高级英语II课文修辞练习 (1)

2021年1月22日发(作者：郁文)


高级英语
II
课文修辞练习












年级











学生













2015-3



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高级英语第
2
册修辞练习














第
1
课
















高年级用













Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences
1.


and
no
one
has
any
idea
where
it
will
go
as
it
meanders
or
leaps
and
sparkles
or
just
glows(

mixed metaphor

)
2.

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 )
3.

Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place. (


metaphor

)
4.

The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (


metaphor

)
5.

We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. (

metaphor


)
6.

The conversation was on wings. (

metaphor

)
7.

…we ought to think ourselves back into the sho
es of the Saxon peasant (

metaphor )
8.

…we are still the heirs to it (

metaphor






)

9.

The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,…( simile )

10.

…and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the end of the earth (

metaphor )

11.

I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. (

metaphor


)
12.

--- but it ought not to be an ultimatum. (

metaphor

)
13.

…the king’s English slips and slides in conversation (

metaphor

)

14.

When E. M Foster writes of “ the sinister corridor of our age ,” we sit up at the vivid of th
e
phrase, the force and even terror in the image. (

metaphor

)
15.

Otherwise
one
will
bind
the
conversation,
one
will
not
let
it
flow
freely
here
and
there.(

metaphor

)
16.

We
would
never
have
gone
to
Australia,
or
leaped
back
in
time
to
the
Norman
Conquest.
(


metaphor

)



高级英语第
2
册修辞练习














第
2
课
















高年级用













Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences
1
．
The
burying-ground
is
merely
a
huge
waste
of
hummocky
earth,
like
a
derelict
building-lot.(

simile


)
they really the same flesh as yourself ? (


rhetorical question

)
3. Do they even have names ? (


rhetorical question

)
4. Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral
insects? (


rhetorical question

)
5. …and then they
sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that
they are gone. (


euphemism

)
6….sore
-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ( simile )
7. In the bazaar huge families of Jews, all dressed in the long-black robe and little black skull-cap,
are working in dark fly-infested booths that look like caves. (


simile


)
8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews ( transferred- epithet )
9. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (

synecdoche

)
10. What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman? An orange grove or a job in Government service
(


rhetorical question

)

an
Englishman?
Camels,
castles,
palm
trees,
Foreign
Legionnaires,
brass
trays,
and

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