高級英語第一冊修辭手法總結(jié)

1、Lesson 1 1We can batten down and ride it out, he said. (Para. 4) metaphor2 .Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Para. 7) personification 、metaphor3. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (Para.11) simile4. He held his head between his hands, and silently prayed: “Ge

2、t us through this mess, will You?”(Para. 17) alliteration5. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. (Para.19) personification6. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. (Para.19) simile、onomatopoeia(擬聲) 7. Several vacati

3、oners at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. （Para. 20）transferred epithet 8 8. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished.（Para. 20）simile、personification9. and blown d

4、own power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.(Para.28) simile10.household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (Para. 31) metaphorLesson 4 1. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm around my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. (para2)

5、Transferred epithet 2. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and football coach at secondary school.(para 3) Synecdoche3. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age

6、of the sixteenth century.(para14) Irony4. There is some doubt about that Darrow snorted.(para 19) Sarcasm 5. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.(para 20) Antithesis 6. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swep

7、t the political arena like a prairie.(para 22) Alliteration; Simile7. The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breadth of his oratory as he should have. (Para 22) He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death

8、 between science and religion. (Para 23) The court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that Bryan. Snowball: grow quickly; spar: fight with words; thunder: say angrily and loudly; scorch: thoroughly defeat; duel: life and death struggle; storm of applause: loud applause by many people; the

9、 oratorical duel; spring the trump card. Metaphor 8. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a victorious defeat (para 45) A woman whispered loudly as he finished his address Oxymoron 9. My heart went out to the old warrior as spectators pushed by him to shake Darrows hand. Metonymy 10. It is not g

10、oing to be driven out of this court by The spectators chuckled and Bryan warmed to his work. - Line 101 Ridicule Carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies. Ridicule 11. With a fan blowing on him punLesson 5 The libido for the ugly1 Here was the very heart of industrial America, the cente

11、r of its most lucrative and characteristic activity (line 6) metaphor; transferred epithet 2 Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination-and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. Antithesis (對偶句）Repetition ( line 10)3 There w

12、as not one in sight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the age. Synecdoche(提喻）(line 16)4 There was not a single decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh to the Greensburg yards. There was not one that was misshapen, and there was not one that was not shabby. Understatement; Lit

13、otes(曲言） (line 26)5 The country is not uncomely, despite the grim of the endless mills. Litotes; Overstatement (line 29)6. They would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. Metaphor (line 36) On their low sides they bury themselves swinishly in the mud. Metaphor(line 46) And one and all they

14、are streaked in grim, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. Metaphor (line 49) When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of a fried egg. When it has taken on the patina of the mills, it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. Line 52

15、Metaphor 7 I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. Irony (line 60)8 N.J. and Newport News, Va.Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy (line67) Metonymy 9 But in the American village and small town the pull is always towards ugliness, and in that Wes

16、tmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon passion. Ridicule (line 88)10 It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. Irony (line 90)11 On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be positive libido for the ug

17、ly, as on the other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautiful. line 91 Antithesis 12 The taste for them is as enigmatical and yet as common as the taste for the dogmatic theology and the poetry of Edgar A.Guest. Metaphor13 And some of them are appreciably better. Line 109 Sarcasm

18、14 They let it mellow into its present shocking depravity. Metaphor; sarcasm 15 The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. Metaphor Lesson 61. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huch Finns(synecdoche) idyllic cruise through the eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyers endless summer

19、 of freedom and adventure. (Para.1) Hyperbole2. I found another Twain as well (Para.1) synecdoche3. a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a back wall of night. (Para.1) metaphor4. The geographic core, in Twains early years, was the great valley of the

20、Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the young nations heart. (Para.3) metaphor5. Lumber, corn, tobacco, wheat, and furs moved downstream to the delta country; sugar, molasses, cotton, and whisky traveled north. ( Para.3) antithesis6. the cast of characters set before him in his new p

21、rofession was rich and varieda cosmos (Para.4) alliteration metaphor7. Steamboats decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. (Para.5) Metaphor8. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lu

22、cky and persistent, (Para.5) metaphor9. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevadas Washoe region. (Para.7) metaphor10. From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humor

23、ist. (Para.8) metaphor11. The instant riches of a mining strike would not be his in the reporting trade, but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. (Para.8) metonymy12. in the spring of 1864, less than two years after joining the Territorial Enterprise, he boarded the stagec

24、oach for San Francisco, then and now a hotbed of hopeful young writers. (Para.8) metaphor13. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing(metonymy) muscles (Para.9) metaphor14. It was a splendid populationfor all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stay at home (Para.9) alliteration1

25、5. “It was a splendid populationfor all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home” (Para.9) alliteration16. “It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring (alliteration) and a rec

26、klessness of coat or consequences, which she (synecdoche) bears onto this dayand when she projects a new surprise, the grave world( transferred epithet) smiles(personification) as usual, and says Well, this is California all over.” (Para.9) 17. Two years later the opportunity came for him to take a

27、distinctly American look at the old world. (Para.12) transferred epithet pleasure cruise(metaphor)18. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. (Para.21) personification19. America laughed with him. (Para.13) personification and synecdoche20. Tom Sawyer quickly became a classic tale of

28、 American boyhood. (Para. 13) synecdoche21. Toms mischievous daring, ingenuity, and sweet innocence of his affection for .(Para.15) transferred epithet22. Six chapters into Tom Sawyers, he drags in “the juvenile pariah.” (Para.16) metaphor23. I have tried it, and I dont work; it dont work, Tom. It a

29、int for meThe widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a belleverythings so awful reglar body cant stand it.(Para.16) alliteration parallelism repetition24. Nine years after Tom Sawyer swept the nation. (Para.17) metaphor25. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world la

