高级英语第一册1-9修辞

Lesson 11．"We can batten down and ride it out," he said. (Para. 4)metaphor2 .Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Para. 7) personification3. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.、metaphorsimile4. He held his head between his hands, and silently prayed:“ Get us through this mess, will You”(Para. 17)alliteration5. It seized a 600,000-gallonpersonificationGulfport oil tank and dumped it miles away.6.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. simile 、onomatopoeia( 拟声 )7.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party towatch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.（Para. 20）transferred epithet8 8. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished.（P ara. 20） simile 、 personification9.and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.simileand medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (Para. 31) metaphorLesson 41. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm around my shoulder as we were waiting forthe court to open. (para2)Transferred epithet2. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and football coach at secondary school.(para 3)Synecdoche3.After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century.(para14)Irony4.'' There is some doubt about that'' Darrow snorted.(para 19)Sarcasm5.The Christian believes that man came from above . The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below .(para 20)Antithesis6.Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie.(para 22)Alliteration; Simile7.The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breadth of his oratory as he should have. (Para 22)He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion. (Para 23)The court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that Bryan.Snowball: grow quickly; spar: fight with words; thunder : say angrily and loudly; scorch: thoroughly defeat; duel: life and death struggle; storm of applause: loud applause by manypeople; the oratorical duel ; spring the trump card.Metaphor8. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a ''victorious defeat '' (para 45)A woman whispered loudly as he finished his address Oxymoron9. My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow's hand. Metonymy10. It is not going to be driven out of this court byThe spectators chuckled and Bryan warmed to his work. -- Line 101 Ridicule⋯Carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies.Ridicule11. With a fan blowing on him punLesson 5 The libido for the ugly1 Here was the very heart of industrial America , the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity (line 6)metaphor; transferred epithet2 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 ( 对偶句） Repetition ( line 10)3There was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the age. Synecdoche(提喻） (line 16)4There 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( 曲言） (line 26)5The country is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills .Litotes; Overstatement (line 29)6. They would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.Metaphor (line 36)On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. Metaphor(line 46)And one and all they are streaked in grim, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks.Metaphor (line 49)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.Line 52 Metaphor7I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. Irony (line 60)8. and Newport News , in a Pullman , I have whirled through the gloomy(line67)Metonymy9But 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 (line 88)10 It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. Irony (line 90)11 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.line 91Antithesis 12 The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for the dogmatic theology and the poetry of Edgar .Metaphor13And some of them are appreciably better.Line 109Sarcasm14They let it mellow into its present shocking depravity.Metaphor; sarcasm15The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye.MetaphorLesson 61.Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huch Finn ’s(synecdoche ) idyllic cruisethrough the eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer ’endless summer of freedom and adventure.Hyperbole2. I found another Twain as well synecdoche3. a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead aback wall of night.metaphor4.The geographic core, in Twain ’searly years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, mainartery of transportation in the young nation’sheart.metaphor5.Lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved downstream to the delta country; sugar,molasses, cotton, and whisky traveled north.(antithesis—a cosmos 6. the cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and variedalliteration metaphor7.Steamboats decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but itsflotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well.Metaphor8.For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and persistent,metaphor9.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever inNevada’sWashoe region. metaphor10.From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way toregional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.metaphor11.The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade, but for makingmoney, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.metonymy12.in the spring of 1864, less than two years after joining the Territorial Enterprise, he boardedthe stagecoach for San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writers.metaphor13.Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing(metonymy) muscles⋯ metaphor14.It was a splendid population ——for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stay athome⋯alliteration15.“ Itwas a splendid population ——for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed athome⋯” alliteration16.“ It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises andrushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring (alliteration) and arecklessness of coat or consequences, which when she projects a new surprise,she (synecdoche) bears onto this day ——and the grave world ( transferred epithet)smiles(personification) as usual, and says‘ Well, this is California all over.’”17.Two years later the opportunity came for him to take a distinctly American look at the oldworld.transferred epithet pleasure cruise( metaphor)18.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.personification19.America laughed with him.personification and synecdoche20.Tom Sawyer quickly became a classic tale of American boyhood. (Para. 13) synecdoche21.Tom’ s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and sweet innocence of his affection for⋯ ..(transferred epithet22.Six chapters into Tom Sawyers, he drags in“ the juvenile pariah metaphor⋯.”23.I have tried it, and I don’ t work; it don’ t work, Tom. It ain s’byt aforbell;me ⋯ The widder eatshe goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell — everything’ s so awful reg’ lar body can’ t stand it. alliteration parallelism repetition24.Nine years after Tom Sawyer swept the nation. (metaphor25.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laughed.metaphor26.Now the gloves came off with biting satire. transferred epithet metaphor27.dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair onmen’ s final release from earthly struggles.metaphor28. where the have left no sign that they had existed—a world which will lament them a day andforget them forever.antithesis personificationLesson 11Alliteration1.brittle and brown2.willow and witch hazel3.great green-and-yellow grasshoppers4.the eagle and the elk5.the badger and the bear6.bent and blind7.sad in the sound, syllables of sorrow8.lean and leather9.jest and gesture10.fright and false alarm, fringed and flowered shawls, bright beadwork11.At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. （）不得是哪个充一下12.It was a long journey toward the dawn, and it led to a golden age.