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高级英语课文修辞总结（1-7课）
第一课Face to Face With Hurricane Camille Simile:
1. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (comparing the passing of children to the passing of buckets of water in a fire brigade when fighting a fire)
2. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. (comparing the sound of the wind to the roar of a passing train) Metaphor :
1. We can batten down and ride it out. (comparing the house in a hurricane to a ship fighting a storm at sea)
2. Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Strong wind and rain was lashing the house as if with a whip.) Personification :
1. A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air. (The hurricane acted as a
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very strong person lifting something heavy and throwing it through the air.)
2. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3 1/2miles away. (The hurricane acted as a very strong man lifting something very heavy and dumping it 3 1/2 miles away.). Ⅺ.
Elliptical and short simple sentences generally increase the tempo and speed of the actions being described. Hence in a dramatic narration they serve to heighten tension and help create a sense of danger and urgency. For examples see the text, paragraphs 10-18 and 21-26.
Lesson 2 Hiroshima—the “Liveliest” City in Japan “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)
…as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop... …where thousands upon thousands of people had been slain in one second, where thousands upon thousands of others had lingered on to die in slow agony.
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At last this intermezzo came to an end…
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) 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. Hiroshima—the “liveliest” city in Japan
I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me.
The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skycrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
There were fresh bows, and the faces grew more and more serious each time the name Hiroshima was repeated .(synecdoche)
Was I not at the scene of the crime? (rhetorical question)
Lesson 3 Blackmail Metaphor:
...the nerves of both ... were excessively frayed...
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his wife shot him a swift, warning glance. The words spat forth with sudden savagery. Her tone ...withered...
...self-assurance...flickered...
The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind. Her voice was a whiplash. eyes bored into him I’ll spell it out.
Euphemism:
...and you took a lady friend.
Metonymy:
won 100 at the tables lost it at the bar
they'll throw the book,...
Onomatopoeia: appreciative chuckle clucked his tongue Lesson 4
1) The trial that rocked the world (hyperbole)
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2) Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder (transferred epithet)
3) The case had erupted round my head (synecdoche) 4) Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted (ridicule) 5) and it is a mighty strong combination (sarcasm) 6) until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century (irony)
7) There is some doubt about that.(sarcasm)
8) \The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below\
9) \recognized throughout the world.\10) Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fanlike a sword to repel his enemies. (ridicule，simile) 11) Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.(ridicule) 12) Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a, \第五课
The many metaphors and similes in the essay are largely ap propritately used in describing the ugliness of Westmoreland County.
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