高级英语第二册修辞汇总
1. It is easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an
ugly smart girl beautiful. (antithesis)
2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire
brigade. (simile)
3. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied
rush of Jews. (transferred epithet)
4. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (synecdoche)
5. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (simile)
6. After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers,
their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical”
gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center. (metonymy)
7. The conversation was on wings. (metaphor)
8. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative
ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a
powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (antithesis)
9. But we shall not always expect … to remember that, in the past,
those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended
up inside.(metaphor)
10. Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and
the stars and the constellations of outer space. (hyperbole)
11. Greenwich Village set the pattern.(metonymy)
12. Naturally, the spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high
military adventure were soon dissipated once the eager young men had
received a good taste of twentieth century warfare. (metaphor)
13. The hurricane tore three large cargo ships from their moorings and
beached them. (personification)
14. The hurricane seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped
it 3 miles away. (personification)
15. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their
way slowly across the fields. (simile)
16. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (metaphor)
17. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save
the few who are rich. (antithesis)
18. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of
hostile powers. (metaphor)
19. …yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that
stays the hand of mankind’s final war. (synecdoche)
20. I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. (transferred
epithet)
21. …, an attempt to treat the worker and employee like a machine which runs better when it is well oiled. (simile)
22. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections
to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young. (transferred
epithet)
23. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.
(simile)
24. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s
English slips and slides in conversation. (alliteration & simile)
25. Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation had suffered no
real disillusionment or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners
of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion. (metaphor)
26. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country. (antithesis)
27. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain
the master of its own house. (metaphor)
28. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the
Victorian social structure. (metaphor)
29. 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)
30. …, and blowndown power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads. (simile)
31. …, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding
up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.
(onomatopoeia)
32. No one has any idea where the conversation will go as it meanders or
leaps and sparkles or just glows. (metaphor)
33. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe
alike, ...(alliteration)
34. that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born
in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter
peace, ...(parallelism)
35. One more chance, I decided. But just one more. There is a limit to
what flesh and blood can bear. (synecdoche)
36. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s
scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. (simile & hyperbole)
37. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s
frontier. (metaphor)
38. Before long the movement had become officially recognized by the
pulpit (which denounced it). (metonymy)
39. So let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not
a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. (antithesis)
