高级英语修辞总结

1、s EnglishLesson 1 Pub Talk and the KingAlliterationthe Kings Engsspand slides (Para. 18)Allusions暗指，引喻 -musketeers of Dumas (Para. 3)-descendants of convicts (Para. 7) -Saxon churls (Para. 8)-Norman conquerors (Para. 8)ExaggerationPerhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think b

2、ar conversation has a charm of its own. (Para. 3)MetaphorNo one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. (Para. 2)They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (Para.Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place (Para. 4)The glow of the con

3、versation burst into flames. (Para. 6)The conversation was on wings. (Para. 8)We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.(Para. 11)The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seedsmultiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth. (Para. 14)I have an unendin

4、g love affair with dictionaries. (Para. 17)Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King s Englisslips and slides in conversation. (Para. 18)“the siniscerridor of our age” (Para. 18)Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flowfreely here and there. (Para. 20)We wo

5、uld never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to theNorman Conquest. (Para. 20)5. SimileThey are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived sideby side with each other, did not delve into each other s (Para. 3)The Elizabethans blew on it_ason a dandelion clock, (Para. 14)Lesson

6、 2 MarrakechSimile1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth,_like aderelict building-lot. (Para. 2)soryed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, likeclouds of flies. (Para. 8)where the soil is exactljke broken-up brick. (Para. 18)Long lines of women, bent double li

7、ke inverted capital Ls (Para. 18)their feet squashedinto boots that looked like blocks of wood (Para. 23)glitterin冰e scraps of paper. (Para. 26)MetaphorThey rise out of the earth (Para. 3)Down the center of the street there is generally running a little river of urine. (Para. 8)Alliterationsweat and

8、 starve (Para. 3)Transferred Epithet-there was a frenzied rush of Jews (Para. 10)Onomatopoeia,winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels (Para. 22)Synecdochea white skin is always fairly conspicuous (Para. 16), actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. (P

9、ara. 24) Rhetorical QuestionAre they really the same flesh as your self Do they even have names Or are they merely a kind of differentiated brown stuff, about as individualas bees or coral insects (Para. 3)How much longer can we go one kidding these people How 10ng before they turn their guns in the

10、 other direction (Para. 25) UnderstatementI am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact. (Para. 21)Lesson 3 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)Parallelism，symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as wellas change. (Para. 1)Paras. 6, 7, 8, 10, 11Alliterationfriend and foe alike

11、 (Para. 3)to assure the survival and the success of liberty. (Para. 4)steady spread (Para. 13)bear the burden(Para. 22)strength and sacrifice。 (Para.26)Metaphorthose who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (Para. 7)But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot becom

12、e the prey of hostile powers. (Para. 9)this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (Para. 9)to strengthen its shieldof the new and the weak (Para. 10)And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle ofsuspicion(Para. 19)The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring

13、to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (Para. 24)Consonance，whether it wishes uswell or ill ,(Para. 4)Synecdocheboth rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom、.(Para.AntithesisUnited, there is little we canno

14、t do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. (Para. 6)If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (Para. 8)And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your

15、country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. (Para. 25)Repetitionall forms of (Para. 2)the belief (Para. 2)RegressionLet us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.(Para. 14)And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you c

16、an do for your country. (Para. 25) Allusionone hundred days (Para. 20)ClimaxAll this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. (Para. 20) Hyperbo

17、le hour of maximum danger (Para. 24)Lesson 4 Love is a FallacyMetaphorCharles Lamb, unfettered the informal essay with.“Dream sChildren ” . (Author s Note)There follows an informal essay.frontier (Author s Note)Logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of b

18、eauty, passion, and trauma. (Author s Note)My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (Para. 17)In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (Para. 31)I fought off a wave of despair. (Para. 76)Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embe

19、rs still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. (Para. 95)The next fallacy is called Poisoning the Well. (Para. 112)9.The first man hisoned the well before anybody could drink fromit. He has hamstrung his opponent before he couldven start. ” (Para. 116) 10. The 回(Para. 148)SimileMy br

20、ain was as powerful as a dynamo,gprecise as a chemist s scale,as penetrating as a scalpel. (Para. 1)Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (Para. 2)First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakerywindow. (Para. 47)He looked Jjke a mound of dead raccoons. (Para. 54).the ra

21、ccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (Para. 94)It was like digging a tunnel. (Para. 120)I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. (Para. 144)Antithesis1.“It is, after all, easier to makbeautiful dumb girl smart than to make2.an ugly smart girl beautiful. ” (Para. 24)b Back and

22、forth his head swivqledesire waxing, resolution waning.(Para. 47) there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. (Para. 91)3. If there is an irresistible force, there can be no 上mmovable object. If4.“ Look at mebrilliant studentcoming from. ” (Para. 150)HyperboleLogic, far from be

23、ing a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (Author s Note)My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemistas penetrating as a scalpel. (Para. 1)It s not often that one sogybas such a giant intellect. (Para. 2)Finally he didn t turn

24、 away at all; he just stood and stared with madlust at the coat. (Para. 47)You are the whole world of outer space (Para. 132)“I will wander the face of the earth, a shambling, hoolw-eyed hulk. ”(Para. 132)MetonymyBut I was not one to let my heart rule my head. (Para. 20)Otherwise you have committed

25、a Dicto Simpliciter. (Para. 70)You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (Para. 79)LitotesThis loomed as a project of no small dimensions. (Para. 58)SynecdocheThere is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (Para. 112)AnalogyJust as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he had fashioned,_s

26、o I loved mine. (Para. 122)Transferred EpithetI said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. (Para. 37) Rhetorical QuestionCould Carlyle do more Could Ruskin (Authors Note)“Really ” said Polly, amazed.Nobody” (Para. 73)Who knew (Para. 95)Lesson 5 The Sad Young MenMetaphor:we had reached a

27、n internatio naature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality (Para. 2)battle for success (Para. 3)And like most escapist sprees, this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decad

28、e called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face the problems of the new age. (Para. 4)once the young men hadeceived a good taste of twentieth-century warfare. (Para. 6)they hadutgrown town and families (Para. 6)isleepy Gopher Prairies all over the country (Para. 6)- to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “flaming youth ” (Para. 8)now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebelli