高级英语第一册修辞总结

高级英语课文修辞总结（1-7课）
第一课Face to Face With Hurricane Camille

Simile:
1. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (comparing the passing of children to the passing of buckets of water in a fire brigade when fighting a fire)
2. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (comparing the sound of the wind to the roar of a passing train)
Metaphor :
1. We can batten down and ride it out. (comparing the house in a hurricane to a ship fighting a storm at sea)
2. Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Strong wind and rain was lashing the house as if with a whip.)
Personification :
1. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (The hurricane acted as a very strong person lifting something heavy and throwing it through the air.)
2. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3 1/2miles away. (The hurricane acted as a very strong man lifting something very heavy and dumping it 3 1/2 miles away.).
Ⅺ.
Elliptical and short simple sentences generally increase the tempo and speed of the actions being described. Hence in a dramatic narration they serve to heighten tension and help create a sense of danger and urgency. For examples see the text, paragraphs 10-18 and 21-26.

Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the “Liveliest” City in Japan
“Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. (anticlimax)
…as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop...
…where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony.
At last this intermezzo came to an end…
But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been testing and treating me .(alliteration)
Each day that I escape death, each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares, I make a new little paper bird, and add it to the others.
Hiroshima—the “liveliest” city in Japan
I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me.
The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skycrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
There were fresh bows, and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .(synecdoche)
Was I not at the scene of the crime? (rhetorical question)

Lesson 3 Blackmail
Metaphor:
...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed...
his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.
The words spat forth with sudden savagery.
Her tone ...withered...
...self-assurance...flickered...
The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.
Her voice was a w

hiplash.
eyes bored into him
I’ll spell it out.

Euphemism:
...and you took a lady friend.

Metonymy:
won 100 at the tables
lost it at the bar
they'll throw the book,...

Onomatopoeia:
appreciative chuckle
clucked his tongue

Lesson 4
1) The trial that rocked the world (hyperbole)
2) Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder (transferred epithet)
3) The case had erupted round my head (synecdoche)
4) Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted (ridicule)
5) and it is a mighty strong combination (sarcasm)
6) until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century (irony)
7) There is some doubt about that.(sarcasm)
8) "The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below"(antithesis)
9) "His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world." (hyperbole)
10) Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fanlike a sword to repel his enemies. (ridicule，simile)
11) Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.(ridicule)
12) Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a, "victorious defeat. " (oxymoron )

第五课
The many metaphors and similes in the essay are largely ap propritately used in describing the ugliness of Westmoreland County.
For example, in para. 3 the metaphor of comparing the houses there to pigs wallowing in the mud~ the metaphor in the same para. of comparing the patches of paint to dried up scales formed by a skin disease~
and the simile in para. 2 as shown in the sentence "one blinks ... shot away", the sim ile in the same para. as shown in the sentence "a steel stadi um ~ -- the line", just to mention a few. Hyperboles are profusely used in the essay. They are mostly very effective in conveying what the author had to say.
In para. 1, we read the sentence "Here was wealth ... alley cats", exaggerating the richness and grandeur of this region and of America as a whole, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth
in para. 5 we read "It is as if ... of them", which implies exaggeratedly that it is as if some genius of great power, who didn' t like to do the right things and who was an inflexible enemy of man, em ployed all the cleverness and skill of hell to build these ugly houses;
and again in para. 2 there is the sentence "What al lude to " in sight", which suggests an exaggeration that is hard to believe. Not every house could have been that ugly.
Lesson 6 Mark Twain --- Mirror of America
Metaphor:
Mark Twain --- Mirror of America
saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...
main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart
All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...
When railroads began drying up the demand...
...the epidemic of gold and silver fever...
Twain began digging his way to regional fame...
Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...
Simile:
Most American remember M. T. as the

father of...
...a memory that seemed phonographic
Hyperbole:
...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...
The cast of characters... - a cosmos.
America laughed with him.
Personification:
...to literature's enduring gratitude...
the grave world smiles as usual...
Bitterness fed on the man...
America laughed with him.
Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.
Antithesis:
...between what people claim to be and what they really are..
...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...
...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever
Euphemism:
… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.
...men's final release from earthly struggle
Alliteration
...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home
...with a dash and daring...
...a recklessness of cost or consequences...
Metonymy
...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe

Lesson 7 Everyday Use for your grandmama

“Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s”. Wangero said ,laughing .(ironic)
“Mama,” Wangero said sweet as a bird .“can I have these old quilts?”(simile)
…showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse…
After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …(metaphor)
And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)
Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. (simile)
Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car ,sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him?(metaphor)
I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out .(exaggeration)
Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. (simile)
It is like an extended living room. (simile)
Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.
My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. (simile)
She gasped like a bee had stung her.(simile)
Wangero said, sweet as a bird. (simile)
Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? (rhetorical question)
You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood .(metaphor)