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1、英语修辞学第一章-第四章练习答案Tell what figures of speech each sentence contains.1. You might as well expect a leopard to cha nge its spots as expect him to give up smoki ng.(simile)2.1 stayed on Hong Kong isla nd and found myself in a differe nt world, where surprising quiet and the green smell of lush foliage i

2、s just steps away from the bus in ess district.(Ja ne Wooldridge: Hong Kon g)(s yn aesthesia)3. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. (kate Chop in: The Dream of an Hour) (syn aesthesia)4. How all my own territory would be altered, as if a Ian dslide had gone through it and skimmed off all me

3、aning except loss of Mike. (simile)(I had never realized until Mike' leaving) How much my own life would be affected, as if it had been destroyed by a Iandslide, which took away everything I used to enjoy, leaving behind only the pain from missing Mike.我的世界里，就像发生了 天崩地裂，除了迈克的离去，其余所有的记忆都被冲走了。5. My

4、 brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist 'scale as penetrating as a scalpel.(simile)我的大脑像发电机一样发达，化学家的称那样精 确，像手术刀一样锋利。6. Moreover, she had married in to conv ersation (很会说话的人).(Huxley) (met onymy)7. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity . (Lawre nee)(met onymy) charit

5、y - things give n in charity8. Great minds thi nk alike. (sy necdoche)英雄所见略同。9. It(teaching) was like digging a tunnel. (simile)10. He is pitiless as steel, kee n and cold as frost. (Lon don>imile)铁石心肠、冷 若冰霜11. Mike and I climbed into the cab whe n it rained , and the rain washed dow n the win do

6、ws and made a racket like stones on the roof(simile)雨水打在车窗上，声 音很大，就像石头打在屋顶上。12. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is not a man. (simile)13. But these marks or wild country called to my father like the lege ndary sire n song . (simile)就像希腊神话里海妖那动人的歌声一样诱惑着爸爸。14. How shar

7、per than a serpentth it is to have a thankless child.(Shakespeare)(simile)15. And at once they shut up like clams(simile)16. altar , sword and pen ,Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower , Have forfeited their old En glish dowerOf in ward happ in ess . ( Wordsworth ) (meto ny my)圣坛，宝剑，笔杆，还有那

8、炉台，厅堂上以及内室里英雄的财产(厅堂上以及内室里英雄的家当)都已经丧失了它们内心的欢忭(都已经丧失了它们内心的欢畅)那英国的古传统。17. He is a black sheeip 白色羊群中的黑狼)in the family . (metaphor)害群之 马18. He treats his child as the apple in the ey&simile)掌上明珠19. when the unjust measurementof human worth on the scale of dollars is elim in ated. (metaphor)当测量人的价值的不

9、公正的衡量器具是美元被消除。20. A fool can no more see his own folly tha n he can see his ear(simile)21. She was a warm-hearted, home-sp un woma n. (Hardymetaphor)th22. En gla nd in the sec ond half of the 16 cen tury was a n est of singing birds. (metaphor)23. Above us hung a sullen sky(tra nsferred epithet)24.

10、A mist of gulls drifted over the break ing surf. (metaphor)25. Bullets whistled ,whipp ing up foun tai ns of snow . (metaphor)26. She closed her busy life at the age of eightytra nsferred epithet)27. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that uniocks the door to the meaning

11、 of ultimate reality .(metaphor)28. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life ' s marketplace (metaphor)29. It silhouettes our mother on the lake shore, the first light catching the soft red of her hair. (transferred epithet)30. With the quickness of a cat, she climbs up into th

12、e nest of cool-bladed leaves. (simile)31. She looked both young and agin g, as if she had just emerged from an ill ness or some crisis.(simile)32. I leaped to my feet, bellowi ng like a bull. (simile)33. The men were held in the valley by a wall of fire. (fire like a wall) (metaphor)34. She was cons

13、umed with curiosity(metaphor)35. Most of our fears are un reas on able , but they are impossible to erase . (metaphor)36. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weap on aga inst the long night of physical slavery(metaphor)37. The heat rose up and hung and sweltered

