高级英语第二册修辞分析
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1.Metaphor(暗喻)1)Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.2) .. those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.3) But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.4)And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.5)..we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective to strengthen its shield f the new and the weak.6)And if A beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion.7)The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world2.Antithesis(对照)A)United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative venture Divided, there is little we can do.2)If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.And So, my fellow Americans; ask not what your country can do for you;ask you can dofor your country.3.Parallelism(排比)1)..that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by hard and biter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, andunwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed.2)Together let us explore the stars, conquer the-deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.3) .. a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.4.Repetition(重复)1).. symbolizing an end As well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.2)For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.3)Let us never negotiate gut of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate:4).. and bring the absolute)power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.5.Alliteration(头韵)1)Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike...2)... whether it wishes us well or ill. that we shall pay any price bear any burden...,3)... both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom...4)...ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you.6.Rhyme(尾韵)...whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden ..7.Synecdoche(提喻)...both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom...8.Climax(渐升)All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.。
The Review of Advanced English (Book 1)一、修辞(rhetoric)Ⅰ. 修辞手法:1)明喻(simile)是以两种具有相同特征的事物和现象进行对比,表明本体和喻体之间的相似关系,两者都在对比中出现。
常用比喻词like, as, as if, as though等。
2)隐喻(metaphor)这种比喻不用比喻词进行,而直接将甲事物当作乙事物来描写,甲乙两事物之间的联系和相似之处是暗含的。
3)提喻(synecdoche)又称举隅法,主要特点是局部代表全体,或以全体喻指部分,或以抽象代具体,或以具体代抽象。
[用部分代整体,有隶属关系]4)借代(metonymy)是指两种不同事物并不相似,但又密不可分,因而常用其中一种事物名称代替另一种。
[用部分代整体,非隶属关系]5)拟人(personification)这种修辞方法是把人类的特点、特性加于外界事物之上,使之人格化,以物拟人,以达到彼此交融,合二为一。
6)叠言(rhetorical repetition)这种修辞法是指在特定的语境中,将相同的结构,相同意义词组成句子重叠使用,以增强语气和力量。
7)双关语(pun)是以一个词或词组,用巧妙的办法同时把互不关联的两种含义结合起来,以取得一种诙谐有趣的效果。
8)拟声(onomatopoeia)是摹仿自然界中非语言的声音,其发音和所描写的事物的声音很相似,使语言显得生动,富有表现力。
9)讽刺(irony)是指用含蓄的褒义词语来表示其反面的意义,从而达到使本义更加幽默,更加讽刺的效果。
10)通感(synesthesia)是指在某个感官所产生的感觉,转到另一个感官的心理感受。
11)alliteration(头韵):在文句中有两个以上连结在一起的词或词组,其开头的音节有同样的字母或声音,以增强语言的节奏感。
assonance(腹韵):相同或相近的元音在诗行中重复出现;consonance(假韵):两个以上词的词尾辅音完全一致,但其前面的元音不相同;the end rhyme(尾韵):诗行与诗行之间在末尾的压韵/ 尾韵/脚韵12)anadiplosis(联珠):将一个或一组单词重复多遍;anticlimax(突降法):也叫先扬后抑。
高级英语第二册修辞高英下册部分课中的修辞手法的运用 未注明的句子修辞均为metaphor …no one has any idea where it will go a s it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. The The fact fact fact that that that their their their marriages marriages marriages may may may be be be on on on the the rocks, rocks, or or or that that that their their their love love love affairs affairs have have been been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side … They They are are are like like like the the the musketeers musketeers musketeers of of of Dumas Dumas Dumas……(simile) …did not delve into each other.. …suddenly suddenly the alchemy of the alchemy of conversation took place,place,……The glow of the conversation burst into flames. The conversation was on wings. ,we should think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasants. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. T he Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, clock, and and and floated floated floated to to to the the the ends ends ends of of of the the the earth. earth. (simile) Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there. e W e would would would never never never have have have gone gone gone to to to Australia, Australia, Australia, or or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. Symbolizing Symbolizing an an an end end end as as as well well well as as as a a a beginning, beginning, signifying renewal as well as change(parallelism and repetition) ..to ..to assist assist assist free free free men men men and and and free free free government government government……(repetition ).friend and foe (alliteration) Pay any price, bear any burden.. (alliteration) Survival and success of liberty. (alliteration) United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do for we dare not a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.(antithesis) If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich(antithesis) Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead instead of of of belaboring belaboring belaboring those those those problems problems problems which which divide us. (antithesis) Let Let us us us never never never negotiate negotiate negotiate out out out of of of fear fear fear but but but let let let us us never fear to negotiate.(chiasmus) Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country. (chiasmus) ..in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. But But this this this peaceful peaceful peaceful revolution revolution revolution of of of hope hope hope cannot cannot become the prey of hostile powers. And And let let let every every every other other other power power power know know know that that that this this hemisphere intend to remain the master of its own house. ..to ..to strengthen strengthen strengthen its its its shield shield shield of of of the the the new new new and and and the the weak. And And if if if a beachhead of a beachhead of cooperation cooperation may may may push push back the jungle of suspicion The The energy, energy, energy, the the the faith, faith, faith, the the the devotion devotion devotion which which which we we bring bring to to to this this this endeavor endeavor endeavor will will will light light light our our our country country and and all all all who who who serve serve serve it, it, it, and and and the the the glow glow glow from from from that that fire can truly light the world. