Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English
1. Alliteration
the King’s English slips and slides (Para. 18)
2. Allusions 暗指，引喻
--musketeers of Dumas (Para. 3)
--descendants of convicts (Para. 7)
--Saxon churls (Para. 8)
--Norman conquerors (Para. 8)
3. Exaggeration
Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own. (Para. 3)
4. Metaphor
1. No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. (Para. 2)
2. They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (Para. 3)
3. Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place (Para. 4)
4. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (Para. 6)
5. The conversation was on wings. (Para. 8)
6. We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. (Para. 11)
7. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. (Para. 14)
8. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. (Para. 17)
9. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. (Para. 18)
10. “the sinister corridor of our age…” (Para. 18)
11. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there. (Para. 20)
12. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. (Para. 20)
5. Simile
1. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other’s… (Para. 3)
2. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,…(Para. 14)
Lesson 2 Marrakech
Simile
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (Para. 2)
2. ,…sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (Para. 8)
3. …where the soil is exactly like broken-up brick. (Para. 18)
4. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls (Para. 18)
5. …their feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood… (Para. 23)
6. ,…glittering like scraps of paper. (Para. 26)
Metaphor
1. They rise out of the earth, …(Para. 3)
2. Down the center of the street there is generally running a little river of urine. (Para. 8)
Alliteration
sweat and starve (Para. 3)
Transferred Epithet
--there was a frenzied rush of Jews (Para. 10)
Onomatopoeia
, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels (Para.
22)
Synecdoche
1. a white skin is always fairly conspicuous (Para. 16)
2. , actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. (Para. 24) Rhetorical Question
1. Are they really the same flesh as your self? Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of differentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects? (Para. 3)
2. How much longer can we go one kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? (Para. 25)
Understatement
I am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact. (Para. 21)
Lesson 3 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
Parallelism
…, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. (Para. 1)
Paras. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
Alliteration
1. …friend and foe alike… (Para. 3)
2. to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Para. 4)
3. steady spread (Para. 13)
4. …bear the burden… (Para. 22)
5. …strength and sacrifice… (Para.26)
Metaphor
1.…those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (Para. 7)
2. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (Para. 9)
3. this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (Para. 9)
4. to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak… (Para. 10)
5. And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion… (Para.
19)
6. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light
