高级英语第一册修辞(1-9课)

高级英语1------常考修辞手法总结1.Simile 明喻明喻是将具有共性的不同事物作对比，这种共性存在于人们的心里,而不是事物的自然属性。

标志词常用like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等。

例如:1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud.3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.2.Metaphor 隐喻，暗喻隐喻是简缩了的明喻,是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物,通过比较形成.例如：1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.3.Metonymy 借喻,转喻借喻不直接说出所要说的事物,而使用另一个与之相关的事物名称.I.以容器代替内容,例如:1>.The kettle boils. 水开了.2>.The room sat silent. 全屋人安静地坐着.II.以资料.工具代替事物的名称,例如:Lend me your ears, please. 请听我说.III.以作者代替作品,例如:a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亚全集VI.以具体事物代替抽象概念,例如:I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力气,他们就用我的力气赚钱.4.Synecdoche 提喻提喻用部分代替全体,或用全体代替部分,或特殊代替一般.例如:1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory.(部分代整体)他的厂里约有100名工人.2>.He is the Newton of this century.(特殊代一般)他是本世纪的牛顿.3>.The fox goes very well with your cap.（整体代部分）这狐皮围脖与你的帽子很相配.5.Synaesthesia 通感,联觉,移觉这种修辞法是以视.听.触.嗅.味等感觉直接描写事物.通感就是把不同感官的感觉沟通起来，借联想引起感觉转移，“以感觉写感觉”。

高级英语第一册所有修辞方法及例子总结第一篇：高级英语第一册所有修辞方法及例子总结Personification:1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.life dealt him profound personal tragedies...the river had acquainted him with......to literature's enduring gratitude......an entry that will determine his course forever...Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.Hyperbole Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to emphasize a point, to create humor, or to achieve some similar effects1)...takes you...hundreds even thousands of years2)innumerable lamps3)with the dust of centuries4)…5)...cruise through eternal boyhood and...endless summer of freedom...6)America laughed with him.7).The trial that rocked the world8)His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.9)Now I was involved in a trial reported the world over.Onomatopoeia:1)creak, squeak, rumble, grunt, sigh, groan, etc.tinkling, banging, clashing2).its anking, heel icking3)appreciative chuckle4)clucked his tongueMetaphor1)2)3)4)5)I had a lump in my throat At last this intermezzo came to an end...I was again crushed by the thought..hen the meaning...sank in, jolting me outof my sad reverie little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers...struggle between kimono and the miniskirtlittle old Japan----traditional floating houses6)I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impactHiroshima----people of Hiroshima, especially those who suffered from the A-bomb(keep her thoughts under control)E.g.1)Whether for him, the arch 3)The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except and racial domination.a.his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.(give sb.an angry and quick glare)b.The words spat forth with sudden savagery.(the detective said the words suddenly and savagely.)c.Her tone...withered...(become shorter from her frightening voice)d....self-assurance...flickered...(hesitate;move with a quick wavering light emotion)e.The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.1)f.Her voice was a whiplash.i.(a heavy blow)2)g.eyes bored into himi.(look at him pointedly or sharply)3)h.I’ll spell it out.a)(explain or speak outfrankly and in detail)4)1.Mark Twain---Mirror of America5)2.Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruisethrough eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.6)3.The geographic core, in Twain's early years was the great valley of the MississippiRiver , main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart.7)4.The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied — acosmos.8)Cast of characters: people of various sorts;cosmos: a place where one can find all sortsof characters9)5.Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, butits flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as will.10)current: stream, here not a good choice for the verb teem.11)6.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever inNevada 's Washoe region.12)Succumbed…to: gave way to(yielded to, submitted to)the gold and silver rushprevailing in that area.13)7.For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and thepersistent, and was rebuffed.Flirted…wealth: did not try hard or persistently enough to get the colossal wealth…14)15)16)17)18)19)20)21)22)23)24)25)26)27)28)29)30)31)32)33)34)failed 8.From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.6.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada 's Washoe region.Succumbed…to: gave way to(yielded to, submitted to)the gold and silver rush prevailing in that area.7.For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.Flirted…wealth: did not try hard or persistently enough to get the colossal wealth…failed Digging …fame: working hard to gain regional fameMark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.Honed: sharpened/exercised.It is not suitable to say “sharpen one's muscles”.saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United StatesAll would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...(submarine comes back to the surface, here reappear)When railroads began drying up the demand......took unholy verbal shots...my case would snowball into...our town...had taken on a circus atmosphere.The street...sprouted with...He thundered inhis sonorous organ tones.… had not scorched the infidels...…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…The case had erupted on my head.Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a …But although Malone had won the oratorical duel with Bryan.Then the court broke into a storm of applause that …He accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death …Irony: a figure of speech in which the meaning literally expressed is the opposite of the meaning intended and which aims at ridicule, humor or sarcasm.1)Hiroshima---the Liveliest City in Japan2)marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th centuryAnti-climax : the sudden appearance of an absurd or trivial idea following a serious significant ideas and suspensions.This device is usu.aimed at creating comic or humorous effects.1)a town known throughout the world for its---oystersParallelismthe repetition of sounds, meanings and structures serve to order, emphasize, and point out relationsϒϒϒϒ(1)The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies...(2)the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector(3)We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air.(4)are still primordial human joys, where maidens laugh and children play.ϒ(5)Let us...Let us...ϒ(6)He hopes...He hopes(7)Behind all this glare, behind all this stormLitotes(double negative)(语轻意重法,间接肯定法)a)A negative before another word to indicate a strong affirmative in the oppositedirection.b).Sarcasm1)ah, yes, for there are times when all pray2)There is some doubt about that.3)His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout theworld.Alliteration（头韵）repetition of vowel sound1)2)3)4)its anking, heel ickingRhetorical question1)E.g.… but can you doubt what our policy will be?Assonance e.g.when bigots lighted faggots to burn...Repetition –Antithesis(两个结构相似但是意思相反的平行从句便是对偶句)1)E.g.Anyman or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid.Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.(E.g.The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man a sword.)2)From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.3)...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...4)...a world which will lament them a day and forget them foreverSimilea)b)c)d)e)I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding...a memory that seemed phonographic...swept the arena like a prairie fire...a palm fan like a sword...The oratorical storm … blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a freshwind …Periodic sentence(圆周句)Periodic sentences achieve forcefulness by suspense.The essential elements in the sentence are withheld until the end.松散句把主要意思放在次要意思之前，先说最重要的事情，因而读者在看到最初的几个词后就知道这句话的意思。

Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille1.We can battle down and ride it out. (metaphor)2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. (metaphor)3.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi. (metaphor)4.and the group heard gun-like reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated. Water rose above their ankles. (simile)5.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (simile)6.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (simile)7.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads. (simile)8. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (personification)9.Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. (transferred epithet)10. "Everybody out the back door to the cars!" John yelled. (elliptical)Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the “Liveliest” City in Japan1. “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. (anticlimax)2. …as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop... (all iteration)3. …where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony. (parallelism, transferred epithet)4. At last this intermezzo came to an end… (metaphor)5. This way I look at them and congratulate myself of the good fortune that my illness has brought me. (irony)6. Each day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird, and add it to the others. (euphemism)7. Hiroshima—the “liveliest” [pun]City in Japan(irony)8. I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me. (alliteration)9. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt (synecdoche, metonymy)10. There were fresh bows, and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated. (synecdoche)11. Was I not at the scene of the crime? (rhetorical question)12. Because I had a lump in my throat…. (metaphor)13. Whose door popped open at the very sight of a traveler. (onomatopoeia)14.No one talks about it any more, and no one wants to, especially the people who we re born here or who lived through it. (climax)Lesson 3 Blackmail1.As a result the nerves of both duke and duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded. (metaphor)2. His wife shot him a swift, warning glance. (metaphor)3. You drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady friend.(euphemism)4. The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.(metaphor)5. In what conceivable way does our car concern you? (rhetorical question)6. Her voice was a whiplash. (metaphor)7. The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. (transferred epithet)8. Two high points of color appeared in the paleness of the Duchess of Croydon’s cheeks. (transferred epithet)9. The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. (onomatopoeia)10. Eyes bored into him. (metaphor)Lesson 4 A Trial that Rocked the World1) The trial that rocked the world (hyperbole)2) Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder (transferred epithet)3) The case had erupted round my head (synecdoche)4) Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted (ridicule)5) and it is a mighty strong combination (sarcasm)6) until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century (irony)7) There is some doubt about that. (sarcasm)8) No one, ... that may case would snowball into...(metaphor)9) The streets around the three-storey red brick law court sprouted with rickety stands selling hot… (metaphor)10) Resolutely he strode to the stand, [carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies]. (ridicule, simile)11) Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence. (ridicule)12) Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a “victorious defeat” (oxymoron)13) ...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere. (metaphor)14) He thundered in his sonorous organ tones. (metaphor)15）...champion had not scorched the infidels... (metaphor)16）…after the preliminary sparring over legalities… (metaphor)17)Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a … n. (metaphor)18)Then the court broke into a storm of applause that … (metaphor)19）...swept the arena like a prairie fire (simile)20)The oratorical storm … blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind (simile )21)...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers... (Metonymy)22) The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below. (Metonymy)23)His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world. (Hyperbole)24)The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below. (antithesis)25)when bigots lighted faggots to burn... (Consonance)26) There is never a duel with the truth," he roared. "The truth always wins -- and we are not afraid of it. The truth does not need Mr. Bryan. The truth is eternal. (Repetition)27)Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. (transferred epithet)28)Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a pr airie fire.(Alliteration)29) DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE(pun)Lesson 5 The Libido for the Ugly1. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity (metaphor, transferred epithet, antithesis)2. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination--and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. (Antithesis, Repetition, hyperbole)3. There was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the age. (synecdoche)4. There was not a single decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh to the Greensburg yards. There was not one that was misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby. (Understatement; Litotes)5. The country is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills. (Litotes, Overstatement)6. They would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. (personification)7. On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. (Metaphor)8. And one and all they are streaked in grim, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. (Metaphor)9. When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of a fried egg. When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. (Metaphor, ridicule)10. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. (Irony, sarcasm)11. N.J. and Newport News, Va.Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy… (Metonymy)12. But in the American village and small town the pull is always towards ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion. (Ridicule)13. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. (Irony)14. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be positive libido for the ugly, as on the other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. (Antithesis) 15. The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for the dogmatic theology and the poetry of Edgar A.Guest. (Metaphor)16. And some of them are appreciably better. (Sarcasm)17. They let it mellow into its present shocking depravity. (Metaphor; sarcasm)18. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. (Metaphor)19. The boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth. (hyperbole)20. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness of every house in sight. (hyperbole)21. A steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line. (simile, ridicule)22. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense of dinity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. (sarcasm)23. By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery. (simile)24. They have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by a mortal eye. (hyperbole)25. They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. (sarcasm)26. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. (hyperbole and irony)27. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them. (sarcasm)28. In precisely the same way the authors of the rat-trap stadium that I have mentioned made a deliberate choice. (metaphor)29. They made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a starting yellow, on top of it. (ridicule)30. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. (metaphor)31. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning. (metaphor)32. This they have converted into a thing… low-pitched roof. (inversion)33. But nowhere on this earth, at home or abroad, have I seen anything to compare to thevillage(inversion)34. coal and steel town(synecdoche)35. boy and man(synecdoche)36. Was it necessary to adopt that shocking color? (rhetorical question)37. Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners – dull, insensate brutes, with no love of beauty in them? (rhetorical question)38. a crazy little church. (transferred epithet)39. a bare leprous hill (transferred epithet)40. preposterous brick piers (transferred epithet)41. uremic yellow (transferred epithet)42. the obscene humor (transferred epithet)Lesson 6 Mark Twain --- Mirror of America1)saw clearly ahead a black wall of night... (Metaphor)2)main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart(Metaphor)3)All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up... (Metaphor)4)When railroads began drying up the demand... (Metaphor)5)...the epidemic of gold and silver fever... (Metaphor)6)Twain began digging his way to regional fame... Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles... (Metaphor)7)Most American remember M. T. as the father of... ...a memory that seemed phonographic(Simile)8) America laughed with him. (Hyperbole, personification)9)...to literature's enduring gratitude...(Personification)10)the grave world smiles as usual... (Personification)11) Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh (Personification)12)America laughed with him. (Personification)13)...between what people claim to be and what they really are… (Antithesis)14)...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever(Antithesis)15)… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. (Euphemism)16)...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home(Alliteration)17)...with a dash and daring... ...a recklessness of cost or consequences...(Alliteration)18)...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe (Metonymy)19)For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed. (metaphor)20)From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.(metaphor)21)He boarded the stagecoach for San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writers. (metaphor)22)he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles (euphemism)23) ...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land... (metaphor, antithesis)24)Most Americans remember ... the father of [Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.](parallelism, hyperbole)25)The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied --a cosmos (hyperbole)26) the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States(metaphor)27) Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam(metaphor)28) Twain began digging his way to regional fame... (metaphor)29) life dealt him profound personal tragedies... (personification)30) the river had acquainted him with ... (personification)31) ...an entry that will determine his course forever... (personification)32) Personal tragedy haunted his entire life. (personification)33)Keelboats, ...carried the first major commerce (synecdoche)Lesson 7 Everyday Use for your grandmamma1. “Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s”. Wangero said, laughing. (irony)2. “Mama,” Wangero said sweet as a bird. “can I have these old quilts?” (simile)3. …showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse…(metaphor)4. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …(metaphor)5. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (hyperbole)6. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. (simile)7. Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? (metaphor)8. I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. (hyperbole)9. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. (simile)10. It is like an extended living room. (simile)11. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue. (assonance)12. My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. (simile)13. She gasped like a bee had stung her. (simile)14. You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. (metaphor)15. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? (rhetorical question)。