（） metaphor13.no longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival; （） metaphor14.I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind’seye, and traveledfifteen hundred miles no begin my pilgrimage. （） metaphor15.Descending eastward, the highland meadows are a stairway to the plain.（） metaphor16.The earth unfolds and the limit of the land recedes. （） metaphor17.going out upon a cane, very slowly as she did when the weight of age came upon her;（）metaphor18.transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room,（） metaphor19.houses are like sentinels in the plain, （） metaphorLesson 13 No Signposts in the Sea ★后中的修辞目1. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women⋯(Para 1 )Metonymy2.in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue ⋯(Para 1 )Metonymy ★3.He says he used to read me⋯ (Para 2 ) Metonymy ★4.Protests about damage to ‘natural beauty ’froze me with contempt. (Para 3) Metaphor5.And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid. (Para 4) Alliteration6.I am gloriously and adolescently silly. (Para 4)Transferred Epithet7.⋯ I want my fill of beauty before I go. (Para 4)Euphemism ★8.The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, issuitable if not seemly for a virgin. (Para 5)Personification★9.Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. (Para 5 )Personification ★10. ...even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the coolsupport of the water⋯(Para 5) Transferred Epithet ★11.It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies，or with no ripples atall but only the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship hasdisturbed it. (Para 6)Metaphor12.The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover ⋯ (Para 6)Metaphor13.⋯no sign of habitation, very blenched and barren. (Para 8)Alliteration★14.What I like best are the ① stern cliff, with ranges of mountains ② soaring behindthem ⋯(Para 8)① Personification② Metaphor15.What plants of the high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys (Para 8)Metonymy16...., like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome. (Para 8) Metaphor17.I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbiddingspots on earth.(Para 12) Hyperbole18. ...but I must say I find it refreshing to think there are still a few odd fish left in the world.(Para 16)Metaphor19. ...follows a ship only to a certain latitude and then turns back⋯(Para 17) Metonymy20.We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. (Para 17)Metaphor21. ...and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle a ll to themselves⋯(Para 18)Metonymy22.This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. (Para 19)Synecdoche23.God, is there no escape from suffering and sin (Para 25)Rhetorical Question24.⋯we wait for it while the① red ball, cut in half as though by a knife, sinks to its daily②doom. (Para 26)① Innuendo ② Metaphor25.Then come the① twilight colours of sea and heaven(⋯suddenly in ② these latitudes,atany tare on sea level), the winepink width of water merging into③ lawns of aquamarine, and the sky ④ a tender palette of pink and blue⋯(Para 26 ) ①Metaphor② Metonymy③M etaphor ★ ④ Metaphor ★26.Now the indolence of southern latitudes has captured me. (Para 33 )Metonymy27.Blue, the colour of peace. (Para 33 )Metaphor28.⋯I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South⋯(Para 33 ) Transferred Epithet★29.And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to ahorseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. (Para 34 )Onomatopoeia ★30.But above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(Para 34 )Transferred Epithet1.Lesson 14 Speech on Hitler ’Invasion of the changed conviction into certainty. (Para 1)Alliteration2.I had not the slightest doubt where our duty and policy lay. (Para 1)Litotes3.I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes. (Para 1)Metaphor4.⋯ I asked whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the House5.If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the Houseof Commons. (Hitler is much eviler than the devil.) (Para 5) Hyperbole6.The Maze regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.(Para 8)Metaphor7.It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty and ferociousaggression. (Para 8)Irony8. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land⋯. (Para 8) Metaphor9.–for the safety of their loved ones, the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, oftheir protector. (Para 8)Innuendo10.I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardlyfrom the soil ⋯ (Para 8)Metaphor11.I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking,heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers,⋯ (Para 8)Metaphor12.I see all the ① dull, drilled, docile, brutish, masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on② like aswarm of crawling locusts. (Para 8)① Alliteration② Simile\Ridicule13.I see the German ① bombers and fighters in the sky, still②smarting from many a British③whipping, ④ delighted to find what they believe is an easier and safer ⑤ prey (theRussian soldiers). (Para8)① Synecdoche② ③ ④ Metaphor\Personification⑤Metaphor14.Behind all this ① glare, behind all this ② storm,I see that small group of villainous menwho plan, organize, and launch this③ cataract of horrors upon mankind⋯ (Para 9)①Metaphor ② Metaphor③ Metaphor15.I have to declare the decision of His Majesty ’sGovernment ⋯ (Para 10) Antonomasia16.–for we must spread out now at once, without a day’sdelay. (Para 10) Repetition17.I have to make the declaration,but can you doubt what our policy will be(Para 10)Rhetorical Question18.We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. (Para 10)Repetition19.We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. (Para 10)Metaphor20.From this nothing will turn us—nothing. (Para 10)Inversion21. We will never parley, we will never negotiate⋯(Para 10)Repetition22.We have rid the earth of his shadow (influence) and liberated its peoples from his yoke(control). (Para 10) Metaphor23.① Any man or state who② marches with Hitler is our foe. (Para 10)① Antithesis② Metaphor24.It follows therefore that we shall⋯.We shall⋯, as we shall faithfully and steadfastly to theend⋯ (Para 10)Parallelism25. But when I spoke ⋯ which have impelled or lured him on his Russian adventure I said therewas one deeper motive behind his outrage. (Para 12)Euphemism26.He wishes to destroy the Russian power ⋯.from the East and hurl it upon this Island, whichhe knows ⋯.of his crimes. (Para 12) ① Metaphor② Synecdoche27.⋯ and that he can overwhelm Great Britain before the Fleet and airpower of the United Statesmay intervene. (Para 12) Synecdoche28.He has so long thrived and prospered. (Para 12)Repetition29.⋯ and that then the ① scene will be clear for the final ② act,⋯(Para 12)①Metaphor② Euphemism30.⋯, just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free menand free peoples in every quarter of the globe. (Para 13)Alliteration31. Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. (Para 13) Alliteration。

Figures of speechSimile(明喻) Metaphor(暗喻) (隐喻) Metonymy(转喻) (借代) Personification（拟人）Euphemism（委婉）Hyperbole（夸张）Contrast（对照）Antithesis（平行对照）Parallelism（平行）Repetition（反复）Oxymoron（矛盾修饰）Irony（反语）Climax（层递）Anticlimax（突降）Onomatopoeia（拟声）Alliteration（头韵）pun（双关）transferred epithet(移就) 一Simile(明喻)Simile：(明喻)It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic (特性)in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other.Simile is a comparison between two different things that resemble each other in at least one way. In formal prose the simile is a device both of art and explanation, comparing an unfamiliar thing to some familiar thing (an object, event, process, etc.) known to the reader.For example,As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.1. Simile通常由三部分构成：本体（tenor or subject）,喻体（vehicle or reference）和比喻词（comparative word or indicator of resemblance）。

