高級(jí)英語(yǔ)8-13課修辭

1、精選優(yōu)質(zhì)文檔-傾情為你奉上Advanced English ( I )Rhetorical Devices Applied from 8-13 Unit 8 An Interactive Life1.Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethowven. ( metonymy )2.Will government regulate messages sent out on this vast data highway? - ( metaphor )3.To prevent getting trampled by a stampede

2、of data, viewers will rely on programmed electronic selectors that could go out into the info corral and rope in the subjects the viewer wants. - ( metaphor)4. She is a child of the people, born in the very height and heat of battle. ( alliteration )5. Crafty men condemn studies; simple men admire t

3、hem; and wise men use them -(antithesis)6. She says consumers would be a little like information “cowboys,” rounding up data from computer-based archives and information services.-(simile )Unit 9 Mark Twain - Mirror of America1. Metaphor:n Mark Twain - Mirror of American saw clearly ahead a black wa

4、ll of night.n main artery of transportation in the young nation's heartn the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States n All would resurface in his books.that he soaked up.n Steamboat decks teemed.main current of.but its flotsamn When railroads began drying up the demand.n .

5、the epidemic of gold and silver fever.2. Simile:n Most American remember M. T. as the father of.n .a memory that seemed phonographic3. Hyperbole:n .cruise through eternal boyhood and .endless summer of freedom.n The cast of characters. - a cosmos.4. Parallelism:n Most Americans remember . the father

6、 of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.5. Personification:n life dealt him profound personal tragedies.n the river had acquainted him with .n .to literature's enduring gratitude.n .an entry that will determine his c

7、ourse forever.n The grave world smiles as usual.n Bitterness fed on the man.n America laughed with him.n Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.6. Antithesis:n .between what people claim to be and what they really are.n .took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.n .a world which will lament them a

8、 day and forget them forever7. Euphemism:n .men's final release from earthly strugglen He tired soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.8. Alliteration:n .the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at homen .with a

9、 dash and daring.n .a recklessness of cost or consequences. 9. Metonymy:n .his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxeUnit 10 The trial that rock the world.1. The trial that rock the world. - (hyperbole)2. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder. -( transferred epithet )3.

10、 H. L. Menken wrote sulphurous dispatches sitting in his pants with a fan blowing on him, and there was talk of running him out of town for.( transferred epithet )4. “The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.” -( antithesis )5. By t

11、he time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1500 people had taken on a circus atmosphere. - ( metaphor)6. that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in US. History.- (metaphor)7. until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century ( irony)8. Dudley Fi

12、eld Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat”.- ( oxymoron)9. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and football coach at the secondary school. - ( synecdoche)10. Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. - .( transferred epithet )11. One

13、shop announced: Darwin is right inside. ( pun )Unit 11 But What's a Dictionary For?Personification1. The storm of abuse in the popular press that greeted the appearance of Websters Third New International Dictionary is a curious phenomenon. 2. An article in the Atlantic viewed it as a “disappoin

14、tment,” a “shock ,” a “calamity,” “a scandal and a disaster.” The Yew York Times, in a special editorial, felt that the work would3. The Journal of the American Bar Association saw the publication as .Alliteration4. -a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a

15、great deal on Life.Assonance5. The difference, for example, between the much-touted Second International (1934) and the much-clouted Third International (1961) is not like the difference between yearly models butSynecdoche6. What of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of o

16、ld-fashioned oak and hinges, to screen entrances and exist?7. But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionarysMetonymy8. The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "keep Your Old Webster's,” says, in the first sentence, 9. In short, all of these publications are wr

17、itten in the language that the 3rd International describes, even the very editorials which scorn it. Unit 12 The LoonsHyperbole1. dresses that were always miles too long.2. those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat world Metaphor3. the filigree of the spruce trees4. daughter

18、of the forest5. I tried another line6. A streak of amberTransferred epithet7. All around, the spruce trees grew tall and close-set, branches blackly sharp against the sky which was lightened by a cold flickering of stars.8. I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look t

19、he other way.9. My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce core, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands.Metonymy 10. Those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat world of summer cottages and the