高英修辞

A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.(hyperbole 夸张)

…there was a frenzied rush of Jews,…(transferred epithet 移就)

Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls,…(simile 明喻)

I am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact.(understatement 含蓄陈述)

As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward.(symbolism 象征)

The Negroes…winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.(onomatopoeia 拟声)

…the great white birds drifted over…glittering like scraps of paper.(symbolism 象征;simile 明喻) They rise out of the earth, they sweat and stare for a few years.(alliteration 押头韵)

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

The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.(mixed metaphor 混喻)

The glow of the conversation burst into flames.(metaphor 暗喻)

The conversation was on wings.(metaphor 暗喻)

The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.(simile 明喻)

Perhaps it is because of my up-bringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own.(hyperbole 夸张)

The fact that their marriage may be on the rocks.(metaphor 暗喻)

…without any focus and with no need for one, that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place…(metaphor 暗喻)

Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s Englsh slips and slides in conversation.(metaphor 暗喻;alliteration 押头韵)

When E.M. Forster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase.(metaphor 暗喻)

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike.(alliteration 押头韵)

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.(parallelism 排比;consonance 尾韵)

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.(antithesis 对照) …in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.(metaphor 暗喻)

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.(regression 回环)

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.(historical allusion 历史典故;climax 层进)

And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.(antithesis 对照;regression 回环)