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《英语修辞学》第一章----第四章练习答案Tell what figures of speech each sentence contains.1. You might as well expect a leopard to cha nge its spots as expect him to give up smoki ng.(simile)2.1 stayed on Hong Kong isla nd and found myself in a differe nt world, where surprising quiet and the green smell of lush foliage is just steps away from the bus in ess district.(Ja ne Wooldridge: Hong Kon g)(s yn aesthesia)3. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. (kate Chop in: The Dream of an Hour) (syn aesthesia)4. How all my own territory would be altered, as if a Ian dslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike. (simile)(I had never realized until Mike' leaving) How much my own life would be affected, as if it had been destroyed by a Iandslide, which took away everything I used to enjoy, leaving behind only the pain from missing Mike.我的世界里，就像发生了天崩地裂，除了迈克的离去，其余所有的记忆都被冲走了。

5. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist 'scale as penetrating as a scalpel.(simile)我的大脑像发电机一样发达，化学家的称那样精确，像手术刀一样锋利。

6. Moreover, she had married in to conv ersation (很会说话的人).(Huxley) (met onymy)7. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity . (Lawre nee)(met onymy) charity --- things give n in charity8. Great minds thi nk alike. (sy necdoche)英雄所见略同。

9. It(teaching) was like digging a tunnel. (simile)10. He is pitiless as steel, kee n and cold as frost. (Lon don>imile)铁石心肠、冷若冰霜11. Mike and I climbed into the cab whe n it rained , and the rain washed dow n the win dows and made a racket like stones on the roof(simile)雨水打在车窗上，声音很大，就像石头打在屋顶上。

12. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is not a man. (simile)13. But these marks or wild country called to my father like the lege ndary sire n song . (simile) 就像希腊神话里海妖那动人的歌声一样诱惑着爸爸。

14. How sharper than a serpent th it is to have a thankless child. (Shakespeare)(simile)15. And at once they shut up like clams(simile)16. altar , sword and pen ,Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower , Have forfeited their old En glish dowerOf in ward happ in ess . ( Wordsworth ) (meto ny my)圣坛，宝剑，笔杆，还有那炉台，厅堂上以及内室里英雄的财产(厅堂上以及内室里英雄的家当)都已经丧失了它们内心的欢忭(都已经丧失了它们内心的欢畅——)那英国的古传统。

17. He is a black sheeip 白色羊群中的黑狼)in the family . (metaphor)害群之马18. He treats his child as the apple in the ey&simile)掌上明珠19. when the unjust measurementof human worth on the scale of dollars is elim in ated. (metaphor)当测量人的价值的不公正的衡量器具是美元被消除。

20. A fool can no more see his own folly tha n he can see his ear(simile)21. She was a warm-hearted, home-sp un woma n. (Hardymetaphor)th22. En gla nd in the sec ond half of the 16 cen tury was a n est of singing birds. (metaphor)23. Above us hung a sullen sky(tra nsferred epithet)24. A mist of gulls drifted over the break ing surf. (metaphor)25. Bullets whistled ,whipp ing up foun tai ns of snow . (metaphor)26. She closed her busy life at the age of eightytra nsferred epithet)27. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that uniocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality .(metaphor)28. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life ' s marketplace (metaphor)29. It silhouettes our mother on the lake shore, the first light catching the soft red of her hair. (transferred epithet)30. With the quickness of a cat, she climbs up into the nest of cool-bladed leaves. (simile)31. She looked both young and agin g, as if she had just emerged from an ill ness or some crisis.(simile)32. I leaped to my feet, bellowi ng like a bull. (simile)33. The men were held in the valley by a wall of fire. (fire like a wall) (metaphor)34. She was consumed with curiosity(metaphor)35. Most of our fears are un reas on able , but they are impossible to erase . (metaphor)36. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weap on aga inst the long night of physical slavery(metaphor)37. The heat rose up and hung and sweltered like a sodden blanket in St. Louis .(Thomas Wolfe) (simile)38. I am as irresponsible as a puff of wind (simile)39. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (a room is compared to freedom, while the house is compared to the whole society) (metaphor)40. Read, the n, the followi ng essay which un dertakes to dem on strate that logic, far from bei ng a dry, peda ntic discipli ne, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma(metaphor)41. If not always in a hot mood to smash, the sea is always ready for a drowning, (personification)42. Once in a while something slips —one of the actors goes up in his lines and the whole performa nee stumbles and halts (.metaphor)43. One day the sun and the wind had a quarrel. The sun said he was stronger tha n the wi nd. And the wind said_he was stro nger tha n the suppers on ificati on)44. A moment later, the hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (Joseph P.Blank: Face to Face with Hurricane Camille) (pers on ificati on)45. I've never met anyone who thinks that if you rewound the tape of terrestrial evolutionand played it again, you'd wind up with a genetically identical human being the sec ond time around (metaphor)46. Walls have Ion g ears(pers on ificati on)47. I scratched him gen tly with oily fin gers and he rema ined quiet, as though trying to recall the satisfaction of being scratched when in health, and seeming to rehearse in his mind the in dig nity to which he had just bee n subjected. (pers on ificati on)48. One might fancy the seas on over ,and most of the houses gone out of tow n. (syn ecdoche)人们可能会想到，这个季节过后，屋子里许多人会出城去。