高级英语第二册修辞全集

Lesson2

1.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 nameless mounds of the graveyard.—alliteration ,metaphor

3.Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,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 frenzied rush of Jews.—transferred epithet

6.A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche

7.What government service.—rhetorical question

8.Long lines of women,bent double like inverted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the fields.—simile

9.This kind of thing makes one’s blod boil.——metonymy

10.I am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.——understatement

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.——synecdoche

12. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men.—simile

13.while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.——metaphor

Lesson3

1.no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders 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.suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place—metaphor

4.the glow of the conversation burst into flames——metaphor

5.The conversation was on wings.——metaphor

6.We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.——metaphor

7.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to

the ends of the earth.—simile

8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.——metaphor,alliteration

9.the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.——metaphor,alliteration

10.O therwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it flow freely here and

there.——metaphor

11.W e 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

Sundays,unfettered the informal essay with his m emorable Old China and Dream’s

Children.—metaphor

2.There follows an informal essay that entures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.——metaphor

3.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,hyperbole

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

scales.——hyperbole,simile

5.My brain ,that precision instrument,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 open.——metaphor

8.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.——transferred epithet

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

10.B ack and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.—antithesis

11.This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.——understatement,litotes

12.Y ou 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.T here is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.——synecdoche,metonymy

16.H e has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.——metaphor

17.I t was like digging a tunnel.——simile

18.I will wander the face of the earth,a shambling,hollow-eyed hulk.——hyperbole