高级英语第二册修辞

高级英语第二册修辞

P3. 11

The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.

Simile

P4.13

The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away

Simile

P5.18

A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.

Personification

P5.19

it seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away

Personification

P7.28

Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads

Simile

P16.3

Are they really the same flesh as your self? Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects?

Rhetorical questions

P18.10

there was a frenzied rush of Jews

Transferred epithet

P19.16

a white skin is always fairly conspicuous

Synecdoche

P19.18

Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls

Simile

P21.22

winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels

Onomatopoeia

P22.26

高级英语第二册修辞

the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of Paper. Simile

P48.3

to friend and foe alike

Alliteration

the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans

Metaphor

born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage

Parallelism

P49.7

those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

Metaphor

P49.8

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. Antithesis

P49.9

chains of poverty

Metaphor

Let all our neighbors know that we shall join with them to oppose aggression or subversion anywhere in the Americas. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

Repetition

P.50.13

both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom

Metonymy

stays the hand of mankind's final war.

Synecdoche

P50.14

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate

Antithesis

P51.25

ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

Antithesis

P62.4

My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist's scales, as penetrating as a scalpel

高级英语第二册修辞

Simile / hyperbole

P64.23

let my heart rule my head

Metonymy

P64.27

easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful

Antithesis

P67.61

This loomed as a project of no small dimensions

Understatement/litotes 轻描淡写/间接肯定法

P69.97

the raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet

Simile

P70.98

Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered

Metaphor

P70.105

surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation

Metonymy

P71.115

There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear

Synecdoche

P73.135

You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. Please, my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless.

Hyperbole

P74.138

I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein, and my monster had me by the throat.

Allusion