a more perfect union 修辞手法解析

Antithesis
I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations. (para8) 我既接受过美国的精英教育，也在世界上最 贫困的国家生活过 the best schools VS the world’s poorest nations.
A More Perfect Union
Group member： 高扬 赵越 曲梓菁 隋缘
English rhetoric
First Part : Metaphor
Second Part : Alliteration
Third Part : Parallelism Forth part： Antithesis Fifth part: Transferred Epithet Sixth part: Repetition
Parallelism
A view that.....a view that......Βιβλιοθήκη Baidu
相反地，这些言论反映了一种严重歪曲这个国家的观点。 这种观点认为白人种族主义是美国特有的一种流行病，并 使美国出现的问题凌驾于其他美好的东西之上。这种观点 认为中东冲突的根源在于我们的忠实盟友以色列的做法， 而不是源于伊斯兰激进分子扭曲和充满仇恨的意识形态。
我二十年前认识的这个人是一个把我引进基督信仰的人，是一个教导 我把爱其他人作为义务的人，教导我要照顾病人，要使穷人脱贫的 人。他曾参加海军陆战队为国家服务；他曾在这个国家某些优秀的大 学和神学院就读和任教；他领导一个教会，三十年来为社区服务，在 人世间从事着上帝的工作
Antithesis对照,对比
Parallelism排比, 平行
we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction. (para6)
Instead, they expressed profoundly distorted view of this country--a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with American above all that we know is right with American; a view that sees the conflicts in the middle east as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.(para.15)
They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear (para20)
metonymy
转喻
他们跳舞、拍手、尖叫或是喧闹，不常来的 人还真的会受不了。
Alliteration
….but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation (para.13)
…使用更具煽动性和攻击性的语言来表 达自己的立场
Alliteration
Our trials and triumphs became at once unique and universal, black and more than black; in chronicling our journey, the stories and songs gave us a means to...（para19）
the untrained ear =the people who have never Played in this kind of church before
Metaphor
But for all those who scratched and clawed th eir way to get a piece of the American Dream, （para 32） 然而对所有艰难地迈向他们自己的美国梦的 人而言
Metaphor隐喻
It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery .(para3) 它沾上了这个国家奴隶制的原罪 original sin=unreasonable institution
Metaphor
Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity .(para.10)
我相信如果大家一起努力，我们能够去除我 们久已存在的种族伤痛的一部分，
Metaphor
the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling (para 39)
艰难追求职位升迁的白人妇女
Alliteration 头韵
…or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. (para5) 完整地赋予各种肤色、各种信仰的人们作为 合众国公民的权利和义务。
我们的苦难和成功立刻变得独特而又普遍， 是黑人的而又超越这个族群；在记录我们的 历程中，那些故事和歌谣提供给我们不断回 忆过往而不必羞耻的方法、、、
The struggles and successes, the love and yes, the bitterness and bias that make up the black experience in America. (Para20)
Metaphor
…only serves to widen the chasm of misunders tanding that exists between the races(para 33) 或者对其根源不加甄别就一味谴责，只能加 深已有的种族间的误解鸿沟
Metaphor
…that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds (para 38)
尚在困境中挣扎的和已经功成名就 的、爱和肯定、苦难和偏见这些美国 黑人所经历的一切。
Alliteration
And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews (para 33) 有时它也在星期天早上的教堂里、在布道坛 和教堂坐席上得到释放。
Metaphor
The blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world.( Para19) 流淌的血液是我们的血液，眼泪是我们的眼泪； 在这个阳光明媚的日子，这个黑人聚集的教堂， 再一次作为桥梁将一个民族的故事汇入未来的世 代和更大的世界 church =vessel
生活的故事可能不尽相同，但是希望只有一个；来 自五湖四海、有着不同的相貌与肤色的我们都朝 着同一个方向，那就是子孙们更好的未来。
We may…but we… , we may…but we..
Parallelism
Did i know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and policy? Of course. Did i ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while i sat in the church? Yes. Did i strongly disagree with many of his political view? Absolutely (para.14) Did i know......Did i ever hear him.....Did i strongly disagree......三个句子形成排比 我以前是否知道他曾时不时地激烈批评美国内政 和外交政策？当然知道。我以前在教堂时又没有 听到过他发表被认为引起争议的言论？有。我是 不是强烈反对过他的一些政治观点？毫无疑问
The man i met more than twenty years ago is a man who helped introduce me to my Christian faith, a man who spoke to me about our obligations to love one another; to care for the sick and lift up the poor. He is a man who served his country as a U.S. Marine; who has studied and lectured at some of finest universities and seminaries in the country, and who for over thirty years led a church that serves the community by doing god’s work here on earth(para.18) A man who.... A man who.....
这场竞选的第一年里，所有相反的预测被美 国人民对于这种团结的渴望所超越。
Were hungry for=want for
Metaphor
But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. (para.15) 然而，这些引发铺天盖地争论的言论不仅仅 是观点不同那么简单 Firestorm =opinions of Wright’s
we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; that we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction（para6) 我们也许有不同的故事，但拥有共同的愿 望；懂得也许我们肤色不同，来自不同地 方，但我们想要同一个梦想，