奥鹏教育东北师范大学高级英语（二）在线作业二

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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of personification?
A:All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, squalid, heroic, messy, chivalrous, and obscene.
B:It was a pleasant summer afternoon, and the rows and rows of houses looked unusually bright and gay in the sun..
C:This helped to alleviate the dreadful nature of the houses, which looked shocking from nearby, but which looked oddly bright and distinct and well-intentioned when glorified by mass and distance.
D:…the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural, and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little, giving them a little leeway, letting them sniff and pry and explore.
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Which of the following sentences do not use the rhetorical device of metonymy?
A:Like women in English novels who walk the moors with their loyal dogs racing at a respectful distance.
B:… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and melting.
C:… and my image of her would have been shattered l
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Hyperbole is applied in ________.
A:What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor, which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion, for a few brief moments, that it is better to be alive than dead; on a few dates in paradise.
B:And when excitement by means of nicotine failed, a patriotic orator would stir them up to attack a neighbouring tribe, which would give them all the enjoyment that we (according to our temperament) derive from a horse race or a General Election.
C:But when he took to agriculture, …and to dream of the life hereafter in which he would perpetually hunt the wild boar of Valhalla.
D:It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
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Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical device of repetition?
A:What’s Wrong with Our Press?
B:Television may not have a Lippmann or a Reston, but then, what papers in America can claim an Eric Sevareid, a Walter Cronkite, a Huntley or a Brinkley, or—although he is invisible—an Edward Morgan?
C:Among the leading commentators on television, you find no Pegler, no Winchell, no Fulton Lewis, Jr..
D:Change means trouble, change means work, change means cost.
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Simile is NOT used in ________.
A:Good prose is like a window pane.
B:A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
C:Writers share this characteristic … in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
D:It can be seen how these various impulses must war against one another, and how …
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Synecdoche is NOT used in ________.
A:But there is a man in my office, a Mr. H., who proses it away from morning to night, …
B:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
C:It would be worse than beating an anvil with a sledge-hammer.
D:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
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Antithesis is not used in ________.
A:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and law奥鹏教育东北师范大学在线作业yers?
B:She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
C:But they talked, and from the side of the building where I waited for the ground to open up and swallow me, I heard …
D:Why are women thought of as secretaries, not administrators? Librarians and teachers, but not doctors and lawyers?
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Metaphor is applied in ________.
A:…satiety is a dream which will always elude you.
B:When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
C:Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, gateway to Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins.
D:It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the influence of vanity throughout the range of human life, from the child of three to the potentate at whose frown the world trembles.
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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A:I had an impulse to climb up and try one of those springy beds, but that would have meant using up more energy when I had none to spare, …
B:By midday we had passed the ten thousand foot mark, but I am not really able to recall the incidents of these hours, for red lights had long since begun to dance in front of my eyes and …
C:The bamboo here had thinned out a little, and on the heights of the two mountains above we could see the curious productions of the alpine zones, giant heather, giant groundsel and giant lobelias.
D:After twenty minutes my legs had turned to water again and against the evident displeasure of the guides I demanded lunch.
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Antithesis is used in ________.
A:She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
B:… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the texture
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Personification is applied in ________.
A:When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.
B:One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on.
C:Civilized life has grown altogether too tame, …
D:Any persons found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.
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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of allusion?
A:… and my image of her would have been shattered like the unmendable Humpty-Dumpty.
B:Pride is a sin. And according to the Good Book, it goeth before a fall.
C:… I heard the soft-voiced Mrs. Flowers and the textured voice of my grandmother merging and meltin
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Parallelism is NOT used in ________.
A:A yellow beam of sunlight, filtering through the muslin curtains, slanted on to the table, where a matchbox, half open, lay beside the inkpot.
B:Who would want to remonstrate and argue with them?
C:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
D:… for even after the most eventful day, there is no comparing notes with them, no midnight confidence, no casting up the balance of the day’s pleasure and pain.
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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of metaphor?
A:They were interrupted from time to time by giggles that must have come from Mrs. Flowers.
B:One summer afternoon, sweet-milk fresh in my memory, she stopped at the Store to buy provisions.
C:The chifforobe was a maze.
D:Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.
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Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of simile?
A:Clara did not mind the cold, for she liked anything that was not small and cramped and heartlessly cosy…
B:She handled her apparatus with the efficient familiarity with which other women handle their baking boards and rolling pins…
C:Personally, I don’t care if they hybridize onions till they are as big as your head and come up through the snow…
D:What matters if such peas taste like boiled paper wads?
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Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?
A:Death would be too kind and brief.
B:I wanted to gobble up the room entire and take it to Bailey, who would help me analyze and enjoy it.
C:With the cold lemonade they were sufficient for childhood’s lifelong diet.
D:I knew from listening to a thousand preachers that she was nearing the end of her reading, and I hadn’t really heard, heard to understand, a single word.
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Which sentences use the rhetorical device of understatement?
A:fading fast, over the hill, out to pasture, down the drain, finished, out of date.
B:For the most part the elderly struggle to exist in an inhospitable world.
C:Voluntary hospitals are well known for dumping the “Medicare patient” into municipal hospitals…
D:This feature objectivity is nothing less than the editor’s abdication of responsibility and is just as dangerous as the long and subtle processing of fact to fit a policy that characterizes certain weekly magazines.
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Onomatopoeia is NOT used in ________.
A:Surely, humor is the saving grace of us, for without it we should die of vexation.
B:It is not so with me, to whom sleep is a coy mistress, much given to a teasing inconsistency and for ever demanding to be wooed – “lest too light winning make the prize light.”
C:Between chime and chime of the clock …
D:Discussing the question, … sleep drew the curtain.
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Simile is applied in ________.
A:In politics, a reformer may have just as strong a love of power as a despot.
B:And is it not, perhaps, a drug which—like opium—has to be taken in continually stronger doses to produce the desired effect?
C:When the Arabs, who had been used to living sparing
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Simile is used in ________.
A:Who can quarrel with a medium that so brilliantly packages escapist entertainment as a mass-marketing tool?
B:Much of it is what has been aptly described as “machine gunning with scraps.”
C:For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible.
D:Television’s variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.
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(On Human Nature and Politics) Some criminals enjoy seeing public accounts of their worst acts.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Eveline) Eveline was more attracted to Frank by his wide experience than by his person.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) Orwell believes that talented people have individual ambition which is a motive to drive them on.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Eveline) Ernest, Harry and Little Keogh were all Eveline’s brothers.
A:错误
B:正确
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(A Lesson in Living) Mrs. Flowers was an intimate friend of the family who frequently came to chat with Momma.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) For fifteen years or more, Orwell wrote a story about himself.
A:错误
B:正确
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(The Trouble with Television) The only thing Americans do when they are at leisure is to watch television.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Four Choices for Young People) To deal with such problems, the young should draw on the experiences of the old rather than reject them altogether.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) According to Orwell, all writers, even writers of railway guides, have aesthetic considerations.
A:错误
B:正确
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(I’ll Never Escape the Ghetto) The Watts riots were a massive action led by a few civil rights leaders.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Vivisection) Protest against vivisection used to be strong, but today no one dare show any opposition.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Rock Superstars) To become a rock star seems to be the fastest way to fortune and fame.
A:错误
B:正确
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(The Tragedy of Old Age in America) Old people who are poor have been poor all their lives.
A:错误
B:正确
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(A Most Forgiving Ape) The author found the area very disturbing because the equator sun was beating down him mercilessly.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Why I Write) When writing Homage to Catalonia, Orwell’s first concern is political.
A:错误
B:正确
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(On Getting Off to Sleep) The author says that when he is in bed, he feels like writing, so he puts pens, ink and paper near him.
A:错误
B:正确
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(I’d Rather Be Black Than Female) The author spent twenty years doing all the routine work only to get her male colleagues elected to important positions.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Four Choices for Young People) Few unspoiled places remain in our world where the escapists can practice plain-living and high thinking.
A:错误
B:正确
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(Vivisection) The author dismisses the question of how much cruelty there is in laboratories because it is not important at all.
A:错误
B:正确
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(The Spanish Bullfight) Successful matadors are even more idolized than film stars.
A:错误
B:正确
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