高英修辞

Rhetorical Devices in Advanced English

Book 1

Unit 1 The Middle Eastern Bazaar

1.As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. (onomatopoeia)

2.It’s creaks blends with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding wheels and the occasional grunts and

sighs of the camels. (onomatopoeia)

3.It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes.

(metaphor)

4.The roadway is about 12 feet wide, but it is narrowed every few yards by little stalls where every

conceivable kind are sold. (hyperbole)

5.Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sink earthwards. (metaphor)

6.Ancient girders creak and groan, ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a

used petrol can. (metaphor)

7.The dye market, the pottery market and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets

which honeycomb the bazaar. (metaphor)

Unit 2. Hiroshima – the ―Liveliest ‖ City in Japan

1.I had a lump in my throat. (metaphor)

2.At last this intermezzo came to an end…(metaphor)

3.Was I not at the scene of the crime? (rhetorical question)

4.After three days in Japan, the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible. (euphemism)

5.Each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares. (euphemism)

6.… little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers …struggle between kimono and the miniskirt.

(metonymy)

7.I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact. (metonymy)

8.Seldom has 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. (anti-climax)

9.Hiroshima—the Liveliest City in Japan (irony)

10.the good fortune that my illness has brought me. (irony)

Unit 4. Everyday Use

1.She gasped like a bee had strung her. (simile)

2.Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tale. (simile)

3.Impressed with her they worshiped her well-turned phrases, the cute shape, the scalding humor that

erupted like bubbles in lye. (simile & metaphor )

4.He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. (metaphor )

5.And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (metaphor )

6.My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. (simile)

Unit 5. Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R

1.I see also the dull, drilled , docile , brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of

crawling locusts. (alliteration & simile)

2.The Russian danger is therefore our danger, and the danger of the United States, just as the cause of any

Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free man and free peoples in every quarter of the globe. (alliteration & analogy)

3.Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. (alliteration)