高级英语第1册修辞练习第3版
Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences
Lesson 1
1.We can batten down and ride it out. (Metaphor )
2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( Metaphor )
3.Stay away from the windows. (Elliptical sentence )
4.--- the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. ( Simile)
5.At 8:30, power failed. (Metaphor )
6.Everybody out the back door to the cars. (Elliptical sentence )
7.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ( Simile ) 8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor )
9.Everybody on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence)
10.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ( simile )
11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet though the air. ( personification )
12…it seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ( personification )
13.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( simile )
14.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet )
15. Up the stairs --- into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence )
16.The world seemed to be breaking apart. ( Simile )
17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed. (Metaphor )
18.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.. (Metaphor )
19…and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the road.( simile ) 20…household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (metaphor )
21.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropped more than 28 inches of rain into West.( metaphor )
Lesson2
1 Hiroshima—the”Liveliest”City in Japan.—irovy
2 That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster’s uniform shouted,as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.—alliteration
3 And secondly.because
I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say.—metaphor
4 Was I not at the scene of crime?—rhetorical question
5 The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.—synecdoche,metonymy
6 Quite unexpectedly,the strange emotion which had overwhelmed me at the station returned,and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the slain in one second,where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people had been die in slow agony.—parallelism
7 Each day that I escape death,each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares,I make a new little paper bird,and add it to the others.—euphemism
8 There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .—synecdoche
9 “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. --anticlimax
10 But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been testing and treating me .—alliteration
Lesson 3
1 As a result the nerves of both the Duke and “Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.—metaphor
2 In what conceivable way does our car concern you?—rhetorical question
3…and you took a lady friend .Leastways,I guess you’d call her that if you’re not too fussy.—euphemism
Lesson4
1The Trial That Rocked the World—hyperbole
2Seated in court,ready to testify on my behalf,were a dozen distinguished professors and scientists,led by Professor Kirtley Mather of Harvard University.—periodic sentence
3“Don’t worry,son,we’ll show them a few tricks,”Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.—transferred epithet
4After a while,it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind.—irony
5One shop announced:DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE.—pun
6Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”—oxymoron
7The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States,bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has growen with the passing years.—extended metaphor
Lesson 6
1Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.—metaphor ,hyperbole,parallelism
2I found another Twain as well—one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human
