现代大学英语第二版第一册第五单元复习+课后习题答案

it’s all style: apart from style, there is nothing else.

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All over: everywhere or all parts of one’s body
He was sweating all over. She was shuddering all over. I was aching all over.
Find more examples in the text.
alliteration
Alliteration: the use of identical consonant with different vowels
“Death is a great price to pay for a red rose…”
to himself, as he walked away through the grove.
(Para. 34)
Personification: give human forms or feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes to inanimate objects, or to ideas and abstractions
Syntactical Structures
Inversion … and louder and louder grew her song… Rhetorical Question What is a heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man? Repetition And a delicate flush of pink came into leaves of the rose, like the flush in the face of the bridegroom where he kisses the lips of the bride.
Climax: derived from the Greek word “ladder”, implying the progression of thought at a uniform or almost uniform rate of significance or intensity So the Nightingale pressed closer against the thorn, and the thorn touched her heart, and a fierce pang of pain shot through her. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sung of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
Simile: a figure of speech that compares 2 essentially different things to one another，often introduced with the words "like", "as", or "than".
… her voice was like water bubbling from a silver jar. … as white as the foam of the sea…
8.He lost his empire, his family and his fountain pen. 他失去了帝国，失去了家庭，失去了钢笔。 先由“大国”到“小家”，最后突然降至出 人意料的细微之事——“钢笔”。作者通过 anticlimax这一修辞手段，把“他”的悲惨厄 运运用幽默的笔调表现的淋淋尽致，读后使人 回味无穷。
Effect


It is the opposite of Climax. 作为一种修辞 手法，突降是相对于层进而言的。这种 有“虎头蛇尾”之称的修辞手段能使文 句产生画龙点睛，诙谐幽默的效果，语 势有强而弱，语气由重而轻。渐降的功 能是为了取消胡讽刺，是为了达到喜剧 的效果。 a. 幽默风趣 b.讽刺嘲笑 c. 出人意料

他已经看到了战争的蹂躏，他已经知道了自然 灾害的残酷，他已经去了单身酒吧。




3. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of wife. 有钱的单身汉总想要娶位太太，这事条举世公 认的真理。 《傲慢与偏见》 4. The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes. 士兵的职责是保卫祖国和剥土豆皮。
Repetition She swept over the garden like a shadow, and like a shadow she sailed through the grove. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song. And the marvelous rose became crimson. Crimson was the girdle of pedals, and crimson as ruby was the heart. But the Nightingale’s voice grew fainter… Fainter and fainter grew her song…



5. "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. “不仅不存在上帝,周末连个水管工都没有. 6. "The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.“ (Mark Twain) 友谊是如此圣洁的一种激情，是如此甜蜜。 牢固和忠诚，这样的特质可使友谊维系终生— —只要不向对方借钱。
Anticlimax: stating one’s thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity, often used to ridicule or satire
And the marvelous rose became crimson. Crimson was the girdle of pedals, and crimson as ruby was the heart. But the Nightingale’s voice grew fainter and a film came over her eyes. Fainter and fainter grew her song, and she felt choking in her throat. And at noon the Student opened his window and looked out. … “What a wonderful piece of luck!” he cried… he leaned down and plucked it.
Assonance: the resemblance of sound between syllables in nearby words, arising from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not the consonants
Remember Tagore’s
The most distant way in the world

The most distant way in the world is not the way from birth to the end. it is when i sit near you that you don't understand i love you . The most distant way in the world is not that you're not sure i love you. It is when my love is bewildering the soul but i can't speak it out.

III Writing Devices
Personification
“She has form, that cannot be denied but has she
got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like
most artists; she is all style without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others.” he said
The Nightingale
and the rose
sweep
A new broom always sweeps the room clean. A terrible storm swept across the whole city. The general’s eyes swept over the soldiers and gave the order to attack. You can’t say they are all corrupt. That’s too sweeping. There might be a few exceptions.
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
… and redder than the fans of coral … and the cold crystal moon
Assonance 元音押韵
“It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, …”
Examples
1.For God, for American, and for Yale.
为了上帝，为了美国，为了耶鲁。（耶鲁大学校 训） 2. "He has seen the ravages of war, he has known natural catastrophes, he has been to singles bars.“ (Woody Allen, "Speech to the Graduates")

7. O dear! O dear! What shall I do? I have lost my beau and lipstick too. 啊，天啊！啊，天哪！我该怎么办？ 我失去了我的情人，还丢了口红。 “失去了情人”事大，可是却与“丢了口红” 相提并论，这就产生了滑稽感。
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