高级英语第二册修辞总结.doc

高级英语第二册修辞总结Lesson11 We can batten down and ride it out.-metaphor2 Everybody out the back door to the cars!-elliptical sentence3 Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile4 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-transferred epithet5 Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees,and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor ,simileLesson21 The little crowd of mourners all men and boys,no womenthreaded 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 sentence2 A carpenter sits-cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightning speed.historical present ,transferred epithet3 Still,a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.synecdoche4 As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southwarda long,dusty column,infantry,screw-gun batteries,antitheft more infantry,four or five thousand men in all,winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.onomatopoetic words symbolism5 Not hostile,not contemptuous,not sullen,not even inquisitive.elliptical sentence6 And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men,flowing peacefully up the road,while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction,glittering like scraps of paper.simileLesson31 The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.metaphor2 They are like the musketeers of Dumas who,although they lived side by side with each other,did not delve into,each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.simile3 It was on such an occasion te other evening,as the conversation moved desultorily here and there,from the most commonplace to thoughts of Jupiter,without and focus and with no need for one that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place,and all at once there was a focus.metaphor4 The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.simile5 Even with the most educated and the most literate,the Kings English slips and slides in conversation.metaphor ,alliteration6 When E.M.Forster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,”we sit up at the vividness of the phrase,the force and even terror in the image.metaphorLesson41 Let the word go forth from this time and place,to friend and foe alike,that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,born in this century,tempered by war,disciplined by a hard and bitter peace,proud of our ancient heritage,and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed,and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.alliteration2 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.parataxis consonance3 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 power full challenge at odds and split asunder.antithesis4 in the past,those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.metaphor5 Let us never negotiate out of fear,but let us never fear to negotiate.regression6 All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.historical allusion,climax7 And so,my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your country.contrast, windingLesson51 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 Read,then,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,hyperbole3 Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.antithesis4 Whats Polly to me,or me to Polly?parody5 This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,and at first I was tempted to give her back to Petey.=understatement6 Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers still smoldered.Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.metaphor,extended metaphorLesson61 As in architecture,so in automaking.elliptical sentenceLesson81 One speaks of”human relations”and one means the most inhuman relations,those between alienated automatons;one speaks of happiness and means the perfect routinization which has driven out the last doubt and all spontaneity.parallismLesson 101 The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young:memories of the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit to a speakeasy,of the brave denunciation of Puritan morality,and of the fashionable experimentations in amour in the parked sedan on a country road;questions about the naughty,jazzy parties,the flask-toting”sheik”,and the moral and stylistic vagaries of the “flapper”and the “drug-store cowboy”.transferred epithet2 Second,in the United States it was reluctantly realized by somesubconsciously if not openlythat our country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition and that 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 structure,and by precipitations our young people into a pattern of mass murder it released their inhibited violent energies which,after thresh hooting was over,were turned in both Europe and America to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth century society.metaphor5 The prolonged stalemate of 1915-1916,the increasing insolence of Germany toward the United States,and our official reluctance to declare our status as a belligerent were intolerable to many of our idealistic citizens,and with typical American adventurousness enhanced somewhat by the strenuous jingoism of Theodore Roosevelt,our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.metonymy6 Their energies had been whipped up and their naivete destroyed by the war and now,in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country,they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as outmoded as the notion that their fighting had”made the world safe for democracy”.metaphor7 After the war,it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed against war,Babbittry,and”Puritanical”gentility,should flock to the traditional artistic center(where living was still cheap in 1919)to