高级英语III前五课修辞

Unit I
1. Wind and rain whipped the house. /We can batten down and ride it out. – metaphor
2. Everybody out the back door to the cars./everyoneday on the stairs. –Ellipsis
3. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade./The wind sounded like the roar of a training passing a few yards away. –Simile
4. The hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air . –personification
5. It seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumpd it 31/2 miles away. –Personification
6. Several vacationers held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. –Transferred epithet
7. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blowndown power line coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.--- metaphor, simile 8. Camile had raked its way northward across Mississippi. metaphor
Unit 2.
1. Are they really the same flesh as your self? Do they even have names? --- Rhetorical question
2. instantly from the dark holes all around, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. Transferred epithet
3. winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels. Onomatopoeia
Unit 3
1.no one has any idea where it will go as it meandes or leaps and
sparkles or just glows. Mixed metaphor
2.Their marriage are on the rocks. Metaphor
3.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. Simile, metaphor
4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames . metaphor
5.The conversation was on wings. metaphor
6.The Elizabethas blew on it as on a dandelion clock and its seeds
multiplied and floated to the ends of the earth. Simile
7.I have an unending love affair with dictionary –metaphhor
8.The King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
Alliteration/metaphor
9.the sinister corridor of our age --- metaphor
10.O therwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow
freely here and there. metaphor
Unit 4
1.repetition: belief , committed, beyond doubt
2.to friend and foe alike: alliteration
3.the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans
metaphor
4.born in this centurym, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and
bitter peace… parallelism
5.we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support
any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. Alliteration, parallelism,
6.This much we pledge --- and more. Inversion
7.we pledged the loyalty of faithful friends alliteration
8.United, there is little…. Divided, there is little antithesis
9.colonial control/strongly supporting our view alliteration
10.r iding the back of the tiger ended up inside metaphor
11.I f a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich. Antithesis
12.T he peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile
powers, metaphor
13.r emain the master of its house. Metaphor
14.t o strengthen its shield of the new and the weak metaphor
15.t he steady spread of alliteration : precise proposals
16.t hat stays the hand of mankind’s final war synecdoche
17.L et’s never negotitate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate
parallelism
18.l et both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring
those problems which divide us antithesis
19.l et both sides explore the stars, conquer the deserts parallelism
20.I f a beachhead of cooperation ----- jungle of suspicion metaphor
21.T he energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor
will light our country and who server I and the glow---- metaphor
22.m y fellow Americans ask not what antithesis
23.t he same high standards of strength and sacrifice alliteration Unit 5
1. Unfettered the informal essay--- metaphor
2. Frontier – metaphor
3. V ague though its category, it is without doubt an essay. Inversion
4. Could Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin ?Rhetorical questions
5. Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing things--- metaphor +hyperbole
6. Cool was I and logical--- inversion
7. As powful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scaless as penetrating as scalpel -- simile and hyperpole
8. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Hyperpole
9. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. Simile+ellipsis
10. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs.
11. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender yourself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it--this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness. Not, however, to Petey. ellipsis
12. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. Mixed metaphor
13. Let my heart rule my head: metonymy
14. Beautiful/gracious she was. Intelligent she was not.
15. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. Antithesis
16. if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. Is that right?" metaphor
17. First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. Metaphor
18. Desire waxing, resolution waning. Antithesis
19.I said with a mysterious wink: transferred epithet
20. he just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat. Hyperbole
21. As a project of no small dimensions: understatement, litotes
22. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simplioiter. metonymy
23. "Really?" said Polly, amazed. "Nobody?" elliptical rhetorical
24. Y ou are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker." Metonymy
25. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. Antithesis
24. I might as well waste another. Who knew? Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow
I could fan them into flame. Metaphor
25. X-rays metonymy
26. One more chance, I decided. Inversion and ellipsis
27. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. Synecdoche
28. poisoning the well metaphor
The rat metaphor
29.Y ou are the whole world, the stars, the moon hyperbole
30. Look at me--a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey--a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who'll never know where his next meal is coming from. Antithesis。