2014夏考浙大远程教育英语写作离线作业(必)答案概要1.doc

浙江大学远程教育学院 《英语写作》课程作业答案（必做） Chapter 2 Diction (措词) List three levels of words and give several examples for each level. Formal words: accommodation, approximately, commence,… Common words: room, abut, start, … Colloquial words: There aint nothin wrong with me. (isnt anything) Hey are you gonna move or what? (going to) What are the denotation and connotation of a word? Denotation: what a word stands for without any emotional associations Connotation: 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 slaughtered/massacred 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. 1) Simile It is a comparison between two distinctly different things and the comparison is indicated by the word as or like. e.g. Her face is like a red apple. 2) Metaphor It is an implied comparison between two distinctly different things and the comparison is NOT indicated by the word as or like. e.g. My life is one long curve, full of turning points. 3) Personification It is to treat a thing or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities. e.g. This time fate was smiling to him. 4) Metonymy It is substituting the name of one thing for that of another, with which it is closely associated. e.g. Have you ever read Shakespeare? 5) Synecdoche When a part is substituted for the whole or the whole is substituted for a part, synecdoche is applied. e.g. The farms were short of hands during the harvest season. 6) Overstatement (hyperbole) and understatement