高级英语第1册1234614课修辞练习含答案(第三版)

高级英语第1册1234614课修辞练习含答案(第三版)

高级英语第1册修辞练习第3版

Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences

Lesson 1

1.We can batten down and ride it out. (Metaphor )

2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( Metaphor )

3.Stay away from the windows. (Elliptical sentence )

4.--- the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. ( Simile)

5.At 8:30, power failed. (Metaphor )

6.Everybody out the back door to the cars. (Elliptical sentence )

7.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ( Simile ) 8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor )

9.Everybody on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence)

10.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ( simile ) 11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet though the air. ( personification )

12…it seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ( personification )

13.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( simile )

14.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet )

15. Up the stairs --- into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence )

16.The world seemed to be breaking apart.

( Simile )

17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed. (Metaphor )

18.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.. (Metaphor )

19…and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the road.( simile )

20…household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (metaphor )

21.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropped more than 28 inches of rain into West.( metaphor )

Lesson2

1 Hiroshima—the”Liveliest”City in Japan.—irovy

2 That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster’s uniform shouted,as

the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.—alliteration

3 And secondly.because

I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say.—metaphor

4 Was I not at the scene of crime?—rhetorical question

5 The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.—synecdoche,metonymy

6 Quite unexpectedly,the strange emotion which had overwhelmed me at the station returned,and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the slain in one second,where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people had been die in slow agony.—parallelism

7 Each day that I escape death,each day of