高级英语修辞手法汇总

1、高英修辞Lesson 1 1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. -metaphor(暗喻)2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. -simile (明喻)3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -simile 4. it seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles a

2、way. -personification(拟人)5. Rcihelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished. - the6. We can batten down and ride it out. -metaphor 7. Everybody out the back door to the cars!ellipsis (省略)8. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the wind

3、s snapped them. -simile 9. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-transferred epithet移就10. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti o

4、ver the roads-metaphor; simile Lesson 41. 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 power full challenge at odds and split asunder.antithesis 2.Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negot

5、iate.regression (回环:A-B-C) 3.All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.allusion 引典; climax递进 4. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.antithesis, regression回环 5.We observe today not a victory of party but a celebr

6、ation of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. -parallelism 6.Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike.alliteration 7.Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall pay any price, bear any burd

7、en meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. -parallelism; alliteration 8.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

8、split asunder. -antithesis对句9.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -antithesis 10. to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. -repetition 11. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspici

9、on-metaphor 12. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us -antithesis 13.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.-metaphor 14. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this

10、 endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. -extended metaphor 15. to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak-metaphor 16.With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds -parallelism Lesson

11、101.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young: memories of the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit to a speakeasy, of the brave denunciation of Puritan morality, and of the fashionable experimentations in amo

12、ur in the parked sedan on a country road; questions about the naughty, jazzy parties, the flask-toting” sheik” , and the moral and stylistic vagaries of the “flapper” and the “drug-store cowboy”.transferred epithet2. Second, in the United States it was reluctantly realized by somesubconsciously if n

13、ot openlythat our country was no longer isolated in either politics or tradition and that we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.metaphor3.Wa

14、r or no war, as the generations passed, it became increasingly difficult for our young people to accept standards of behavior that bore no relationship to the bustling business medium in which they were expected to battle for success.metaphor4.The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakd

15、own of the Victorian social structure, and by precipitation our young people into a pattern of mass murder it released their inhibited violent energies which, after the shooting was over, were turned in both Europe and America to the destruction of an obsolescent nineteenth century society.metaphor5

16、.The prolonged stalemate of 1915-1916,the increasing insolence of Germany toward the United States, and our official reluctance to declare our status as a belligerent were intolerable to many of our idealistic citizens, and with typical American adventurousness enhanced somewhat by the strenuous jin

17、goism of Theodore Roosevelt, our young men began to enlist under foreign flags.metonymy6.Their energies had been whipped up and their naive destroyed by the war and now, in sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country, they were being asked to curb those energies and resume the pose of self-deceiving

18、 Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as outmoded as the notion that their fighting had “made the world safe for democracy”.metaphor7.After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and” Puritanical” gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center(where living was still cheap in 1919)to pour out their new-found creative strength, to tear down the old world, to flout ht morality of their grandfathers, and to give all to art, love, and sensation.metonymy synecdoche8. Younger brothers and sisters o