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e
s
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n
1
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
con
spicuous.
—
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.
—
elli
ptical 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
6
All
this
will
not
be
finished
in
the
first
one
hundred
days.
—
historical
allusion, climax