高级英语部分课文修辞讲解.doc

1.metaphor暗喻

slips and slides

the sinister corridor of our age

… and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. … that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus.

The glow of the conversation burst into flames.

We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.

The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern

The conversation was on wings.

When E.M.F orster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image.

Mark Twain --- Mirror of America

saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

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

…who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.

…main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart.

my case would snowball into...

our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.

The street ...sprouted with ...

… had not scorched the infidels...

…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…

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…

...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed…

his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.

The words spat forth with sudden savagery.

Her tone ...withered...

...self-assurance...flickered...

The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.

Her voice was a whiplash

eyes bored into him

I’ll spell it out.

original sin

we saw how hun gry the American people….racial lens…whitest populations firestorm

vessel

2. sarcasm反讽

The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation.

3. simile明喻

They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.

They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.

The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.

The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. ... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies.

And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper.

Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imagined

T om’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.

...swept the arena like a prairie fire

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

4. metonymy转喻

Is the phrase in Shakespeare?

...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe

…but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.

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

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

won 100 at the tables

lost it at the bar

they'll throw the book,...

jarring to the untrained ear

5.alliteration头韵法

They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone.