修辞学练习

《英语修辞学》第一章----第四章练习答案

Tell what figures of speech each sentence contains.

1. You might as well expect a leopard to change its spots as expect him to give up smoking.(simile)

2. I stayed on Hong Kong island and found myself in a different world, where surprising quiet and the green smell of lush foliage is just steps away from the business district.(Jane Wooldridge: Hong Kong) (synaesthesia)

3. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. (kate Chopin: The Dream of an Hour) (synaesthesia)

4. How all my own territory would be altered, as if a landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike. (simile)

(I had never realized until Mike’s leaving) How much my own life would be affected, as if it had been destroyed by a landslide, which took away everything I used to enjoy, leaving behind only the pain from missing Mike.我的世界里，就像发生了天崩地裂，除了迈克的离去，其余所有的记忆都被冲走了。

5. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, as penetrating as a scalpel. (simile)我的大脑像发电机一样发达，化学家的称那样精确，像手术刀一样锋利。

6. Moreover, she had married into conversation（很会说话的人）. (Huxley) (metonymy)

7. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity . (Lawrence)

(metonymy) charity --- things given in charity

8. Great minds think alike. (synecdoche) 英雄所见略同。

9. It（teaching）was like digging a tunnel. (simile)

10. He is pitiless as steel, keen and cold as frost. (London) (simile)铁石心肠、冷若冰霜

11. Mike and I climbed into the cab when it rained , and the rain washed down the windows and made a racket like stones on the roof. (simile)雨水打在车窗上，声音很大，就像石头打在屋顶上。

12. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is not a man. (simile)

13. But these marks or wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song . (simile)……就像希腊神话里海妖那动人的歌声一样诱惑着爸爸。

14. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child. (Shakespeare) (simile)

15. And at once they shut up like clams. (simile)

16. altar , sword and pen ,

Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower ,

Have forfeited their old English dower

Of inward happiness . ( Wordsworth ) (metonymy)

圣坛，宝剑，笔杆，还有那炉台，厅堂上以及内室里英雄的财产（厅堂上以及内室里英雄的家当）都已经丧失了它们内心的欢忭（都已经丧失了它们内心的欢畅——）那英国的古传统。

17. He is a black sheep（白色羊群中的黑狼）in the family . (metaphor)害群之马

18. He treats his child as the apple in the eye. (simile)掌上明珠

19. when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated. (metaphor)

当测量人的价值的不公正的衡量器具是美元被消除。

20. A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. (simile)

21. She was a warm-hearted, home-spun woman. (Hardy) (metaphor)

22. England in the second half of the 16th century was a nest of singing birds. (metaphor)

23. Above us hung a sullen sky. (transferred epithet)

24. A mist of gulls drifted over the breaking surf. (metaphor)

25. Bullets whistled ,whipping up fountains of snow . (metaphor)

26. She closed her busy life at the age of eighty. (transferred epithet)

27. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality . (metaphor)

28. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life’s marketplace . (metaphor)

29. It silhouettes our mother on the lake shore, the first light catching the soft red of her hair. (transferred epithet)

30. With the quickness of a cat, she climbs up into the nest of cool-bladed leaves. (simile)

31. She looked both young and aging, as if she had just emerged from an illness or some crisis. (simile)

32. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (simile)

33. The men were held in the valley by a wall of fire. (fire like a wall) (metaphor)

34. She was consumed with curiosity. (metaphor)

35. Most of our fears are unreasonable , but they are impossible to erase . (metaphor)

36. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. (metaphor)

37. The heat rose up and hung and sweltered like a sodden blanket in St. Louis .(Thomas Wolfe) (simile)

38. I am as irresponsible as a puff of wind . (simile)

39. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (a room is compared to freedom, while the house is compared to the whole society) (metaphor)

40. Read, then, 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)