一、多选题（共 4 道试题，共 10 分。）V 1. Which sentences use the rhetorical device of rhetorical question?
A. For many elderly Americans old age is a tragedy, a period of quiet despair, deprivation, desolation and muted rage.
B. What is it like to be old in the United States?
C. What will our own lives be like when we are old?
D. Are things really that bad?
满分：2.5 分
2. Which of the sentences below use the rhetorical device of personification?
A. Why do I think network TV does a better job of informing than these papers?
B. It is easier to let the ads dictate the format than develop a format that elevates news above dogfood.
C. I am a printed-word woman myself, and I still think the word was not only in the beginning but will be in the end.
D. The word will prevail.
满分：2.5 分
3. Which sentences apply the rhetorical device of parallelism?
A. And suddenly the two bottles begin to walk and patter off through a side gate…
B. They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.
C. The big central gats swing open…, first of the three matadors, in their brilliant shirts, silk costumes embroidered in gold, their red stockings and black slippers and the rich, flowered capes they wear only for this short parade.
D. All at one time it can be brave, pitiful, squalid, heroic, messy, chivalrous, and obscene
满分：2.5 分
4. Which of the sentences below apply the rhetorical device of oxymoron?
A. Simple-minded souls will never be satisfied with the answer to the second of these questions.
B. Is it pessimistically sad or resignedly sad; is it fatefully sad or smilingly sad?
C. That is why they always find Tschaikovsky easier to “understand” than Beethoven.
D. Death is a dramatic, …a bittersweet coming to terms with one’s own personality and one’s life.