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1、 高级英语第1册修辞练习 第3版 Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentencesLesson 11.We can batten down and ride it out. (Metaphor )2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( Metaphor )3.Stay away from the windows. (Elliptical sentence )4.- the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. ( Simile
2、 )5.At 8:30, power failed. (Metaphor )6.Everybody out the back door to the cars. (Elliptical sentence )7.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ( Simile )8the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor )9.Everybody on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence )10.T
3、he 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 )12it seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles a
4、way. ( personification )13.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( simile )14.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet )15. Up th
5、e stairs - into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence )16.The world seemed to be breaking apart. ( Simile )17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed. (Metaphor )18.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees. (Metaphor )19and blown-down power lines coiled like bla
6、ck spaghetti over the road.( simile )20household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (metaphor )21.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropped more than 28 inches of rain into West.( metaphor )Lesson21 Hiroshimathe”Liveliest”City in Japan.
7、irovy2 That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmasters uniform shouted,as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.alliteration3 And secondly.because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon rai
8、lways official might say.metaphor4 Was I not at the scene of crime?rhetorical question5 The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.synecdoche,metonymy6 Quite unexpectedly,
9、the strange emotion which had overwhelmed me at the station returned,and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the slain in one second,where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people had been die in slow agony.parallelism7 Each day that I escape death,each day of
10、 suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares,I make a new little paper bird,and add it to the others.euphemism8 There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .synecdoche9 “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud an
11、d happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. -anticlimax 10 But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been testing and treating me .alliterationLesson 31 As a result the nerves of both th
12、e Duke and “Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.metaphor2 In what conceivable way does our car concern you?rhetorical question3and you took a lady friend .Leastways,I guess youd call her that if youre not too fussy.euphemismLesson41 The Trial Th
13、at Rocked the Worldhyperbole2 Seated in court,ready to testify on my behalf,were a dozen distinguished professors and scientists,led by Professor Kirtley Mather of Harvard University.periodic sentence3 “Dont worry,son,well show them a few tricks,”Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round
14、my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.transferred epithet4 After a while,it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelli
15、gence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind.irony5 One shop announced:DARWIN IS RIGHTINSIDE.pun6 Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”oxymoron7 The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States,bringing in its wake a new cl
