問題詳情

When we speak of a poem’s tone, we make a metaphor, speaking of a poem as if it were aperson and voiced its own words.It can help, when studying tone in poetry, to try out the analogy of poems-as-people. If wesometimes misunderstand tone in poems, it is also true that we can misunderstand personal tones ofvoices, even when we have body and pitch, gesture and eyebrows to help us understand. In everydaylife, we interpret people’s tones every hour of the day, without noticing that we do it.When we are offended by someone, or when we are touched or pleased, it is often the tone thatdoes the offending or the pleasing.Perhaps, after dinner one night, someone says “I’ll do the dishes.” These four words, dependingon their tone, could mean a great many things. They could mean “I want to do the dishes becauseyou look so tired and I am always happy to do something for you,” or they could mean “I’m about toask a favor,” or “I’ll get points this way.” Or they could mean “when you wash the dishes, theynever get clean.”We receive signals through gestures and through words, and we respond in kind; wecommunicate by tones.
27. The primary purpose of the passage is to _______________.
(A) describe tones in poems
(B) show how tones affect word meaning
(C) illustrate the difference between prose and poetry
(D) illustrate how gestures are interpreted

參考答案

答案：B
難度：簡單0.888889
統計：A(0),B(8),C(1),D(0),E(0)

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