高级英语第二册修辞

Lesson1

1 We can batten down and ride it out.--metaphor

2 Everybody out the back door to the cars!--elliptical sentence

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

4 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point--transferred epithet

5 Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor ,simile

1inside.—metaphor

2Let us never negotiate out of fear,but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression

3All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.—historical allusion,climax

4And so,my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your country.—contrast, winding

Lesson7

1Here was the very heart of industrial America,the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity,the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth—and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.—metaphor,hyperbole,antithetical contrast

2Here was wealth beyond computation,almost beyond imagination—and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.—hyperbole,antithetical contrast

3The country itself is not uncomely,despite the grime of the endless mills.—litotes,understatement

4Obviously,if ther were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region,they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides—a chalet with a highpitched roof,to throw off the heavy winter snows,but still essentially a low and clinging building,wider than it was tall.—sarcasm

5And one and all they are streaked in grime,with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks.—metaphor

6When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.—ridicule ,irony,metaphor

7I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.—irony

8Safe in a Pullman,Ihave whirled through the gloomy,God-forsaken villages of Iowa and Lansas,and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.—antonomasia

9It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius,uncompromisingly inimical to man,had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them.—hyperbole ,irony

10They like it as it is:beside it,the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.—irony

11It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.—metaphor