高级英语修辞手法

Personification：拟人

A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and...

It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it …

Simile：明喻

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

The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.

metaphor：暗喻

We can batten down and ride it out.

Wind and rain now whipped the house.

Camille had raked its way northward across…

Contrast：对比

Scenery：lively, happy, vigorous, cheerful, etc.

Psychology：repentant, penitent(悔罪的; 忏悔的) , guilty, sad.

Hiroshima symbolizes war crime, sin, death, terror, etc.

Humour：幽默

serious looking men, bob up and down, the cab driver, the usher, meeting the mayor in his socks, spinal column flexible, Hiroshima---oysters, small man with very large eye-glasses, his eyes nearly closed behind their thick lenses, etc.

Irony：讽刺

Hiroshima---the Liveliest City in Japan

Each day of suffering that helps to free my from earthly cares

congratulate myself on the good fortune that my illness has brought me 你这个狠心贼! Metonymy(借代)：

b. Animals the bear：the Soviet Union

the dragon ：the Chinese (a fight between the bear and the dragon)

c. Parts of the body

heart：feelings and emotions

head, brain：wisdom, intelligence, reason

grey hair：old age

d. Profession：

the press：newspapers, reporters etc.

He met the press yesterday evening at the Grand Hotel.

the bar：the legal profession

e. location of government, business etc.

the White House：the US president and his government

Wall Street：US financial circles

Hollywood：American filmmaking industry

e.g.She was a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. ...little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers ... struggle between kimono and the miniskirt

I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact

Anti-Climax：反高潮

a town known throughout the world for its---oysters

The duties of a soldier are to protect its country and peel potatoes.

Euphemism：委婉的说法

e.g：He was sentenced to prison---He is now living at the government's expenses.

The boy is a bit slow for his age.

to go to heaven---dead

to go to the bathroom, do one's business, answer the nature's call, wash my hands.

Each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares.

Rhetorical Question：反问

Was I not at the scene of the crime?

Antithesis：对语; 对句; 对偶; 对照

The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have