高级英语第二册修辞复习
Lesson 1
1 We can batten down and ride it out.--metaphor
2 Everybody out the back door to the cars!--elliptical sentence
3 Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile
4 A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.--personification
4 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point--transferred epithet
5 Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees,and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor ,simile  Lesson 4
1 Let the word go forth from this time and place,to friend and foe alike,that the
torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,born in this  century,tempered by war,disciplined by a hard and bitter peace,proud of our
ancient heritage,and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these
human rights to which this nation has always been committed,and to which we are
committed today at home and around the world.—alliteration
2 Let every nation know,whether it wishes us well or ill,that we shall pay any
price,bear any burden,meet any hardship,support any friend,oppose any foe to
assure the survival and the success of liberty—parallelism
3 United,there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.Divided,there
is little we can do,for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split
asunder.—antithsis
4 …in the past,those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger
ended up inside.—metaphor
Lesson5
1
1 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 and
Dream’s Children.—metaphor
2 Read,then,the following essay which undertakes to demonstrate that logic,far
from being a dry,pedantic discipline,is a living,breathing
thing,full of
beauty,passion,and trauma.—metaphor,hyperbole
3 Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.—antithesis
4 It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example,
Petey Butch, my roommate at the University of Minnesota. Same age, same
background, but dumb as an ox. —hyperbole,simile
5 Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers
pinesstill
smoldered.Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.—
metaphor,extended
metaphor
Lesson7
1 Here was the very heart of industrial America,the center of its most lucrative and
characteristic activity,the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever
seen on earth—and here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so intolerably bleak
and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and
depressing joke.—metaphor,hyperbole,antithetical contrast
2 Here was wealth beyond computation,almost beyond imagination—and here were
human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley
cats.—hyperbole,antithetical contrast
3 Obviously,if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the
region,they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides—a chalet with a
highpitched roof,to throw off the heavy winter snows,but still essentially a low
and clinging building,wider than it was tall.—sarcasm
4 And one and all they are streaked in grime,with dead and eczematous patches of
paint peeping through the streaks.—metaphor
5 When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all
hope or caring.—ridicule ,irony,metaphor
2
6 I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant
prayer.—irony
7 Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy,God-forsaken villages of
Iowa and Lansas,and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia.—antonomasia
8 It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius,uncompromisingly inimical to man,had
devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them.—
hyperbole ,irony
9 They like it as it is:beside it,the Parthenon would no doubt offend them.—irony
10 It is that of a Presbyterian grinning.—metaphor
Lesson8
1 One speaks of”human relations”and one means the most inhuman relations,those
between alienated automatons;one speaks of happiness and means the perfect
routinization which has driven out the last doubt and all spontaneity.—parallism
Lesson10
1 The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the
middle-aged and curious questionings by the young:memories of the deliciously

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