高级英语第二册修辞复习

Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English

1.The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the

English peasants of the 12th century. Who was right, who was wrong, did not matter. The conversation was on wings.—metaphor

2.As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think

ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. —metaphor

3.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries-Auden once said that all a writer

needs is a pen, plenty of paper and "the best dictionaries he can afford"--but I agree with the person who said that dictionaries are instruments of common sense.—metaphor

4.Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King's English slips and

slides in conversation.—alliteration

5.Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds are

supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th century Paris, but one suspects that the great minds were gossiping and judging the quality of the food and the wine. —synecdoche

6.Otherwise one will tie up the conversation and will not let it go on freely.

—metaphor

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Lesson 3 Inaugural Address

1Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.—alliteration

2Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,

bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty—parallelism

3United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis

4…in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.—metaphor

5If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

—antithesis

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Lesson 4 Love Is a Fallacy

1Charles 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

2Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.—metaphor, hyperbole

3She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. —metonymy

4Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.—antithesis

5It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Butch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. —hyperbole, simile

6One more chance, I decided. But just one more. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. —synecdoche

7Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.—metaphor, extended metaphor

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