高级英语2--修辞练习-及-答案

大学高级英语（2）修辞格汇总期末参考simile1.It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himself beneath the open sky2.They are like the musketeers of Dumas…3.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and floated to the ends of the earth.metaphor1... and it is not easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath2.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 been3.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.4.The conversation was on wings.5.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.6.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries7.we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.8.We can batten down and ride it out9.Wind and rain now whipped the house.mixed metaphor1.and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.metonymy – change of name – the association of two unlike things[mi't?nimi] 转喻，借代He met his W aterloo. He likes to read Hemingway.1.In short, all of these publications are written in the language that the Third International describessynecdoche – whole for part or part for whole[si'nekd?ki] 提喻He has many mouth to feed in his family. China beat South Korea 3 to 1. The vineyard are intersected by channels, red and yellow sails glide slowly through the vines. Nowadays more and more people have a liking for cotton.1.But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary' s2.yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.alliteration1.… a concept of how things get writ ten that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life2.ask of us here th e same high standards of strength and sacrifice…3.One form of colonial control shall not have passed away.4.We shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom.5.We pledge the loyalty of faithful friends.6.We shall pay any price, bear any burden7.To assure the survival and the success of libertyassonance (元韵、母韵、半谐音) and antithesis… between the much-touted Second International (1934) and the much-clouted Third International (1961)antithesis – contrary in meaning but similar in form 对比1.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich2.Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.3.Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear tonegotiate.4.And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.parallelism –ideas are paired and sequenced in the same grammatical form1.Both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom2.Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce.3.We renew our pledge of support to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.4.We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, and oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.5.A new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.repetition –repetition of sounds, words, or sentences that can create good rhythm and parallelism to make the language musical, emphatic, and memorable. 反复1.We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.2.Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.personification1.A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through theair.2.… it seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it3.5 miles away.3.They flared their nostrils and pranced and boasted to one anothertransferred epithet 移就He had some cheerful wine at the party. He ate with a wolfish appetite. a helpless smile a protesting chair a blind haste1.Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.2.and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends.3.A bound-less and generous contentment, a magnanimous triumph felt not against some outer enemy but in communion with the finest and fairest in the souls of all men everywhere and the splendor of the world's summer4.The faces of small children are amiably sticky; in the benign grey beard of a man a couple of crumbs of rich pastry are entangled.5.The others never come close, but peer in at it with frightened, disgusted eyes.synesthesia [.sin?s'θi:?i?] 通感the music breathing from her face heavy perfume and noisy color 浓郁的香气和刺眼的色彩He gave me a sour look.1.Children dodged in and out, their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and the singing.2.One could hear the music winding through the city streets, … bells.exaggeration/ hyperbole [hai'p?:b?li] 夸张1.Perhaps it is because of my up-bringing in English pubs2.In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.。

