高级英语第二册修辞全集.doc

Lesson21.Are they really the same flesh as youself?rhetorical question2.They rise out of the earth,they sweat and starve for a few yers,and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.alliteration ,metaphor3.Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,like clouds of flies.simile4.Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape.irony5.There was a frenzied rush of Jews.transferred epithet6.A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.synecdoche7.What government service.rhetorical question8.Long lines of women,bent double like inverted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the fields.simile9.This kind of thing makes ones blod boil.metonymy10.I am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.understatement11.This wretched boy,who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns,actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin.synecdoche12. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men.simile13.while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. metaphorLesson31. no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sprkles or just glows.metaphor2. they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers of Dumassimile3. suddenly the alchemy of conversation took placemetaphor4. the glow of the conversation burst into flamesmetaphor5. The conversation was on wings.metaphor6. We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.metaphor7. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.simile8. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.metaphor,alliteration9. the Kings English slips and slides in conversation.metaphor,alliteration10. Otherwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it flow freely here and there.metaphor11. We would never have gone to Australia,or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest.metaphor.Lesson51. Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays,unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dreams Children.metaphor2. There follows an informal essay that entures even beyond Lambs frontier.metaphor3. the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic,far from being a dry,pedantic discipline,is a living,breathing thing,full of beauty,passion,and trauma.metaphor,hyperbole4. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,as precise as a chemists scales.hyperbole,simile5. My brain ,that precision instrument,slipped into high gear.mixed metaphor6. I was out one to let my heart rule my head.metonymy7. if you were out of the picture,the field woud be open.metaphor 8. I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.transferred epithet9. “Polly?” he said in a horrified whisper.transferred epithet10. Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.antithesis11. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.understatement,litotes12. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.metonymy13. I might as well waste another.Who knew?rhetorical question14. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers still smoldered.metaphor15. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.synecdoche,metonymy16. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.metaphor17. It was like digging a tunnel.simile18. I will wander the face of the earth,a shambling,hollow-eyed hulk.hyperboleLesson 71. Here was the very heart of industrial America.metaphor2. here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.hyperbole, antithetical, contrast.3. here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.hyperbole4. what I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness,the sheer revolting monstrousness,of every house in sight.hyperbole5. one blinks before a man with his face shot away.simile6. a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somehere further down the line.simile7. The country itself is not uncomely.litotes,understatement8. Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region,they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.sarcasm9. on theire low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud.metaphor10. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of a fried egg.ridicule,irony11. they have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye.hyperbole12. I award this championship only after laborious research and invessant prayer.sarcasm,irony13. Pullman ,I have whirled through the gloomy,Godforsaken villages of Iowa and Kansas,and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.metaphor14. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius ,uncompromisingly inimical to man.hyperbole,irony15. Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreignersdull,insensate brutes,with no love of beauty in them?metorical question16. It is incredible that mereignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.sarcasm,irony17. On certain levels of the American race,indeed,there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly,as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful.antithesis18. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.sarcasm19. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye.metaphorLesson101. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the youngtransferred epithet2. we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.metaphor3. War or no war,as the generations passed,it became increasingly difficult for our young people to accept standards of behavior that bore no relationship to the bustling business medium in which they were expected to battle for success.metaphor4. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structuremetaphor5. Greenwich Village set thee pattern.metonymy6. it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and “Puritanical”gentility.metaphor7. the conventions and to