高级英语第一册修辞总结(3)

a) Hearth and home (p.82)

b) I also see the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(p.79)

Let us learn the lessons already taught by such cruel experience. (p.82) 9. Personification A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form

I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey. (p.79-80) 10. hyperbole A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

夸张法：一种比喻，使用夸张来强调或产生某种效果，比如在我能睡一年 或 这书有一吨重 中

where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second;

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. (Hitler is much eviler than the devil.) (p.78)

e.g. I will love you till the seas goes dry, the rocks melt with the sun. 我爱你到海枯石烂

练习题：

1. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. (alliteration)

2. From this nothing will turn us—nothing. (repetition) 3. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields where their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. (metaphor)

4. 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. ( )

5. His competitors envisioned the greater potential for entertainment and art, where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven. ( )

Unit 9 Mark Twain—Mirror of America

1. Simile: Please refer to Lesson 2.

e.g. 1) Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was every bit as adventurous,

patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined. (Para. 1)

2) Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his

affection for Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence. (Para. 15)

2. Metaphor

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e.g. 1) …who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. (Para. 1)

2) …main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart. (Para. 3)

4. Alliteration: please refer to Lesson 1.

e.g. It was a splendid population –for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths

stayed at home.

It was that population…and rushing them through with a magnificent dash

and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences‖

5. Antithesis: please refer to Lesson 1.

e.g. 1)…of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.

(Para. 5)

2)…a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

6. euphemism

e.g. 1) He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confiderate guerrillas

who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.

2) he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from

earthly struggles

7. metonymy

e.g. …but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.

练习题：

1. He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. (euphemism)

2. Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.( antithesis)

3. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly struggles. (euphemism) 4. ―...where they have left no sign that they had existed—a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.‖ (antithesis)

5. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of adventure.( hyperbole )

6. For making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. (metonymy)

7. It was a splendid population—for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home... (alliteration)

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Unit 10 The Trial that Rocked the World

VII: Rhetorical devices 1. Metaphor:

No one,... that may case would snowball into... ...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere. The street ...sprouted with ...

He thundered in his sonorous organ tones. ...champion had not scorched the infidels... ? after the preliminary sparring over legalities… 2. Simile:

...swept the arena like a prairie fire ...a palm fan like a sword... 3. Metonymy

...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...

The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below. 4. Hyperbole:

The trial that rocked the world

His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world. 5. Ridicule:

Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted ... Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence. 6. Sarcasm:

There is some doubt about that.

And it is a mighty strong combination. 7. Transferred epithet

Darrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder. 8. Antithesis

The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below. 9. Assonance:

when bigots lighted faggots to burn... 10. Repetition:

The truth always wins...the truth...the truth... 11. synecdoche

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