Personification:1.The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you...2.dancing flashes3.the beam groan ... and protesting4.where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay,5.life dealt him profound personal tragedies...6.the river had acquainted him with ...7....to literature's enduring gratitude...8....an entry that will determine his course forever...9.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.10.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.HyperboleHyperbole 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)I see the ten thousand villages …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 cl anking, heel cl icking3)appreciative chuckle4)clucked his tongueMetaphor　1)I had a lump in my throat2)At last this intermezzo came to an end...3) I was again crushed by the thought..4)hen the meaning ... sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie5)little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers ...struggle between kimonoand the miniskirtlittle old Japan---- traditional floating houses6)I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact\Hiroshima----people of Hiroshima, especially those who suffered from the A-bomb (keep her thoughts under control) E.g. 1) Whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was riot bowing down in the House of Rimmon2) I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.3) The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racialdomination.4) Still smarting from many a British whipping5) rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yokea. 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 out frankly 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 feverin Nevada '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 colossalwealth…failed14)8. From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his wayto regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.6. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver feverin Nevada 's Washoe region.15)Succumbed…to: gave way to (yielded to, submitted to ) the gold and silver rushprevailing in that area.16)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…failed17)Digging …fame: working hard to gain regional fame18) Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles .Honed: sharpened/exercised. It is not suitable to say "sharpen one's muscles".19)saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...20) the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States21) All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...( submarine comes back to thesurface, here reappear)22) When railroads began drying up the demand...23)...took unholy verbal shots...24)my case would snowball into...25)our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.26) The street ...sprouted with ...27)He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.28)… had not scorched the infidels...29)…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…30) The case had erupted on my head.31) Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a …32) But although Malone had won the oratorical duel with Bryan.33)Then the court broke into a storm of applause that …34) 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 themeaning intended and which aims at ridicule, humor or sarcasm.1)H iroshima---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 serioussignificant 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 relations(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) where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil, but where thereare still primordial human joys, where maidens laugh and children play.(5) Let us... Let us...(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)I had not the slightest doubt where our duty and our policy lay.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) E.g. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses2)its cl anking, heel cl icking3)fighting for his hearth and home4)let us learn the lessonsRhetorical question1) E.g. … but can you doubt what our policy will be?AssonanceI see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like aswarm of crawling locusts.e.g. when bigots lighted faggots to burn...RepetitionE.g. From this nothing will turn us – nothing.1That is our policy and that is our declaration.2 the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector.3 We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose.4 We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.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. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man orstate 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 thedifference 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)I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery ploddingon like a swarm of crawling locusts.b)...a memory that seemed phonographicc)...swept the arena like a prairie fired)...a palm fan like a sword...e)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)。

⾼级英语⼀修辞格归纳《⾼级英语（⼀）》修辞格归纳英语修辞格种类1.⾳韵修辞格(phonological rhetorical devices)⾳韵修辞格是利⽤词语的语⾳特点创造出来的修辞⼿法。

主要包括onomatopoeia、alliteration、assonance（元韵）、consonance（辅韵）等。

2.词义修辞格(semantic rhetorical devices)主要借助语义的联想和语⾔的变化等特点创造出来的修辞⼿法。

主要包括simile, metaphor, allusion（典故）, metonymy, transferred epithet, personification, hyperbole, irony, euphemism, pun, oxymoron, zeugma（轭式修饰法）, contrast 等。

3.句法修辞格(syntactical rhetorical devices)主要是指通过句⼦结构的均衡布局或是突出重点创造出来的修辞⼿法。

这类辞格主要包括repetition, rhetorical question, parallelism, antithesis, apostrophe （顿呼）等。

Anti-climax 渐降、突降法It is the opposite of Climax (渐升、层进法). A climbing down from strong to weak, from most impressive to less impressive. It is often used in humorous writing.1.For God, for American, and for Yale.2.The duties of a solider are to protect his country and peel potatoes.3.O dear!What shall I do?I have lost my beau and lipstick too.4.I love my motherland,I love my people,I love my wife and my son and my daughter,I also love my pretty little dog.幽默风趣讽刺嘲笑出⼈意料Climax 渐升、层进法A figure of speech in which a series of words or ideas is arranged in order of increasing importance.1.We’re low---we’re very low---we’re very very low, as low as low can be.2.The audience smiled, chuckled and finally howled.3.Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed anddigested.4.He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses courageloses all.5.The drunkard smashed the glasses, upturned the table, and hit an old woman.Rhetorical Question 修辞问句Asking a question whose answer is self-evident intended to stir emotions.A question requiring no answer.不需要回答,其答案寓于问句的反⾯, 其作⽤是加强语⽓,表达强烈的感情, 以引起读者或听者深思。