Unit 1 Middle Eastern Bazaar1. Onomatopoeia: is the formation of words in imitation o the sounds associated with the thing concerned.e.g. 1) tinkling bells (Para. 1)2) the squeaking and rumbling (Para. 9)2. Metaphor: is the use of a word or phrase which describes one thing by stating another comparable thing without using “as” or “like”.e.g. 1) the heat and glare of a big open square (Para. 1)2) …in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar (Para. 7)3. alliteration: is the use of several words in close proximity beginning with the same letter or letters.e.g. 1) …thread their way among the throngs of people (Para. 1)2)…make a point of protesting4. Hyperbole: is the use of a form of words to make sth sound big, small, loud and so on by saying that it is like something even bigger, smaller, louder, etc.e.g. a tiny restaurant (Para. 7)a flood of glistening linseed oil (Para. 9)5．Antithesis: is the setting, often in parallel structure, of contrasting words or phrases opposite each other for emphasis.e.g. 1) …a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire with a huge leatherbellows…(Para. 5)2) …which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camels and their stonewheels. (Para. 5)6. Personification: a figure of speech in which inanimate objects are endowed withhuman qualities or are represented as possessing human form.e.g. 1)…as the burnished copper catches the light of …(Para.5)2) Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beamsinks earthwards, taut and protesting, its creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding-wheels and the occasional grunts and sighs of the camels. (Para.9)练习题：1. … little stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold. (hyperbole)2. The machine was operated by one man, who shovels the linseed pulp into a stone vat, climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes,… (transferred epithet)3. It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes…. (personification)4. Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way… (onomatopoeia)5. The dye-market ,the pottery-market ,and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. ( )6. Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a mosque or a caravanserai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay, while… ( )Unit 2Metaphor: 暗喻A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.暗喻是一种修辞，通常用指某物的词或词组来指代他物，从而暗示二者之间的相似之处。

