西南大学网络与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷类别：网教 专业：英语教育 , 应用英语 课程名称【编号】：英语文体学引论【0099】 A 卷 I. Fill in the following blanks with proper words. (2*5)1) __ Tenor _ of discourse is the social relationships between participants in communication.2) _ Ephemism _ is a kind of mild expression for an offensive or hush one.3) Simply speaking, __ registers __refers to languages which are determined by situation.4) Stylistics may be defined as the study of or the investigation of __ tyle __.5) A _ morpheme _ &is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.II. Indicate what kind of figures of speech is used in the following examples. (5*4)1) We need more hands to finish this work on time. ___ synecdoche__ 2) Tom almost cried his eyes out at this news. _ hHyperbole__ 3) My love is like a red rose. _ metaphor_ 4) The old tree was waving him a good bye in the cold wind. __ personification __III. Explain in brief the following terms. (5*5)1) Field of discourse:Field of discourse is the linguistic reflection of the purposive role of the language user, --the type of social activity the language user is engaged in doing in the situation in which the text hasoccurred. That is to say, the language the user uses will show what his/her language is 'about', whatexperience he/she is verbalizing, what is 'going on' in the speech event.2) syllable: a vowel sound either with or without a consonant or consonants in clusters.3) Style: the linguistic habit of a particular person(s) or characteristic of typical situations.4) Rhetorical question: A rhetorical question is a question that is asked not to get an answer, but instead toemphasize a point.5) Discoursal analysis : it is chiefly concerned about the sound patterns of a piece of literature, especially thoseof poetry.IV. Please decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (4*5)1) Technical words refer to those words used in special professions. (T)2) Simply speaking, registers refer to languages which are determined by situation. (T )3) Contrastive conjunction is achieved by the use of conjunctive words of addition or progression, such as and,furthermore, moreover, etc. (F)4) Content is the style that may be different from case to case although the meaning may remain the same. (F)5) Lexical analysis is chiefly concerned about how the words in a text are put together to produce meaning andother kinds of message. (F)V. Tell what figure of speech is used in the following sentence and explain the connotativemeaning of the underlined word. (25*1)She knows nothing about the cruelty about the world. She is a lily.This sentence uses simile. Lily is a flower and by cultural conventions a symbol of purity and innocence in thewest.- 1 -