高级英语第二册修辞全集

Lesson2

I. 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

n ameless mounds of the graveyard. — alliterati on ‘metaphor 3.Sore-eyed childre n cluster

everywhere in un believable nu mbers,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 fren zied rush of Jews. — tran sferred epithet

6. A white skin is always fairly con spicuous. — syn ecdoche

7. What gover nment service.——rhetorical questi on

8. L ong lines of wome n,be nt double like in verted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the

fields. — simile

9. This kind of thing makes one 10.1 am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.

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. ------ s yn ecdoche

12. And really it was like watch ing a flock of cattle to see the long colu mn,a mile or two miles of

armed men.—simile

13. -------- w hile the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direct ion, glitteri ng like

scraps of paper. metaphor

Lesson3

1. no one has any idea where it will go as it mean ders or leaps and sprkles or just

glows. ----- metaphor

2. they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers of

Dumas — simile

3. sudde nly the alchemy of con versati on took place — metaphor

4. the glow of the con versatio n burst into flames ---- metaphor

5. The con versatio n was on win gs. --- metaphor

6. We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasa nt. ----- m etaphor

7. The Elizabetha ns blew on it as on a dan deli on clock,a nd its seeds multiplied, and floated to

the ends of the earth.— simile

's blodrisoolnymy

un derstateme nt

8. I have an unending love affair with dicti on aries. ------ metaphor,alliterati on

9. the King ' s English slips and slides in conversation. metaphor,a—eration

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

1. Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of

Sun days, un fettered the in formal essay with his m emorable Old China and Dream ' s Childre n. —metaphor

2. There follows an in formal essay that en tures even bey ond Lamb ' metaphor

3. the followi ng essay which un dertakes to dem on strate that logic,far from being a dry,peda

ntic discipli ne,is a livi ng,breath ing thin g,full of beauty,passi on,and

trauma.—metaphor,hyperbole

4. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,as precise as a chemist ' s

scales. --- hyperbole,simile

5. My brain ,that precisi on in strume nt,slipped into high gear. ----- mixed metaphor

6. I was out one to let my heart rule my head. ----- metonymy

7. if you were out of the picture,the field woud be ope n. ------- metaphor

8. I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. -------- tran sferred epithet

9. “ Polly? ” he said in a horrified whisper. transferre—epithet

10. Back and forth his head swiveled,desire wax in g,resoluti on waning. — an tithesis

11. This loomed as a project of no small dime nsions. ------- un derstateme nt,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. M aybe 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