高级英语第一册修辞

高级英语第一册修辞小结

MARK TWAIN

Metaphor:

Mark Twain --- Mirror of America

saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States

All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...

Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam

When 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 new writing muscles...

...took unholy verbal shots...

Simile:

Most American remember M. T. as the father of...

...a memory that seemed phonographic

Hyperbole:

...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...

The cast of characters... - a cosmos.

Parallelism:

Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. Personification:

life dealt him profound personal tragedies...

the river had acquainted him with ...

...to literature's enduring gratitude...

...an entry that will determine his course forever...

the grave world smiles as usual...

Bitterness fed on the man...

America laughed with him.

Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.

Antithesis:

...between what people claim to be and what they really are... ...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...

...a world which will lament them a day and forget them foreve Euphemism:

...men's final release from earthly struggle

Alliteration:

...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home ...with a dash and daring...

...a recklessness of cost or consequences..

Metonymy:

...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe

Synecdoche

Keelboats,...carried the first major commerce

The trial

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…

Simile:

...swept the arena like a prairie fire

...a palm fan like a sword...

Metonymy

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

The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below.

Hyperbole:

The trial that rocked the world

Ridicule:

Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted ...

Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

Sarcasm:

There is some doubt about that.

Transferred epithet

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

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

Assonance:

when bigots lighted faggots to burn...

Repetition:

The truth always wins...the truth...the truth...

Pun:

Darwin is right --- inside.

Irony:

marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th century

BLACKMAIL

Transferred epithet

Two high points of color appeared in the paleness of the Duchess of Croydon’s