高级英语第二册修辞汇总

2021年1月22日发(作者：伍余福)
Lesson1
1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor(
暗喻
)
2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----
simile (
明喻
)
3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ----
-simile
4.
…it
seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles a
way. ----personification(
拟人
)
5. We can batten down and ride it out. -----metaphor
6. Everybody out the back door to the cars!
—
ellipsis (
省略
)
7. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the
winds snapped them. -----simile
8. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a
hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point---
--transferred epithet
移就

9. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down
power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads----metaphor; simile

Lesson2
1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a
derelict building- lot. -----simile
2. 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. -----alliteration
押头韵

3. ... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,
like clouds of flies. ----simile
4. 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. ----- simile
5. The little crowd of mourners all men and boys, no women
threaded their way across the market place between the piles of
pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and
over again.--
—
elliptical sentence
6. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at
lightning speed.
—
- hyperbole
7. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of
Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all
clamoring for a cigarette. -----transferred epithet
8. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
—
-synecdoche(
提喻
)
9. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward
a long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries, and then more
infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a
clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.
—
---onomatopoetic words
symbolism
10. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.
—
--
elliptical sentence
11. This wretched boy, who is a French citizen and has therefore been
dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison
towns, actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin.
—
-
synecdoche
提喻





Lesson3
1.
…
and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and
sparkles or just glows. ---mixed-metaphor or metaphor
2.
…
that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at
once there was a focus. ----metaphor
3. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor
4. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. -----metaphor
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.--
—
metaphor
5. The conversation was on wings. ----metaphor
6. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will pro
bably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation. -----sarcasm
反讽

7. 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. -----simile
8. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side b
y side with each other, did not delve into, each
other’s
lives or the
recesses of their thoughts and feelings.
—
-simile
9. Is the phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy
10. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds
multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.
—
simile
11. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the
King’s
English
slips and slides in conversation.
—
alliteration
12. 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.
—
--metaphor
Lesson 4
1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.
Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a power full
challenge at odds and split asunder.
—
antithesis
2.
…in
the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of
the tiger ended up inside.
—
metaphor
3. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
—

regression (
回环
:A-B-C)
4. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.
—
allusion
引
典
; climax
递进

5. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country.
—
antithesis, regression
回环

6 We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom,
symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as
change. ----parallelism
7. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike
….—
alliteration
8. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall
pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ----
–

parallelism; alliteration
9. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.
Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challen
ge at odds and split asunder. ----antithesis
对句

10. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich. -----antithesis
11.
…
to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of
poverty. ---repetition
12. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of
suspicion…
-----metaphor
13. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring
those problems which divide us. -----antithesis
let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to
remain the master of its own house. -----metaphor
15. 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. -----extended metaphor
16.
…to
strengthen its shield of the new and the
weak…
----metaphor
a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final
judge of our
deeds…
-----parallelism

Lesson5
1. Read, then, the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that
logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing
, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.
—
-metaphor; hyperbole
2. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a
month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old
China and
Dream’s
Children.
—
metaphor
3. Cool was I and logical. ----inversion (
倒装
)
4. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales
, as penetrating as a scalpel. -----simile
5. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. ----
metaphor or -mixed-metaphor
age, same background, but dumb as an ox. ----simile
7. I was not one to let my heart rule my head. ----metonymy
转喻

8.
my bag and left. ----transferred epithet
9. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still
smoldered. ----metaphor
10. We went to the Knoll, the campus trysting place, and we sat down
under an old oak, and she looked at me expectantly. -----allusion
11. Just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned, ----
allusion
12. I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by
the throat. ----allusion
time had come to change our relationship from academic to
romantic. ----assonance (
半
)
谐音

14. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.
—
antithesis
15.
What’s
Polly to me, or me to Polly?
—
parody
16.
间接肯定
)
17. This loomed as a project of no small
dimensions…
-----litotes or
understatement
18. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still
smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.
—
-metaphor or
extended metaphor
19. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. ----synecdoche
has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. ----
metaphor
21. Over and over and over again I cited instances pointed out flaws, kept
hammering away without let-up. ----metaphor
22. Suddenly, a g1immer of intelligence
—
the first I had seen--came into
her eyes. ----metaphor
23. I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came
pouring in and all was bright. -----metaphor
24.. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the
constellations of outer space. -----hyperbole; metaphor
25. He's a liar. He's a cheat. He's a rat. ----climax (
递进
)
at me--a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with
an assured future. Look at Petey--a knot-head, a jitterbug, a guy who'll
never know where his next meal is coming from. -----antithesis
对句



Lesson7
1. Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most
lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and
grandest nation ever seen on earth
—
and here was a scene so dreadfully
hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole
aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke.
—
metaphor;
hyperbole; parallelism; antithesis
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.
—
hyperbole; antithesis
3. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer
revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. ----transferred epithet
4.
…,
there was not one in sight from the train that did not insult and
lacerate the eye. ----hyperbole; double negatives (
双否
)
was not a single decent house within eye range from the
Pittsburgh suburbs to the Greensburg yards
，
and there was not one that was not misshapen, and there was not one that
was not shabby. ----hyperbole; repetition; double negatives
6. The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless
mills.
—
litotes or understatement
7. Obviously, if their were architects of any professional sense or dignity
in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides
—
a
chalet with a high- pitched roof, to throw off the heavy winter snows, but
still essentially a low and clinging building, wider than it was tall.-
—