1
Rhetorical Devices (Advanced English book two)
Lesson 1
1.
Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor
2.
We can batten down and ride it out.----metaphor
3.
Everybody out the back door to the cars!----elliptical sentence
4.
Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile
5.
Several
vacationers
at
the
luxurious
Richelieu
Apartments
there
held
a
hurricane
party
to
watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point--transferred epithet
6.
Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black
spaghetti over the roads-metaphor. Simile
7.
鈥t
seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. -------personificat
ion
8.
The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile
9.
The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile
10.
Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked as the winds snapped. onomatopoeia
Lesson2
1.
鈥nd then they
sink back into the nameless
mounds of the graveyard and nobody
notices
that they are gone.
---euphemism
2.
The little crowd of mourners
鈥?/p>
all men and boys, no women
鈥?/p>
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.
鈥?/p>
elliptical sentence
3.
A
carpenter
sits
cross-legged
at
a
prehistoric
lathe,
turning
chair-legs
at
lightning
speed.
鈥?/p>
historical present , transferred epithet
4.
Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
鈥?/p>
synecdoche
5.
As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward
鈥?/p>
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.
鈥?/p>
onomatopoetic
words symbolism
6.
Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.
鈥?/p>
elliptical sentence
7.
And really it was 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, littering like scraps of paper.
鈥?/p>
simile
8.
The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -
----simile
9.
They rise out of the earth
锛?/p>
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
鎶煎ご闊?/p>
10.
.. and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ----
simile
11.
Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old
grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamouring for a cigarette. -----transferred epithet