Thursday, November 09, 2006

Part II of rhetoric’s midterm exam

The sentences as below are Part II of rhetoric’s midterm exam which held at summer vacation.

The direction is: Choose six different figures of speech. Write the name of the figure of speech, and then use the figure in a complete sentence. (5 points each)
I got 29 points at this section.

1.Antimetabole (5)
The boy said, “If I can’t enter NTU, I won’t study.” And her mother said, “If you don’t study, you can’t enter NTU.”

2.Litotes (5)
We held a dinner party at Skylark last Friday and the restaurant’s food wasn’t bad.

3.Ploce (5)
The Chinese daughter-in-law always needs to set a table at the family party on New Year’s Eve.

4.Synecdoche (5)
I heard this rumor from the lips of your friends.

5.Oxymoron
(4)
The doctor telling him he has cancer is a cruel kindness.

6.Irony (5)
The hard-working student seldom studies more than an hour per week.

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