高英第二册修辞

高英2--修辞汇总

Lesson1

1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor(暗喻)

2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile (明喻)

3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile

4. …it seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ----personification(拟人)

5. Rcihelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished. ----

6. …the Salvation Army’s canteen trucks and Red Cross volunteers and staffers were going wherever possibl

e to distribute hot drinks, food, clothing and bedding. -----

7. The federal government shipped 4,400,000 pounds of food, moved in mobile homes, set up portable clas srooms, opened offices to provide low-interest, long-term business loans. ----

8. We can batten down and ride it out. -----metaphor

9. Everybody out the back door to the cars!—ellipsis (省略)

10. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. -----simile

11. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the stor m from their spectacular vantage point-----transferred epithet移就

12. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads----metaphor; simile

Lesson2

1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -----simile

2. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the namele ss mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. -----alliteration押头韵

3. ... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ----simile

4. And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of arm ed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direct ion, glittering like scraps of paper. ----- simile

5. The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys, no women—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again. --—elliptical sentence

6. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.—- hyperbole

7. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamoring for a cigarette. -----transferred epithet

8. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—-synecdoche(提喻)

9. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward—a long, dusty column, infantry, scr ew-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clum ping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.—---onomatopoetic words symbolism

10. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive. —--elliptical sentence

11. This wretched boy, who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floo rs and catch syphilis in garrison towns, actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. —-synecdoche 提喻

Lesson4

1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, fo r we dare not meet a power full challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis

2.…in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.—metapho r

3. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression (回环:A-B-C)

4. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.—allusion 引典; climax递进

5. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your cou ntry.—antithesis, regression回环

6 We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a begi nning, signifying renewal as well as change. ----parallelism

7. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike….—alliteration

8. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, me et any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ----–pa rallelism; alliteration

9. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, fo r we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. ----antithesis对句

10. To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe… ------

11. …struggling to break the bonds of mass misery…----

12. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -----antithesis

13. … to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. ---repetition

14. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion…-----metaphor

15. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. -----antithesis

16.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. -----metaphor

17. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who se rve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. -----extended metaphor

18. …to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak… ----metaphor

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds… -----parallelism Lesson5

1. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedanti

c discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, an

d trauma.—-metaphor; hyperbole

2. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the i nformal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.—metaphor

2. Cool was I and logical. ----inversion (倒装)

3. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.

5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ----metaphor or -mixed-metaphor

Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. ----

6. I was not one to let my heart rule my head. ----metonymy转喻

7. "I may do better than that," I said with a mysterious wink (眨眼) and closed my bag and left. ----transferred epithet

8. She thought this over for a minute and decided she liked it. ----

9. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. ----metaphor

10. After all, you don't have to eat a whole cake to know it's good. ----

11. We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly. -----allusion

12. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, ----allusion

13.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat. ----allusion

The time had come to change our relationship from academic to romantic. ----assonance (半)谐音

14. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.—antithesis

15. What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?—parody

"Your girl," I said, mincing no words. ----litotes (间接肯定)

16. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions… -----litotes or understatement

17. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I c ould fan them into flame.—-metaphor or extended metaphor

18. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. ----synecdoche (提喻)

He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. ----metaphor

19. Over and over and over again I cited instances pointed out flaws, kept hammering away without let-up. ----metaphor

20. Suddenly, a g1immer of intelligence—the first I had seen--came into her eyes. ----metaphor

21 I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came pouring in and all was bright. -----metaphor

22. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. -----h yperbole; metaphor

23. He's a liar. He's a cheat. He's a rat. ----climax (递进)

Look at me--a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with an assured future. Look at Petey--a k not-head, a jitterbug, a guy who'll never know where his next meal is coming from. -----antithesis对句Lesson7

1. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, t he boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth—and here was a scene so dreadfu lly hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and d epressing joke.—metaphor; hyperbole; parallelism; antithesis

2. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination—and here were human habitations s o abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.—hyperbole; antithesis

2. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every hou se in sight. ----transferred epithet

3. …, there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye. ----hyperbole; doubl

e negatives (双否)

4. There was not a single decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh suburbs to the Greensburg yar ds，and there was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby. ----hyperbole; r epetition; double negatives

5. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills.—litotes or understatement

6. Obviously, if their were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perf ected a chalet to hug the hillsides—a chalet with a high-pitched roof, to throw off the heavy winter snows, but still essentially a low and clinging building, wider than it was tall.-— ridicule （讽刺）

7. This they have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards, with a narrow, low-pitched roof. ----inversion (倒装)

8. On their deep sides they are three, four and even five stories high; on their low sides they bury themselv es swinishly in the mud. ----metaphor

9.But what brick! -----ellipsis (省略)

10. …, and so they have the most loathsome (丑陋的) towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye (人世间). ---- hyperbole

11. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. ----irony; sarcasm

12. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping throug

h the streaks.—metaphor

13. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring.—ridicul e, irony, metaphor

14. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.—irony

15. Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy, God-forsaken villages of Iowa and Lansas, and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.—antonomasia (换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or allusion

16. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingen uity of Hell to the making of them.—hyperbole, irony

17. They like it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.—irony

18. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.—metaphor

19. …one blinked before them as one blinks before a man with his face shot away.

20.A few linger in memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church just west of Jeannette ----personificatio n

21 …set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare, leprous hill…----- metaphor

22. a steel stadium like a huge rattrap somewhere further down the line. ----simile

23. They like it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon (帕特农神庙) would no doubt offend them. ---- antonomasia (换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or allusion

24. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. ----met aphor

25. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingen uity of Hell to the making of them. ----hyperbole; irony

26. Such ghastly designs, it must be obvious, give a genuine delight to a certain type of mind. ----synecdoch

e (提喻)

27. Thus I suspect (though confessedly without knowing) that the vast majority of the honest folk of Westm oreland county, and especially the 100% Americans among them, actually admire the houses they live in, a nd are proud of them. -----irony; sarcasm

28. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. ---irony