修辞学练习(共6页)

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上英语修辞学第一章-第四章练习答案Tell what figures of speech each sentence contains. 1. You might as well expect a leopard to change its spots as expect him to give up smoking.(simile)2. I stayed on Hong Kong island and found myself in a different world, where surprising quiet and the green smell of lus

2、h foliage is just steps away from the business district.(Jane Wooldridge: Hong Kong) (synaesthesia)3. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. (kate Chopin: The Dream of an Hour) (synaesthesia)4. How all my own territory would be altered, as if a landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all

3、 meaning except loss of Mike. (simile)(I had never realized until Mikes leaving) How much my own life would be affected, as if it had been destroyed by a landslide, which took away everything I used to enjoy, leaving behind only the pain from missing Mike.我的世界里，就像发生了天崩地裂，除了迈克的离去，其余所有的记忆都被冲走了。5. My b

4、rain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemists scale, as penetrating as a scalpel. (simile) 我的大脑像发电机一样发达，化学家的称那样精确，像手术刀一样锋利。6. Moreover, she had married into conversation（很会说话的人）. (Huxley) (metonymy)7. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity . (Lawrence) (metonymy) charity - thin

5、gs given in charity8. Great minds think alike. (synecdoche) 英雄所见略同。9. It（teaching）was like digging a tunnel. (simile)10. He is pitiless as steel, keen and cold as frost. (London) (simile)铁石心肠、冷若冰霜11. Mike and I climbed into the cab when it rained , and the rain washed down the windows and made a rac

6、ket like stones on the roof. (simile)雨水打在车窗上，声音很大，就像石头打在屋顶上。12. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is not a man. (simile)13. But these marks or wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song . (simile)就像希腊神话里海妖那动人的歌声一样诱惑着爸爸。14. How sharper than a serpent

7、s tooth it is to have a thankless child. (Shakespeare) (simile)15. And at once they shut up like clams. (simile)16. altar , sword and pen , Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower , Have forfeited their old English dowerOf inward happiness . ( Wordsworth ) (metonymy)圣坛，宝剑，笔杆，还有那炉台，厅堂上以及内室里英雄的

8、财产  （厅堂上以及内室里英雄的家当）都已经丧失了它们内心的欢忭  （都已经丧失了它们内心的欢畅）  那英国的古传统。17. He is a black sheep（白色羊群中的黑狼） in the family . (metaphor)害群之马18. He treats his child as the apple in the eye. (simile)掌上明珠19. when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.

9、(metaphor)当测量人的价值的不公正的衡量器具是美元被消除。20. A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. (simile)21. She was a warm-hearted, home-spun woman. (Hardy) (metaphor)22. England in the second half of the 16th century was a nest of singing birds. (metaphor)23. Above us hung a sullen sky. (transf

10、erred epithet)24. A mist of gulls drifted over the breaking surf. (metaphor)25. Bullets whistled ,whipping up fountains of snow . (metaphor)26. She closed her busy life at the age of eighty. (transferred epithet)27. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the doo

11、r to the meaning of ultimate reality . (metaphor)28. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in lifes marketplace . (metaphor)29. It silhouettes our mother on the lake shore, the first light catching the soft red of her hair. (transferred epithet)30. With the quickness of a cat, she climb

12、s up into the nest of cool-bladed leaves. (simile)31. She looked both young and aging, as if she had just emerged from an illness or some crisis. (simile)32. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (simile)33. The men were held in the valley by a wall of fire. (fire like a wall) (metaphor)34. Sh

13、e was consumed with curiosity. (metaphor)35. Most of our fears are unreasonable , but they are impossible to erase . (metaphor)36. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery. (metaphor)37. The heat rose up and hung and s

14、weltered like a sodden blanket in St. Louis .(Thomas Wolfe) (simile)38. I am as irresponsible as a puff of wind . (simile)39. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (a room is compared to freedom, while the house is compared to the whole society) (metaphor)40.

15、 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)41. If not always in a hot mood to smash, the sea is always ready for a drowning. (personification)42.

16、Once in a while something slips one of the actors goes up in his lines and the whole performance stumbles and halts . (metaphor)43. One day the sun and the wind had a quarrel. The sun said he was stronger than the wind. And the wind said he was stronger than the sun. (personification)44. A moment la

17、ter, the hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.（Joseph P.Blank: Face to Face with Hurricane Camille）(personification)45. I've never met anyone who thinks that if you rewound the tape of terrestrial evolution and played it again, you'd wind up w

18、ith a genetically identical human being the second time around . (metaphor)46. Walls have long ears. (personification)47. I scratched him gently with oily fingers and he remained quiet, as though trying to recall the satisfaction of being scratched when in health, and seeming to rehearse in his mind

19、 the indignity to which he had just been subjected. (personification)48. One might fancy the season over ,and most of the houses gone out of town. (synecdoche)人们可能会想到，这个季节过后，屋子里许多人会出城去。49. Power is the arbiter. (Jack London) (personification)50. He mentioned to the boat in general how the amusement

20、of rowing strung him , and the weary-faced oiler smiled in full sympathy. (Stephen Crane) (synecdoche)51. Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull soundless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her . (personification)52. I found the patriot in him. (

21、synecdoche)53.He allowed the father(kindness) to be overruled by the judge (justice), and declared his son guilty. (synecdoche)54. But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue: (Shakespeare) (personification)55. Love doth to her eyes repair To help him of his blindness,And. being help

22、d, inhabits there. (Shakespeare) (personification)56. The fire danced in a lively way. (personification)57. Rough wind, that moanest loud Grief too sad for song; (personification)58. My brain, which is a precise instrument, slipped into high gear. (metaphor)59. But saved for what? Brutish ostracism

23、by everyone and a few years of solitary despair. (Defence for the Died) (transferred epithet)60. And life is inextricably interwoven with nonlife（如：土壤、空气和水等）; not even the sharpest razor can perfectly slice them apart. (metaphor)61. It tore three large cargo ships from their moorings and beach them.

