高级英语部分课文修辞讲解(共6页)

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上1.metaphor暗喻slips and slidesthe sinister corridor of our age and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus.The glow of the conversation burst into flame

2、s.We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concernThe conversation was on wings.When E.M.F orster writes of “the sinister corridor of

3、our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image.Mark Twain - Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night.main artery of transportation in the young nation's heartAll would resurface in his books.that he soaked up.who saw clearly ahead a bla

4、ck wall of night.main artery of transportation in the young nations heart.my case would snowball into.our town .had taken on a circus atmosphere.The street .sprouted with . had not scorched the infidels.after the preliminary sparring over legalitiesNo one,. that may case would snowball into. .our to

5、wn .had taken on a circus atmosphere. The street .sprouted with . He thundered in his sonorous organ tones. .champion had not scorched the infidels. after the preliminary sparring over legalities.the nerves of both . were excessively frayedhis wife shot him a swift, warning glance.The words spat for

6、th with sudden savagery.Her tone .withered.self-assurance.flickered.The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.Her voice was a whiplasheyes bored into himIll spell it out.original sinwe saw how hungry the American people.racial lenswhitest populations firestorm vessel 2. sarcasm反讽The bother

7、 about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation. 3. simile明喻They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and f

8、eelings. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into, each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the ear

9、th.The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies.And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flo

10、wing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. Indeed, this nations best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic, and humorous as anyone has ever imaginedToms mischievous daring, ingenuity,

11、 and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.swept the arena like a prairie fire .a palm fan like a sword. 4. metonymy转喻Is the phrase in Shakespeare? .his pen would prove mightier than hi

12、s pickaxebut for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. .tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers. The Christian believes that man came from above. .belowwon 100 at the tableslost it at the barthey'll throw the book,.jarring to the untrained ear5. alliteration头韵法The

13、y rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone.Even with the most educated and the most literate, the Kings English slips and slides in conversation.the slow, sleepy, sluggish-bra

14、ined sloths stayed at home.with a dash and daring.a recklessness of cost or consequences.It was a splendid population for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.It was that populationand rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or conse

15、quences color and creedthe greatness and the goodness of our nationtrials and triumphsunique and universalstories and songs struggles and successes, the bitterness and biases 6. elliptical sentence省略句The little crowd of mourners all men and boys, no womenthreaded their way across the market place be

16、tween the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again.Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.7. transferred epithet 移就Darrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder. Cheerful money, suicidal sky, sleepless nig

17、htInstantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamoring for a cigarette.8. synecdoche(提喻)Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuousThis wretched boy, who is a French citizen and has therefore been drag

18、ged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns, actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin.Keelboats,.carried the first major commerce.the case had erupted round my head 9. hyperbole夸张法.cruise through eternal boyhood and .endless summer of freedom.The cast of ch

19、aracters- a cosmos.The trial that rocked the worldThe trial that rocked the world His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.10. onomatopoetic words symbolism拟声词的象征意义As th

20、e storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southwarda long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.11. Personification拟人life dealt him profound personal tr

21、agedies.the river had acquainted him with .to literature's enduring gratitude.Bitterness fed on the man.America laughed with him.12. Antithesis对照.between what people claim to be and what they really are.took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.a world which will lament them a day and forget the

22、m foreverof the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. The christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.we may have different stories, but we hold co

23、mmon hopes; we may not look the same and we may not have come from the same place, but we all want to move in the same direction. Ive gone to some of the best schools in America and lived in one of the worlds poorest nations.that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right wi

24、th America. kindness and cruelty; the fierce intelligence and the shocking ignorance,13. Euphemism委婉语.men's final release from earthly struggleHe tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confiderate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. he commented with a crushin

25、g sense of despair on mans final release from earthly struggles .and you took a lady friend.and you took a lady friend.14. Sarcasm讥讽I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating. one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler man in a night.There is some doubt about that.

26、 And it is a mighty strong combination. 15. Assonance:类音，类韵,半谐音when bigots lighted faggots to burn.16. RepetitionThe truth always wins.the truth.the truth.17. Ironymarching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th centuryHiroshima-the liveliest city in the worldAfter a while,it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until weare marching back