高级英语第二册修辞全
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Lesson2
1.Are they really the same flesh as youself—rhetorical question
2.They rise out of the earth,they sweat and starve for a few yers,and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.—alliteration ,metaphor
3.Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,like clouds of flies.—simile
4.Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape.—irony
5.There was a frenzied rush of Jews.—transferred epithet 6.A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche 7.What government service.—rhetorical question
8.Long lines of women,bent double like inverted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the fields.—simile
9.This kind of thing makes one’s blod boil.——metonymy 10.I am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.——understatement
11.This wretched boy,who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns,actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin.——synecdoche
12. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men.—simile 13.while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.—— metaphor Lesson3
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no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sprkles or just glows.——metaphor
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they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers of Dumas—simile
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suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place—metaphor the glow of the conversation burst into flames——metaphor The conversation was on wings.——metaphor
We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.——metaphor
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The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.—simile
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I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.——metaphor,alliteration
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the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.——metaphor,alliteration
10. Otherwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it
flow freely here and there.——metaphor
11. We would never have gone to Australia,or leaped back in time
to the Norman Conquest.——metaphor. Lesson5
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Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays,unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.—metaphor
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There follows an informal essay that entures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.——metaphor
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the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic,far from being a dry,pedantic discipline,is a
living,breathing thing,full of beauty,passion,and trauma.—metaphor,hyperbole
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My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,as precise as a chemist’s scales.——hyperbole,simile
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My brain ,that precision instrument,slipped into high gear.——mixed metaphor
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I was out one to let my heart rule my head.——metonymy if you were out of the picture,the field woud be open.——metaphor
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I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.——transferred epithet
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“Polly” he said in a horrified whisper.——transferred epithet
10. Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution
waning.—antithesis
11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.——
understatement,litotes
12. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.——
metonymy
13. I might as well waste another.Who knew——rhetorical question
14. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few
embers still smoldered.——metaphor
15. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.——
synecdoche,metonymy
16. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.——
metaphor
17. It was like digging a tunnel.——simile
18. I will wander the face of the earth,a shambling,hollow-eyed
hulk.——hyperbole Lesson 7
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Here was the very heart of industrial America.——metaphor here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.——hyperbole, antithetical, contrast.
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here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.——hyperbole
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what I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness,the sheer revolting monstrousness,of every house in sight.——hyperbole
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one blinks before a man with his face shot away.——simile a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somehere further down the line.——simile
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The country itself is not uncomely.——litotes,understatement Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region,they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.——sarcasm
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on theire low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud.——metaphor
10. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color
of a fried egg.——ridicule,irony
11. they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by
mortal eye.——hyperbole
12. I award this championship only after laborious research and
invessant prayer.——sarcasm,irony
13. Pullman ,I have whirled through the gloomy,Godforsaken
villages of Iowa and Kansas,and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.——metaphor
14. It is as if some titanic and aberrant
genius ,uncompromisingly inimical to man.——hyperbole,irony
15. Are they so frightful because the valley is full of
foreigners——dull,insensate brutes,with no love of beauty in them——metorical question
16. It is incredible that mereignorance should have achieved such
masterpieces of horror.——sarcasm,irony
17. On certain levels of the American race,indeed,there seems to
be a positive libido for the ugly,as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful.——antithesis
18. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.——
sarcasm
19. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye.——
metaphor Lesson10
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The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic
recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young—transferred epithet
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we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.—metaphor
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War or no war,as the generations passed,it became increasingly difficult for our young people to accept standards of behavior that bore no relationship to the bustling business medium in which they were expected to battle for success.—metaphor
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The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure—metaphor
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Greenwich Village set thee pattern.——metonymy
it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and “Puritanical”gentility.——metaphor
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the conventions and to add their own little matchsticks to conflagration of “flaming youth”,it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flames.——metaphor
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Before long the movement had become officially recognized by the pulpit.——metaphor
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who had suffered no real disillusionment or sense of loss,now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.——metaphor
10. An important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in
the United States,written by”thirty intellectuals”under the editorship of J.Harold Stearns,was the rallying point of sensitive persons disgusted with America.——metaphor
11. the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint
and ring of the dollar.——personification, metonymy ,synecdoche
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