高级英语2--修辞练习-及-答案

高级英语第2册修辞练习第1课

Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences

can batten down and ride it out. (Metaphor )

and rain now whipped the house. ( Metaphor )

away from the windows. (Elliptical sentence )

the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. ( Simile )

8:30, power failed. (Metaphor )

out the back door to the cars. (Elliptical sentence )

children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ( Simile )

8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor )

on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence )

wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.

( simile )

11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted

the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet though

the air. ( personification )

12…it seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it miles away. ( personification )

poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( simile )

vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held

a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet )

15. Up the stairs --- into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence )

world seemed to be breaking apart. ( Simile )

17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed. (Metaphor )

of clothing festooned the standing trees.. (Metaphor )

19…and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the road.( simile )

20…household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (metaphor )

, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropped more than 28 inches of rain into West.( metaphor )

高级英语第2册修辞练习第2课

Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences 1．The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth,

like a derelict building-lot.( simile )

really the same flesh as yourself (rhetorical question )

3. Do they even have names (rhetorical question )

4. Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects ( rhetorical question )

5. …and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. ( euphemism )

6….so re-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (simile )

7. In the bazaar huge families of Jews, all dressed in the long-black robe and little black skull-cap, are working in dark fly-infested booths that look like caves. (simile )

8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews…. ( transferred )