高级英语第一册修辞(1-9课)

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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 thro ngs 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 a nd 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 squa re , and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly vis ible.(metaphor)---P4,L1

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

e name Hiroshima was repeated .(synecdoche)------P15,L2

7) “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to w elcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. (anticli max)----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.

9) Acre by acre ,the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef .(alliteration)-----P30,L3

10) According to our guide ,the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different spe cies of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America-which means we are silently thousands of songs we have ever heard .(metonymy)----P 31,L3.

11) What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky?(metaphor)---P32,L3.

12) Have you ever seen a lame animal ,perhaps dog run over by some careless pers on rich enough to own a car ,sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kin d of him?(metaphor)

13) And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)----P58, L4.

14) I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out .(exaggeration)

15) After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-b arber.(metaphor)-------P60,L4.

16) “Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s”.Wangero said ,laughing .(ironic)—P62, L4.

17) You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up a nd down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood .(metaphor)----P62,L4.

18) “Mama,”Wangero said sweet as a bird .“can I have these old quilts?”(simile)---P6 3, L4.

19) She gasped like a bee had stung her .(simile)

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 Dev il 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 lik e a swarm of crawling locusts.(simile)

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. W

e 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)

28) The back door opens to let out the dog .The TV set blinks on with the day’s fir st newscast: a selective rundown… (Personification)----P115, L7.

29) The latter-day Aladdin, still snugly abed, then presses a button on a bedside box and issues a string of business and personal memos. (Antonomasia)

30) Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and groc er on the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies for tonight’s dinner party. (Synecdoche)