英语修辞手法总结

Lesson one 1 We can batten down and ride it out.metaphor2. Wind and rain now wiped the house. -metaphor(暗喻) 3 Everybody out the back door to the cars!-elliptical sentence (省略句)4. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. -simile (明喻) 5. But the cars wouldnt start; the electrical systems had been killed by water. personification(拟人)6. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -simile7. it seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. -personification(拟人) 8 Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile9 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-transferred epithet10. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished. 明喻11. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor; simile12. the Salvation Armys canteen trucks and Red Cross volunteers and staffers were going wherever possible to distribute hot drinks, food, clothing and bedding. Lesson two Marrakech1 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, walling a short chant over and over again. (Elliptical sentence省略句)2 提喻 or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects?3 押头韵They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard (Para 3) 4间接请求I could eat some of that bread. 5夸张 移就 暗喻A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.（Transferred epithet移就 Metaphor暗喻）6移就 暗喻Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (Transferred epithet 移就）7 类比 in just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal.7 提喻 still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.8 明喻 long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls.9 暗喻 she accepted her status as an old woman, that is to say as a beast of burden.10 拟声词Onomatopoeia as the strokes flew northward the Negroes were marching southward -a long, dusty column, infantry, screw- gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels. 11 明喻 their feet squashed into boots that looks like blocks of woodSimile12 省略句 Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive13 明喻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 scrapes of paper. Lesson threeMetaphor(暗喻)1 the conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the english peasants of the 12th century.2 the conversation was on wings. 3.And no one has any idea where it will go as it meander or leaps and sparkles or just glows .mixed metaphor4The 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.metaphor【1.on the rock 为英语习语，这里引用了隐喻的修辞手法，把婚姻比喻成触礁的船只】【2.to get out of the bed on the wrong side 也是英语习语。指平时脾气很好的人突然变得暴躁，难以相处，这里没有用到比喻】5 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.simile，metaphor【compare searching for information to digging with a spade 】6 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 ther was a focus.metaphor【the alchemy of conversation这里将聊天时突然出现的奇迹变化比喻成炼金术】7.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.8.As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education ,we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the the Saxon peasant.【into the shoes :to think as if one is a peasant】9The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.simile【将英语比喻成蒲公英的绒毛头，伊丽莎白时期的作家们把英语的影响扩散到世界各地正如蒲公英的种子随风四处飘散一样】10.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries .metaphor11 Even with the most educated and the most literate,the Kings English slips and slides in conversation. alliteration, metaphor【slips and slides 本来指在行走时滑到、摔跤，这里比喻最有学问的人在谈话中也会犯错误，使用了暗喻，同时slips and slide 词首重复s 使用了押韵】12. 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.metaphor【E.M.Forster 把这个时代我们要做的事.我们行走的路比喻成“险恶的长廊”，是对现代社会的批判】13.paraghraph19:.the great mindssynecdoche14.Otherwise one will bind the conversation ,one will not let it flow freely here and there .metaphorLesson 4Repetition For man holds in his motalof human lifeAnd yet the same GodPara3 重复committed的句子Para9 重复 good ,free 的句子AntithesisPara6 lines25United, there is litterDivided, there is litterPapa8 lines56If a free society cannot who are richPara15 linesLet both sides exploredivide usPara14 lines12Let us begin anewproofMetaphor Para3 lines2 Let the world go forth from hisPara7 lines78In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger