高级英语第二册修辞
Lesson1
1 We can batten down and ride it out.--metaphor
2 wind and rain now whipped the house.—metaphor
3.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.
4 Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile
5 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point--transferred epithet
6 Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees,and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor ,simile
Lesson2
1 …there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them ….transferred epithet
2. long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls…simile
3 Still,a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche
4 As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward—
a long,dusty
column,infantry,screw-gun batteries,adnthen more infantry,four or
five thousand men in all,winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron
wheels.—onomatopoeia
5 Are they the same flesh as yourself?...rhetorical question
6 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.—simile
Lesson3
1 The 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.—metaphor
2 They 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.—simile
3 The conversation was on wings—metaphor
4 The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.—simile
5 Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides
in conversation.—metaphor ,alliteration
6 When 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.—metaphor
7 and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just
glows. mixed metaphor
Lesson4
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,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.—alliteration
2 Let every nation know,whether it wishes us well or ill,that we shall pay any price,bear
any burden,meet any hardship,suppor any friend,oppose any foe to assure the survival
and the success of liberty.—parataxis consonance
3 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 power ful challenge at odds and split