24、（Joseph P.Blank: Face to Face with Hurricane Camille）(personification)62.When Industry comes in at the window Poverty goes out of the door. (personification) 产业进窗来，贫穷出门去。63. Its unnecessary to tip people in cafeterias or fast food restaurant. (transferred epithet)64. A clear and exalted（得意洋洋的）percep

25、tion enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial. (kate Chopin: The Dream of an Hour) (transferred epithet)65. Droves of blue-jackets（metonymy） were doing an animated （活泼的）scrub-down. ( A Horse in the Sky ) (transferred epithet)一批又一批身着蓝色制服的骑兵正在愉快地饮马洗刷。66. Major Danby s Belfast was lost in a rou

26、nd-eyed meditation. (transferred epithet)67. Fact speaks louder than eloquence. (personification)68. Franklin Roosevelt listened with a bright-eyed smiling attention. (Argentia Bay) (transferred epithet)69. The stewardess flung open the door, and someone open the emergency door at the back letting i

27、n the sweet noise of their continuing motility the idle splash and smell of heavy rain. (John Keats: the Country Husband) (synaesthesia)70. All afternoon while the men were gone I was full of happy energy. (transferred epithet)71. In the air, always was a might smell of sound that is seemed could sw

28、ay the earth with the courageous words of artillery and spiteful sentence of musketry mingled red cheers. (synaesthesia)(Stephen Crane: the Red-Badge of Courage)72. They were green stockinet and laddered delightfully as I snipped. (Anne :Out of Mists) (transferred epithet)73. Let us be dissatisfied

29、until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. (transferred epithet)74. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lambs frontier. (metaphor)比兰姆的散文还要散、

30、还要随意75. When she ceased, the auricular impressions from their previous endearments seemed to hustle away into the corners of their brains, repeating themselves as echoes from a time of supremely purblind foolishness. (Thomas Hardy: Tess of Durberville) (transferred epithet)她讲完过去的事情以后，他们从前卿卿我我的耳边印象，好

31、像一起挤到了他们脑子中的一个角落里去了，那些印象的重现似乎只是他们盲目和愚蠢时期的余音。76. Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit . (metaphor) 她的生活就是由虚伪和欺骗组成的。77. and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (synecdoche)78. He crashed down on a protesting chair. (transferred epithet)79. Professor Wilson has a very bu

32、sy schedule. (transferred epithet)80. Truth is a deep well . (metaphor)81. What a noisy scarf it is ! (synaesthesia)82. A loud perfume, which at my entrance cried, (John Donne) (synaesthesia)83. there was a frenzied (crazy) rush of Jews. (George Orwell: Marrakech) (transferred epithet)84. Otherwise

33、you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (metonymy) 否则，你犯了一个绝对判断的错误。（“过分简化的谬论）85. Beijing has made opening up a national policy. (metonymy) 机关团体所在地代那个机关团体。86. The only thing I remember about my life up to the age of five was getting into a temper and cutting a hated pair of knickers to pieces.( Anne

34、:Out of Mists) (transferred epithet)87. And like music on the watersIs thy sweet voice to me. I can see the music breathing from her face.(byron) (synaesthesia)88. Heavy sound (synaesthesia)89. Piercing cry (synaesthesia)90. It seems to me I have won my wager and recovered my glove (boxing match) .

35、(metonymy)91. He has a pronounced yellow streak . (cowardice胆怯) (metonymy)92. Then the whining school-boy ,with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school . And then the lover,Sighing like furnace , with a woeful ballad Made to his mistresss eyebrow. (Shakespeare

36、) (simile) 今天早上阳光灿烂，可那个哀怨的孩子，背着他的书包，像蜗牛爬行一样，很不情愿地走向学校。情人，像炉子一样重重地叹了一口气，对着爱人的脸唱着悲伤的情歌。93. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave. (metonymy) （从小到老）94. This prize was the blue ribbon in mathematical research . (metonymy)最高的荣誉；头等奖95. The best work is done the way ants do things-by tiny,

37、tireless and regular additions. (simile)96. No cross , no crown（achievement）. ( Proverb ) (metonymy)不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。97. She didnt want to be looked upon as a blue stocking . (metonymy)98. I got mad and talked like a Dutch uncle. (simile)99. advising Chinese travelers not to fly on a Boeing 777 and sugge

38、sting that Hollywood be burned . (metonymy) 机关团体所在地代那个机关团体。100.The sheriff told him better bring in guys or give up his button（职位）. (Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath) (metonymy)101. Will you play me some Chopin ? (metonymy)102. Is the Remington better than the Underwood ? (Remington牌打字机，Underwood牌打字机) (metonymy)103. I have to admit that instead of spending that sum upon bread and butter (all the necessary food), rent , shoes and stockings, or butchers bills, I went out and bought a cat a beautiful cat, a Persian cat, which very soon involved me in bitter disputes wi