高级英语修辞总结归纳

2021年1月22日发(作者：鲍培忠)
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
…

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 o
f 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)