高级英语II课文修辞练习年级学生2015-3高级英语第2册修辞练习第1课高年级用Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences1.and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or justglows( mixed metaphor )2.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been brokenor even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. ( metaphor )3.Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place. ( metaphor )4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ( metaphor )5.We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. ( metaphor )6.The conversation was on wings. ( metaphor )7.…we ought to think ourselves back into the sho es of the Saxon peasant ( metaphor )8.…we are still the heirs to it ( metaphor )9.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,…( simile )10.…and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the end of the earth ( metaphor )11.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. ( metaphor )12.--- but it ought not to be an ultimatum. ( metaphor )13.…the king’s English slips and slides in conversation ( metaphor )14.When E. M Foster writes of “ the sinister corridor of our age ,” we sit up at the vivid of th ephrase, the force and even terror in the image. ( metaphor )15.Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here andthere.( metaphor )16.We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest.( metaphor )高级英语第2册修辞练习第2课高年级用Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences1．The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.( simile )2.Are they really the same flesh as yourself ? ( rhetorical question )3. Do they even have names ? ( rhetorical question )4. Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects? ( rhetorical question )5. …and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. ( euphemism )6….sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ( simile ) 7. In the bazaar huge families of Jews, all dressed in the long-black robe and little black skull-cap, are working in dark fly-infested booths that look like caves. ( simile )8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews ( transferred- epithet )9. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. ( synecdoche )10. What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman? An orange grove or a job in Government service ( rhetorical question )11.Or an Englishman? Camels, castles, palm trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays, andbandits.( rhetorical question )12. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the fields,… ( simile )13. All of them are mummified with age and the sun, and all of them are tiny. ( metaphor )14. This kind of thing makes one’s bl ood boil,..( metaphor )15. How much longer can we go on kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? ( rhetorical question )16. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men,… ( simile )17…while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. ( simile )高级英语第2册修辞练习第3课高年级用Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences1.We observe today a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as wellas a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. ( parallel structure )2.To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge: to convert our goodwords into good deeds, in new alliance for progress, to assist freeman and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. ( repetition )3.… bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of allnations.( repetition )4.Let both sides explore…, Let both sides formulate…, Let both sides seek…, Let both sidesunite …, ( parallel structure )5.Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. ( parallel structure )6.To those old allies…, To those new states,… To those peoples…, To our sister republics southof our border…, To that world assembly…, To those nations … ( parallel structure )7.to enlarge the area in which its writ may run ( metaphor )8.… that stays the hand of mankind’s final war ( synecdoche )9.…those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.( metaphor )10.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.. ( metaphor )11.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its ownhouse. (metaphor )12... to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of thenew and the weak. ( metaphor )13.And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion,…( metaphor )14.The energy, the devotion which we bring to the endeavor will light our country and all whoserve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. ( metaphor )15.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.( antithesis )16.…and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which thisnation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world (repetition)17.16. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike,… ( alliteration )18.… that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,…( metaphor )19.For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and allforms of human life. ( repetition )20.And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forbears fought is still at issue aroundthe globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state nut from the hand of God. ( repetition )21.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East andWest, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? ( rhetorical question )22.Will you join in the historic effort? ( rhetorical question )23.Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems whichdivide us. ( antithesis )24.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is littlewe can do,…( ant ithesis )高级英语第2册修辞练习第5课高年级用Point out the rhetorical devices in the following sentences1.we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behindthe artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.( metaphor)2.The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian socialstructure.(metaphor)3.this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure at theend of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face the problems of the new age (metaphor)4.Their homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town andfamilies.(metaphor)5.After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamedagainst war, Babbittry, and “Puritannical” gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center.(metaphor)6.As it became more and more fashionable throughout the country for young persons to defythe law and conventions and to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “flaming youth.,” it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flame (metaphor)7.Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation,… no w began to imitate the manners oftheir elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.(metaphor)8.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 emigrat e to Europe where “they do things better.” (personification; metaphor; metonymy)9.Greenwich Village set the pattern. ( metonymy)10.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollection to the middle-aged andcurious questions by the young.(transferred-epithet)11.Civilization in the United States,written by “ thirty intellectuals” under the editorship of J.Harold Stearns, was the rallying point of the sensitive persons disgusted with America.(metaphor)高级英语第2册修辞练习第7课高年级用1.The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned withwhite-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of sky ( metaphor)2.If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. ( metaphor)3.Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time.( simile)4.The crowds along the racecourse are like a field of grass and flowers in the wind. (simile)5.the profession was a dance ( metaphor)6.… their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and thesinging(simile)7.The faces of small children are amiably sticky. (transferred-epithet)8.…in the benign grey beard of a man a couple of crumbs of rich pastry are entangled(transferred-epithet)高级英语第2册修辞练习第8课高年级用1.Some cancer in their character has eaten away their Englishness.(metaphor)2.Against this, at least superficially, Englishness seems a poor shadowy show---a faint pencilsketch besides a poster in full color (simile; metaphor)3.It must have some moral capital to draw upon, and soon it may be asking for anoverdraft.(metaphor)4.As it is they are like a hippopotamus blundering in and out of pets’ tea party. (simile)5.Bewildered, they grope and mess around because they have fallen between two stools, the oldharsh discipline having vanished and the essential new self-discipline either not understood or thought to be out of reach.(metaphor)6.Yes, Englishness is still with us. But it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment, especiallynow when our public life seems ready to starve it (metaphor)7.There are English people of all ages, though far more under thirty than over sixty, who seemto regard politics as a game but not one of their games--- polo, let us say.( metaphor)8.Otherwise they could soon learn, in the worst way, that heavy hands can fall on the shouldersthat have been shrugging away politics. (Synecdoche)9.Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality, the latest figures ofprofit and loss, a constant appeal to self-interest. (metaphor)10.But we do not have to go on like that, to enter a Common Market of nationalcharacter.(metaphor)11.,… America has shown us too many desperately worried executives dropping into earlygraves,…( transf erred-epithet)12.,… whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair,…(metonymy)。

