高级英语8-13课修辞教案资料.doc

高级英语8-13课修辞

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Advanced English ( I )
Rhetorical Devices Applied from 8---13

Unit 8 An Interactive Life
1.Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethowven. – ( metonymy )
2.Will government regulate messages sent out on this vast data highway? --- ( metaphor )
3.To prevent getting trampled by a stampede of data, viewers will rely on programmed electronic selectors that could go out into the info corral and rope in the subjects the viewer wants. --- ( metaphor)
4. She is a child of the people, born in the very height and heat of battle. – ( alliteration )
5. Crafty men condemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them ---(antithesis)
6. She says consumers would be a little like information “cowboys,” rounding up data from computer-based archives and information services.---(simile )

Unit 9 Mark Twain -- Mirror of America
1. Metaphor:
n Mark Twain -- Mirror of America
n saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...
n main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart
n the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States
n All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...
n Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam
n When railroads began drying up the demand...
n ...the epidemic of gold and silver fever...
2. Simile:
n Most American remember M. T. as the father of...
n ...a memory that seemed phonographic
3. Hyperbole:
n ...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...
n The cast of characters... - a cosmos.
4. Parallelism:
n Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.
5. Personification:
n life dealt him profound personal tragedies...
n the river had acquainted him with ...
n ...to literature's enduring gratitude...
n ...an entry that will determine his course forever...
n The grave world smiles as usual...
n Bitterness fed on the man...
n America laughed with him.
n Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.
6. Antithesis:
n ...between what people claim to be and what they really are...
n ...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...
n ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever
7. Euphemism:
n ...men's final release from earthly struggle
n He tired soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.
8. Alliteration:
n ...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home
n ...with a dash and daring...
n ...a recklessness of cost or consequences...
9. Metonymy:
n ...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe

Unit 10 The trial that rock the world.
1. The trial that rock the world. --- (hyperbole)
2. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder. ---( transferred epithet )
3. H. L. Menken wrote sulphurous dispatches sitting in his pants with a fan blowing on him, and there was talk of running him out of town for….( transferred epithet )
4. “The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.” ---( antithesis )
5. By the time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1500 people had taken on a circus atmosphere. --- ( metaphor)
6. …that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in US. History.--- (metaphor)
7. …until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century …( irony)
8. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat”.--- ( oxymoron)
9. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and football coach at the secondary school. --- ( synecdoche)
10. Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. -- .( transferred epithet )
11. One shop announced: Darwin is right – inside. – ( pun )

Unit 11 But What's a Dictionary For?
Personification
1. The storm of abuse in the popular press that greeted the appearance of Webster‟s Third New International Dictionary is a curious phenomenon.
2. An article in the Atlantic viewed it as a “disappointment,” a “shock ,” a “calamity,” “a scandal and a disaster.” The Yew York Times, in a special editorial, felt that the work would…
3. The Journal of the American Bar Association saw the publication as ...
Alliteration
4. --a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life.
Assonance
5. The difference, for example, between the much-touted Second International (1934) and the much-clouted Third International (1961) is not like the difference between yearly models but…
Synecdoche
6. What of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges, to screen entrances and exist?
7. But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary’s
Metonymy
8. The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "keep Your Old Webster's,” says, in the first sentence, …
9. In short, all of these publications are written in the language that the 3rd International describes, even the very editorials which scorn it.

Unit 12 The Loons
Hyperbole
1. …dresses that were always miles too long.
2. …those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat world
Metaphor
3. …the filigree of the spruce trees
4. …daughter of the forest
5. I tried another line
6. A streak of amber
Transferred epithet
7. All around, the spruce trees grew tall and close-set, branches blackly sharp against the sky which was lightened by a cold flickering of stars.
8. I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way.
9. My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce core, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands.
Metonymy
10. Those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home. ( our modern civilization)
Synecdoche
11. the damn bone’s flared up again
Personification
12. The two grey squirrels were still there, gossiping at us from the tall spruce beside the cottage,
13. The news that somehow had not found its way into letters….

Unit 13 Britannia Rues the Waves
Metaphor:
1.….the British fleet risks being elbowed out….
2. Yet shipping is the essential lifeline for the nation’s economy.
3. ….are bent on taking over the lion’s share….
4. To cash in on the container revolution, you need….
5.The one area which has weathered the economic storms….
6.But P&O has no intention of throwing in the towel.
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