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb ’s frontier. Could Ruskin do more?(rhetorical question) Cool was I and logical (Inversion/irony) My My brain brain brain was was was as as as powerful powerful powerful as as as a a a dynamo, dynamo, dynamo, as as precise as a chemist ’s scales, as penetrating as a a scalpel scalpel scalpel (simile, (simile, (simile, hyperbole, hyperbole, hyperbole, and and and parallelism, parallelism, irony) My brain ,…slipped into high gear It It is, is, is, after after after all, all, all, to to to make make make a a a beautiful beautiful beautiful dumb dumb dumb girl girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.(antithesis) ,.. desire waxing, resolution waning.(antithesis) If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. It It is is is not not not often often often that that that one one one so so so young young young has has has such such such a a giant intellect (hyperbole) He just stood and stared at with a mad lust at the coat. (hyperbole) You are the whole world to me, and the moon and and the the the stars stars stars and and and the the the constellations constellations constellations of of of outer outer space. (hyperbole) ..the raccoon coat huddled like a hairy beast at his feet. (simile) ..logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, discipline, is is a a living, living, living, breathing breathing thing, thing, full full full of of beauty, passion, and trauma. There There is is is a a a limit limit limit to to to what what what flesh flesh flesh and and and blood blood blood can can bear.(synecdoche) He He has has has hamstrung hamstrung his his opponent opponent opponent before before before he he could even start. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein.(Antonomasia) …prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality. The war acted as merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure. After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry (metonymy, antonomasia) .. .. to to to add add add their their their own own own little little little matchsticks matchsticks matchsticks to to to the the conflagration of “flaming youth ”, …now now began began began to to to imitate imitate imitate the the the manners manners manners imitate imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion. When When it it it did, did, did, I I I like like like many many many a a a writer writer writer before before before me me upon upon the the the discovery discovery discovery that that that his his his props props props have have have all all been knocked out from under him …a writer, when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending and unpredictable battle. It is not until he is released from the habit of flexing his muscles and proving that he is just a “regular guy ” that he realizes how crippling this habit has been An American writer writer fights fights fights his his his way way way to to to one one one of of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder by means of pure ….. and it is not easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel tunnel and and and found found found himself himself himself beneath beneath beneath the the the open open sky(simile) He needs sustenance for his journey 。
Rhetorical Devicessimile 明喻metaphor 暗喻hyperbole 夸张metonymy 转喻synecdoche 借喻mixed metaphor 混合暗喻personification 拟人antithesis 对仗parallelism 排比transferred epithet 转移修饰alliteration 押头韵onomatopoeia 拟声词1.The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere,and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. (mixed metaphor)2.Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think barconversation has a charm of its own. (hyperbole)3.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairshave broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (metaphor)4.They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side byside with each other, did not delve into each other's lives.(simile & metaphor)5.The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (metaphor)6.The conversation was on wings. (metaphor)7.Is the phrase in Shakespeare? (synecdoche)8.…that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at oncethere was a focus.(metaphor)9.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock.(simile)10.The King's English slips and slides in conversation.(alliteration)11.the sinister corridor of our age(metaphor)我们的时代罪恶的走廊12.Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the greatminds are supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th century.(synecdoche)13. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.(metaphor)14. Otherwise one will bind the conversation. (metaphor)15. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to theNorman Conquest. (metaphor)16.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like aderelict building-lot.(simile)17.…and fling over it a little of the dried-up, lumpy earth, which is like brokenbrick.(simile)18. Are they really the same flesh as your self ?(synecdoche)19.They sweat and starve for a few years.(alliteration)20.…and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, likeclouds of flies. (simile)21. …turning chair-legs at lightning speed. (hyperbole)22.There was a frenzied rush of Jews.(transferred epithet)23.…are working in dark fly-infested booths that look like caves. (simile)24.A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.(synecdoche)25.The soil is exactly like broken-up brick .(simile)26.…winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of ironwheels.(onomatopoeia)27.Their feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood.(simile)28.And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column.(simile)29.…while the great white birds drifted ov er them in the opposite direction,glittering like scraps of paper.(simile)30.friend and foe(alliteration)31.(metonymy)32.We shall pay any price, bear any burden…(alliteration)33.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)只要我们团结一致,我们将无所不能,完成众多的合作事业;一旦我们分歧对立,我们将一事无成,因为我们不敢遇见一个与我们意见相左的强大挑战,最后导致四分五裂。
高级英语2第十课修辞总结摘要:一、引言二、高级英语2 第十课修辞学概述1.比喻2.拟人3.夸张4.反问三、修辞手法在实际英语写作中的应用1.比喻1.明喻2.隐喻2.拟人3.夸张4.反问四、修辞手法在提高英语写作效果的作用五、结论正文:【引言】高级英语2 第十课主要介绍了修辞学中的几种重要手法,包括比喻、拟人、夸张和反问。
这些修辞手法在英语写作中有着广泛的应用,能够有效地提高文章的表达效果和吸引力。
【高级英语2 第十课修辞学概述】修辞学是语言学的一个分支,主要研究如何运用各种语言手段来增强语言表达的效果。
在第十课中,我们主要学习了以下四种修辞手法:1.比喻:通过将两种本质上不同的事物进行类比,以形象生动的方式表达抽象的概念。
比喻可以分为明喻和隐喻两种。
2.拟人:将无生命的事物赋予生命和人的特征,使其具有感情、动作等。
3.夸张:对某一事物的特点进行夸大描述,以突出表现其特性。
4.反问:提出一个问题,但实际上并不需要对方回答,其目的是为了加强语气,表达说话者的观点。
【修辞手法在实际英语写作中的应用】在英语写作中,我们可以灵活运用这些修辞手法来提高文章的表达效果。
以下是一些实例:1.比喻:例如,“时间是金钱”,通过将时间和金钱进行类比,形象地表达了时间的宝贵。
2.拟人:例如,“月亮羞涩地躲在云朵后面”,将月亮赋予了人的情感和动作。
3.夸张:例如,“他饿得能吃下一头牛”,夸张地描述了他的饥饿程度。
4.反问:例如,“这难道不是一件很明显的事情吗?”通过反问加强语气,表达说话者的观点。
【修辞手法在提高英语写作效果的作用】修辞手法的运用可以使文章更加生动、有趣,增强读者的阅读兴趣。
同时,修辞手法还能够有效地传达作者的情感和观点,使文章更具说服力。
因此,学习和掌握修辞手法对于提高英语写作水平具有重要意义。
【结论】总之,高级英语2 第十课为我们介绍了四种重要的修辞手法:比喻、拟人、夸张和反问。
在英语写作中,我们可以灵活运用这些修辞手法来提高文章的表达效果和吸引力。
高级英语第二册修辞Lesson 11The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.—metaphor2They are like the musketeers of Dumas who,although they lived side by side with each other,did not delve into,each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.—simile3It was on such an occasion te other evening,as the conversation moved desultorily here and there,from the most commonplace to thoughts of Jupiter,without and focus and with no need for one that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place,and all at once there was a focus.—metaphor4The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.—simile5Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.—metaphor ,alliteration6When E.M.Forster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,”we sit up at the vividness of the phrase,the force and even terror in the image.—metaphor7. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. Metaphor, personification8. Perhaps above all, one would not have been engaged by interest in the musketeer who raised thesubject, wondering more about her. Metaphor9. and no one has any idea where the conversation will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. Metaphor10 The conversation is on the wings. Metaphor11. They did not delve into each other’s lives or the recesses of t heir thoughts and feelings. Metaphor12. The glow of the conversation burst into flames.MetaphorLesson21 The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys,no women—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels,wailing a short chant over and over again.—elliptical sentence2 A carpenter sits-cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightning speed.—,transferred epithet3 Still,a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche4 As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward—a long,dusty column,infantry,screw-gun batteries,antitheft more infantry,four or five thousand men in all,winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.—onomatopoetic words symbolism5 Not hostile,not contemptuous,not sullen,not even inquisitive.—elliptical sentence6 And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men,flowing peacefully up the road,while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction,glittering like scraps of paper.—simile7 … there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards,all clamoring for a cigarette. Transferred epithet8. four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter ofiron wheels. Onomatopoeia9. Are they really the same flesh as your self? Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects?Rhetorical question10. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the fields. Simile11. Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies.simileLesson 31Let the word go forth from this time and place,to friend and foe alike,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,proud of our ancient heritage,and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed,and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.—alliteration2Let every nation know,whether it wishes us well or ill,that we shall pay any price,bear any burden,meet any hardship,support any friend,oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.—parataxis consonance3United,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 power full challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis4…in the past,those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.—metaphor5Let us never negotiate out of fear,but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression6All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.—historical allusion,climax7And so,my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your country.—contrast, winding8. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce. Parallelism9. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foeto assure the survival and the success of liberty. Parallelism (or parallel structure) and Alliteration10. And if a beachhead of co-operation my push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides joinin creating a new endeavor. Metaphor11 We observe today not a victory of part but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as wellas a beginning, signifying renewal as well as a change. Parallelism (or parallel structure)12. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that …Alliteration13. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. metaphor14. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems whichdivide us. antithesis15. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. repetitionLesson 41Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays,unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old Chi na and Dream’s Children.—metaphor2Read,then,the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic,far from being a dry,pedantic discipline,is a living,breathing thing,full of beauty,passion,and trauma.—metaphor,hyperbole3Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.—antithesis4What’s Polly to me,or me to Polly?—parody5This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.==understatement6Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers still smoldered.Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.—metaphor,extended metaphor7. I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. Transferred epithet8. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s f rontier. metaphor9. After all, surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation, lawyers have briefs to guidethem during a grail, metonymy10. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction. understatement11. but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. M etonymy12. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker for the rain. M etonymy13. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. M etonymy14. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girlbeautiful. Antithesis15. Look at me --- a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Lookat Petey --- a knot-head, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from.Antithesis16. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.Synecdoche17. Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin? Rhetorical question18. I cited instances, pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let-up. It waslike digging a tunnel. Simile19. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, aspenetrating as a scalpel.Simile and Hyperbole20. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. metaphor21. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. HyperboleLesson 51The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young:”.—transferred epithet2Second,in the United States it was reluctantly realized by some—subconsciously if not openly—that our country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition and that we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.—metaphor3War or no war,as the generations passed,it became increasingly difficult for our young people to accept standards of behavior that bore no relationship to the bustling business medium in which they were expected to battle for success.—metaphor4The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure,—metaphor5The prolonged stalemate of 1915-1916,the increasing insolence of Germany toward the United States,and our official reluctance to declare our status as a belligerent were intolerable to many of our idealistic citizens,and with typical American adventurousness enhanced somewhat by the strenuous jingoism of Theodore Roosevelt,our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.—metonymy6After 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(where living was still cheap in 1919)to pour out their new-found creative strength,to tear down the old world, to flout ht morality of their grandfathers,and to give all to art,love,and sensation.—metonymy7Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation,who had been playing with marbles and dolls during the battles of Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry,and who 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.—metaphor8These defects would disappear if only creative art were allowed to show the way to better things,but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar,there was little remedy for the sensitive mind but to emigrate to Europe where”they do things better.”—personification,metonymy ,synecdoche9. The important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in the United States, was the rallyingpoint of sensitive persons disgusted with America. metaphor10. Their very homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town andFamilies.... metaphor11. Since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar, there was little remedy for… Metonymy and Personification12. Before long the movement had become officially recognized by the pulpit which denounced it. Metonymy13. until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decade called the party to ahalt and… metaphorLesson 61The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city’s crow ds below cuts these people off from humanity.—transferred epithet2So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.—synecdoche, metaphor3Sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood — alliteration; metaphor4Tin Pan Alley .— metonymy5New York was never Mecca to me. .— metonymy; metaphor6Nature constantly yields to man in New York .— personification7So does an attitude which sees the public only in terms of large, malleable numbers .—as impersonally as does the clattering subway turnstile beneath the office towers. .—simile;onomatopoeia8Those paintings don’t sell do illustrations; those who can’t get acting jobs do commercials;those who are writing ambitious novels sustain themselves on the magazines — parallelism 9“So what else is new?” .— rhetorical question10The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town .— euphemism 11All have their little sovereignties, all are sizable enough to be….. .— metaphor12Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously .—personificationLesson 101. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of the town.2. His choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonderas to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. Transferred epithetSimileand as persistent—as rain, snow, taxes or businessmenIt is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himself beneath the open sky. Metaphorhis props have all been knocked out from under himarmed with two Bessie Smith records …accept my role in the extraordinary drama which is America…when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in … unpredictable battle.It is not until he is released from the habit of flexing his muscles…an American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs…to step out of that lukewarm bath…Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere.An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder. Simile明喻Metaphor暗喻Alliteration头韵法Antithesis 对照,对比,对偶Transferred Epithet 移就Metonymy 借喻,转喻Synecdoche 提喻Synaesthesia通感Personification 拟人Hyperbole 夸张Parallelism 排比Euphemism 委婉语Repetition重复Irony 讽刺,反语Pun 双关Rhetorical question 修辞疑问Oxymoron 矛盾修饰法Climax 渐进法,层进法Anticlimax 渐降法Onomatopoeia 拟声Allusion 隐喻Antonomasia 换称。
高级英语2修辞总结归纳Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English1. Alliterationthe King’s English slips 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 leaps and 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 its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. (Para.14)8. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. (Para. 17)9. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. (Para. 18)10. “the sinister corridor of our age…” (Para. 18)11. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there. (Para. 20)12. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. (Para. 20)5. Simile1. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other’s… (Para. 3)2. 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, like a derelict building-lot. (Para. 2)2. ,…sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds 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. ,…glittering like 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 river of 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 of iron 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 How long 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 as well as change. (Para. 1)Paras. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11Alliteration1. …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 of hostile 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 of suspicion… (Para.19)6. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (Para. 24)Consonance…, whether it wishes us well or ill,… (Para. 4)Synecdoche…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of 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 meeta powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (Para. 6)2. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (Para. 8)3. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (Para. 25) Repetitionall forms of (Para. 2)the belief (Para. 2)Regression1. 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 do for 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 be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, 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, breathing thing, 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 embers still 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 from it. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.” (Para. 116)10. The rat! (Para. 148)Simile1. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, 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 ata bakery 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, aft er all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.” (Para. 24)2. “Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing, resolution waning.” (Para.47)3. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is 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, breathing thing, full of beauty, pa ssion, and trauma. (Author’s Note)2. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as achemist’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 mad lust at the coat. (Para. 47)。
Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English1。
Alliterationthe King’s English slips 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 leaps and 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 its seeds multiplied,and floated to the ends of the earth。
《高级英语》修辞分析及参考答案1. But we shall not always expect…to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power byriding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (metaphor)2. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (metaphor)3. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.(metaphor)4. We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, tostrengthen its shield of the new and the weak. (metaphor)5. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion…(metaphor)6. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all whoserve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (metaphor)7. Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (simile)8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (transferred epithet)9. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (antithesis)10. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.(antithesis)11. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for yourcountry. (antithesis)12. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfetteredthe informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children. (metaphor)13. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier. (metaphor)14. Logic, far from being a dry, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (metaphor and hyperbole)15. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.(simile and hyperbole)16. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (hyperbole)17. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (ellipsis and simile)18. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. (ellipsis)19. Not, however, to Petey. (ellipsis)20. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (metaphor)21. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.(antithesis)22. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (metaphor)23. I said with a mysterious wink. (transferred epithet)24. He just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat. (hyperbole)25. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (metonymy)26. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (metonymy)27. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. (antithesis)28. The raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (simile)29. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow Icould fan them into flame. (metaphor)30. Surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation. (metonymy)31. One more chance, I decided. (ellipsis and inversion)32. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (synecdoche)33. The first man has poisoned the well before anybody could drink from it. (metaphor)34. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. (metaphor)35. It was like digging a tunnel. (simile)36. Five grueling nights this took, but it was worth it. (inversion)37. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space.(hyperbole)38. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk. (hyperbole)39. