高级英语2修辞总结

2021年1月22日发(作者：强金成)

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. (Para. 14)

2. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do
for your country. (Para. 25)

Allusion

one hundred days (Para. 20)

Climax

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one
thousand
days,
nor
in
the
life
of
this
Administration,
nor
even
perhaps
in
our
lifetime
on
this
planet. (Para. 20)

Hyperbole

hour of maximum danger (Para. 24)