高英修辞总结

高英修辞总结

A more perfect union (9)

Para. 3. metaphor: original sin;

Para.5: alliteration: color and creed

Para.6: antithesis: we may have different stories, but we hold common hopes; we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction.

Para. 8: antithesis: I’ve gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the world’s poorest nations.

Para. 10: metaphor: we saw how hungry the American people….racial lens…whitest populations

Para. 13. alliteration: the greatness and the goodness of our nation Para. 15: metaphor: firestorm

Antithesis: that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America.

Para. 19: metaphor: vessel

Alliteration: tr ials and triumphs…unique and universal…stories and songs…

Para. 20: metonymy: jarring to the untrained ear;

Antithesis: kindness and cruelty; the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance,

Alliteration: struggles and successes, the bitterness and biases A more perfect union (10)

Para. 27. transferred epithet: brutal legacy of slavery

Para. 32 metaphor: scratched and clawed their way to ….

Para. 33. metonymy and alliteration: in the pulpit and in the pews Metaphor: chasm

Para. 38. metaphor : racial wounds

Para. 39: metaphor: glass ceiling

Para.50: transferred epithet: the same proud flag.

The way to rainy mountain

Para. 1. hyperbole: the hardest weather in the world is there. The steaming foliage seems almost to writhe in fire.

Metaphor: in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge

Alliteration: brittle and brown willow and witch hazel

Simile: popping up like corn to sting the flesh.

Para.4: metaphor no longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival

Para. 5 metaphor: pilgrimage

Para. 6 alliteration: the eagle and the elk; the badger and the bear; bent

and blind (hyperbole)

Para. 7: metaphor: stairway

the great billowing clouds that sail upon it are shadows that move upon the grain like water, dividing light.

Para. 8: simile: the land was like iron.

Para. 10 alliteration: beg and barter

Para. 11. alliteration: custom and company; inherently sad in the sound; syllables of sorrow.

Simile: lay upon her shoulders and against her breasts like a shawl.

Para. 12: simile: houses are like sentinels in the plain, old keepers..

Metonymy: bones given up to the land

Para. 13: alliteration: the aged visitors…were made of lean and leather.

Jest and gesture; fright and false alarm. Fringed and flowered shawls

Ships in the desert

Para. 1 understatement: the prospects of a good catch looked bleak . Para. 2: metaphor: tunnel through time

Para. 11. analogy

Unit 15 No signposts in the Sea

metaphor :

1 )a new Clovis, loving what I have despised …

2)an Endymíon young and strong

3)the sea …with no ripples at all … sat in of blue

4) the red ball (the sun)

5) and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue (para.26)

simile

Para.1: it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures

2) dismissive as Pharisee

3)as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water color of sunsets

4) I let my imagination play over the recesses of Laura’s character, so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome. (simile)

Para. 19 gives a cry like a sea bird to announce his coming

6)we are as pleased as children when our game succeeds

7)1 like the footfall of naked feet in the dust, silent as a cat passing.