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (simile)40. After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand! (ellipsis)41. The boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth. (hyperbole)42. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination—and here were humanhabitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. (hyperbole and antithetical contrast)43. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of everyhouse in sight. (hyperbole)44. One blinked before them as one blinds before a man with his face shot away. (simile)45. A crazy little church just west of Jeannette, set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare leprous hill.(simile)46. A steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line. (simile and ridicule)47. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would haveperfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. (sarcasm)48. By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestonesin some gigantic and decaying cemetery. (simile)49. On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. (metaphor)50. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peepingthrough the streaks. (metaphor)51. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.(ridicule and irony)52. They have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye. (hyperbole)53. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. (sarcasm and irony)54. They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. (sarcasm)55. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all theingenuity of Hell to the making of them. (hyperbole and irony)56. But in the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in thatWestmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion. (sarcasm) 57. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. (sarcasm andirony)58. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly, as onother and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. (antithesis)59. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them. (sarcasm)60. In precisely the same way the authors of the rat-trap stadium that I have mentioned made adeliberate choice. (metaphor)61. They made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted astaring yellow, on top of it. (ridicule)62. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. (metaphor)63. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning. (metaphor)64. His props have all been knocked out from under him. (metaphor)65. I had buried them very deep. (metaphor)66. A writer, when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous,unending and unpredictable battle. (metaphor)67. It is not until he is released from the habit of flexing his muscles and proving that he is just a “regularguy” that he realizes how crippling this habit has been. (metaphor)68. Whatever the Europeans may actually think of artists, they have killed enough of them off by now toknow that they are as real—and as persistent—as rain, snow, taxes or businessmen. (simile)69. His choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost himall his friends. (transferred epithet)70. An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder by meansof pure bull-headedness and an indescribable series of odd jobs. (metaphor)71. He probably has been a “regular fellow” for much of his adult life, and it is not easy for him to step outof that lukewarm bath. (metaphor)72. It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himself beneath the open sky.(simile)73. Eve the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. (metaphor)74. He needs sustenance for his journey and the best models he can find. (metaphor)75. In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not thestatesman, who is our strongest arm. (metaphor)76. Sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airwaysfrom California. (alliteration)77. The Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood. (metonymy)78. New York was never Mecca to me. (metaphor)79. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely strugglingagainst encroaching cement and petrol fumes. (personification)80. The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city’s crowds below cuts these people off fromhumanity. (transferred epithet)81. So does an attitude which sees the public only in terms of large, malleable numbers—as impersonallyas does the clattering subway turnstile beneath the office towers. (simile)82. Men and women so their jobs professionally, and, like the pilots who from great heights bombedHanoi, seem unmarked by it. (simile)83. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shutout the world. (synecdoche)84. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town. (euphemism)85. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding itas an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical. (personification)86. We can batten down and ride out. (metaphor)87. Wind and rain now whipped the house. (metaphor)88. The children wet from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (simile)89. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (simile)90. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it40 feet through the air. (personification)91. It seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3 1/2 miles away. (personification)92. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. (simile)93. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch thestorm from their spectacular vantage point. (transferred epithet)94. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees. (metaphor)95. And blowndown power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads. (simile)96. Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi. (metaphor)97. Some cancer in their character has eaten away their Englishness. (metaphor)98. Against this, at least superficially, Englishness seems a poor shadowy show—a faint pencil sketchbeside a poster in full color. (metaphor)99. America has shown us too many desperately worried executives dropping into early graves.(transferred epithet)100. Too many exhausted salesmen taking refuge in bars and breaking up their homes. (euphemism)。