Lesson 1
1．"We can batten down and ride it out," he said. (Para. 4) metaphor
2 .Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Para. 7) personification 、metaphor
3. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (Para.11) simile 4. He held his head between his hands, and silently prayed: “Get us through this mess, will You?”
(Para. 17) alliteration
5. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. (Para.19)
personification
6. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. (Para.19)
simile、onomatopoeia(拟声)
7. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch
the storm from their spectacular vantage point. （Para. 20）transferred epithet
8 8. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished.（Para. 20）simile、personification
9. and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.(Para.28)
simile
10.household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (Para. 31)
metaphor
Lesson 4
1. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm around my shoulder as we were waiting for
the court to open. (para2) Transferred epithet
2. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and
football coach at secondary school.(para 3) Synecdoche
3. After 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.(para14) Irony
4. '' There is some doubt about that '' Darrow snorted.(para 19) Sarcasm
5. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have
come from below.(para 20) Antithesis
6. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a
prairie.(para 22) Alliteration; Simile
7. The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breadth
of his oratory as he should have. (Para 22)
He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death
between science and religion. (Para 23)
The court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that Bryan. Snowball:grow quickly; spar: fight with words; thunder: say angrily and loudly; scorch:
thoroughly defeat; duel: life and death struggle; storm of applause: loud applause by many people;
the oratorical duel; spring the trump card.Metaphor
8. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a '' victorious defeat'' (para 45)
A woman whispered loudly as he finished his address Oxymoron
9. My heart went out tothe old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrow's hand.
Metonymy 10. It is not going to be driven out of this court by
The spectators chuckled and Bryan warmed to his work. -- Line 101 Ridicule
…Carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies. Ridicule
11. With a fan blowing on him pun
Lesson 5 The libido for the ugly
1 Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic
activity (line 6) metaphor; transferred epithet
2 Here waswealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination--and here were human
habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.
Antithesis (对偶句）Repetition ( line 10)
3 There was not onein sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the age.
Synecdoche(提喻）(line 16)
4 There was not a single decent house within eye rangefrom the Pittsburgh to the Greensburg yards. There was notone that was misshapen, and there was notone that was not shabby.
Understatement; Litotes(曲言）(line 26)
5 The country is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills. Litotes; Overstatement
(line 29)
6.They would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. Metaphor (line 36)
On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. Metaphor(line 46)
And one and all they are streaked in grim, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping
through the streaks. Metaphor (line 49)
When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of a fried egg. When it has taken on
the patina of the mills, it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. Line 52
Metaphor
7 I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. Irony (line 60)
8 N.J. and Newport News, Va.Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy
(line67) Metonymy
9 But in the American village and small town the pull is always towards ugliness, and in that
Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion. Ridicule
(line 88) 10 It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.
Irony (line 90)
11 On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be positive libido for the ugly, as