30、ughed. (Para.21) metaphor26. Now the gloves came off with biting satire. (Para.21)transferred epithet metaphor27. dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair on mens final release from earthly struggles. (Para.22) metaphor28. where the have left no sign th

31、at they had existed a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. (Para.22) antithesis personificationLesson 11 Alliteration 1. brittle and brown(Para.1)2. willow and witch hazel(Para.1)3. great green-and-yellow grasshoppers(Para.1)4. the eagle and the elk(Para.6)5. the badger and th

32、e bear(Para.6)6. bent and blind(Para.6)7. sad in the sound, syllables of sorrow(Para.11)8. lean and leather(Para.13)9. jest and gesture(Para.13)10. fright and false alarm, fringed and flowered shawls, bright beadwork(Para.13)11. At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost to wr

33、ithe in fire. （Para.1）不曉得是哪個？補充一下12. It was a long journey toward the dawn, and it led to a golden age. （Para.4）metaphor13. no longer were they slaves to the simple necessity of survival; （Para.4）metaphor14. I wanted to see in reality what she had seen more perfectly in the minds eye, and traveled f

34、ifteen hundred miles no begin my pilgrimage. （Para.5） metaphor15. Descending eastward, the highland meadows are a stairway to the plain. （Para.7）metaphor16. The earth unfolds and the limit of the land recedes. （Para.7）metaphor17. going out upon a cane, very slowly as she did when the weight of age c

35、ame upon her; （Para.11）metaphor18. transported so in the dancing light among the shadows of her room, （Para.11）metaphor19. houses are like sentinels in the plain, （Para.12）metaphorLesson 13 No Signposts in the Sea 為課后習題中的修辭題目1. I have never had much of an eye for noticing the clothes of women (Para

36、1 ) Metonymy 2. in the evening she wears soft rich colours, dark red, olive green, midnight blue(Para 1 ) Metonymy 3. He says he used to read me (Para 2 ) Metonymy 4. Protests about damage to natural beauty froze me with contempt. (Para 3) Metaphor5. And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensi

37、tive as any old maid. (Para 4) Alliteration6. I am gloriously and adolescently silly. (Para 4) Transferred Epithet7. I want my fill of beauty before I go. (Para 4) Euphemism 8. The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a vi

38、rgin. (Para 5) Personification 9. Not a star but might not shoot down and accept the invitation to become her lover. (Para 5 ) Personification 10. .even as I enjoy the clean voluptuousness of the warm breeze on my skin and the cool support of the water(Para 5) Transferred Epithet 11. It may be by da

39、ylight, looking at the sea, rippled with little white ponies，or with no ripples at all but only the lazy satin of blue, marbled at the edge where the passage of our ship has disturbed it. (Para 6) Metaphor12. The stars seemed little cuts in the black cover (Para 6) Metaphor13. no sign of habitation,

40、 very blenched and barren. (Para 8) Alliteration 14. What I like best are the stern cliff, with ranges of mountains soaring behind them(Para 8) Personification Metaphor15. What plants of the high altitudes grow unravished among their crags and valleys? (Para 8) Metonymy 16. ., like delicate flowers,

41、 for the discovery of the venturesome. (Para 8) Metaphor17. I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth.(Para 12) Hyperbole18. .but I must say I find it refreshing to think there are still a few odd fish left in the world. (Para 16) Meta

42、phor19. .follows a ship only to a certain latitude and then turns back(Para 17) Metonymy20. We might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. (Para 17) Metaphor21. .and the scratchy little flying-fish have the vast circle all to themselves(Para 18) Metonymy22. This i

43、s the new Edmund Carr with a vengeance. (Para 19) Synecdoche23. God, is there no escape from suffering and sin? (Para 25) Rhetorical Question24. we wait for it while the red ball, cut in half as though by a knife, sinks to its daily doom. (Para 26) Innuendo Metaphor25. Then come the twilight colours

44、 of sea and heaven(suddenly in these latitudes, at any tare on sea level), the winepink width of water merging into lawns of aquamarine, and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue(Para 26 ) Metaphor Metonymy Metaphor Metaphor 26. Now the indolence of southern latitudes has captured me. (Para 33 )

45、 Metonymy27. Blue, the colour of peace. (Para 33 ) Metaphor28. I had no temptation to take a flying holiday to the South(Para 33 ) Transferred Epithet 29. And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope

46、, the hiss of sudden spray. (Para 34 ) Onomatopoeia 30. But above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. (Para 34 ) Transferred EpithetLesson 14 Speech on Hitlers Invasion of the U.S.S.R.1. This changed conviction into certainty. (Para 1) Alliteration2. I h

47、ad not the slightest doubt where our duty and policy lay. (Para 1) Litotes 3. I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes. (Para 1) Metaphor4. I asked whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon. (Para 5) Metaphor 5. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make a

48、t least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. (Hitler is much eviler than the devil.) (Para 5) Hyperbole6. The Maze regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination. (Para 8) Metaphor 7. It excels all forms of human wickedness in the efficiency

49、of its cruelty and ferocious aggression. (Para 8) Irony8. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land. (Para 8) Metaphor9. for the safety of their loved ones, the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector. (Para 8) Innuendo10. I see the ten thous

50、and villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil (Para 8) Metaphor11. I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, (Para 8) Metaphor12. I see all the dull, drilled, docile,

51、brutish, masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. (Para 8) Alliteration SimileRidicule13. I 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 safer prey (the Russian soldiers). (Para 8) Synecdoche MetaphorPersonification Metaphor14. Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men who plan, organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind (Para 9) Metaphor Metaphor Metaphor15. I have to declar