最全的英语修辞手法大全本人因考试整理

1、最全的英语修辞手法大全(本人因考试整理)英语修辞手法大全Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, synecdoche, anticlimax, metonymy, repetition, exaggeration, euphemism, antonomasia, parody.1) Little monkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar

2、.(metaphor),Lesson1. 2) It grows louder and more distinct ,until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes ,as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.(metaphor and personification) P2,L1.3) The dye-market ,the pottery-market ,and the carpenters marke

3、t lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar.(metaphor)P3,L14) Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a mosque or a caravanserai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay, while (personification)P3, L1.5) It is a vas

4、t ,somber cavern of a room ,some thirty feet high and sixty feet square , and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly visible.(metaphor)P4,L16) There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .(synecdoche)P15

5、,L27) “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. (anticlimax)P15, L2.8) But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been test

6、ing and treating me .(alliteration)P17, L2.9) Acre by acre ,the rain forest is being burned to create fast pasture for fast-food beef .(alliteration)P30,L3 10) According to our guide ,the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in

7、 all of North America-which means we are silently thousands of songs we have ever heard .(metonymy)P31,L3.11) What should we feel toward these ghosts in the sky?(metaphor)P32,L3.12) Have you ever seen a lame animal ,perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car ,sidle up to s

8、omeone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him?(metaphor)13) And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)P58, L4.14) I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out .(exaggeration)15) After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call

9、 him Hakim-a-barber.(metaphor)P60,L4.16) “Maggies brain is like an elephants”.Wangero said ,laughing .(ironic)P62, L4.17) You didnt even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood .(metaphor)P62,L4.18) “Mama,”Wangero said s

10、weet as a bird .“can I have these old quilts?”(simile)P63, L4.19) She gasped like a bee had stung her .(simile)20) Churchill ,he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist ,this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon.(metaphor)21) If Hitler invaded Hell and woul

11、d make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.(exaggeration)P79,L5.22) But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.(metaphor)I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(sim

12、ile)24）I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.(Metaphor)P79, L5.25）I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smarting from many a British whipping to find what they believe is

13、an easier and a safer prey.(Metaphor)P80, L5.26) We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air. (Parallelism)27) Just as the industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks

14、from mens muscles and enormously expanded productivity. (Metonymy)28) The back door opens to let out the dog .The TV set blinks on with the days first newscast: a selective rundown (Personification)P115, L7.29) The latter-day Aladdin, still snugly abed, then presses a button on a bedside box and iss

15、ues a string of business and personal memos. (Antonomasia)30) Following eyeball-to-eyeball consultations with the butcher and the baker and grocer on the tube, she hits a button to commandeer supplies for tonights dinner party. (Synecdoche) 31) The microelectronic revolution promises to ease, enhanc

16、e and simplify life in ways undreamed of even by the utopians. (Synecdoche)P116, L7.32) In the microelectronic village, the home will again be the center of society, as it was before the industrial Revolution. (Metaphor)33) the Devices ubiquitous eye, sensing where people are at all times, will simi

17、larly the lights on an off as needed. (Metaphor)34) Next to health, heart, and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile. (Alliteration, metonymy repetition,)P118, L7.35) Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithsonian antique. (Antonomasia)36) For the might

18、y army of consumers, the ultimate applications of the computer revolution are still around the bend of a silicon circuit. (Parody)P120, L737) His competitors envisioned the greater potential for entertainment and art, where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven. (Synecdoche)38) Will gove

19、rnment regulate messages sent out on this vast data highway? (Metaphor)39) Philips Interactive, for example, has dozens of titles, among them a tour of the Smithsonian, in which the viewer selects which corridor to enter by clicking on the screen. (Antonomasia)40) She says consumers would be a littl

20、e like information “cowboys,”rounding up data from computer based archives and information services.(Simile)41) To prevent getting trampled by a stampede of data, viewers will rely on programmed electronic selectors that could go out into the info corral and rape in the subjects the viewer wants. (M

21、etaphor)42) Maes and others concede that theres a dark side to all these bright dreams. (Metaphor)43) And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind: spies who might like to keep tabs on the activities of your electronic butlers? (Parody)P137, L8.44) Indeed, intelligent agents could be

22、a gold mine of information. (Metaphor)P137, L8.23) A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?24) Who ever knew Johnson with a quick tongue?25) Who can ever imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye?26) Why

23、dont you do a dance around the ashes27) “Why dont you take one or two of the others?” I asked. (24-28) rhetorical question)29. Metaphor: Mark Twain Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night.main artery of transportation in the young nations heartthe vast basin drained three-quarters o

24、f the settled United StatesAll would resurface in his books.that he soaked up.Steamboat decks teemed.main current of.but its flotsamWhen railroads began drying up the demand.the epidemic of gold and silver fever.Twain began digging his way to regional fame.Mark Twain honed and experimented with his

25、new writing muscles.took unholy verbal shots. Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of.a memory that seemed phonographicHyperbole:.cruise through eternal boyhood and .endless summer of freedom.The cast of characters. - a cosmos.Parallelism:Most Americans remember . the father of Huck Finns idyllic cruise through et