U n i t1M i d d l e E a s t e r n B a z a a r 1. Onomatopoeia拟声法: is the formation of words in imitation or the sounds associated with the thing concerned.e.g. 1 Little monkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells threadtheir way among the throngs of people Para. 12 the squeaking and rumbling Para. 92. Metaphor隐喻: is the use of a word or phrase which describes onee.g. 1 the heat and glare of a big open square Para. 12…until you rounded a corner and see a fairlyland of dancing flashes….3…in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar Para. 73. alliteration头韵: is the use of several words in close proximity beginning with the same letter or letters.e.g. 1 …thread their way among the throngs of people Para. 1 2…the sellers; on the other hand; make a point of protesting 4. Hyperbole夸张: is the use of a form of words to make sth sound big; small; loud and so on by saying that it is like something even bigger; smaller; louder; etc.e.g.or sit in a tiny restaurant with porters and…Para. 7quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil Para. 95．Antithesis对偶: is the setting; often in parallel structure; of contrasting words or phrases opposite each other for emphasis.e.g. 1 …a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire with a hugeleather bellows…Para. 52 …which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camelsand their stone wheels. Para. 96. Personification: a figure of speech in which inanimate objectsare endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.e.g. …as the burnished copper catches the light of …Para.57. Assonance尾韵e.g. 1… the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding wheels….Unit 21.Metaphor: 暗喻A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another; thus making an implicit comparison.暗喻是一种修辞;通常用指某物的词或词组来指代他物;从而暗示二者之间的相似之处..1. And secondly; because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sadthoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say.2. …I was again crushed by the thought…Page 13; Para. 4; Line 13. …At last the intermezzo came to an end and…Page 13; Para. 4; Line 14. ...when the meaning of these last words sank in;jolting me (15)P. 7; Lines 1~32. alliteration头韵: is the use of several words in close proximity beginning with the same letter or letters.e.g. 1the fast train in the world slipped to a stop….2I feel sick;; and ever since then they have been testing and treating me….3. rhetorical question 反诘句e.g. 1 Was I not at the scene of the crime4. Synecdoche: 提喻A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole a hand for sailor ; the whole for a part as the law for police officer ; the specific for the general as cutthroat for assassin ; the general for the specific as thief for pickpocket ; or the material for the thing from which it is made as steel for sword .举隅法;提喻法：一种修辞方法;以局部代表整体如用手代表水手 ;以整体代表局部如用法律代表警官 ;以特殊代表一般如用直柄剃刀代表杀人者 ;以一般代表特殊如用贼代表扒手 ;或用原材料代表用该材料制造的东西如用钢代表剑e.g.1 The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt. Para. 7l ittle old Japan: traditional Japanese houses2 There were fresh bows; and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .synecdoche5. Metonymy: 换喻A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; as in the use of “Washington” for “the United States government” or of“the sword” for “military power”.换喻;转喻：一种一个词或词组被另一个与之有紧密联系的词或词组替换的修辞方法;如用“华盛顿”代替“美政府”或用“剑”代替“军事力量”The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt. Para. 7the kimono and the miniskirt: the Japanese culture and the western culture6. Irony：反语The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning to achieve the humorous and ironic effect.反语：正话反说或反话正说以达到幽默和讽刺的效果..e.g. 1This way I look at them and congratulate myself on the good fortune that my illness has brought me. P. 177. Sarcasm讽刺Sarcasm is an expression or cutting remark clearly meaning the opposite to what is felt.e.g. 1Hiroshima—the “liveliest” City in Japan2If you want to write this city; do not forget to say that this city is the gayest city in Japan; even if…8. Euphemism 委婉语Speak with good words 把话说得好听些;婉转些;使听者感到愉快..e.g. 1Each day that I escape death; each day of suffering that helpsto free me from earthly cares….指尘世的生活现在的痛苦9. Climax: 层进法/渐升A series of statements or ideas in an ascending order of rhetorical force or intensity.层进法：在不断增强的修辞力度或强度中使用的一系列陈述和方法e.g. 1No one talks about it any more; and no one wants to; especially the people who were born here or who lived through it. page 15~16;Para. 12; Lines 1~3从没人提它了;到不想提它了;再进为更不想提它了10. Anti-climax: 渐降Anti-climax; as used in the text; states one’s thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity from strong to weak; from weighty to light. It has achieved a humorous or surprised or even a sarcastic effect when the mayor was introducing his city to the visitors; who were expecting his answer to have something to do with the atom bomb; but who ironically heard “oysters” in the end.渐降表述概念的方式是使意义强烈的语言按照步步降低的语气顺序排列;语势由强而弱;语气由重到轻;有此达到取笑、讽刺或是喜剧的效果..e.g. 1 seldom has a city gained such world renown提到广岛的名气;首先想到的是原子弹and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima; a town known throughout the world forits—oysters.”p.1511. Simile 明喻is an expression making a comparison in the imagination between two things using the words as or likee.g. Serious looking men spoke to one another as if they were oblivious of the crowds about them…Unit 3 Ships in the Desert1．Personification拟人e.g. 1 Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the side of the ship; there was nothing but hot dry sand. Para. 12 With the sun glaring at midnight through a hole in the sky. 2．Hyperbolee.g. the population explosion Para. 53．Metaphor1)another ghostly image Para. 62)What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky Para. 83)A sudden and starting surge in human population.4．Metonymy转喻1)the relationship between the two superpowers Para. 232)…in a small tent pitched on a 12-foot slab厚板 of ice floatingin the frigid Arctic Ocean….5. Analogy 类比1…witness humankind’s assault on the earth…2 The strategic nature of the threat now posed by human civilization to the global environment and the strategic nature of the threat to human civilization ….Para26Unit 5 Speech on Hitler’1. Rhetorical question interrogationInterrogation asks a question not in order to obtain an answer; butfor the purpose of making an assertion in a striking and lively way.E.g. …but can you doubt what our policy will be3. parallel structure1)We will never parleyWe will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gangp.802)we shall fight him by landwe shall fight him by seawe shall fight him in the air. p.803)behind all this glarebehind all this storm I see…p.804)I see the Russian soldiers standing…I see them guarding…I see the ten thousand villages…I see advancing upon…p.795 The past; with its crimes; its follies; and its tragedies; flashes away.6 Pray…for the safety of their loved ones; the return of the bread-winner; of their champion; of their protector.4. InversionA change in normal word order; such as the placement of a verb before its subjecta From this nothing will turn us—nothing P. 805. RepetitionThe repeated use of the same synonymous words; to add force; clearness or balance to a sentenceWe have but one aim and one single; irrevocable purpose. p.78He has so long thrived and prospered. p.81We will never parley; we will never negotiate…p.806. simileA figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared; often in a phrase introduced by like or as; as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” Shakespeare.明喻：一种修辞手法;把两种基本不相像的东西进行比较;通常在由like 或 as 引导的短1 the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawlinglocusts.p79-802 The Russian danger is therefore our danger; and the danger ofthe USA;just as the cause of any Russian fighting for…..7. metaphorA figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another; thus making an implicit comparison.暗喻是一种修辞;通常用指某物的词或词组来指代他物;从而暗示二者之间的相似之处..a I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land…threshold refers to the threshold of their nation. p.79b Behind all this glare; behind all this storm; I see that small group of … p.80Glare: a fierce or angry stare; Here it refers to war fire. Storm: strong wind and rain; Here it refers to war or Hitler’s assault on the other countries.c …delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a saferprey the Russian soldiers. p.80d I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes. Page 77; Para. 1;the last sentencee We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Naziregime. Page80; Para. 3; Lines 6~8f we have rid the earth of his shadow influence and liberated itspeoples from his yokecontrol. p.808. alliterationThe repetition of the same consonant sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables; as in 头韵：在一组词的开头或重读音节中对相同辅音或不同元音的重复..如：1 Hearth and home p.822 I also see the dull; drilled; docil e; brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.p.793Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. p.829. PersonificationA figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human formI see the German bombers and fighters in the sky; still smarting from many a British whipping; delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey. p.79-8010. hyperboleA figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effec t; as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. 夸张法：一种比喻;使用夸张来强调或产生某种效果;比如在我能睡一年或这书有一吨重中1 If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. Hitler is much eviler than the devil. p.7811. Onomatopoeia拟声1…with its clanking; heel clicking; dandified….12. Antithesis 对偶1Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.13. Collusion典故1 I asked whether for him; the arch anti—communist; this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon14.Syllogism三段论推理Unit 9 Mark Twain—Mirror of America1. Simile: Please refer to Lesson2.e.g. 1 Indeed; this nation’s best-loved author was every bit asadventurous; patriotic; romantic; and humorous as anyonehas ever imagined. Para. 12 Tom’s mischievous daring; ingenuity; and the sweetinnocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almostas sure to be studied in American schools today as is theDeclaration of Independence. Para. 153Most American remember M. T. as the father of.... 4 ..a memory that seemed phonographic2. Metaphore.g. 1 …who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. Para. 12 …main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart.Para. 3.the epidemic of gold and silver fever...4. Mark Twain --- Mirror of AmericaTwain began digging his way to regional fame...Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscle s...3. Sarcasm: it is a figure of speech which attacks in a tauntingand bitter manner; and its aim is to disparage; ridiculeand wound the feelings of the subject attacked. It is mostoften restricted to the making of brief; unpleasant remarksthat are motivated by hostility and contempt.e.g. 1…I knew more about retreating than the man that inventedretreating. Para. 62 …one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler manin a night. Para. 134. Alliteration头韵.e.g. It was a splendid population –for all the slow; sleepy;sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.It was that population…and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost orconsequences”5. Antithesis对偶e.g. 1…of the difference between what people claim to be and whatthey really are. Para. 52…a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.3 It was a splengded population—for all the slow; sleepy;sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home…...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...6. euphemisme.g. 1 He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band ofConfiderate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact withthe enemy.2 he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s finalrelease from earthly struggles3 they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence..7. metonymy转喻e.g. …but for making money; his pen would prove mightier than hispickax.8.personification.The grave world smiles as usually and says….9.Transferred epithet 转移修饰语e.g. He had to leave the city for a while because of some scathingcolumns he wrote.10. Hyperbole:...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of free dom...Parallelism:Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finn's idyllic c ruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer o f freedom and adventure.SynecdocheKeelboats;...carried the first major commerceUnit 10 The Trial that Rocked the World1. Metaphor:No one;... that may case would snowball into...The oratorical storm that…....our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.The street ...sprouted with ...He thundered in his sonorous organ tones....champion had not scorched the infidels...…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…2. Simile:...swept the arena like a prairie fire...a palm fan like a sword...3. Metonymy...tomorrow the magazines; the books; the newspapers...The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below. 4. Hyperbole:The trial that rocked the worldHis reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.overstatement5. Ridicule丑化Bryan; ageing and paunchy; was assisted ...….and it is a mighty strong combinationBryan mopped his bald dome in silence.Resolutely he strode to the stand; carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies.6. Sarcasm讽刺:There is some doubt about that.And it is a mighty strong combination.In one hand he brandished a biology text text as he denounced the scientists who had come to Dayton to testify for the defence.7. Transferred epithetDarrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder. Darrow walked slowly round the baking court.8. AntithesisThe Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.9. Assonance:when bigots lighted faggots to burn...10. Repetition:The truth always wins...the truth...the truth...11. synecdoche提喻1 the case had erupted round my head12. oxymoron 矛盾修饰法Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a ; “victorious defeat”p of a rope; the hiss of sudden spray.13 .Irony：反语The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning to achieve the humorous and ironic effect.反语：正话反说或反话正说以达到幽默和讽刺的效果..e.g. Until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16thcentury.14. Pun 双关Darwin Is Right—inside15.synaesthesia 通感“Mama”Wangero said sweet as a bird…..。

