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高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí) 第1課
Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences
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
2、 )
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
3、 )
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, li
4、fted 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.
5、( 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
6、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.( simi
7、le )
20…h(huán)ousehold 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 )
高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí)
8、 第2課
Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences
1．The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.( simile )
2.Arethey really the same flesh as yourself ? ( rhetorical question )
3. Do they eve
9、n have names ? (rhetorical question )
4. Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects? ( rhetorical question )
5. …and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone
10、. ( euphemism )
6….sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (simile )
7. In the bazaar huge families of Jews, all dressed in the long-black robe and little black skull-cap, are working in dark fly-infested booths that look like caves. (simile
11、 )
8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews…. ( transferred )
9. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous. ( synecdoche )
10. What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman? An orange grove or a job in Government service ( ellipti
12、cal sentence )
11.Or an Englishman? Camels, castles, palm trees, Foreign Legionnaires, brass trays, and bandits.( )
12. Long lines of women, bent double like inverted capital Ls, work their way slowly across the fields,… ( simile )
13. All of them are mummified with age an
13、d the sun, and all of them are tiny. ( metaphor )
14. This kind of thing makes one’s blood boil,..(hyperbole )
15. How much longer can we go on kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction? ( rhetorical question )
16. And real
14、ly it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men,… ( simile )
17…while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. ( simile )
18. But there is one thought which every whi
15、te man thinks when he sees a black army marching past…Every white man there had this thought …I had it, so had the other onlookers, so had the officers on their sweating chargers and the white N.C .Os…(repetition)
高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí) 第3課
Put
16、out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences
1. and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows( mixed metaphor (simile metaphor)
2. The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or e
17、ven that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. ( metaphor )
3. Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place. ( -------- )
4. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ( ---------- )
5. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. (
18、hyperbole )
6. The conversation was on wings. ( metaphor )
7. …we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant ( -------- )
8. …we are still the heirs to it ( --------- )
9. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,…( simil
19、e )
10. …and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the end of the earth ( --------- )
11. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries. ( -------- )
12. --- but it ought not to be an ultimatum. ( --------- )
13. …the king’s English slips and slides in conversa
20、tion ( --------- )
14. When E. M Foster writes of “ the sinister corridor of our age ,” we sit up at the vivid of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image. ( ------ )
15. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there.( alli
21、teration metaphor )
16. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. ( metaphor )
高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí) 第4課
Point out the rhetorical devices in the following sentences
1. We observe tod
22、ay a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. ( parallel structure )
2. To our sister republics south of our border, we offer a special pledge: to convert our good words into good deeds, in new alliance for prog
23、ress, to assist freeman and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. ( repetition )
3. … bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.( repetition )
4. Let both sides explore…, Let both sides formulate…, Let both sides seek…, Let both si
24、des unite …, ( parallel structure )
5. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. ( parallel structure )
6. To those old allies…, To those new states,… To those peoples…, To our sister republics south of our border…, To that world assembly…, To those nations … ( parall
25、el structure )
7. to enlarge the area in which its writ may run ( metaphor )
8. … that stays the hand of mankind’s final war ( synecdoche )
9. …those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. ( metaphor )
10. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become
26、 the prey of hostile powers.. ( metaphor )
11. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (metaphor )
12. .. to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak. ( metaphor )
13. And if
27、 a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion,…( metaphor )
14. The energy, the devotion which we bring to the endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. ( metaphor )
15. If a free society cannot help the many
28、 who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ( antithesis )
16. …and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world (repetition)
17. 16. Let the word go
29、forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike,… ( alliteration )
18. … that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans,…( metaphor )
19. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. ( repetition )
20. And
30、 yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forbears fought is still at issue around the globe, the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state nut from the hand of God. ( repetition )
21. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and So
31、uth, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? ( rhetorical question )
22. Will you join in the historic effort? ( rhetorical question )
23. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. ( antithesis )
24. Unite
32、d, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do,…( antithesis )
高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí) 第9課
1. The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with white-gold fire across the miles o
33、f sunlit air, under the dark blue of sky ( metaphor)
2. If you can’t lick ’em, join ’em. ( metaphor)
3. Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. ( simile)
4. The crowds along the racecourse are like a field of grass and flowers in the wind. (
34、simile)
5. the profession was a dance ( metaphor)
6. … their high calls rising like the swallows’ crossing flights over the music and the singing(simile)
7. The faces of small children are amiably sticky. (transferred-epithet)
8. …in the benign grey beard of a man a couple of crumbs of rich past
35、ry are entangled (transferred-epithet)
高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí) 第10課
1. we had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering oceans.( me
36、taphor)
2. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure.(simile)
3. this one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure at the end of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and
37、 face the problems of the new age (metaphor)
4. Their homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town and families.(metaphor)
5. After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritannical” gentility, should
38、flock to the traditional artistic center.(metaphor)
6. As it became more and more fashionable throughout the country for young persons to defy the law and conventions and to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “flaming youth.,” it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flame (m
39、etaphor)
7. Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation,… now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.(metaphor)
8. but since the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar, there was little remedy for the s
40、ensitive mind but to emigrate to Europe where “they do things better.” (personification; metaphor; metonymy)
9. Greenwich Village set the pattern. ( metonymy)
10. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollection to the middle-aged and curious questions by the young.(transferred-ep
41、ithet)
11. Civilization in the United States, written by “ thirty intellectuals” under the editorship of J. Harold Stearns, was the rallying point of the sensitive persons disgusted with America.(metaphor)
高級(jí)英語第2冊(cè)修辭練習(xí) 第11課
1. Some cancer in their character has ea
42、ten away their Englishness.(metaphor)
2. Against this, at least superficially, Englishness seems a poor shadowy show---a faint pencil sketch besides a poster in full color (simile; metaphor)
3. It must have some moral capital to draw upon, and soon it may be asking for an overdraft.(metaphor)
4.
43、As it is they are like a hippopotamus blundering in and out of pets’ tea party. (simile)
5. Bewildered, they grope and mess around because they have fallen between two stools, the old harsh discipline having vanished and the essential new self-discipline either not understood or thought to be out o
44、f reach.(metaphor)
6. Yes, Englishness is still with us. But it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment, especially now when our public life seems ready to starve it (metaphor)
7. There are English people of all ages, though far more under thirty than over sixty, who seem to regard politics as a ga
45、me but not one of their games--- polo, let us say.( simile)
8. Otherwise they could soon learn, in the worst way, that heavy hands can fall on the shoulders that have been shrugging away politics. (Synecdoche)
9. Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality, the latest figu
46、res of profit and loss, a constant appeal to self-interest. (metaphor)
10. But we do not have to go on like that, to enter a Common Market of national character.(metaphor)
11. ,… America has shown us too many desperately worried executives dropping into early graves,…( transferred-epithet)
12. ,… whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair,…(metonymy)
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高級(jí)英語2修辭練習(xí) 及 答案
