高英II 修辞总结
Unit 1 : 1. Satire:
1) This is associated with the names of David Ricardo, a stockbroker, and Thomas Robert Maltus,
a divine.
2) Murray is the voice of Spencer our time; he is enjoying, as indicated, unparalleled popularity in high Washington circles. 2. Irony:
1) This is, in some ways, an admirable solution.
2) Couples in love should repair to R.H. Macy’s, not their bedrooms 3) ```Social Darwinism came to be considered a bit too cruel. 4) It has again become a major philosophical, literary, and rhetorical
preoccupation, and an economically not unrewarding enterprise. 5) In the enduring words of Profe ssor Milton Friedman, people must
be “free to choose”.
6) All, save perhaps the last, are great inventive descent form
Bentham, Malthus, and Spencer.
3. Critical attitude: The only form of discrimination that is still permissinle```is discrimination agai nst people who work for the federal government, especially on social welfare activities.
Unit 2: 1. Simile:
1) Its underwater grasses looked like green ribbons constantly unrolling, and the trees held thick s prays of wild orchids. 2) The burly arms of the oaks were huge with ferns and blooming bromeliad s.
3) The native whites feared him as you would a rattlesnake, but``` 2. Foreshadowing: I heard that countless human skeletons were left bare in his bayou once when a hurricane blew the w ater out.
3. Suggestion: He had secluded himself in this remote area of the Everglades because he was not welcome elsewhere; from time to time he was halfheartedly sought for trial,```
4. Understatement: There was the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there w as a murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away.
5. Quotation :(a legend): But these marks o wild country called to my father like the legendary sire n song.
6. Comparison: 1) King Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sumptuous than ours was three times a day.
2) With the weight of this new stillness on it, this seal.
Unit 3:
1. Allusion: Like Creation, the portending global events are cosmic: They
change the relationship between the planet Earth and its star, the sun.
2. Metaphor: 1) It is not so much a battle cry for one side or the other,
as a design for negotiating and end to suicidal war—for making peace with the planet.
2) How all my town territory would be altered, as if a
landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.
3. Pun: But unlike the conventional marketplace, which deals in
goods—things that serve a useful purpose—this scheme creates a marketplace in “bads”—things that are not only useless but often deadly.
Unit 4:
1. Personification: Each of the trees on the place had an attitude and a
presence—the elm looked serene and the oak threatening, the maples friendly, the hawthorn old and crabby.
3. Alliteration: She did not ask me—was it delicacy or disapproval?
4. (通感)：
1) All afternoon while the men were gone I was full of happy
energy. (happy 实际上是用来修饰“我”)
4. Parallel structure: Against the belief in the all-encompassing power of single explanation, again st```, against```(unit 5)
Unit 6:
1. Pseudo-serious tone: The creams, slightly muffled by oil,```as though torture were being carrie
d out but they didn’t last long: It was all over rather suddenly, and, his legs released, th
e pig righted himself. 2. Biblic al allusion:
1) From then until the time of his death I held the pig steadily in the bowl of my mind;
2) The pig’s lot and mine inextricably bound now, as though the rubber tube were the silver cord.
3. Alliteration: But even so, there was a directness and dispatch about animal burial.
4. Symbolize: He had evidently become precious to me, not that he represented a distant nourishm ent in a hungry time, but that he had suffered in a suffering world.
(对作者来说，the suffering of the pig symbolizes the suffering of human beings.)
5. Humorous:
