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1、-高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 1 课Point the rhetorical devices used in the following sentencesPoint the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences1.We can batten down and ride it out.(Metaphor)2.Wind and rain now whipped the house.(Metaphor)3.Stay away from the windows.(Ellipticalsentence)4.-the rain seemi

2、ngly driven right through the walls.(Simile)5.At 8:30,power failed.(Metaphor)6.Everybody out the back door to the cars.(Ellipticalsentence)7.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.(Simile)8the electrical systems had been killed by water.(metaphor)9.Everybody on the stai

3、rs.(ellipticalsentence)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,lifted the entire roof off the house andskimmed it 40 feet though the air.(personification)12itseizeda600,000-gallonGulfportoiltankanddumpedit3.5mi

4、lesaway.(personification)13.Telephone poles and20-inch-thick pinescrackedlikegunsasthewindssnappedthem.(simile)14.Several vacationers at the lu*urious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watchthe storm from their spectacular vantage point.(Transferred epithet)15.Up the stairs-into o

5、ur bedroom.(Ellipticalsentence)16.The world seemed 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)19and blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the road.(s

6、imile)20household 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 28inches of rain into West.(metaphor)高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 2 课Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentencesPut out

7、 the rhetorical devices used in the following sentences1 The burying-ground ismerely a huge waste ofhummocky earth,like a derelictbuilding-lot.(simile)2.Arethey really the same flesh as yourself (rhetorical question)3.Do they even have names (rhetorical question)4.Or are they merely a kind of undiff

8、erentiated brown stuff,about as individual as bees or coralinsects(rhetorical question)5.and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices thatthey are gone.(euphemism)6.sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers,like clouds of flies.(simile)7.In

9、 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)8.Instantly,from the dark holes all round,there was a frenzied rush of Jews.(transferred)9.Still,a white skin is always fairly conspicu

10、ous.(synecdoche)10.What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman An orange grove or a job in Government service.z.-(elliptical sentence)11.Or an Englishman Camels,castles,palm trees,Foreign Legionnaires,brass trays,andbandits.()12.Long lines of women,bent double like inverted capital Ls,work their way slowl

11、y across thefields,(simile)13.All of them are mummified with age and the sun,and all of them are tiny.(metaphor)14.This kind of thing makes ones blood boil,.(hyperbole)15.How much longer can we go on kidding these people How long before they turn their guns inthe other direction(rhetorical question)

12、16.And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column,a mile or two miles ofarmed men,(simile)17while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction,glittering like scraps ofpaper.(simile)18.But there is one thought which every white man thinks when he sees a

13、 black army marchingpastEvery white man there had this thought I had it,so had the other onlookers,so hadthe officers on their sweating chargers and the white N.C.Os(repetition)高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 3 课Put out the rhetorical devices used in the following sentencesPut out the rhetorical devices used in the

14、following sentences1.and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or justglows(mi*ed metaphor(simile metaphor)2.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their love affairs have been broken oreventhattheygotoutofbedonthewrongsideissimplynotaconcern.(m

15、etaphor)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.(hyperbole)6.The conversation was on wings.(metaphor)7.weoughttothinkourselvesbackintotheshoesoftheSa*onpeasant(-)8.we are still the heirs t

16、o it(-)9.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,(simile)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 kings English slips and slides in conversation(-)14.When E.M

17、 Foster writes of the sinister corridor of our age,we sit up at the vivid of thephrase,the force and even terror in the image.(-)15.Otherwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it flow freely here andthere.(alliterationmetaphor)16.We would never have gone to Australia,or leaped back in

18、time to the Norman Conquest.(metaphor)高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 4 课Point out the rhetorical devices in the following sentencesPoint out the rhetorical devices in the following sentences1.We observe today a victory of party but a celebration of freedom,symbolizing an end aswell.z.-as a beginning,signifying rene

19、wal as well as change.(parallel structure)2.To our sister republics south of our border,we offer a special pledge:to convert our goodwords into good deeds,in new alliance for progress,to assist freeman and free governments incasting off the chains of poverty.(repetition)3.bring the absolute power to

