高级英语下册-课文修辞讲解

高级英语第二册修辞
高英下册部分课中的修辞手法的运用 未注明的句子修辞均为metaphor

…no one has any idea where it will go a s it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.

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…

They are like the musketeers of Dumas…(simile)

…did not delve into each other..

…suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place,…

The glow of the conversation burst into flames.

The conversation was on wings.

,we should think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasants.

I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.

The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and floated to the ends of the earth. (simile)

Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there.

We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest.

Symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change(parallelism and repetition)

..to assist free men and free government…（repetition）

.friend and foe (alliteration)

Pay any price, bear any burden.. (alliteration)

Survival and success of liberty. (alliteration)

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided there is little we can do for we dare not a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.(antithesis)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich(antithesis)

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. (antithesis)

Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.(chiasmus)

Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country. (chiasmus)

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

But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.

And let every other power know that this hemisphere intend to remain the master of its own house.

..to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak.

And if a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.

Could Ruskin do more?(rhetorical question)

Cool was I and logical (Inversion/irony)

My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel (simile, hyperbole, and parallelism, irony)

My brain ,…slipped into high gear

It is, after all, to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.(antithesis)

,.. desire waxing, reso

lution waning.(antithesis)

If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object.

It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect (hyperbole)

He just stood and stared at with a mad lust at the coat. (hyperbole)

You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of outer space. (hyperbole)

..the raccoon coat huddled like a hairy beast at his feet. (simile)

..logic, far from being a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma.

There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.(synecdoche)

He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start.

I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein.(Antonomasia)

…prevent us from retreating behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality.

The war acted as merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social structure.

After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry (metonymy, antonomasia)

.. to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “flaming youth”,

…now began to imitate the manners imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.

When it did, I like many a writer before me upon the discovery that his props have all been knocked out from under him

…a writer, when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending and unpredictable battle.

It is not until he is released from the habit of flexing his muscles and proving that he is just a “regular guy” that he realizes how crippling this habit has been

An American writer fights his way to one of the lowest rungs on the American social ladder by means of pure …

.. and it is not easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath

It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himself beneath the open sky(simile)

He needs sustenance for his journey