14、like a sodden blanket in St. Louis .(Thomas Wolfe) (simile)38. I am as irresponsible as a puff of wind (simile)39. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men. (a room is compared to freedom, while the house is compared to the whole society) (metaphor)40. Read, the

15、n, the followi ng essay which un dertakes to dem on strate that logic, far from bei ng a dry, peda ntic discipli ne, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma(metaphor)41. If not always in a hot mood to smash, the sea is always ready for a drowning, (personification)42. Once

16、in a while something slips one of the actors goes up in his lines and the whole performa nee stumbles and halts (.metaphor)43. One day the sun and the wind had a quarrel. The sun said he was stronger tha n the wi nd. And the wind said_he was stro nger tha n the suppers on ificati on)44. A moment lat

17、er, the hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (Joseph P.Blank: Face to Face with Hurricane Camille) (pers on ificati on)45. I've never met anyone who thinks that if you rewound the tape of terrestrial evolution and played it again, you'd wind

18、up with a genetically identical human being the sec ond time around (metaphor)46. Walls have Ion g ears(pers on ificati on)47. I scratched him gen tly with oily fin gers and he rema ined quiet, as though trying to recall the satisfaction of being scratched when in health, and seeming to rehearse in

19、his mind the in dig nity to which he had just bee n subjected. (pers on ificati on)48. One might fancy the seas on over ,and most of the houses gone out of tow n. (syn ecdoche)人们可能会想到，这个季节过后，屋子里许多人会出城去。49. Power is the arbiter. (Jack London Xpers on ificatio n)50. He mentioned to the boat in general

20、 how the amusement of rowing strung him , and the weary-faced oiler smiled in full sympathy. (Stephen Crane) (syn ecdoche)51. Sun light is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull soun dless eyes, whe n the sun light has died away from out of_hei(pers on ificati on)52. I fou

21、nd the patriot in him. (synecdoche)53. He allowed the father(kindness) to be overruled by the judge (justice), and declared his son guilty.(s yn ecdoche)54. But that the earthy and cold hand of deathLies on my tongue: (ShakespeareXpersonification)55. Love doth to her eyes repairTo help him of his bl

22、i ndn ess,And. being help'd, in habits there. (Shakes(pere) nificati on)56. The fire danced in a lively way.(personification)57. Rough wind, that moan est loudGrief too sad for song; (pers on ificatio n)58. My brain, which is a precise in strume nt, slipped in to high gear(metaphor)59. But saved

23、 for what? Brutish ostracism by every one and a few years of solitary despair. (Defenee for the Died)(transferred epithet)60. And life is in extricably interwoven with non life (如：土壤、空气和水等)； not eve n the sharpest razor can perfectly slice them apa(tmetaphor)61. It tore three large cargo ships from

24、their moorings and beach them( Joseph P.Blank: Face to Face with Hurricane Camille (personification)62. When Industry comes in at the window Poverty goes out of the door. (perso nificatio n)产业进窗来，贫穷出门去。63. It ' s unnecessary to tip people in cafetefstfood restaurant.(transferred epithet)64. A cl

25、ear and exalted (得意洋洋的)perception enabled her to dismiss the suggesti on as trivial. (kate Chopi n: The Dream of an Hour)(tra nsferred epithet)65. Droves of blue-iackets (metonymy) were doing an animated (活泼的) scrub-dow n. ( A Horse in the Sky ) (tra nsferred epithet)一 批又一批身着蓝色制服的 骑兵正在愉快地饮马洗刷。66. Ma

26、jor Danby s Belfast was lost in a round-eyed meditation. (transferred epithet)67. Fact speaks louder tha n eloque ncepers on ificati on)68. Franklin Roosevelt listened with a bright-eyed smiling attention. (Argentia Bay) (transferred epithet)69. The stewardess flung ope n the door, and some one ope

27、n the emerge ncy door at the back letting in the sweet noise of their continuing motility the idle splash and smell of heavy rain. (Joh n Keats: the Country Husba nd(s yn aesthesia)70. All after noon while the men were gone I was full of happy energy. (transferred epithet)71. In the air, always was

28、a might smell of sound that is seemed could sway the earth with the courageous words of artillery and spiteful sentence of musketry min gled red cheers.(s yn aesthesia)(Stephe n Crane: the Red-Badge of Courage)72. They were gree n stock inet and laddered delightfully as I sni pped. (Anne :Out of Mis

29、ts) (tra nsferred epithet)73. Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort and the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice.(transferred epithet)74. There follows an in formal essay that ven

30、tures eve n bey ond Lamb ' s fron tier (metaphor)比兰姆的散文还要散、还要随意75. When she ceased, the auricular impressi ons from their previous en dearme nts seemed to hustle away into the corners of their brain s, repeati ng themselves as echoesfrom a time of supremely purblind foolishness. (Thomas Hardy: T

31、ess of D' urberville)(transferred epithet)她讲完过去的事情以后，他们从前卿卿我我的耳边印象，好像一起挤到了他 们脑子中的一个角落里去了，那些印象的重现似乎只是他们盲目和愚蠢时期的余曰。76. Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit .(metaphor)她的生活就是由虚伪 和欺骗组成的。77. and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.(syn ecdoche)78. He crashed dow n on a

32、protesting chai (tra nsferred epithet)79. Professor Wils on has a very busy schedulgtra nsferred epithet)80. Truth is a deep well .(metaphor)(Joh(n>ynaene)iesia)81. What a noisy scarf it is ! (s yn aesthesia)82. A loud perfume, which at my entrance cried,83. there was a frenzied (crazy) rush of J

33、ews. (George Orwell: Marrakech) (transferred epithet)84. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.(met onymy)否则，你犯了一个绝对判断的错误。(过分简化的谬论)85. Bejing has made opening up a national policy. (metonymy) 机关团体所在 地代那个机关团体。86. The only thing I remember about my life up to the age of five was getting int

34、o a temper and cutting a hated pair of knickers to pieces.( Anne :Out of Mists) (transferred epithet)87. And like music on the watersIs thy sweet voice to me.I can see the music breathi ng from her face.(byron(s yn aesthesia)88. Heavy soun d(s yn aesthesia)89. Pierci ng cry (syn aesthesia)90. It see

35、ms to me I have won my wager and recovered my glov(box ing match) . (met onymy)91. He has a pronoun ced yellow streak (.cowardice 胆怯)(met onymy)92. Then the whining school-boy ,with his satchelAnd shi ning morning face, creep ing like snailUnwillingly to school . And then the lover,Sighing like furn

36、ace , with a woeful balladMade to his mistress ' s eyeb(Swakespeare)(simile)今天早上阳光灿烂，可那个哀怨的孩子，背着他的书包，像蜗牛爬行一 样，很不情愿地走向学校。情人，像炉子一样重重地叹了一口气，对着爱人的脸 唱着悲伤的情歌。93. What is lear ned in the cradle is carried to the grave. (met onymy) (从小至 U老）94. This prize was the blue ribbon in mathematical research(met

37、ony my)最高的95. The best work is done the way ants do things-by tiny, tireless and regular additi ons. (simile)96. No cross , no crown (achievemen) . ( Proverb ) (metonymy)不经历风雨，怎么见彩虹。97. She didn ' t want to be looked uporbaseadocking . (metonymy)98. I got mad and talked like a Dutch uncle.(simil

38、e)99. advising Chinese travelers not to fly on a Boeing 777 and suggesting that Hollywood be burned . (metonymy)机关团体所在地代那个机关团体。100. The sheriff told him better bring in guys or give up his button (职位). (Ste in beck: Grapes of Wrath)(met onymy)101. Will you play me some Chopin ?(met onymy)102. Is the

39、 Remington better than the Underwood ? (Remington 牌打字机，Un derwood 牌打字机)(met onymy)103. I have to admit that in stead of spe nding that sum upon bread and buttefall the n ecessary food), rent , shoes and stock in gs, or butcher 'bSls, I went out and bought a cat a beautiful cat, a Persia n cat, which very soon invo Ived me in bitter disputes wit