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1、5高级英语第1册修辞练习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)5 .

2、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. (Simile8 the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor )9 .Everybody on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence )10 .The

3、 wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ( simile11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house andskimmed it 40 feet though the air. ( personification)12 it seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away.(

4、 personification) 13.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snappedthem.( simile ) 14.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watchthe storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet)outside walls col

5、lapsed.)15 . Up the stairs - into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence16 .The world seemed to be breaking apart. ( Simile)17 . Water inched its way up the steps as first floor(Metaphor18 .Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees. (Metaphor19 and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghett

6、i over the road.( simile)20 - - household 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 Hiroshima the" Liveliest" City in

7、Japan. irovy2 That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster; s uniform shouted,as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station. alliteration3 And secondly.becauseI had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in N

8、ippon railways 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 u

9、nexpectedly,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 deat

10、h,each day of 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, a

11、nd I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters ” . -anticlimax10 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

12、 nerves of both the 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 you'd call her that if you're not too fussy.

13、 euphemismLesson41 The Trial That Rocked the World hyperbole2 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,we ll show them a few tricks, ” Darrow had whispe

14、red throwing a reassuring arm round 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 t

15、he men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind. irony5 One shop announced:DARWIN IS RIGHT INSIDE. pun6 Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat. ”oxymoron7 The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in th

16、e 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 climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has growen with the passing years. extended metaphorLesson 61Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father

17、 of Huck Finn s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer s endless summer of freedom and adventure. metaphor ,hyperbole,parallelism2I found another Twain as well one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the fra

18、ilties of the human race,who waw clearly ahead a black wall of night. metaphor3The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied a cosmos. alliteration metaphor4He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada s Washoe region.s

19、imile5For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent,and was rebuffed. extended metaphor6“ It was a splendid population for all the slow,sleepy,sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home. alliteration7The grave world smiles as usual,and says -persification

20、8.one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night” Csually he debunked revered artists and art treasures,and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land. antithesisexaggeration9Tom s mischievous daring,ingenuity,and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almos

21、t as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence. - elliptical sentence10Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world lauth. persificationMetaphor:Mark Twain - Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night.main artery of transportation in the you

22、ng nation's heartthe vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United StatesAll would resurface in his books.that he soaked up.Steamboat decks teemed.main current of.but its flotsamWhen railroads began drying up the demand.the epidemic of gold and silver fever.Twain began digging his way

23、to regional fame.Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.took unholy verbal shots.Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of.a memory that seemed phonographicHyperbole:.cruise through eternal boyhood and .endless summer of freedom.The cast of characters. - a cosmos.P

24、arallelism:Most Americans remember . the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.Personification:life dealt him profound personal tragedies.the river had acquainted him with .to literature's enduring gratitude.

25、an entry that will determine his course forever.the grave world smiles as usual.Bitterness fed on the man.America laughed with him.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.Antithesis:.between what people claim to be and what they really are.took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.a world which wil

26、l lament them a day and forget them foreverEuphemism:.men's final release from earthly struggleAlliteration:.the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.with a dash and daring.a recklessness of cost or consequences.Metonymy:.his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxeSynecdocheKee

27、lboats,.carried the first major commerceLesson 141 Churchill ,he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist ,this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon.-metaphor2 If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the Houseof C

28、ommons. exaggeration3 But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.-metaphor4 I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(similealliteration5 I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of thei

29、r native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.(Metaphor)P79, L5.6 I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smarting from many a British whipping to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.(Metaphorpersonification7 We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land, we shall