高级英语第二册修辞分析

《高级英语》修辞分析及参考答案

1. But we shall not always expect…to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by

riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (metaphor)

2. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (metaphor)

3. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

(metaphor)

4. We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to

strengthen its shield of the new and the weak. (metaphor)

5. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion…(metaphor)

6. The energy, the faith, the 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. (metaphor)

7. Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (simile)

8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (transferred epithet)

9. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (antithesis)

10. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

(antithesis)

11. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your

country. (antithesis)

12. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered

the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children. (metaphor)

13. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier. (metaphor)

14. Logic, far from being a dry, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (metaphor and hyperbole)

15. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.

(simile and hyperbole)

16. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (hyperbole)

17. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (ellipsis and simile)

18. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. (ellipsis)

19. Not, however, to Petey. (ellipsis)

20. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (metaphor)

21. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.

(antithesis)

22. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (metaphor)

23. I said with a mysterious wink. (transferred epithet)

24. He just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat. (hyperbole)

25. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (metonymy)

26. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (metonymy)

27. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. (antithesis)

28. The raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (simile)

29. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I

could fan them into flame. (metaphor)

30. Surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation. (metonymy)