西南大学网络与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷类别：网教(网教/成教) 专业：英语教育 课程名称【编号】：英语文体学引论【0099】 A 卷大作业 满分：100 分 I. Fill in the following blanks with proper words. (20 points)1) __Language_ is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.2) Pause can be divided into structural pause and__ emotive__ pause.3) Style can be defined as the linguistic habit of different people or characteristic of typical social situations.4) Ephemism is a kind of mild expression for an offensive or hush one.II. Indicate what kind of figures of speech is used in the following examples. (20 points)1) The boy was as cunning as a fox. __ simile __2) China won the game against Japan by 3:2. __ parallelism_3) If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately.__ contrast__4) He was a tiger in the battle field.___ Metaphor_III. Explain in brief the following terms. (20 points)1) Morpheme The smallest unit of language in terms of the relationship between expression and content, a unit thatcannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether itis lexical or grammatical. For example, the word tourists, contains three morphemes. There is one minimal unitof meaning, tour, another minimal unit of meaning –ist (meaning “person who does something”), and aminimal unit of grammatical function –s (indicating plural).2) DialectDialect: a variety of a language, spoken in one part of a country (regional dialect), or by people belongingto a particular social class (social dialect or sociolect), which is different in some words, grammar, and/orpronunciation from other forms of the same language.3) Mode of discourseIt refers to the means of communication and it is concerned with how communication is carried out.4) IronyIrony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is an incongruity or discordance between what onesays or does and what one means or what is generally understood. It is a mode of expression that callsattention to the character’s knowledge and that of the audience.IV. Please decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (20 points)1) Syllable refers to a vowel sound either with or without a consonant or consonants in clusters. ( T )2) Content is the style which may be different from case to case although the meaning may remain the same. ( F )3) Rhetorical question is a question which does not demand an answer or the answer is obvious. (T )4) Exophora is an item which refers to something in another text. (F )V. Analyze the following conversation. Attention: please give the definition of this kind offigure of speech, and its stylistic effects. (20 points) Susan: Jim, can you give me Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address?Jim: No, but he used to live at the White House in Washington DC.In this conversation, pun is used to produce ambiguities which can make a humorous effect. The humor isproduced through Jim’s failure to correctly understand the meaning of the word “address” here. Susan meansthe speech while the student interprets it as the place where Lincoln lived.- 1 -