高级英语19春在线作业1-0001

高级英语

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春在线 作业

1-0001

Which of the following sentences use the rhetorical device of hyperbole?

A:She smiled that slow dragging smile.

B:Children these days would bust out of sheetmetal clothes.

C:Momma hadn’t thought that taking off my dress in front of

Mrs. Flowers would

kill me stone dead.

D:What on earth did one put on to go to Mrs. Flowers’ house?

答案：

A,B,C

Which sentences use the rhetorical device of simile?

A:They look like figures representing gluttony in a medieval morality play, and you

expect ladies in wimples to appear and clowns dressed like monkeys.

B:There are also big block letters laid out on sand like formations of gymnasts at a

Soviet youth rally.

C:He breathes hard. He looks around.

D:Maybe he hesitates, or looks around, or gives up.

答案：

A,B

Metaphor is applied in ________.

A:…satiety is a dream which will always elude you.

B:When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer

them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the Gospel to pumpkin pie.

C:Dance halls, cinemas, this age of jazz are all, if we may believe our ears, gateway to

Hell, and we should be better employed sitting at home contemplating our sins.

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