1.明喻simileSimilereferstoadirectcomparisonbetweentwoormorethings,normallyintroducedbylikeoras. Hehasbeenasdrunkasafiddler ’sbitch.他醉得像小提琴手的母狗。

他曾喝得酊名大醉/烂醉如泥。

IfWehaven ’tgotanymoney,wecan’tbuyItatelevision’asplain.asthenoseonyourface.1.如果我们没有钱，就不能买电视机。

这就像脸上的鼻子一样清楚明了。

没有钱我们就不能买电视机。

这就像秃子头上的虱子——明摆着的事。

Mr.Smithmayserveasagoodsecretary,forheisascloseasanoyster.史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他嘴巴紧得像牦蛎.史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他守口如瓶。

Iseealsothedull,drilled,docile,brutishmassesoftheHunsoldieryploddingonlikeaswarmofcraw linglocusts.2.隐喻metaphorMetaphorisanimpliedcomparisonbetweentwoormorethingsachievedbyidentifyingonewiththeother.Thatladytriestomakesheep’seyesathernewboss.那位女士想向新老板投去绵羊之眼。

那位女士想向新老板献媚。

Littledonkeyswithharmoniouslytinklingbellsthreadtheirwayamongthethrongsofpeopleenteringandleavingthebazaar.Itgrowslouderandmoredistinct,untilyouroundacornerandseeafairylandofdancingflashes,astheburnishedcoppercatchesthelightofinnumerablelampsandbraziers.Thedye-market,thepottery-market,’marketlieelsewhereinthemazeofandthecarpentersvaultedstreetswhichhoneycombthisbazaar.Itisavast,sombercavernofaroom,somethirtyfeethighandsixtyfeetsquare,andsothickwiththedu stofcenturiesthatthemudbrickroofareonlydimlyvisible.Churchill,herevertedtothistheme,andIaskedwhetherforhim,thearchanti-communist,thiswasnotbowingdownintheHouseofRimmon.IseetheRussiansoldiersstandingonthethresholdoftheirnativeland,guardin gthefieldswhichtheirfathershavetilledfromtimeimmemorial.IseetheGermanbombersandfightersinthesky,streetsmartingfrommanyaBritishwhippingButallthisfadesawaybeforethespectaclewhichisnowunfolding.tofindwhattheybelieveisaneasierandasaferprey.3.借代metonymyThereisamixtureofthetigerandtheapeinthecharacterofaFrenchman.法国人的性格中混合有老虎和猿的成分。

