(新)高英精读6修辞整理

高英第六册修辞整理（仅供参考）

Lesson one

1 This is, in some ways an admirable solution. Irony

2 however Malthus was himself not without a certain felling of reasonability. Double negative

4 The elimination of the poor is nature’s way of improving the race. Irony

5 It has again become a major philosophical, literary, and rhetorical preoccupation, and an economically not unrewarding enterprise. Double negative irony

6 It is then argued that the government is inherently incompetent, except as regards weapons design and procurement and the overall management of the Pentagon irony

7 The allegation of government incompetence is associated in our time with the general condemnation of the bureaucrat–again excluding those associated with national defense. The only form of discrimination that is still permissible–that is, still officially encouraged irony

8 When these aberrations have occurred they have, oddly enough, all been in the Pentagon. Irony

.9 All this would seem a considerable achievement for incompetent and otherwise ineffective people. Alliteration

10 The second design in this great centuries-old tradition is to argue that any form of public help to the poor only hurts the poor. Irony 11 this is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction. Irony metaphor

12 Can we really believe that any considerable number of the poor prefer welfare to a good job? Or that business people–corporate executives, rhetorical question

13 Again, expenditure on national defense is excepted. Irony

14 This is possibly the mos t transparent of all of the designs;

Irony

15Freedom we rightly cherish. Cherishing it, we should not use it as a cover for denying freedom to those in need. Inversion

16. Whether they be in Ethiopia, the South Bronx, or even in such an Elysium as Los Angeles, irony

17 All, save perhaps the last, are in great inventive descent from Bentham, irony

18 and his colleagues are clearly in a notable tradition irony

19 So are the philosophers now celebrated in Washington: George Gilder, a greatly favored figure of the recent past, irony

20 he is enjoying, as indicated, unparalleled popularity i n high Washington circles. Irony

Lesson 2

1 But these mark of wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song simile allusion

2 the memories of this trip have colored my life. Flashback

3 in this deep and room box were packed our camping equipment and food supplies inversion

4 one big kettle stood up on three long legs to sit over a fire

personification

5 its underwater grasses looked like green ribbons constantly unrolling simile

6 as an added treat papa sometimes would cut the heart out of a cabbage palmetto simile

7 the burly arms of the oaks were huge with and ……….the woods were tossing with jewels simile

8 not without trepidation, papa made arrangements……. double negative

9 17 段最后一句was not dissimilar to the ……… double negative

10 there was the little shack, not the most gracious of living

quarters …………understatement

11 there was also, and most important, a cook stove ……periodic sentence