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1、Lesson11 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.metaphor2 They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into
2、, each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.simile3 It was on such an occasion the other evening, as the conversation moved desultorily here and there, from the most commonplace to thoughts of Jupiter, without and focus and with no need for one that suddenly the alchemy of con
3、versation took place, and all at once there was a focus.metaphor4 The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.simile5 Even with the most educated and the most literate, the Kings English slips and slides in conversation.metaphor
4、 ,alliteration6 When E. M. Forster 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.metaphor7 The conversation was on wings. (metaphor)8 The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (metaphor)10. No one has any idea whe
5、re the conversation will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. (mixed metaphor)补充11. Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds are supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th century Paris, but one suspect that the great minds were gossiping. (synecdoche)12. The conquered in the end conquering the conqueror (alliteration , pun , repetition )