RhetoricUnit 1Metaphor:1.We can battle down and ride it out.2. Wind and rain now whipped the house.3. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.4. Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropping more than28 inches of rain into west Virginia and southern Virginia, causing rampaging floods, huge mountain slides and 111 additional deaths before breaking up over the Atlantic Ocean.Ellipsis/Elliptical sentence:1.Everybody out the back door to the cars. (out前加go)2.Back to the house.Personification:1. The electrical system had been killed by water.2. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40feet through the air.3. It seized a 600.000-gallon Golfport oil tank and dumped it 3 miles away.Simile:1.The children wet from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.2. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.3. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines racked like guns as the wings snapped them.4. Blowndown power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads. Transferred epithet:1.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.Unit 4Parallelism:1. We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.2. the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this country, tempered by wars, 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.(后置定语词组做平行结构,排比)3.Let every nation know, whether it wished us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear ant burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.4. We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, andto enlarge the area in which its writ may run.5.Both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‟s final war.6. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce. Repetition:1. We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.2. And yet the same revolutionary belief that we forbears fought is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.3. …and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.Alliteration:1.Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike….2.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.3.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, Northand South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?Metaphor: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. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom, and to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.3. To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe, struggling to break the bonds of mass misery…4…., to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty.5. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.6. …to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.7. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‟s final war.8. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor.9. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor willlight our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.Synecdoche:Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind‟s final war.Euphemism:1. the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this country, tempered by wars, disciplined by hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness and permit the slow undoing of these buman rights …Biblical style: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 country, tempered by wars, 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.2. Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation.3. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God‟s work musttruly be our own.Antithesis:1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, these is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.2. Not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.3. Let both sides explore what problems unite us, instead of us belaboring those problems which divide us.4. And so, me fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.Allusion:1. Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah to “undo the heavy burdens… let the oppressed go free”.2. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Chiasmus:1. Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.2. And so, me fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.Hyperbole:1. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.Unit 5Metaphor: 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.2. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a day, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.Sustained metaphor(博喻):1. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist‟s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.2. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. Parallelism:1. Read, 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.2. Beautiful she was…Gracious she was… Intelligent she was not…Hyperbole:1.…is a living, breathing thing full of beauty, passion, and trauma. Metonymy:1.My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.2. She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.Synecdoche:1. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.Antithesis:1. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. Transferred epithet:1. I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.2. He said in a horrified whisper.Litotes(曲言法):1. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.2.This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, and as first I was tempered to give her back to Petey.Logic way in this unit1.Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.(绝对判断)e.g. You mustn‟t take all these things so literally. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You now that the things you learn in school don‟t have anything to do with life.We take up a fallacy called Hasty Generalization.(草率结论)e.g. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear that we are well matched.2.Next comes Post Hoc.（假性因果）3.Contradictory Premises (矛盾前提)4.Ad Misericordiam （诉诸同情）e.g. Polly, I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the star and the constellations of outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk.5.False Analogy（错误谬论）e.g. Five dates is plenty. After all, you don‟t have to eat a whole cake to know it‟s good.6.Hypothesis Contrary (假设对比)e.g. That‟s right. So you do own me something, don‟t you, my dear? If I hadn‟t come along, you never would have learned about fallacies.7.Poisoning the Well(井里投毒)e.g. You can‟t go with him, Polly.He‟s a liar. He‟s a cheat. He …s a rat.Unit 10Transferred epithet:1.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young.2. Memories of the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit to a speakeasy of the brave denunciation of Puritan morality, and of the fashionable experimentation in amour in the parked sedan on a country road;questions about haughty, jazzy parties, the flask-toting“sheik”, and the moral and stylistic vagaries of the “flapper ”and the “drugstore cowboy” .Metaphor:1. 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 pr the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.2. War 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.3. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure, and by precipitating our young people into a pattern of mass murder it released their inhibited violent energies which, after the shooting was over, were turned in both Europe and America to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth-century society.4. So tremendous was the storming of recruitment centers that harassed sergeants actually pleaded with volunteers to “go home and wait for the draft,” but since no self-respecting person wanted to suffer the disgrace ofbeing drafted, the enlistment craze continued unabated.5. Naturally, the spirit of carnival and the enthusiasm for high military adventure were soon dissipated once the eager young men had received a good taste pf twentieth-century a warfare.6. They had outgrown town and families and had developed a sudden bewildering world-weariness which neither they nor their relatives could understand.7. Their energies had been whipped up and their naivete destroyed by the war and now, in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country…8. It became more and more fashionable throughout the country for young persons to defy the law and the conventions and to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “flaming youth”, it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flames.9.Younger 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 rebellion10. An important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in the United States…11. The burden of the volume was that the best minds in the country were being ignored, that art was unappreciated, and that big business hadcorrupted everything.Metonymy:1. The 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.2. They “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up”3. Greenwich Village set the pattern. Since the Seventies a dwelling place for artists and writers who settled there because living was cheap…4. After 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…(synecdoche)5. it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flames.6. Before long the movement had become officially recognized by the pulpit(which denounced it).7. 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.”(synecdoche) Personification:1.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.”Unit 12Metaphor:1. I proved, to my astonishment, to be as American as any Texas G.I.2. I ,like many a writer before me upon the discovery that his props have all been knocked out from under him.3. When he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending and unpredictable battle.4. 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.5. An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder by means of pure bullheadedness and indescribable series of odd jobs.6. He probably has been a “regular fellow” for much of his adult life, and it is not easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath.7. He needs sustenance for his journey and the best models he can find.8. In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm.Simile:1. It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himself beneath the open sky.Unit14Alliteration:1. The giant Manhattan television studios where Toscanini‟s NBC Symphony once played now sit empty most of the time, while sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Jonny Carson show live, preempt the airways from California.2. The place consistently exasperates, at times exhilarates.Metaphor:1. The giant Manhattan television studios where Toscanini‟s NBC Symphony once played now sit empty most of the time, while sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood.2. New York was never Mecca to me.3. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shot out the world.Metonymy:1. New York was never Mecca to me.2. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shot out the world.3. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood. Personification:1. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes.2. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical.Transferred epithet:1.The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city‟s crowds below cuts these people off from humanity.Simile:1.So 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.2. Men and Woman do their jobs professionally, and, like the pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi, seem unmarked by it.Parallelism:1.Those whose 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.Irony:So what else is new?Euphemism:1.The defeated are not hidden away somewhere else on the wrong side of town.。