20、 destroy other nations under the absolute control of allnations.(repetition)4.Let both sides e*plore,Let both sides formulate,Let both sides seek,Let both sidesunite,(parallel structure)5.Let us never negotiate out of fear,but let us never fear to negotiate.(parallel structure)6.To those old allies,

21、To those new states,To those peoples,To our sister republics southof our border,To that world assembly,To those nations (parallel structure)7.to enlarge the area in which its writ may run(metaphor)8.that stays the hand of mankinds final war(synecdoche)9.those who foolishly sought power by riding the

22、 back of the tiger ended up inside.(metaphor)10.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.(metaphor)11.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its ownhouse.(metaphor)12.to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for inve

23、ctive,to strengthen its shield of the newand the weak.(metaphor)13.And if 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 whoserve it,and the glow from that fire can truly light the w

24、orld.(metaphor)15.If a free society cannot help the many 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 thisnation has always been committed,and to which we are committed today at home and aroundthe w

25、orld(repetition)17.16.Let the word go 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 allforms of human life.(rep

26、etition)20.And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forbears fought is still at issue around theglobe,the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state nut from thehand of God.(repetition)21.Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance,North and

27、 South,East andWest,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 e*plore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems whichdivide us.(antithesis)24.United,there is little we canno

28、t do in a host of co-operative ventures.Divided,there is little wecan do,(antithesis)高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 9 课1.The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the EighteenPeaksburned with.z.-white-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air,under the dark blue of sky(metaphor)2.If you cant lick

29、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.(simile)5.the profession was a dance(metaphor)6.their high calls rising like the swallows cr

30、ossing flights over the music and thesinging(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 pastry are entangled(transferred-epithet)高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 10 课1.we had reached an international stature that would fo

31、rever prevent us from retreating behindthe artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two borderingoceans.(metaphor)2.The war actedmerely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian socialstructure.(simile)3.this one lasted until the money ran out,unt

32、il the crash of the world economic structure at theend of the decade called the party to a halt and forced the revelers to sober up and face theproblems of the new age(metaphor)4.Theirhomeswereoftenuncomfortabletothem;theyhadoutgrowntownandfamilies.(metaphor)5.After the war,it was only natural that

33、hopeful young writers,their minds and pens inflamedagainst war,Babbittry,and Puritannical gentility,should flock to the traditional artisticcenter.(metaphor)6.As it became more and more fashionable throughout the country for young persons to defythe law and conventions and to add their own little ma

34、tchsticks to the conflagration of flamingyouth.,it was Greenwich Village that fanned the flame(metaphor)7.Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation,now began to imitate the manners oftheir elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.(metaphor)8.but since the country was blind and deaf

35、 to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar,there was little remedy for the sensitive mind but to emigrate to Europe where they do thingsbetter.(personification;metaphor;metonymy)9.Greenwich Villageset the pattern.(metonymy)10.The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollectio

36、n to the middle-aged andcurious questions by the young.(transferred-epithet)11.Civilization in the United States,written by thirty intellectuals under the editorship of J.HaroldStearns,wastherallyingpointofthesensitivepersonsdisgustedwithAmerica.(metaphor)高级英语第 2 册修辞练习第 11 课1.Some cancer in their ch

37、aracter has eaten away their Englishness.(metaphor)2.Against this,at least superficially,Englishness seems a poor shadowy show-a faint pencilsketch 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.z.-overdraft.(metaphor)4.

38、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 oldharsh discipline having vanished and the essential new self-discipline either not understood orthought to be out of reach.(

39、metaphor)6.Yes,Englishness is still with us.But it needs reinforcement,e*tra nourishment,especially nowwhen our public life seems ready to starve it(metaphor)7.There are English people of all ages,though far more under thirty than over si*ty,who seem toregard politics as a game but not one of their

40、games-polo,let us say.(simile)8.Otherwise they could soon learn,in the worst way,that heavy hands can fall on the shouldersthat have been shrugging away politics.(Synecdoche)9.Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality,the latest figures of profitand loss,a constant appeal

41、to self-interest.(metaphor)10.But we do not have to go on like that,to enter a Common Market of nationalcharacter.(metaphor)11.,America has shown us too many desperately worried e*ecutives dropping into earlygraves,(transferred-epithet)12.,whether they are wearing bowler hats or ungovernable mops of hair,(metonymy).z.