高英修辞手法Personification

高英修辞手法
Personification: 1. The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you...
2. dancing flashes
3. the beam groan ... and protesting
4. where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay,
5. life dealt him profound personal tragedies...
6. the river had acquainted him with ...
7. ...to literature's enduring gratitude...
8. ...an entry that will determine his course forever...
9. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.
10. Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.
Hyperbole 1) ... takes you ...hundreds even thousands of ye ars
2) innumerable lamps
3) with the dust of centuries
4) I see the ten thousand villages …
5) ...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom... 6) America laughed with him.
7) . The trial that rocked the world
8) His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.
9) Now I was involved in a trial reported the world over.
Onomatopoeia: 1) creak, squeak, rumble, grunt, sigh, groan, etc. tinkling, banging, clashing
2) . its clanking, heel clicking
3) appreciative chuckle
4) clucked his tongue
Metaphor 1) I had a lump in my throat ...
2) At last this intermezzo came to an end...
3) I was again crushed by the thought..
4) hen the meaning ... sank in, jolting me out of my sad reve rie
5) little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers . ..struggle between kimono and the miniskirt little old Japan---- traditional floating houses
6) I thought that Hiroshima still felt Hiroshima----people of Hiroshima, especially those who suffered from the A-bomb E.g.
1) Whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was riot bowing down in the House of Rimmon
2) I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.
3) The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination. 4) Still smarting from many a British whipping
5) rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his
yoke...
a. his wife shot him a swift, warning glance. (give s
b. an angry and quick glare)
b. The words spat forth with sudden savagery. ( the detective said the words suddenly and savagely.)
c. Her tone ...withere
d... (become shorter from her frightening voice)
d. ...self-assuranc
e...flickered... ( hesitate; move with a quick wavering light emotion) e. The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.
Irony: 1) Hiroshima---the Liveliest City in Japan
2) marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th century
Anti-climax : the sudden appearance of an absurd or trivial idea following a serious significant ideas and suspensions.
1) a town known throughout the world for its---oysters Parallelism the repetition of sounds, meanings and structure s serve to order, emphasize, and point out relation (1) The p ast, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies...
(2) the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of th eir protector
(3) We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, w
e shall fight him in the air.
(4) where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from th
e soil, but where there are still primordial human joys, wher
e maidens laugh and children play.
(5) Let us... Let us...
(6) He hopes ... He hopes
(7) Behind all this glare, behind all this storm
Litotes (double negative) (语轻意重法,间接肯定
法) a) A negative before another word to indicate a strong af firmative in the opposite direction.
b) I had not the slightest doubt where our duty and our poli cy lay.
Sarcasm 1) ah, yes, for there are times when all pray
2) There is some doubt about that.
3) His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.
Alliteration
1) E.g. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses
2) its clanking, heel clicking
3) fighting for his hearth and home
4) let us learn the lessons
Rhetorical question 1) E.g. … but can you doubt what our pol
icy will be?
Assonance I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masse s of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling lo custs. e.g. when bigots lighted faggots to burn... Repetition E.g. From this nothing will turn us – nothing. 1 That is our policy and that is our declaration.
2 the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector.
3 We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose.
4 We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler o r any of his gang.
Antithesis(两个结构相似但是意思相反的平行从句便是对偶
句) 1)E.g. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom wi ll have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.
2)From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the h uman race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.
3)...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...
4)...a world which will lament them a day and forget them for ever
Simile a) I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masse
s of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling lo custs.
b) ...a memory that seemed phonographic
c) ...swept the arena like a prairie fire
d) ...a palm fan like a sword...
e) The oratorical storm … blew up in the little court in Day ton swept like a fresh wind …
Periodic sentence : 1) E.g. The past, with its crimes, its fo llies, and its tragedies, flashes away.
2) if Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest divergence of aims or slackening of effor t in the great democracies who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken.
Euphemism: 1) he commented with a crushing sense of despair o n man's final release from earthly struggles
2) He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Co nfederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy .
Metonymy: 1) but for making money, his pen would prove migh tier than his pickaxe
2) ...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...
3) The Christian believes that man came from above. The evol
utionist believes that he must have come from below. Ridicule 1) Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted ...
2) Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.
3) ...a palm fan like a sword...
Transferred epithet 1) e.g. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.
Oxymoron Malone called my conviction a "victorious defeat" .
Pun Darwin is right --- inside.
Synecdoche The case had erupted on my head。