Lesson9高英修辞手法

Lesson9

1Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.—metaphor ,hyperbole, parallelism

2I found another Twain as well—one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who was clearly ahead a black wall of night.—metaphor

3The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied—a cosmos.—alliteration, metaphor

4He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe region. simile

5For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.—extended metaphor

6―It was a splendid population—for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home..—alliteration

7The grave world smiles as usual, and says…--personification

8..one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night‖ Casually he debunked

revered artists and art treasures, and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.—antithesis exaggeration

9Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence. –elliptical sentence

10Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world lauth.—personification

Lesson10

1The Trial That Rocked the World—hyperbole

2Seated in court, ready to testify on my behalf, were a dozen distinguished professors and scientists, led by Professor Kirtley Mather of Harvard University.—periodic sentence

3―Don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks,‖Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.—t ransferred epithet

4After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind.—irony

5One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE.—pun

6Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a ―victorious defeat.‖—oxymoron

7The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years.—extended metaphor

―Why don’t you take one or two of the others?‖ I asked. rhetorical question)