高级英语 修辞手法总汇 复习

一、词语修辞格

（1）simile 明喻

①...a memory that seemed phonographic

②Most American remember M. T. as the father of...

（2）metaphor 暗喻

①the last this intermezzo came to an end…

②Mark Twain --- Mirror of America

③saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

④main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

⑤All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...

⑥When railroads began drying up the demand...

⑦...the epidemic of gold and silver fever...

⑧Twain began digging his way to regional fame...

⑨Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...

⑩The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.

⑪and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind…

⑫I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.

⑬I see the Russian soldiers standing on the thresthold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.

⑭The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.

⑮I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.

⑯We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke.

（3）metonymy 借代，转喻

（4）synecdoche 提喻

①The case had erupted round my head

（5）personification 拟人

①...to literature's enduring gratitude...

②The grave world smiles as usual...

③Bitterness fed on the man...

④America laughed with him.

⑤Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.

（6）transferred epithet 移就

①Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder

②The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.

③Two high points of color appeared in the paleness of the Duchess of Croydon’s cheeks.

（7）hyperbole 夸张

①If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

②...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...

③The cast of characters... - a cosmos.

④America laughed with him.

⑤The trial that rocked the world

⑥His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world."

（8）oxymoron 矛盾修饰法

Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a, "victorious defeat. "

（9）euphemism 委婉语

①… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.

②...men's final release from earthly struggle

（10）irony -- the use of words to express

something different from and often opposite to their