高级英语第1册1234614课修辞练习含答案(第三版).doc

高级英语第1册修辞练习 第3版
Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences

Lesson 1
1.We can batten down and ride it out. (Metaphor )
2.Wind and rain now whipped the house. ( Metaphor )
3.Stay away from the windows. (Elliptical sentence )
4.--- the rain seemingly driven right through the walls. ( Simile )
5.At 8:30, power failed. (Metaphor )
6.Everybody out the back door to the cars. (Elliptical sentence )
7.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ( Simile )
8…the electrical systems had been killed by water.( metaphor )
9.Everybody on the stairs. ( elliptical sentence )
10.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. ( simile )
11. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet though the air. ( personification )
12…it seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ( personification )
13.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.( simile )
14.Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. ( Transferred epithet )
15. Up the stairs --- into our bedroom. ( Elliptical sentence )
16.The world seemed to be breaking apart. ( Simile )
17. Water inched its way up the steps as first floor outside walls collapsed. (Metaphor )
18.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees.. (Metaphor )
19…and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the road.( simile )
20…household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (metaphor )
21.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropped more than 28 inches of rain into West.( metaphor )

Lesson2
1 Hiroshima—the”Liveliest”City in Japan.—irovy
2 That must be what the man in the Japanese stationmaster’s uniform shouted,as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.—alliteration
3 And secondly.because
I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say.—metaphor
4 Was I not at the scene of crime?—rhetorical question
5 The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.—synecdoche,metonymy
6 Quite unexpectedly,the strange emotion which had overwhelmed me at the station returned,and I was again crushed by the thought that I now stood on the site of the slain in one second,where thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people had been die in slow agony.—parallelism
7 Each day that I escape death,each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares,I make a new little paper bird,and add it to the others.—euphemism
8 There were fresh bows ,and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .—synecdoche
9 “Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its-oysters”. --anticlimax
10 But later my hair began to fall out , and my belly turned to water .I felt sick ,and ever since then they have been testing and treating me .—alliteration

Lesson 3
1 As a result the nerves of both the Duke and “Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.—metaphor
2 In what conceivable way does our car concern you?—rhetorical question
3…and you took a lady friend .Leastways,I guess you’d call her that if you’re not too fussy.—euphemism

Lesson4
1 The Trial That Rocked the World—hyperbole
2 Seated in court,ready to testify on my behalf,were a dozen distinguished professors and scientists,led by Professor Kirtley Mather of Harvard University.—periodic sentence
3 “Don’t worry,son,we’ll show them a few tricks,”Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.—transferred epithet
4 After a while,it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind.—irony
5 One shop announced:DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE.—pun
6 Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”—oxymoron
7 The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States,bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has growen with the passing years.—extended metaphor

Lesson 6
1Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.—metaphor ,hyperbole,parallelism
2I found another Twain as well—one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who waw clearly ahead a black wall of night.—metaphor
3The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied—a cosmos.—alliteration metaphor
4He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe region.simile
5For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent,and was rebuffed.—extended metaphor
6“It was a splendid population—for all the slow,sleepy,sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home..—alliteration
7The grave world smiles as usual,and says…--persification
8..one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night”Csually he debunked revered artists and art treasures,and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.—antithesisexaggeration
9Tom’s mischievous daringingenuity,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. –elliptical sentence
10Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world lauth.—persification

Metaphor:
Mark Twain --- Mirror of America
saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...
main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart
the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States
All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...
Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam
When railroads began drying up the demand...
...the epidemic of gold and silver fever...
Twain began digging his way to regional fame...
Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...
...took unholy verbal shots...
Simile:
Most American remember M. T. as the father of...
.a memory that seemed phonographic
Hyperbole:
..cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...
The cast of characters... - a cosmos.
Parallelism:
Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.
Personification:
life dealt him profound personal tragedies...
the river had acquainted him with ...
...to literature's enduring gratitude...
...an entry that will determine his course forever...
the grave world smiles as usual...
Bitterness fed on the man...
America laughed with him.
Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.
Antithesis:
...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 them forever
Euphemism:
..men's final release from earthly struggle
Alliteration:
...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home
.with a dash and daring...
a recklessness of cost or consequences...
Metonymy:
..his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe
Synecdoche
Keelboats,...carried the first major commerce

Lesson 14
1 Churchill ,he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist ,this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon.--metaphor
2 If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.—exaggeration
3 But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.--metaphor

4 I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(similealliteration

5 I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial.(Metaphor)----P79, L5.

6 I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smarting from many a British whipping to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.(Metaphorpersonification

7 We will never parley; we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air. (Parallelism)
8 I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine,with its clanking,heel-clicking,dandified Prussian officers,its crafty wxpert agents fresh from the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries.—metaphor alliteration
9 Behind all this glare,behind all this storm,I see that small group of villainous men who paln,organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind..—metaphor
10 We shall fight him by land,we shall fight him by sea,we shall fight him in the air,until,with God’s help.we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated it peoples from is yoke.—metaphorparallelism sentence
11 It is not for me to speak of the action of the United States,but this I will say:if Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest divergence of aims or slackening of effort in the great democracies who are resolved upon his doom,he is woefully mistaken.periodic sentence

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