高级英语2修辞总结

1、s EnglishLesson 1 Pub Talk and the KingAlliterationthe King s Engssips and slides (Para. 18)Allusions暗指，引喻-musketeers of Dumas (Para. 3)-descendants of convicts (Para. 7)-Saxon churls (Para. 8)-Norman conquerors (Para. 8)ExaggerationPerhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think

2、 bar conversation has a charmof its own. (Para. 3)MetaphorNo one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. (Para.2)They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (Para. 3)Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place (Para. 4)The glow of the

3、conversation burst into flames. (Para. 6)The conversation was on wings. (Para. 8)We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. (Para. 11)The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. (Para. 14)I have an un

4、ending love affair with dictionaries. (Para. 17)Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King E nglish slips and slides in conversation. (Para. 18)“the sinisterrridor of our age ” (Para. 18)Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there. (Para.

5、20)We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. (Para.20)5. SimileThey are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other.3)s (ParaThe Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, (Para. 1

6、4)Lesson 2 MarrakechSimile1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. (Para. 2)soeyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (Para. 8)where the soil is exactlyike broken-up brick. (Para. 18)Long lines of women, ben

7、t double like-inverted capital Ls (Para. 18)their feet squashed into boots that lookedike blocks of wood (Para)6., glitteringke scraps of paper. (Para. 26)MetaphorThey rise out of the earth , (Para. 3)Down the center of the street there is generally running a little river of urine. (Para. 8) Alliter

8、ationsweat and starve (Para. 3)Transferred Epithet-there was a frenzied rush of Jews (Para. 10)Onomatopoeia,winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels (Para. 22) Synecdochea white skin is always fairly conspicuous (Para. 16), actually has feelings of reverence before a

9、 white skin. (Para. 24)Rhetorical QuestionAre they really the same flesh as your self? Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of differentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects? (Para. 3)How much longer can we go one kidding these people? How 10ng before they tur

10、n their guns in the other direction? (Para. 25) UnderstatementI am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact. (Para. 21)Lesson 3 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)Parallelism，symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. (Para. 1) Paras. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11Alliterati

11、onfriend and foe alike (Para. 3)to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Para. 4)steady spread (Para. 13)bear the burden(Para. 22) strength and sacrifice (Para.26)Metaphor.those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (Para. 7)But this peaceful revoluti

12、on of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (Para. 9)this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (Para. 9)to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak (Para. 10)And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion (Para. 19)The energy, the faith, th

13、e devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (Para. 24) Consonance，whether it wishes us well o门ll ,(Para. 4)Synecdocheboth rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom .(Para. 13) AntithesisU

14、nited, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (Para. 6)If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (Para.8)And so, my fellow

15、 Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can dofor your country. (Para. 25)Repetitionall forms of (Para. 2)the belief (Para. 2)RegressionLet us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. (Para. 14)And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country

16、can do for you; ask what you can dofor your country. (Para. 25)Allusionone hundred days (Para. 20)ClimaxAll this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first onethousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this

17、planet. (Para. 20)Hyperbolehour of maximum danger (Para. 24)Lesson 4 Love is a FallacyMetaphorCharles Lamb, unfettered the informal essay with.” Dream s Children ” . (Author s Note)There follows an informal essay.frontier . (Author s Note)Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living

18、, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (Author s Note)My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (Para. 17)In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (Para. 31)I fought off a wave of despair. (Para. 76)Maybe somewhere in the extinct cr

19、ater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. (Para. 95)The next fallacy is called Poisoning the Well. (Para. 112)” The first man hasoisoned the well before anybody could drink from it. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.” (Para. 116

20、)The 面!(Para. 148)SimileMy brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist scale, as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para. 1)Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (Para. 2)First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window. (Para. 47)He looked like_a mound of

21、dead raccoons. (Para. 54).the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (Para. 94)It was like digging a tunnel. (Para. 120)I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (Para. 144)Antithesis“Its, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl bea

22、utiful. ” (Para. 24)“ Back and forth his head swiveleddesire waxing, resolution waning . ” (Para. 47)If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there is an immovable object there can be no irresistible force. (Para. 91)“ Look at m-a brilliant ing from. ” (Para. 150)Hyper

23、boleLogic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (Author s Note)My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist scale, as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para. 1)It s not often that one so young has such a giant intelle

24、ct. (Para. 2)Finally he didn t turn away at all; he just stood and stared with mad lust at thePaoat.47)You are the whole world of outer space (Para. 132)“I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, holloweyed hulk. ” (Para. 132)MetonymyBut I was not one to let my heart rule my head. (Para. 20)

25、Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (Para. 70)You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (Para. 79)LitotesThis loomed as a project of no small dimensions. (Para. 58)SynecdocheThere is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (Para. 112)AnalogyJust as Pygmalion loved the perf

26、ect woman he had fashioned, so I loved mine. (Para. 122) Transferred EpithetI said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. (Para. 37)Rhetorical QuestionCould Carlyle do more? Could Ruskin? (Authors Note)“Really? ” said Polly, amazed. Nobody?” (Para. 73)Who knew? (Para. 95)Lesson 5 The Sad

27、 Y oung MenMetaphor:we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality (Para. 2)battle for success (Para. 3)And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world eco

28、nomic structure at the end of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face the problems of the new age. (Para. 4)once the young men hadeceived a good taste of twentieth-century warfare. (Para. 6)they haahutgrown town and families (Para. 6)iisleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country (Para. 6)to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “ flaming youth ” (Para. 8)now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion. (Para. 8)w