Love is a fallacy 总结测试(2019)

A. Blank-filling : On Its writing style and language features

Max Shulman had a good style. The story goes forward at a fast pace with racy dialogues full of American ________1____________and slang. He employs a whole varies of writing techniques to make his story vivid. He use _______2________to reveal the conceit of the narrator and _______3_________to illustrate Polly Espys limited intellectual capability. He also use ____4_______profusely and __________5__________for emphasis. The speed of the narration is maintained by the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and _____6____ throughout the story. The combination of all these help to make the story realistic, as one would expect a freshman to talk like that.

Please write your answers down below. 答案格式：（1abc）（2def）

B. In order to create a vivid story, the author adopts various of rhetorical devices in the story. Read the whole story carefully, and try to find sentences (at least one for each) that adopt the following rhetorical devices.

a.Inversion

b.Metaphor

c.Simile

d,Ellipsis

e. Metonymy

f.Antithesis

g. Analogy

h. Understatement/litotes

i.Hyperbole

C.Translate the following sentences into Chinese.

To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it—this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey.

There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

The time had come to change our relationship from academic to romantic.

She was worthy of me at last.

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