高级英语第一册修辞总结1--11

Unit 1 Middle Eastern Bazaar

1. Onomatopoeia: is the formation of words in imitation o the sounds associated with the thing concerned.

e.g. 1) tinkling bells (Para. 1)

2) the squeaking and rumbling (Para. 9)

2. Metaphor: is the use of a word or phrase which describes one thing by stating another comparable thing without using “as” or “like”.

e.g. 1) the heat and glare of a big open square (Para. 1)

2) …in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar (Para. 7)

3. alliteration: is the use of several words in close proximity beginning with the same letter or letters.

e.g. 1) …thread their way among the throngs of people (Para. 1)

2)…make a point of protesting

4. Hyperbole: is the use of a form of words to make sth sound big, small, loud and so on by saying that it is like something even bigger, smaller, louder, etc.

e.g. a tiny restaurant (Para. 7)

a flood of glistening linseed oil (Para. 9)

5．Antithesis: is the setting, often in parallel structure, of contrasting words or phrases opposite each other for emphasis.

e.g. 1) …a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire with a huge leather

bellows…(Para. 5)

2) …which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camels and their stone

wheels. (Para. 5)

6. Personification: a figure of speech in which inanimate objects are endowed with

human qualities or are represented as possessing human form.

e.g. …as the burnished copper catches the light of …(Para.5)

Unit 9 Mark Twain—Mirror of America

V. Rhetorical devices

1. Simile: Please refer to Lesson

2.

e.g. 1) Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic,

and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. (Para. 1)

2) Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for

Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the

Declaration of Independence. (Para. 15)

2. Metaphor

e.g. 1) …who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. (Para. 1)

2) …main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart. (Para. 3)

3. Sarcasm: it is a figure of speech which attacks in a taunting and bitter manner, and its aim is to

disparage, ridicule and wound the feelings of the subject attacked. It is most often

restricted to the making of brief, unpleasant remarks that are motivated by hostility and

contempt.

e.g. 1)…I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating. (Para. 6)

2) …one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler man in a night. (Para. 13)

4. Alliteration: please refer to Lesson 1.

e.g. It was a splendid population –for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at

home.

It was that population…and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and

a recklessness of cost or consequences‖

5. Antithesis: please refer to Lesson 1.

e.g. 1)…of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are. (Para. 5)

2)…a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

6. euphemism

e.g. 1) He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confiderate guerrillas who

diligently avoided contact with the enemy.

2) he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly

struggles

7. metonymy

e.g. …but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.

Unit 10 The Trial that Rocked the World

VII: Rhetorical devices

1. Metaphor:

No one,... that may case would snowball into...

...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.

The street ...sprouted with ...

He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.

...champion had not scorched the infidels...

…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…

2. Simile:

...swept the arena like a prairie fire

...a palm fan like a sword...