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浙江大学远程教育学院 《英语写作》课程作业（必做） 姓名： 学 号： 年级： 2015秋 学习中心： 深圳 ————————————————————————————— Chapter 2 Diction (措词) List three levels of words and give several examples for each level. Answer: Formal words, such as approximately, accompany, conceal, etc. Common words, such as about, go with, hide, etc. Colloquial words, such as gonna, how come, guy, etc. What are the denotation and connotation of a word? Answer: Denotation is what a word stands for without any emotional associations Connotation is the emotional, social, and political associations a word has in addition to its denotative meaning Fill in each blank with one of the following words: kill, assassinate, execute, massacre, slaughter, murder Two people were __killed___ in a car accident. Martin Luther King was _assassinated____ by a white people. He is likely to be _executed___ as a murderer this year. They cruelly __massacred/slaughtered___ all the people in the village. 5）According to the police, he _murdered__ his rival in cold blood. 4. List at least 9 types of figures of speech and give an example for each. Answer: 1.Simile, such as Her face is like a red apple. 2. Metaphor, such as Hope is the poor man’s bread. 3. Personification, such as The time fate was smiling to him. 4. Metonymy, such as Have you ever read Shakespeare? 5. Synecdoche, such as Great minds think alike. 6. Overstatement and understatement, such as Her beauty makes the bright world dim. 7. Transferred epithet, such as She was so worried about her son that she spent several sleepless nights. 8. Oxymoron, such as When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that it was a victorious defeat. 9. Alliteration, such as Lead the land we love Chapter 3 The Sentence (造句) List the types of sentences in terms of structure, function and rhetoric respectively and give an example for each type. Answer: In terms of function, sentences can be classified into the following four types. 1. Declarative sentence, e.g. Mary got marr