[填空题] When understatement is employed by using downtoners, it is also called ______.

1、[单选题]When a metaphor has been so often used and becomes standardized as a way of referring to something, it is called a dead metaphor since it has become______________

• A、lifeless
• B、lost its figurative strength
• C、can no longer arouse the audience to think of the original meaning in connection with the new meaning
• D、All the above

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2、[单选题]By accuracy we mean the words and sentence patterns chosen to express one’s ideas,feelings and intentions should be both__________

• A、grammatically correct and contextually proper
• B、grammatically proper and contextually correct
• C、suit one’s age and position
• D、suit the sentence and words

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3、[单选题]“Little does he knew how much suffering he has caused” uses the figure of ( )

• A、hyperbole
• B、understatement
• C、inversion
• D、satire

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4、[单选题]Repetition in writing can be divided into _______ repetition and intermittent repetition.

• A、immediate
• B、indirect
• C、mediate
• D、logical

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5、[单选题]I.A.Richards considered the ( ) playing a dominant role in rhetoric.

• A、Repetition
• B、Metonymy
• C、Metaphor
• D、Understatement

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