高级英语第一册修辞手法总汇

一、词语修辞格

（1）simile 明喻

①...a memory that seemed phonographic

②―Mama,‖ Wangero said sweet as a bird .―can I have these old quilts?‖

③Most American remember M. T. as the father of...

④Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail.

⑤Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye.

⑥My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake.

⑦She gasped like a bee had stung her.

（2）metaphor 暗喻

①It is a vast, sombre cavern of a room,…

②Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. ③The dye-market, the pottery market and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb the bazaar. A

④the last this intermezzo came to an end…

⑤…showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse…

⑥After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …

⑦Mark Twain --- Mirror of America

⑧saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

⑨main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

⑩All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...

⑪When railroads began drying up the demand...

⑫...the epidemic of gold and silver fever...

⑬Twain began digging his way to regional fame...

⑭Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...

⑮The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.

⑯Her voice was a whiplash.

⑰and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind…

⑱But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.

⑲I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.

⑳I see the Russian soldiers standing on the thresthold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.

21The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.

22I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.

23We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke.

（3）metonymy 借代，转喻

①In short, all of these publications are written in the language that the Third International describes

②The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "Keep Your Old Webster's"

（4）synecdoche 提喻

①The case had erupted round my head

②The case had erupted round my head Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges ...

③But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary's

（5）personification 拟人