高级英语第二册修辞全集

Lesson21.Are they really the same flesh as youself?—rhetorical question2.They rise out of the earth,they sweat and starve for a few yers,and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard.—alliteration ,metaphor3.Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,like clouds of flies.—simile4.Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape.—irony5.There was a frenzied rush of Jews.—transferred epithet6.A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche7.What government service.—rhetorical question8.Long lines of women,bent double like inverted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the fields.—simile9.This kind of thing makes one’s blod boil.——metonymy10.I am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.——understatement11.This wretched boy,who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns,actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin.——synecdoche12. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles of armed men.—simile13.while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.——metaphorLesson31.no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sprkles or justglows.——metaphor2.they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers ofDumas—simile3.suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place—metaphor4.the glow of the conversation burst into flames——metaphor5.The conversation was on wings.——metaphor6.We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.——metaphor7.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,and its seeds multiplied, and floated tothe ends of the earth.—simile8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.——metaphor,alliteration9.the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.——metaphor,alliteration10.O therwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it flow freely here andthere.——metaphor11.W e would never have gone to Australia,or leaped back in time to the NormanConquest.——metaphor.Lesson51.Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month ofSundays,unfettered the informal essay with his m emorable Old China and Dream’sChildren.—metaphor2.There follows an informal essay that entures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.——metaphor3.the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic,far from being a dry,pedanticdiscipline,is a living,breathing thing,full of beauty,passion,andtrauma.—metaphor,hyperbole4.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,as precise as a chemist’sscales.——hyperbole,simile5.My brain ,that precision instrument,slipped into high gear.——mixed metaphor6.I was out one to let my heart rule my head.——metonymy7.if you were out of the picture,the field woud be open.——metaphor8.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.——transferred epithet9.“Polly?” he said in a horrified whisper.——transferred epithet10.B ack and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.—antithesis11.This loomed as a project of no small dimensions.——understatement,litotes12.Y ou are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.——metonymy13.I might as well waste another.Who knew?——rhetorical question14.M aybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers stillsmoldered.——metaphor15.T here is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.——synecdoche,metonymy16.H e has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.——metaphor17.I t was like digging a tunnel.——simile18.I will wander the face of the earth,a shambling,hollow-eyed hulk.——hyperbole1.Here was the very heart of industrial America.——metaphor2.here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced thewhole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.——hyperbole, antithetical, contrast.3.here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alleycats.——hyperbole4.what I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness,the sheer revolting monstrousness,ofevery house in sight.——hyperbole5.one blinks before a man with his face shot away.——simile6. a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somehere further down the line.——simile7.The country itself is not uncomely.——litotes,understatement8.Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region,theywould have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.——sarcasm9.on theire low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud.——metaphor10.W hen it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of a friedegg.——ridicule,irony11.t hey have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye.——hyperbole12.I award this championship only after laborious research and invessantprayer.——sarcasm,irony13.P ullman ,I have whirled through the gloomy,Godforsaken villages of Iowa and Kansas,andthe malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.——metaphor14.I t is as if some titanic and aberrant genius ,uncompromisingly inimical toman.——hyperbole,irony15.A re they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners——dull,insensate brutes,with nolove of beauty in them?——metorical question16.I t is incredible that mereignorance should have achieved such masterpieces ofhorror.——sarcasm,irony17.O n certain levels of the American race,indeed,there seems to be a positive libido for theugly,as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful.——antithesis18.B eside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.——sarcasm19.T he effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye.——metaphor1.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged andcurious questionings by the young—transferred epithet2.we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behindthe artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.—metaphor3.War or no war,as the generations passed,it became increasingly difficult for our young peopleto accept standards of behavior that bore no relationship to the bustling business medium in which they were expected to battle for success.—metaphor4.The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian socialstructure—metaphor5.Greenwich Village set thee pattern.——metonymy6.it was only natural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamed againstwar,Babbittry,and “Puritanical”gentility.——metaphor7.the conventions and to add their own little matchsticks to conflagration of “flaming youth”,itwas Greenwich Village that fanned the flames.——metaphor8.Before long the movement had become officially recognized by the pulpit.——metaphor9.who had suffered no real disillusionment or sense of loss,now began to imitate the manners oftheir elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.——metaphor10.A n important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in the United States,writtenby”thirty intellectuals”under the editorship of J.Harold Stearns,was the rallying point ofsensitive persons disgusted with America.——metaphor11.t he country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of thedollar.——personification, metonymy ,synecdoche。