高级英语第1册修辞练习第3版Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences Lesson 1 1.We can batten down and ride it out. (Metaphor ) 2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( Metaphor ) 3.Stay away from the windows. (Elliptical sentence ) 4.--- the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. ( Simile) 5.At 8:30, power failed. (Metaphor ) 6.Everybody out the back door to the cars. (Elliptical sentence ) 7.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ( Simile ) 8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.( 8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor metaphor ) 9.Everybody on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence ) 10.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ( simile ) 11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet though the air. ( personification ) 12…it seized a 600,000600,000-gallon -gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ( personification ) 13.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( simile ) 14.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet ) 15. Up the stairs --- into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence ) 16.The world seemed to be breaking apart. ( Simile ) 17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed. (Metaphor ) 18.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.. (Metaphor ) 19…and blown -down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the road.( simile ) 20…household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (metaphor ) 21.Camille, 21.Camille, meanwhile, meanwhile, meanwhile, had had had raked raked raked its its its way way way northward northward northward across across across Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi, dropped more dropped more than than 28 28 inches of rain into West.( inches of rain into West.( metaphor metaphor ) Lesson2 1 Hiroshima —the ”Liveliest ”City in Japan.—irovy 2 That That must must must be be be what what what the man the man in in the Japanese the Japanese stationmaster ’s uniform uniform shouted,as shouted,as shouted,as the the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.—alliteration 3 And secondly.because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say.—metaphor 4 Was I not at the scene of crime?—rhetorical question 5 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 6 Quite Quite unexpectedly,the unexpectedly,the unexpectedly,the strange strange strange emotion emotion emotion which which which had had had overwhelmed overwhelmed overwhelmed me me me at at at the the the station station returned,and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the slain in one second,where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people had been die in slow agony.—parallelism 7 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 8 There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .—synecdoche 9 “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 10 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 Lesson 3 1 As a result the nerves of both the Duke and “Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.—metaphor 2 In what conceivable way does our car concern you?—rhetorical question 3…and you took a lady friend friend .Leastways,I .Leastways,I guess guess you you you’’d call her that if you you’’re not too fussy.fussy.——euphemism Lesson4 1 The Trial That Rocked the World —hyperbole 2 Seated Seated in in in court,ready court,ready court,ready to to to testify testify testify on on on my my my behalf,were behalf,were behalf,were a a a dozen dozen dozen distinguished distinguished distinguished professors professors professors and and scientists,led by Professor Kirtley Mather of Harvard University.—periodic sentence 3 “Don Don’’t worry,son,we ’ll show them a few tricks,”Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.—transferred epithet 4 After After a a a while,it while,it while,it is is is the the the setting setting setting of of of man man man against against against man man man and and and creed creed creed against against against creed creed creed until until until we we we are are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to to burn burn burn the the the men men men who who who dared dared dared to to to bring bring bring any any any intelligence intelligence intelligence and and and enlightenment enlightenment enlightenment and and and Culture Culture Culture to to to the the human mind.—irony 5 One shop announced:DARWIN IS RIGHT —INSIDE.INSIDE.——pun 6 Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”—”—”—oxymoron oxymoron 7 The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States,bringing States,bringing in in in its its its wake wake wake a a a new new new climate climate climate of of of intellectual intellectual intellectual and and and academic academic academic freedom freedom freedom that that that has has growen with the passing years.—extended metaphor Lesson 6 1Most 1Most Americans Americans Americans remember remember remember Mark Mark Mark Twain Twain Twain as as as the the the father father father of of of Huck Huck Huck Finn Finn ’s s idyllic idyllic idyllic cruise cruise through through eternal eternal eternal boyhood boyhood boyhood and and and Tom Tom Tom Sawyer Sawyer ’s s endless endless endless summer summer summer of of of freedom freedom freedom and and and adventure.adventure.—metaphor ,hyperbole,parallelism 2I found another Twain as well —one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal personal tragedies tragedies tragedies life life life dealt dealt dealt him,a him,a him,a man man man who who who became became became obsessed obsessed obsessed with with with the the the frailties frailties frailties of of of the the the human human race,who waw clearly ahead a black wall of night.—metaphor 3The 3The cast cast cast of of of characters characters characters set set set before before before him him him in in in his his his new new new profession profession profession was was was rich rich rich and and and varied varied —a cosmos.—alliteration metaphor 4He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada ’s Washoe region.simile 5For 5For eight eight eight months months months he he he flirted flirted flirted with with with the the the colossal colossal colossal wealth wealth wealth available available available to to to the the the lucky lucky lucky and and and the the persistent,and was rebuffed.—extended metaphor 6“It was a splendid population —for all the slow,sleepy,sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home..—alliteration 7The grave world smiles as usual,and says …--persification 8..one 8..one could could could set set set a a a trap trap trap anywhere anywhere anywhere and and and catch catch catch a a a dozen dozen dozen abler abler abler men men men in in in a a a night night ”Csually Csually he he debunked debunked revered revered revered artists artists artists and and and art art art treasures,and treasures,and treasures,and took took took unholy unholy unholy verbal verbal verbal shots shots shots at at at the the the Holy Holy Holy nd.—antithesisexaggeration 9Tom ’s mischievous daring,ingenuity,and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher Thatcher are are are almost almost almost as as as sure sure sure to to to be be be studied studied studied in in in American American American schools schools schools today today today as as as is is is the the the Declaration Declaration Declaration of of Independence. –elliptical sentence 10Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world lauth.—persification Metaphor: Mark Twain --- Mirror of America saw clearly ahead a black wall of night... main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up... Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam When 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 phonographic Hyperbole: ..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 struggle Alliteration: ...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 Synecdoche Keelboats,...carried the first major commerce Lesson 14 1 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 2 If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.—exaggeration 3 But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.--metaphor 4 I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(similealliteration 5 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. 6 I I see see see the the the German German German bombers bombers bombers and and and fighters fighters fighters in in in the the the sky sky sky ,street ,street ,street smarting smarting smarting from from from many many many a a a British British whipping to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.(Metaphorpersonification 7 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) 8 I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine,with its clanking,heel-clicking,dandified Prussian officers,its crafty wxpert agents fresh from the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries.—metaphor alliteration 9 Behind Behind all all all this this this glare,behind glare,behind glare,behind all all all this this this storm,I storm,I storm,I see see see that that that small small small group group group of of of villainous villainous villainous men men men who who paln,organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind..—metaphor 10 We shall fight him by land,we shall fight him by sea,we shall fight him in in the the the air,until,with air,until,with God God’’s help.we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated it peoples from is yoke.yoke.——metaphorparallelism sentence 11 It is not for me to speak of the action of the United States,but this I will say:if Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest divergence of aims or slackening of effort in in the the the great great great democracies democracies democracies who who who are are are resolved resolved resolved upon upon upon his his his doom,he doom,he doom,he is is is woefully woefully woefully mistaken.periodic mistaken.periodic sentence 。

