修辞手段例句

修辞手段例句

1. The sky was as clear as the inside of a bell. (simile直喻,明喻)

2. They go forth into a world of men who are as various as the sands of the sea (simile).

3. Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream. (simile).

4. Love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.(antithesis, 对句,对偶)

5. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.(antithesis)

6.Without recognizing this we will end up with solutions that don’t solve, answers that don’t answer and explanations that don’t explain. (paradox,悖论,自相矛盾)

7. The child is father to a man (儿童乃成人之父). (paradox,悖论)

8. Cruel kindness, a wise fool, to make haste slowly (oxymoron，矛盾修饰法)

9.A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally necessary and reasonable.( paradox悖论)

10. Poetry is the scent of the rose, the lightening in the sky, the gleam of the fly, the sound of the sea.(metaphor,暗喻,隐喻)

11. The geographic core, in Mark Twain’s early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of the transportation in the young nation’s heart. (metaphor,暗喻,隐喻)

12. Lazy clouds drifted across the sky. (transferred epithet 转喻)

13. Our bare bodies are touching and shining with anticipatory sweat. (transferred epithet,转喻)

14. Polly, I love you. You’re the whole world to me, and the moon and the

stars. (hyperbole夸张)

15. I see also the dull, drilled, docile,brutish masses of the Hun

soldiery…(alliteration,头韵,押头韵)

16. Waverly had gained a certain amount of fame as “Chinatown’ Little

Chinese Chess Champion ”. (alliteration,头韵)

17. Who can doubt the correctness of this matter ? (rhetorical question,反问,反诘)

18. Senior citizens are respected in our country．(euphemism,委婉语)

19. His grandmother passed away when he was five years old.

(euphemism, 委婉语)

20. The mango is mellow and soft in the mouth.( euphemism for

sweet). 这种芒果柔和口感和谐（指香甜多汁）。

21. “Maiden lady”(euphemism for “old lady”).

22. His parents bought him a new set of wheels. (synecdoche举偶法)

23. He is the bread earner in the family. (synecdoche举偶法)

24. Oh, you haven’t change? Well, of course, I know that gentlemen like you carry only large notes.(irony, 讽刺)

25. The wind stood up and gave a shout. (personification,拟人)

26. He was no Uncle Tom when it came to dealing with racial

discrimination by the whites.(antonomasia换称)

27. All was quiet and still except for the distant tinkling of a

piano.(onomatopoeia象声词,拟声词)

28. Away went the car like a whirlwind.(inversion,倒装)

29. The White House supports the bill.(metonymy转喻、换喻)

30. Y ou may not like office work but it is no use to quarrel with your

bread and butter, you have no other means of livelihood.

(metonymy)

31. The pen is mightier than the sword. (metonymy)

32. Nixon bombed Hanoi. (metonymy)