高级英语2 修辞练习 及 答案

2021年1月22日发(作者：盛度)

高级英语第
2
册修辞练习

第
1
课


Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences


can batten down and ride it out.
(Metaphor
)

and rain now whipped the house. (
Metaphor
)

away from the windows.
(Elliptical sentence
)

the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. (
Simile
)

8:30, power failed. (
Metaphor
)

out the back door to the cars. (
Elliptical sentence
)

children
went
from
adult
to
adult
like
buckets
in
a
fire
brigade.
(
Simile
)

8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.(
metaphor
)

on the stairs. (
elliptical sentence
)

wind
sounded
like
the
roar
of
a
train
passing
a
few
yards
away.
(
simile
)

11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off
the house and skimmed it 40 feet though the air. (
personification
)

12…it
seized
a
600,000
-gallon
Gulfport
oil
tank
and
dumped
it

miles
away.
(
personification
)

poles
and
20-inch-thick
pines
cracked
like
guns
as
the
winds
snapped
them.(
simile
)

vacationers
at
the
luxurious
Richelieu
Apartments
there
held
a
hurricane
party
to
watch
the
storm
from
their
spectacular
vantage
point.
(


Transferred
epithet
)

15. Up the stairs --- into our bedroom. (
Elliptical sentence
)

world seemed to be breaking apart. (
Simile
)

17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed.
(
Metaphor
)

of clothing festooned the standing trees..
(Metaphor
)

19…and
blown
-down
power
lines
coiled
like
black
spaghetti
over
the
road.(
simile
)

20…household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car.
(
metaphor
)

, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropped more than 28
inches of rain into West.(
metaphor
)



















高级英语第
2
册修辞练习

第
2
课


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
)

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….so
re-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 )

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 (
elliptical sentence
)

an
Englishman
Camels,
castles,
palm
trees,
Foreign
Legionnaires,
brass
trays,
and
bandits.( )

12.
Long
lines
of
women,
bent
double
like
inverted
capital
Ls,
work
their
way
slowly
across the fields,… (
simile
)

13. All of them are mummified with age and the sun, and all of them are tiny.
(
metaphor
)

14. This kind of thing makes one’s blood boil,..
(hyperbole )

15.
How
much
longer
can
we
go
on
kidding
these
people
How
long
before
they
turn
their
guns in the other direction (
rhetorical question
)

16.
And
really
it
was
like
watching
a
flock
of
cattle
to
see
the
long
column,
a
mile
or two miles of armed men,… (

simile
)

17…wh
ile
the
great
white
birds
drifted
over
them
in
the
opposite
direction,
glittering like scraps of paper. (
simile
)

18.
But
there
is
one
thought
which
every
white
man
thinks
when
he
sees
a
black
army
marching past…Every white man there had this thought …I had it, so had the
other
onlookers,
so
had
the
officers
on
their
sweating
chargers
and
the
white .Os…
(
repetition
)















高级英语第
2
册修辞练习

第
3
课


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 (simile 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. (
--------
)

4.

The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (
----------
)

5.

We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. (
hyperbole
)

6.

The conversation was on wings. (
metaphor
)

7.

…we
ought
to
think
ourselves
back
into
the
shoes
of
the
Saxon
peasant
(
--------
)

8.

…we are still the heirs to it (
---------
)

9.

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

10.

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

11.

I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. (
--------
)

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Otherwise one will bind
the conversation, one will not let it
flow
freely here
and there.(
alliteration 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
4
课


Point out the rhetorical devices in the following sentences

1.

We
observe
today
a
victory
of
party
but
a
celebration
of
freedom,
symbolizing
an
end
as
well
as
a
beginning,
signifying
renewal
as
well
as
change.
( parallel