⾼级英语第⼀册修辞⼿法总结Lesson 11．"We can batten down and ride it out," he said. (Para. 4) metaphor2 .Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Para. 7) personification 、metaphor3. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (Para.11) simile4. He held his head between his hands, and silently prayed: “Get us through this mess, will You?”(Para. 17) alliteration5. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. (Para.19) personification6. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. (Para.19) simile、onomatopoeia(拟声)7. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. （Para. 20）transferred epithet8 8. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished.（Para. 20）simile、personification9. and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.(Para.28)simile10.household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (Para. 31) metaphorLesson 41. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm around my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. (para2) Transferred epithet2. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and football coach at secondary school.(para 3) Synecdoche3. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century.(para14) Irony4. '' There is some doubt about that '' Darrow snorted.(para 19) Sarcasm5. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.(para 20) Antithesis6. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie.(para 22) Alliteration; Simile7. The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breadth of his oratory as he should have. (Para 22)He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion. (Para 23)The court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that Bryan.Snowball:grow quickly; spar: fight with words; thunder: say angrily and loudly; scorch: thoroughly defeat; duel: life and death struggle; storm of applause: loud applause by many people; the oratorical duel; spring the trump card.Metaphor8. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a '' victorious defeat'' (para 45)A woman whispered loudly as he finished his address Oxymoron9. My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow's hand. Metonymy10. It is not going to be driven out of this court byThe spectators chuckled and Bryan warmed to his work. -- Line 101 Ridicule…Carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies. Ridicule11. With a fan blowing on him punLesson 5 The libido for the ugly1 Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity (line 6) metaphor; transferred epithet2 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 (对偶句）Repetition ( line 10)3 There was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the age. Synecdoche(提喻）(line 16)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(曲⾔）(line 26)5 The country is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills. Litotes; Overstatement (line 29)6.They would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. Metaphor (line 36)On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. Metaphor(line 46)And one and all they are streaked in grim, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. Metaphor (line 49)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. Line 52 Metaphor7 I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. Irony (line 60)8 N.J. and Newport News, Va.Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy(line67) Metonymy9 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 (line 88)10 It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. Irony (line 90)11 On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be positive libido for the ugly, ason the other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. line 91 Antithesis12 The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for the dogmatic theology and the poetry of EdgarA.Guest. Metaphor13 And some of them are appreciably better. Line 109 Sarcasm14 They let it mellow into its present shocking depravity. Metaphor; sarcasm15 The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. MetaphorLesson 6(synecdoche) idyllic 1.Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huch Finn’ｓcruise through the eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure. (Para.1) Hyperbole2.I found another Twain as well (Para.1) synecdoche3. a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead aback wall of night. (Para.1) metaphor4.The geographic core, in Twain’s early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River,main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart. (Para.3) metaphor5.Lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved downstream to the delta country; sugar, molasses, cotton, and whisky traveled north. ( Para.3) antithesis6.the cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied—a cosmos (Para.4) alliteration metaphor7.Steamboats decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but itsflotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. (Para.5) Metaphor8.For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and persistent, (Para.5) metaphor9.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe region. (Para.7) metaphor10.From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way toregional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. (Para.8) metaphor11.The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade, but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. (Para.8) metonymy12.in the spring of 1864, less than two years after joining the Territorial Enterprise, he boardedthe stagecoach for San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writers. (Para.8) metaphor 13.Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing(metonymy) muscles…　(Para.9) metaphor14.It was a splendid population——for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stay at home…　(Para.9) alliteration15.“It was a splendid population——for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home…” (Para.9) alliteration16.“It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterpri sesand rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring (alliteration) and arecklessness of coat or consequences, which she (synecdoche) bears onto this day——andwhen she projects a new surprise, the grave world( transferred epithet)smiles(personification)as usual, and says ‘Well, this is California all over.’”　(Para.9)17.Two years later the opportunity came for him to take a distinctly American look at the oldworld. (Para.12) transferred epithet pleasure cruise(metaphor)18.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. (Para.21) personification19.America laughed with him. (Para.13) personification and synecdoche20.Tom Sawyer quickly became a classic tale of American boyhood. (Para. 13) synecdochePara.15)21.Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and s weet innocence of his affection for …..