高英修辞

高英修辞

Unit 10

1，community cannot complete with shopping malls……70-hour workweek (metonymy)

2，we tend these images like poisonous flowers in a nightmare garden (simile)

3，…as pre-9/11 world drifts away on its raft of memory (metaphor)

4，Meanwhile, post 9/11 era looms like an unmapped wilderness (simile)

5，…which assumes the public is thinking in red, white and blue, when actually the spectrum of emotions, ideas and opinion is, like America itself, multihued (metonymy)

6，This Frankensteinian creation asserts that consumption is an American value, extols the nepenthean powers of the dollar (allusion)

7，A mushroom cloud blooming over a seaport city, a human being with her skin burned off, a skeletal corpse embracing a child seize skeletal corpse (metaphor)

8，What messages do Hiroshima and Babi Yar, or Dresden and Antietam, have for us?

(antonomasia)

9，How do we move from anxiety to action? From insecurity to confidence, from national paranoia to collective poise? (comrast)

10，Is our democracy so fragile that four airplane bombs can erode 335 years of liberty?

(parody)

Unit 9

1, the badger and the elk, the badger and the bear (alliteration)

2, descending eastward, the highland meadows are a stairway to the plain (metaphorically)

3, so exclusive were they of all mere custom and company (alliteration)

4, brittle and brown willow and witch hazed (alliteration)

Unit 4

1, killing in the house (metaphor)

2, the image of a fisherman lying sunk in dreams on the verge of a deep lake (metaphor)

3, a room of one’s own (metaphor)

4, butcher’s bill (metonymy)

5, it was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews (metonymy)

Unit3

1, tectonic: metaphor

2, cloning: metaphor

3, fountainhead: metaphor

4, pocket: is used figuratively

5, marry: metaphor

6, it is still played all over Asia in the small rooms that are full of smoke (antonomasia)

7, it is also plated by rich society women at country clubs in Beverly Hills and in apartments on Manhattan’s Upper West Side (metonymy

8, A contrast is made between old shanghai and shanghai in the 1990s

9, compass and wilds: metaphor

Unit 1

1, the tragic walls and the battering rams (metaphor)

2, tragic walls (transferred epithet)

3, rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment (metaphor)

4, low-hovering clouds of despair gigantic mountains of evil (metaphor)

5,dark yesterday vs. bright tomorrows(antithesis)

6, darker than a thousand midnights (hyperbole)

7,antithesis: mind vs. body enslaved vs. free psychological freedom vs. physical slavery On the basic of the content of their character vs. on the basic of the color of their skin)

Buoyancy of hope vs. fatigue of despair

8, have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds (metaphor)

9, city hall, using the part ( a building ) to refer to the whole (the municipal government) (synecdoche)