高级英语第一册修辞（1-9课）Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, synecdoche, anticlimax, metonymy, repetition, exaggeration, euphemism, antonomasia, parody.1) Little monkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar.(metaphor)-----Page1,Lesson1.2) It grows louder and more distinct ,until you round a corner and seea fairyland of dancing flashes ,as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.(metaphor and personification)---------- P2,L1.3) The dye-market ,the pottery-market ,and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar.(metaphor)-----P3,L14) Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a mosque or a caravanserai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay, while… (personification)------P3, L1.5) It is a vast ,somber cavern of a room ,some thirty feet high and sixty feet square , and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly visible.(metaphor)---P4,L16) There were fresh bows, and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .(synecdoche)------P15,L27) “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. (anticlimax)----P15, L2.8) But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been testing and treating me .(alliteration)-----P17, L2.9) Acre by acre, the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef .(alliteration)-----P30,L310) According to our guide ,the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America-which means we are silently thousands of songs we have ever heard .(metonymy)----P31,L3.11) What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky? (metaphor)---P32,L3.12) Have you ever seen a lame animal ,perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car ,sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him?(metaphor)13) And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)----P58, L4.14) I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. (exaggeration)15) After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call himHakim-a-barber.(metaphor)-------P60,L4.16) “Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s”.Wangero said, laughing. (ironic)—P62, L4.17) You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood .(metaphor)----P62,L4.18) “Mama,”Wangero said sweet as a bird. “Can I have these old quilts?” (simile)---P63, L4.19) She gasped like a bee had stung her. (simile)20) Churchill, he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist, this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon.(metaphor)21) If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. (exaggeration)----P79,L5.22) But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding. (metaphor)23）I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts (simile)24）I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.(Metaphor)----P79, L5.25）I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smartingfrom many a British whipping to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.(Metaphor)---P80, L5.26) We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air. (Parallelism)27) Just as the industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks fro m men’s muscles and enormously expanded productivity. (Metonymy) 28) The back door opens to let out the dog .The TV set blinks on with the day’s first newscast: a selective rundown… (Personification)----P115, L7.29) The latter-day Aladdin, still snugly abed, then presses a button on a bedside box and issues a string of business and personal memos. (Antonomasia)30) Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and grocer on the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies for tonight’s dinner party. (Synecdoche)31) The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhance and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians. (Synecdoche)----P116, L7.32) In the microelectronic village, the home will again be the center of society, as it was before the industrial Revolution. (Metaphor)33) T he Device’s ubiquitous eye, sensing where people are at all times, will similarly the lights on an off as needed. (Metaphor)34) Next to health, heart, and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile. (Alliteration, metonymy repetition,)-----P118, L7.35) Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithsonian antique. (Antonomasia)36) For the mighty army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are still around the bend of a silicon circuit. (Parody)----P120, L737) His competitors envisioned the greater potential for entertainment and art, where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven. (Synecdoche)38) Will government regulate messages sent out on this vast data highway? (Metaphor)39) Philips Interactive, for example, has dozens of titles, among them a tour of the Smithsonian, in which the viewer selects which corridor to enter by clicking on the screen. (Antonomasia)40) She says consumers would be a little like information “cowboys,”rounding up data from computer based archives and information services. (Simile)41) To prevent getting trampled by a stampede of data, viewers will rely on programmed electronic selectors that could go out into the info corral and rape in the subjects the viewer wants. (Metaphor)42) Maes and others concede that there’s a dark side to all these bright dreams. (Metaphor)43) And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind: spies who might like to keep tabs on the activities of your electronic butlers? (Parody)----P137, L8.44) Indeed, intelligent agents could be a gold mine of information. (Metaphor)-----P137, L8.23) A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?24) Who ever knew Johnson with a quick tongue?25) Who can ever imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye?26) Why don’t you do a dance around the ashes27) “Why don’t you take one or two of the others?” I asked.(24-28) rhetorical question)29. Metaphor:Mark Twain --- Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night...main artery of transportation in the young nation's heartthe vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United StatesAll would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsamWhen railroads began drying up the demand......the epidemic of gold and silver fever...Twain began digging his way to regional fame...Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles... ...took unholy verbal shots...Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of......a memory that seemed phonographicHyperbole:...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom... The cast of characters... - a cosmos.Parallelism:Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.Personification:life dealt him profound personal tragedies...the river had acquainted him with ......to literature's enduring gratitude......an entry that will determine his course forever...the grave world smiles as usual...Bitterness fed on the man...America laughed with him.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.Antithesis:...between what people claim to be and what they really are.. ...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land......a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever Euphemism:...men's final release from earthly struggleAlliteration:...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home ...with a dash and daring......a recklessness of cost or consequences...Metonymy:...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe Synecdoche1. Keelboats,...carried the first major commerce。

高级英语第一课修辞修辞小结高级英语第一册第一课1．historical present 历史现在时一种特定的修辞手法，使用这种时态是为了使所描写事件显得更为生动、形象、逼真。

Eg: The Middle Eastern bazaar take s you back hundreds----even thousands of years. （动词的一般现在时）2.contrast 作比较形成悬殊的差别Eg: 1).You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see…2). … a vast ramshackle apparatus of beams and ropes and pulleys which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camels and their stone wheels.3．Onomatopoeia 拟声词用对声音特质形象地模拟给予读者生动的听觉感受，使读者如身临其境，亲耳听到一般。

Eg: 1). Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way…2).As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear.3). Ancient girders creak and groan…4). …it’s creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grindingwheels and the occasional grunts and sighs of the camels.4. personification 拟人Eg: 1). The Middle Eastern bazzar takes you back hundreds----even thousands of years.2)…. you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes…3). Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimps of a sunlitcourtyard…4). … camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay…5. transferred epithet 移就使描述更加生动，给人留下深刻印象Eg: The machine is operated by one man, who shovels the linseed pulp into a stone vat, climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes…6. hyperbole 夸张Eg: 1). The Middle Eastern bazzar takes you back hundreds----even thousands of years.2). … little st alls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold.3). …the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.4). … some of them incredibly young----hammering away at copper vessels of all shapes and sizes…5). … some bold and simple, others unbelievably detailed and yet hamonious.6). …a room, some thirty feet high and sixty feet square, and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible.7. metaphor 暗喻Eg: 1). You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the can see…2). It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes…3). The dye-market, the pottery-market and the carpenter s’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar.。