(transferred epithetmetaphor22.Six chapters into Tom Sawyers, he drags in “the juvenile pariah….” (Para.16)23.I have tried it, and I don’t work; it don’t work, Tom. It ain’t for me…The widder eatsshe goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell—everything’s so awful reg’lar body can’t stand it.(Para.16) alliteration parallelism repetition24.Nine years after Tom Sawyer swept the nation. ( Para.17) metaphor25.Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laughed. (Para.21) metaphor26.Now the gloves came off with biting satire. (Para.21)transferred epithet metaphor27.dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair onmen’s final release from earthly struggles. (Para.22) metaphor28.where the have left no sign that they had existed— a world which will lament them a day andforget them forever. (Para.22) antithesis personificationLesson 11Alliteration1.brittle and brown(Para.1)2.willow and witch hazel(Para.1)3.great green-and-yellow grasshoppers(Para.1)4.the eagle and the elk(Para.6)5.the badger and the bear(Para.6)6.bent and blind(Para.6)7.sad in the sound, syllables of sorrow(Para.11)8.lean and leather(Para.13)9.jest and gesture(Para.13)10.fright and false alarm, fringed and flowered shawls, bright beadwork(Para.13)11.At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire. （Para.1）不晓得是哪个？补充⼀下12.It was a long journey toward the dawn, and it led to a golden age. （Para.4）metaphor13.no longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival; （Para.4）metaphor14.I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the mind’s eye, and traveledfifteen hundred miles no begin my pilgrimage. （Para.5）metaphor15.Descending eastward, the highland meadows are a stairway to the plain. （Para.7）metaphor16.The earth unfolds and the limit of the land recedes. （Para.7）metaphor17.going out upon a cane, very slowly as she did when the weight of age came upon her;（Para.11）metaphor18.transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, （Para.11）metaphor19.houses are like sentinels in the plain, （Para.12）metaphorLesson 13 No Signposts in the Sea ★为课后习题中的修辞题⽬1.I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women… (Para 1 ) Metonymy2.in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue…(Para 1 )Metonymy ★3.He says he used to read me… (Para 2 ) Metonymy ★4.Protests about damage to ‘natural beauty’froze me with contempt. (Para 3) Metaphor5.And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid. (Para 4) Alliteration6.I am gloriously and adolescently silly. (Para 4) Transferred Epithet7.… I want my fill of beauty before I go. (Para 4) Euphemism ★8.The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, issuitable if not seemly for a virgin. (Para 5)Personification ★9.Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. (Para 5 )Personification ★10....even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the coolsupport of the water…(Para 5) Transferred Epithet ★11.It may be by daylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies，or with no ripples atall but only the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it. (Para 6) Metaphor12.The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover… (Para 6) Metaphor13.…no sign of habitation, very blenched and barren. (Para 8) Alliteration ★14.What I like best are the①stern cliff, with ranges of mountains②soaring behindthem…(Para 8)①Personification ②Metaphor15.What plants of the high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? (Para 8)Metonymy16...., like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome. (Para 8) Metaphor17.I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbiddingspots on earth.(Para 12) Hyperbole18....but I must say I find it refreshing to think there are still a few odd fish left in the world.(Para 16) Metaphor19....follows a ship only to a certain latitude and then turns back…(Para 17) Metonymy20.We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. (Para 17)Metaphor21....and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves…(Para 18)Metonymy22.This is the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. (Para 19) Synecdoche23.God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? (Para 25) Rhetorical Question24.…we wait for it while th e①red ball, cut in half as though by a knife, sinks to its daily②doom. (Para 26)①Innuendo②Metaphor25.Then come the①twilight colours of sea and heaven(…suddenly i n ②these latitudes, at anytare on sea level), the winepink width of water merging into③lawns of aquamarine, and the sky④a tender palette of pink and blue…(Para 26 ) ①Metaphor ②Metonymy ③Metaphor ★④Metaphor ★26.Now the indolence of southern latitudes has captured me. (Para 33 ) Metonymy27.Blue, the colour of peace. (Para 33 ) Metaphor28.…Ｉhad no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South…(Para 33 ) TransferredEpithet ★29.And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to ahorseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray. (Para 34 ) Onomatopoeia ★30.But above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.(Para 34 ) Transferred EpithetLesson 14 Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R.1.This changed conviction into certainty. (Para 1) Alliteration2.I had not the slightest doubt where our duty and policy lay. (Para 1) Litotes3.I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes. (Para 1) Metaphor4.… I asked whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the Houseof Rimmon. (Para 5) Metaphor5.If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House ofCommons. (Hitler is much eviler than the devil.) (Para 5) Hyperbole6.The Maze regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.(Para 8) Metaphor7.It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency of its cruelty and ferociousaggression. (Para 8) Irony8.I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land…. (Para 8) Metaphor9.– for the safety of their loved ones, the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of theirprotector. (Para 8) Innuendo10.I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardlyfrom the soil… (Para 8) Metaphor11.I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking,heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, … (Para 8) Metaphor12.I see all the①dull, drilled, docile, brutish, masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on ②like aswarm of crawling locusts. (Para 8) ①Alliteration ②Simile\Ridicule13.I see the German ①bombers and fighters in the sky, still ②smarting from many a British③whipping, ④delighted to find what they believe is an easier and safer ⑤prey (the Russiansoldiers). (Para 8)①Synecdoche ②③④Metaphor\Personification ⑤Metaphor 14.Behind all this①glare, behind all this②storm, I see that small group of villainous menwho plan, organize, and launch this③cataract of horrors upon mankind… (Para 9) ①Metaphor ②Metaphor ③Metaphor15.I have to declare the decision of His Majesty’s Government… (Para 10) Antonomasia16.– for we must spread out now at once, without a day’s delay. (Para 10) Repetition17.I have to make the declaration, but can you doubt what our policy will be? (Para 10)Rhetorical Question18.We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. (Para 10) Repetition19.We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime. (Para 10) Metaphor20.From this nothing will turn us—nothing. (Para 10) Inversion21.We will never parley, we will never negotiate…(Para 10) Repetition22.We have rid the earth of his shadow (influence) and liberated its peoples from his yoke(control). (Para 10) Metaphor23.①Any man or state who②marches with Hitler is our foe. (Para 10) ①Antithesis②Metaphor24.It follows therefore that we shall….We shall…, as we shall faithfully and steadfastly to theend… (Para 10) Parallelism25.But when I spoke… which have impelled or lured him on his Russian adventure I said therewas one deeper motive behind his outrage. (Para 12) Euphemism26.He wishes to destroy the Russian power ….from the East and hurl it upon this Island, whichhe knows….of his crimes. (Para 12) ①Metaphor ②Synecdoche27.…and that he can overwhelm Great Britain before the Fleet and airpower of the UnitedStates may intervene. (Para 12) Synecdoche28.He has so long thrived and prospered. (Para 12) Repetition29.…and that then the①scene will be clear for the final②act,…(Para 12)①Metaphor ②Euphemism30.…, just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free menand free peoples in every quarter of the globe. (Para 13) Alliteration31.Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. (Para 13) Alliteration。

