高英修辞

Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, synecdoche, anticlimax, metonymy, repetition, exaggeration, euphemism, antonomasia, parody.

1)Little monkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people

entering and leaving the bazaar.(metaphor)-----Page1,Lesson1.

2)It grows louder and more distinct ,until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing

flashes ,as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.(metaphor and personification)---------- P2,L1.

3)The dye-market ,the pottery-market ,and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of

vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar.(metaphor)-----P3,L1

4)Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a mosque

or a caravanserai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay, while…

(personification)------P3, L1.

5)It is a vast ,somber cavern of a room ,some thirty feet high and sixty feet square , and so thick

with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly visible.(metaphor)---P4,L1

6)There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name

Hiroshima was repeated .(sarcasm)------P15,L2

7)“Seldom has a city ga ined such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to

Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. (sarcasm)---P15, L2.

8)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)-----P17, L2.

20)Churchill ,he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist ,this

was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon.(metaphor)

21)If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of

Commons.(exaggeration)----P79,L5.

22)But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.(metaphor)

I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(alliteration)

24）I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.(Metaphor)----P79, L5.

25）I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smarting from many a British whipping to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.(Metaphor)---P80, L5.

26) We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by

land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air. (Parallelism)

27) Just as the industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks from men’s muscles and

enormously expanded productivity. (Metonymy)

29. Metaphor:

Mark Twain --- Mirror of America

saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States

All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...

Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam

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...