高級英語第二冊修辭分析(共4頁)

1、精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上高級英語修辭分析及參考答案1. But we shall not always expectto remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (metaphor)2. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (metaphor)3. And let every other pow

2、er know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (metaphor)4. We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak. (metaphor)5. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungl

3、e of suspicion(metaphor)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. (metaphor) 7. Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (simil

4、e)8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (transferred epithet)9. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (antithesis)10. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which

5、 divide us. (antithesis)11. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your country. (antithesis)12. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China a

6、nd Dreams Children. (metaphor)13. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lambs frontier. (metaphor)14. Logic, far from being a dry, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (metaphor and hyperbole)15. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemists scales, as penetratin

7、g as a scalpel. (simile and hyperbole)16. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (hyperbole)17. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (ellipsis and simile)18. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. (ellipsis)19. Not, however, to Petey. (ellip

8、sis)20. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (metaphor)21. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. (antithesis)22. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (metaphor)23. I said wit

9、h a mysterious wink. (transferred epithet)24. He just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat. (hyperbole)25. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (metonymy)26. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (metonymy)27. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresis

10、tible force. (antithesis)28. The raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (simile)29. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. (metaphor)30. Surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation. (m

11、etonymy)31. One more chance, I decided. (ellipsis and inversion)32. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (synecdoche)33. The first man has poisoned the well before anybody could drink from it. (metaphor)34. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. (metaphor)35. It was

12、like digging a tunnel. (simile)36. Five grueling nights this took, but it was worth it. (inversion)37. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. (hyperbole)38. I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk. (hyperbole)39. I

13、leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (simile)40. After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand! (ellipsis)41. The boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth. (hyperbole)42. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imaginationand here were hu

14、man habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats. (hyperbole and antithetical contrast)43. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. (hyperbole)44. One blinked before them as one blinds before

15、 a man with his face shot away. (simile)45. A crazy little church just west of Jeannette, set like a dormer-window on the side of a bare leprous hill. (simile)46. A steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somewhere further down the line. (simile and ridicule)47. Obviously, if there were architects of any

16、 professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. (sarcasm)48. By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery. (simile)49. On their low sides they bury themse

17、lves swinishly in the mud. (metaphor)50. And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. (metaphor)51. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. (ridicule and irony)52. They

18、have the most loathsome towns and villages ever seen by mortal eye. (hyperbole)53. I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. (sarcasm and irony)54. They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. (sarcasm)55. It is as if some titanic and aberr

19、ant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. (hyperbole and irony)56. But in the American village and small town the pull is always toward ugliness, and in that Westmoreland valley it has been yielded to with an eagerness bordering upon p

20、assion. (sarcasm)57. It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. (sarcasm and irony)58. On certain levels of the American race, indeed, there seems to be a positive libido for the ugly, as on other and less Christian levels there is a libido for the beautif

21、ul. (antithesis)59. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them. (sarcasm)60. In precisely the same way the authors of the rat-trap stadium that I have mentioned made a deliberate choice. (metaphor)61. They made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, pain

22、ted a staring yellow, on top of it. (ridicule)62. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. (metaphor)63. It is that of a Presbyterian grinning. (metaphor)64. His props have all been knocked out from under him. (metaphor)65. I had buried them very deep. (metaphor)66. A writer, when he has

23、made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending and unpredictable battle. (metaphor)67. It is not until he is released from the habit of flexing his muscles and proving that he is just a “regular guy” that he realizes how crippling this habit has been. (metaph

24、or)68. Whatever the Europeans may actually think of artists, they have killed enough of them off by now to know that they are as realand as persistentas rain, snow, taxes or businessmen. (simile)69. His choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him a

25、ll his friends. (transferred epithet)70. An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder by means of pure bull-headedness and an indescribable series of odd jobs. (metaphor)71. He probably has been a “regular fellow” for much of his adult life, and it is no

26、t easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath. (metaphor)72. It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himself beneath the open sky. (simile)73. Eve the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. (metaphor)74. He needs sustenance for his journey and the best models

27、 he can find. (metaphor)75. In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm. (metaphor)76. Sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, preempt the airways from California. (alliterati

28、on)77. The Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood. (metonymy) 78. New York was never Mecca to me. (metaphor)79. Nature constantly yields to man in New York: witness those fragile sidewalk trees gamely struggling against encroaching cement and petrol fumes. (personification)80. The condescend

29、ing view from the fiftieth floor of the citys crowds below cuts these people off from humanity. (transferred epithet)81. So does an attitude which sees the public only in terms of large, malleable numbersas impersonally as does the clattering subway turnstile beneath the office towers. (simile)82. M

30、en and women so their jobs professionally, and, like the pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi, seem unmarked by it. (simile)83. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves, tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world. (synecdoche)84. The defeated are not hidden away

31、somewhere else on the wrong side of town. (euphemism) 85. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical. (personification)86. We can batten down and ride out

32、. (metaphor)87. Wind and rain now whipped the house. (metaphor)88. The children wet from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (simile)89. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (simile)90. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 4