高级英语修辞总结

2021年1月22日发(作者：林汉雄)
Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English

1. Alliteration
the King’s English
slips and slides (Para. 18)

2. Allusions
暗指，引喻

--musketeers of Dumas (Para. 3)
--descendants of convicts (Para. 7)
--Saxon churls (Para. 8)
--Norman conquerors (Para. 8)
3. Exaggeration
Perhaps it is because of my
upbringing in English pubs that I think bar
conversation has a charm of its own. (Para. 3)
4. Metaphor
1.
No
one
has
any
idea
where
it
will
go
as
it
meanders
or
leaps
and
sparkles or just glows. (Para. 2)
2. They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (Para.
3)
3. Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place (Para. 4)
4. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (Para. 6)
5. The conversation was on wings. (Para. 8)
6. We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.
(Para. 11)
7.
The
Elizabethans
blew
on
it
as
on
a
dandelion
clock,
and
its
seeds
multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. (Para. 14)
8. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. (Para. 17)
9.
Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English
slips and slides in conversation. (Para. 18)
10. “the sinister
corridor
of our age…” (Para. 18)

11.
Otherwise
one
will
bind
the
conversation,
one
will
not
let
it
flow
freely here and there. (Para. 20)
12. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the
Norman Conquest. (Para. 20)
5. Simile
1. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side
by side with each other, did not delve into each other’s… (Para. 3)

2. The Elizabethans blew on it as
on a dandelion clock,…(Para. 14)

Lesson 2 Marrakech
Simile
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a
derelict building-lot. (Para. 2)
2. ,…sore
-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like
clouds of flies. (Para. 8)
3. …where the soil is exactly
like broken- up brick. (Para. 18)
4. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls (Para. 18)
5.
…their
feet
squashed
into
boots
that
looked
like
blocks
of
wood…
(Para. 23)
6. ,…glittering
like scraps of paper. (Para. 26)
Metaphor
1. They rise out of the earth
, …(Para. 3)

2. Down the center of the street there is generally running a little river of
urine. (Para. 8)
Alliteration
sweat and starve (Para. 3)
Transferred Epithet



--there was a frenzied rush of Jews (Para. 10)
Onomatopoeia
,
winding
up
the
road
with
a
clumping
of
boots
and
a
clatter
of
iron
wheels (Para. 22)
Synecdoche
1. a white skin is always fairly conspicuous (Para. 16)
2. , actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. (Para. 24)
Rhetorical Question
1. Are they really the same flesh as your self Do they even have names Or
are they merely a kind of differentiated brown stuff, about as individual
as bees or coral insects (Para. 3)
2.
How
much
longer
can
we
go
one
kidding
these
people
How
long
before they turn their guns in the other direction (Para. 25)
Understatement

I am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact. (Para. 21)
Lesson 3 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
Parallelism
…,
symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well
as change. (Para. 1)
Paras. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11
Alliteration
1. …
friend and foe
alike… (Para. 3)

2. to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Para. 4)
3. steady spread (Para. 13)
4. …
bear the burden
… (Para. 22)

5. …
strength and sacrifice
… (Para.26)

Metaphor
1.
…those
who
foolishly
sought
power
by
riding
the
back
of
the
tiger
ended up inside. (Para. 7)

2. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile
powers. (Para. 9)
3. this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (Para. 9)
4. to strengthen its shield
of the new and the weak… (Para. 10)

5.
And
if
a
beachhead
of
cooperation
may
push
back
the
jungle
of
suspicion
… (Para. 19)

6. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will
light
our
country
and
all
who
serve
it,
and
the
glow
from
that
fire
can
truly light the world. (Para. 24)
Consonance
…, whether it wishes us
well or ill
,… (Para. 4)

Synecdoche
…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the
deadly atom
….(Para.
13)
Antithesis
1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures.
Divided,
there
is
little
we
can
do,
for
we
dare
not
meet
a
powerful
challenge at odds and split asunder. (Para. 6)
2. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich. (Para. 8)
3. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country. (Para. 25)
Repetition
all forms of (Para. 2)
the belief (Para. 2)
Regression
1.
Let
us
never
negotiate out
of
fear,
but let us never
fear
to negotiate.