books”? Because they are never red. (pun)10. My love is a red, red rose. (metaphor)1. The young hunter was as strong as a lion. (simile)2. What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T? Teapot. (pun) And did you get well? (pun)3. A

30、 victorious defeat (oxymoron)4. My love is a red, red rose. (metaphor)43. Name at least five kinds of figure of speech in English.Simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, irony, overstatement, etc.44. What possible social relationships exist between the participants in the following sentences? (12)1)

31、. Excuse me, could you tell me the right time, please?2). What time is it, please?3). Whats the time?Sentence 1) shows a high degree of politeness and formality which may most probably appear in a conversation between strangers with great social distance in between. Sentence 2) still shows some degr

32、ee of politeness and formality which may be in a conversation between acquaintances. Sentence 3) is a direct question without taking care of politeness. This is characteristic of conversations between friends or classmates or family members.45. Indicate what kind of figures of speech is used in the

33、following examples.The young hunter was as strong as a lion. (simile)Life is but a brief candle. (metaphor)From the cradle to the grave (metonymy)Many hands make light work. (synecdoche)Shes as old as a mountain. (hyperbole)A victorious defeat (oxymoron)He is a fool. He never knows where his persona

34、l interest lies. His whole heart is concerned about the interest of other people. (irony)Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay. (overstatement/hyperbole)The drunkard loves his bottle better than his wife. (metonymy)My love is a red, red rose. (metaphor)7. What starts with T, ends with T, and is

35、full of T? Teapot. (pun)8. Where have you been for the last four years? At college taking medicine. And did you get well? (pun)9. What weather do the mice dislike? When it rains cats and dogs. (pun)10. Why are parliamentary reports called “blue books”? Because they are never red. (pun)IVAnalyze the

36、following conversation. (Attention: please give the definition of this kind of figure of speech, and its stylistic effects) (12%)A: I have a hair-raising story to tell.B: Tell it to a bald-headed man.In this conversation, pun is used to avoid unnecessary inconveniences and also produce ambiguities which can make a humorous effect. Here person B deliberately used the dual meaning of “hair-raising” to express his unwillingness to