briefs高级英语第三版第二册1—6课修辞

Lesson1

1 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

2 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

3 It was on such an occasion the other evening, as the conversation moved desultorily here and

there, from the most commonplace to thoughts of Jupiter, without and focus and with no need

for

one

that

suddenly

the

alchemy

of

conversation

took

place,

and

all

at

once

they

was

a

focus.

—

metaphor

4 The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the

ends of the earth.

—

simile

5

Even

with

the

most

educated

and

the

most

literate,

the

King

’

s

English

slips

and

slides

in

convers ation.

—

metaphor

,alliteration

6

When

E.M.

Forster

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

Lesson2

1

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

2

A

carpenter

sits

cross-legged

at

a

prehistoric

lathe,

turning

chair-legs

at

lightning

speed.

—

historical present, transferred epithet

3 Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

—

synecdoche 4

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

5 Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.

—

elliptical sentence

6

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, glittering like scraps of paper.

—

simile

Lesson3

1 Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been

passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a

hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow

undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to

which we are committed today at home and around the world.

—

alliteration

2 Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any

burden,

meet

any

hardship,

suppor

any

friend,

oppose

any

foe

to

assure

the

survival

and

the

success of liberty.

—

parataxis consonance

3 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 ful challenge at odds and split asunder.

—

antithesis

4 …in the past,

those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up

inside.

—

metaphor

5 Let us never negotiate out of fear , but let us never fear to negotiate.

—

regression