高级英语第二册修辞全集

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. Otherwise one will bind the conversation;one will not let it flow

freely here and there.——metaphor

11. We 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

memorable 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. Back and forth his head swiveled;desire waxing;resolution

waning.—antithesis

11. This loomed as a project of no small

dimensions.——understatement;litotes

12. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.——metonymy

13. I might as well waste another.Who knew ——rhetorical question

14. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind;a few embers

still smoldered.——metaphor

15. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can

bear.——synecdoche;metonymy

16. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even

start.——metaphor 17. It was like digging a tunnel.——simile

18. I will wander the face of the earth;a shambling;hollow-eyed

hulk.——hyperbole

Lesson 7

1. Here was the very heart of industrial America.——metaphor

2. here was a scene so dreadfully hideous;so intolerably bleak and

forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre

and depressing joke.——hyperbole; antithetical; contrast.

3. here were human habitations so abominable that they would have

disgraced a race of alley cats.——hyperbole

4. what I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness;the sheer

revolting monstrousness;of every house in sight.——hyperbole

5. one blinks before a man with his face shot away.——simile

6. a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somehere further down the

line.——simile

7. The country itself is not uncomely.——litotes;understatement

8. Obviously; if there were architects of any professional sense or

dignity in the region;they would have perfected a chalet to hug

the hillsides.——sarcasm