高级英语部分课文修辞讲解.doc
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1.metaphor暗喻
slips and slides
the sinister corridor of our age
… and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
… that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus.
The glow of the conversation burst into flames.
We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.
The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or
even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern
The conversation was on wings.
When E.M.F orster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the
phrase, the force and even terror in the image.
Mark Twain --- Mirror of America
saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...
main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart
All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...
…who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.
…main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart.
my case would snowball into...
our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.
The street ...sprouted with ...
… had not scorched the infidels...
…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…
No one,... that may case would snowball into...
...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.
The street ...sprouted with ...
He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.
...champion had not scorched the infidels...
…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…
...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed…
his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.
The words spat forth with sudden savagery.
Her tone ...withered...
...self-assurance...flickered...
The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.
Her voice was a whiplash
eyes bored into him
I’ll spell it out.
original sin
we saw how hungry the American people….racial lens…whitest populations
firestorm vessel
2. sarcasm反讽
The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and
so ruin all conversation.
3. simile明喻
They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did
not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.
They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did
not delve into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.
The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the
ends of the earth.
The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.
... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies.
And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles
of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the
opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.
Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and
humorous as anyone has ever imagined
Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky
Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of
Independence.
...swept the arena like a prairie fire
...a palm fan like a sword...
4. metonymy转喻
Is the phrase in Shakespeare?
...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe
…but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.
...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...
The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below
won 100 at the tables
lost it at the bar
they'll throw the book,...
jarring to the untrained ear
5. alliteration头韵法
They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the
nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in
conversation.
...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home
...with a dash and daring...
...a recklessness of cost or consequences...
It was a splendid population –for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.
It was that population…and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a
recklessness of cost or consequences‖
color and creed
the greatness and the goodness of our nation
trials and triumphs…unique and universal…stories and songs…
struggles and successes, the bitterness and biases
6. elliptical sentence省略句
The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys, no women—threaded their way across the market
