Lesson2
1.Are they really the same flesh as youself?—rhetorical question
2.They rise out of the earth,they sweat and starve for a few yers,and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.—alliteration ,metaphor
3.Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,like clouds of flies.—simile
4.Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape.—irony
5.There was a frenzied rush of Jews.—transferred epithet
6.A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche
7.What government service.—rhetorical question
8.Long lines of women,bent double like inverted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the fields.—simile
9.This kind of thing makes one’s blod boil.——metonymy
10.I am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.——understatement
11.This wretched boy,who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns,actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin.——synecdoche
12. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men.—simile
13.while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.——metaphor
Lesson3
1.no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sprkles or just
glows.——metaphor
2.they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers of
Dumas—simile
3.suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place—metaphor
4.the glow of the conversation burst into flames——metaphor
5.The conversation was on wings.——metaphor
6.We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.——metaphor
7.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to
the ends of the earth.—simile
8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.——metaphor,alliteration
9.the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.——metaphor,alliteration
10.O therwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it flow freely here and
there.——metaphor
11.W e would never have gone to Australia,or leaped back in time to the Norman
Conquest.——metaphor.
Lesson5
1.Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of
Sundays,unfettered the informal essay with his m emorable Old China and Dream’s
Children.—metaphor
2.There follows an informal essay that entures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.——metaphor
3.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,hyperbole
4.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,as precise as a chemist’s
scales.——hyperbole,simile
5.My brain ,that precision instrument,slipped into high gear.——mixed metaphor
6.I was out one to let my heart rule my head.——metonymy
7.if you were out of the picture,the field woud be open.——metaphor
8.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.——transferred epithet
9.“Polly?” he said in a horrified whisper.——transferred epithet
10.B ack and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.—antithesis
11.This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.——understatement,litotes
12.Y ou are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.——metonymy
13.I might as well waste another.Who knew?——rhetorical question
14.M aybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers still
smoldered.——metaphor
15.T here is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.——synecdoche,metonymy
16.H e has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.——metaphor
17.I t was like digging a tunnel.——simile
18.I will wander the face of the earth,a shambling,hollow-eyed hulk.——hyperbole