高级英语修辞总结归纳Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’ s English1. Alliterationthe King’ s Englishslips and slides (Para. 18)2. Allusions暗指，引喻--musketeers of Dumas (Para. 3)--descendants of convicts (Para. 7)--Saxon churls (Para. 8)--Norman conquerors (Para. 8)3. ExaggerationPerhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own. (Para. 3)4. Metaphor1.No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leapsand sparkles or just glows. (Para. 2)2.They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (Para.3)3.Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place (Para. 4)4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (Para. 6)5.The conversation was on wings. (Para. 8)6.We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. (Para. 11)7.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and itsseeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. (Para. 14)高级英语修辞总结归纳8. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. (Para. 17)9. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s Engli slips and slides in conversation. (Para. 18)10. “ the sinistercorridor of our age⋯”(Para. 18)11.Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flowfreely here and there. (Para. 20)12.We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time tothe Norman Conquest. (Para. 20)5.Simile1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived sideby side with each other, did not delve into each other. 3)’ s ⋯(Para2. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,⋯(Para. 14)Lesson 2 MarrakechSimile1.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, likea derelict building-lot. (Para. 2)2., ⋯ sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, likeclouds of flies. (Para. 8)3.⋯ where the soil is exactly like broken-up brick. (Para. 18)4.Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls (Para. 18)5. ⋯ their feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood⋯(Para. 23)6., ⋯ glitteringlike scraps of paper. (Para. 26)Metaphor1. They rise out of the earth,⋯(Para. 3)2.Down the center of the street there is generally running a little riverof urine. (Para. 8)Alliterationsweat and starve (Para. 3)Transferred Epithet--there was a frenzied rush of Jews (Para. 10)Onomatopoeia, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter ofiron wheels (Para. 22)Synecdoche1.a white skin is always fairly conspicuous (Para. 16)2., actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. (Para. 24) Rhetorical Question1.Are they really the same flesh as your self Do they even have names Or are they merely a kind of differentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects (Para. 3)2.How much longer can we go one kidding these people Howlong before they turn their guns in the other direction (Para. 25) UnderstatementI am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact. (Para. 21)Lesson 3 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)Parallelism⋯,symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal aswell as change. (Para. 1)Paras. 6, 7, 8, 10,11 Alliteration1. ⋯friend and foe alike⋯(Para. 3)2.to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Para. 4)3.steady spread (Para. 13)4. ⋯bear the burden⋯(Para. 22)5. ⋯strength and sacrifice⋯Metaphor1.⋯ those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (Para. 7)2.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey ofhostile powers. (Para. 9)3.this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (Para.9)4. to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak⋯(Para. 10)5. And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle ofsuspicion ⋯ (Para. 19)6.The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavorwill light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that firecan truly light the world. (Para. 24)Consonance⋯ , whether it wishes us well or ill, ⋯(Para. 4)Synecdoche⋯ both rightly alarmed by the steady spread o f the deadly atom⋯.(Para.13)Antithesis1.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerfulchallenge at odds and split asunder. (Para. 6)2.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot savethe few who are rich. (Para. 8)3.And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can dofor you; ask what you can do for your country. (Para. 25)Repetitionall forms of (Para. 2)the belief (Para. 2)1.Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.(Para. 14)2.And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can dofor you; ask what you can do for your country. (Para. 25)Allusionone hundred days (Para. 20)ClimaxAll this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it befinished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of thisAdministration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. (Para. 20)Hyperbolehour of maximum danger (Para. 24)Lesson 4 Love is a FallacyMetaphor1.Charles Lamb, unfettered the informal essay with....“ Dream’ s Children” . (Author’ s Note)2.There follows an informal essay....frontier. (Author’ s Note)3.Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathingthing , full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (Author’ s Note)4.My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (Para. 17)5.In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open.(Para. 31)6.I fought off a wave of despair. (Para. 76)7.Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embersstill smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. (Para. 95)8.The next fallacy is called Poisoning the Well. (Para. 112)9.” The first man has poisoned the well before anybody could drink fromit. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.116)10. The rat! (Para. 148)Simile1. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para. 1)2.Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (Para. 2)3.First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at abakery window. (Para. 47)4.He looked like a mound of dead raccoons. (Para. 54)5. ...the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (Para.94)6.It was like digging a tunnel. (Para. 120)7.I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (Para. 144)Antithesis1.“ It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to” (Para.’ s scale,make an ugly smart girl beautiful. ” (Para. 24)2. “ Back and forth his head swiveled desire waxing,， resolutionwaning . ” (Para. 47)3.If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If thereis an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. (Para. 91)4. “ Look at me--a brilliant student..ing from.” (Para. 150)Hyperbole1. Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathingthing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (Author’s Note) 2. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para. 1)3. It’ s not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (Para. 2)4.Finally he didn’ t turn away at all; he just stood and stared with madlust at the coat. (Para. 47)5.You are the whole world⋯ of outer space (Para. 132)6.“ I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow- eyed hulk.”(Para. 132)Metonymy1.But I was not one to let my heart rule my head. (Para. 20)2.Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (Para. 70)3.You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (Para. 79)LitotesThis loomed as a project of no small dimensions. (Para. 58)SynecdocheThere is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (Para. 112)AnalogyJust as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, so I lovedmine. (Para. 122)Transferred EpithetI said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. (Para. 37) Rhetorical QuestionCould Carlyle do more Could Ruskin (Authors’Note)“(ParaNobody.73)”“ Really” said Polly, amazed.Who knew (Para. 95)Lesson 5 The Sad Young MenMetaphor:1.⋯ we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent⋯us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincialmorality (Para. 2)2.battle for success (Para. 3)3.And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out,until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decadecalled the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face the problems of the new age. (Para. 4)4. ⋯ once the young men had received a good taste of twentieth-century warfare. (Para. 6)5.⋯ they hadoutgrown town and families (Para. 6)6.⋯ sleepyin Gopher Prairies all over the country (Para. 6)7. ⋯ to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of“ flaming youth” (Para. 8)8.⋯ now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with thetoys of vulgar rebellion. (Para. 8)9.⋯ wasthe rallying point of sensitive persons disgusted withAmerica. (Para. 9)10.⋯ but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save theglint and ring of the dollar,⋯ (Para. 9)Personification:⋯ the country was blind and deaf to everything⋯ dollar⋯ . (Para. 9) Metonymy:1.⋯ our young men began to enlist under foreign flags. (Para. 5)2.Greenwich Village set the pattern. (Para. 7)3.⋯ their minds and pens inflamed against war,⋯ (Para. 7)4.⋯ to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of“ flaming youth” (Para. 8)5.Before long the movement had become officially recognized by thepulpit ⋯ (Para.8)高级英语修辞总结归纳6.⋯but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint⋯ (Para. 9)and ring of the dollar,Transferred epithet:The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to themiddle-aged and curious questionings by the young(Para⋯. 11)Simile:The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the⋯ (Para. 3)Victorian socialstructure .&精心收集整理，请按实质需求再行改正编写，因文档各样差别排版需调整字体属性及大小。

高级英语课文修辞总结（1-7课）第一课Face to Face With Hurricane CamilleSimile:1. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (comparing the passing of children to the passing of buckets of water in a fire brigade when fighting a fire)2. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (comparing the sound of the wind to the roar of a passing train)Metaphor :1. We can batten down and ride it out. (comparing the house in a hurricane to a ship fighting a storm at sea)2. Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Strong wind and rain was lashing the house as if with a whip.)Personification :1. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (The hurricane acted as a very strong person lifting something heavy and throwing it through the air.)2. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumpedit 3 1/2miles away. (The hurricane acted as a very strong man lifting something very heavy and dumping it 3 1/2 miles away.). Ⅺ.Elliptical and short simple sentences generally increase the tempo and speed of the actions being described. Hence in a dramatic narration they serve to heighten tension and help create a sense of danger and urgency. For examples see the text, paragraphs 10-18 and 21-26.Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the “Liveliest” City in Japan“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)…as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop...…whe re 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.At last this intermezzo came to an end…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)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.Hiroshima—the “liveliest” city in JapanI felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me.The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skycrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.There were fresh bows, and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima wasrepeated .(synecdoche)Was I not at the scene of the crime? (rhetorical question) Lesson 3 BlackmailMetaphor:...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed...his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.The words spat forth with sudden savagery.Her tone ...withered......self-assurance...flickered...The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.Her voice was a whiplash.eyes bored into himI’ll spell it out.Euphemism:...and you took a lady friend.Metonymy:won 100 at the tableslost it at the barthey'll throw the book,...Onomatopoeia:appreciative chuckleclucked his tongueLesson 41) 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) "The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below"(antithesis)9) "His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world." (hyperbole)10) Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fanlike 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 )第五课The many metaphors and similes in the essay are largely ap propritately used in describing the ugliness of Westmoreland County.For example, in para. 3 the metaphor of comparing the houses there to pigs wallowing in the mud~ the metaphor in the same para. of comparing the patches of paint to dried up scales formed by a skin disease~and the simile in para. 2 as shown in the sentence "one blinks ... shot away", the sim ile in the same para. as shown in the sentence "a steel stadi um ~ -- the line", just to mention a few. Hyperboles are profusely used in the essay. They are mostly very effective in conveying what the author had to say.In para. 1, we read the sentence "Here was wealth ... alley cats", exaggerating the richness and grandeur of this region and of America as a whole, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earthin para. 5 we read "It is as if ... of them", which implies exaggeratedly that it is as if some genius of great power, who didn' t like to do the right things and who was an inflexible enemy of man, em ployed all the cleverness and skill of hell to build these ugly houses;and again in para. 2 there is the sentence "What al lude to " in sight", which suggests an exaggeration that is hard to believe. Not every house could have been that ugly.Lesson 6 Mark Twain --- Mirror of AmericaMetaphor:Mark Twain --- Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night...main artery of transportation in the young nation's heartAll would resurface in his books...that he soaked up... When 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...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.America laughed with him.Personification:...to literature's enduring gratitude...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:… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy....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 pickaxeLesson 7 Everyday Use for your grandmama“Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s”. Wangerosaid ,laughing .(ironic)“Mama,” Wangero said sweet as a bird .“can I have these old quilts?”(simile)…showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blo use…After I tripped over it two or three times he toldme …(metaphor)And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. (simile)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) I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out .(exaggeration)Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. (simile)It is like an extended living room. (simile)Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. (simile)She gasped like a bee had stung her.(simile)Wangero said, sweet as a bird. (simile)Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? (rhetorical question)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)。