高考英语修辞手法效果分析练习题30题(带答案)1. 题干："All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." (William Shakespeare)答案：修辞手法为比喻。

将“世界”比作“舞台”，将“男男女女”比作“演员”。

从语言表达效果来看，这种比喻简洁而形象地描绘出世界就像一个舞台一样，人们在其中扮演着不同的角色。

在情感渲染上，传达出一种对人生如戏的感慨。

让读者能够深刻地感受到人生的多样性和戏剧性，仿佛每个人的生活都是一场有剧本的演出。

2. 题干："The wind howled angrily through the night."答案：修辞手法为拟人。

把“风”赋予了“愤怒地嚎叫”这种人类的行为和情感。

在语言表达效果上，使风的形象更加生动，不再是单纯的自然现象。

情感渲染方面，通过“愤怒”这个词传递出一种不安或者紧张的氛围。

读者能感受到风如同有生命一般，增强了对这种场景的画面感和情感共鸣。

3. 题干："I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."答案：修辞手法为夸张。

从语言表达效果来说，用“能吃下一匹马”来形容饥饿的程度，是一种极度的夸大。

在情感渲染上，生动地强调了饥饿感的强烈程度。

让读者能够很直观地体会到说话者非常饥饿的状态，增加了语言的趣味性。

4. 题干："My heart is like a singing bird. My heart is like an apple - tree. My heart is like a rainbow shell." (Christina Rossetti)答案：修辞手法为比喻。

这里连续使用三个比喻，将“心”分别比作“唱歌的鸟”“苹果树”“彩虹贝壳”。