Lesson1

1. Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor(暗喻)

2. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile (明喻)

3. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile

4. …it seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. ----personification(拟人)

5. We can batten down and ride it out. -----metaphor 6. Everybody out the back door to the cars!—ellipsis (省略) 7. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. -----simile

8. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point-----transferred epithet移就

9. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads----metaphor; simile Lesson2

1. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -----simile

2. They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. -----alliteration押头韵

3. ... and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ----simile

4. And really it was almost like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. ----- simile 5. The little crowd of mourners all men and boys, no women threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again.--—elliptical sentence

6. A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.—- hyperbole

7. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamoring for a cigarette. -----transferred epithet

8. Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—-synecdoche(提喻) 9. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward a long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.—---onomatopoetic words symbolism

10. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive. —-- elliptical sentence

11. This wretched boy, who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns, actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. —- synecdoche提喻 Lesson3

1. … and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. ---mixed-metaphor or metaphor

2. … that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at

once there was a focus. ----metaphor

3. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor 4. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. -----metaphor

The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.--—metaphor

5. The conversation was on wings. ----metaphor

6. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation. -----sarcasm反讽 7. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings. -----simile

8. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.—-simile 9. Is the phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy

10. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.—simile

11. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.—alliteration

12. When E.M.F orster writes of “the sinister corridor of our age,” we sit up at the vividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image.—--metaphor Lesson 4

1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a power full challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis

2.…in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.—metaphor

3. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.— regression (回环:A-B-C)

4. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.—allusion 引典; climax递进

5. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.—antithesis, regression回环 6 We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. ----parallelism

7. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike….—alliteration