高级英语第二册修辞复习

Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English

1. The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the English

peasants of the 12th century. Who was right, who was wrong, did not matter. The conversation

was on wings.—metaphor

2. As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think ourselves back

into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. —metaphor

3. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries-Auden once said that all a writer needs is a pen,

plenty of paper and "the best dictionaries he can afford"--but I agree with the person who said

that dictionaries are instruments of common sense. —metaphor

4. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King's English slips and slides in

conversation. —alliteration

5. Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds are supposed to

have indulged in the great salons of 18th century Paris, but one suspects that the great minds

were gossiping and judging the quality of the food and the wine. —synecdoche

6. Otherwise one will tie up the conversation and will not let it go on freely. —metaphor

Lesson 3 Inaugural Address

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, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the

success of liberty—parallelism

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 powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis

4 …in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up

inside.—metaphor

5 If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

—antithesis

Lesson 4 Love Is a Fallacy

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 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.—metaphor,

hyperbole 3 She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions but I was not one to let my heart rule my

head. —metonymy

4 Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.—antithesis

5 It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Butch, my

roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.

—hyperbole, simile

6 One more chance, I decided. But just one more. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can

bear. —synecdoche

7 Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe

somehow I could fan them into flame.—metaphor, extended metaphor

8 "1 may do better than that," I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.

—transferred epithet

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Lesson 5 The Sad Young Men

1

The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious

questionings by the young: memories of the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit to a speakeasy,

of the brave denunciation of Puritan morality, and of the fashionable experimentations in amour

in the parked sedan on a country road; questions about the naughty, jazzy parties, the

flask-toting ”sheik”, and the moral and stylistic vagaries of the “flapper” and the “drug-store cowboy”.—transferred epithet

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.—metaphor

3 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.—metonymy