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1、Rhetorical Devices (Advanced English book two)Lesson 11. Windandrainnowwipedthehouse.-metaphor2. We can batten down and ride it out.-metaphor3. Everybody out the back door to the cars!-elliptical sentence4. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile5.
2、 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-transferred epithet6. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor. Simil
3、e7. itseizeda600,00gallonGulfportoiltankanddumpedit3.5milesaway.-personification8. Thewindsoundedliketheroarofatrainpassingafewyardsaway.-simile 9. Thechildrenwentfromadulttoadultlikebucketsinafirebrigade.-simile10. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked as the winds snapped. onomatopoeiaLe
4、sson21. and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. -euphemism2. The little crowd of mourners all men and boys, no womenthreaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a sh
5、ort chant over and over again.elliptical sentence3. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.historical present , transferred epithet4. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.synecdoche5. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were march
6、ing southwarda 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 symbolism6. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.ellipt
7、ical sentence7. And really it was 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, littering like scraps of paper.simile8. Theburying-groundismerelyahugew
8、asteofhummockyearth,likeaderelictbuilding-lot.-simile9. 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 10. .andsore-eyedchildrenclustereverywhereinunbelievablen
9、umbers,likecloudsofflies.-simile11. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamouring for a cigarette. -transferredepithet12. Nothostile,notcontemptuous,notsullen,noteveninquisitive.-ellipticalsentence1
10、3. 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. -synecdoche14. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward - a long, dusty c
11、olumn, 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. -onomatopoeiaLesson315. The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even t
12、hat they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.metaphor16. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into, each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.simile17. It was on such an occasion the oth
13、er 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 conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus.metaphor18. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dande
14、lion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.simile19. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the Kings English slips and slides in conversation.alliteration20. When E.M.Forster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the
15、phrase, the force and even terror in the image.metaphor21. andnoonehasanyideawhereitwillgoasitmeandersorleapsandsparklesorjustglows.-mixed-metaphorormetaphor22. thatsuddenlythealchemyofconversationtookplace,andallatoncetherewasafocus.-metaphor23. Theglowoftheconversationburstintoflames.-metaphor24. WehadtraveledinfiveminutestoAustralia.-metaphor25. Thefactthattheirmarriagesmaybeontherocks,orthattheirloveaffairshavebeenbroken oreventhattheygotoutofbedonthewrongside