英语修辞学1-4Ex答案gg

《英语修辞学》第一章

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第四章练习答案

Tell what figures of speech each sentence contains.

1. You might as well expect a leopard to change its spots as expect him to give up smoking.

(

simile)

2.

I

stayed

on

Hong

Kong

island

and

found

myself

in

a

different

world,

where

surprising

quiet

and

the

green

smell

of

lush

foliage

is

just

steps

away

from

the

business

district.(Jane

Wooldridge: Hong Kong)

(synaesthesia)

3.

The

delicious

breath

of

rain

was

in

the

air.

(kate

Chopin:

The

Dream

of

an

Hour)

(synaesthesia)

4.

How

all

my

own

territory

would

be

altered,

as

if

a

landslide

had

gone

through

it

and

skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.

(simile)

(

I had never realized until Mike

’

s leaving) How much my own life would be affected, as if it

had been destroyed by a landslide, which took away everything I used to enjoy, leaving behind

only the pain from missing Mike.

我的世界里，就像发生了天崩地裂，除了迈克的离去，其余

所有的记忆都被冲走了。

5. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise

as a chemist’s scale

, as penetrating as a

scalpel.

(simile)

我的大脑像发电机 一样发达，化学家的称那样精确，像手术刀一样锋利。

6. Moreover, she had married into conversation

（

很会说话的人）

. (Huxley)

(metonymy)

7. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity . (Lawrence)

(metonymy)

charity ---

things given in charity

8. Great minds think alike.

(synecdoche)

英雄所见略同。

9. It

（

teaching

）

was like digging a tunnel.

(simile)

10. He is pitiless as steel, keen and cold as frost. (London)

(simile)

铁石心肠、冷若冰霜

11. Mike and I climbed into the cab when it rained , and the rain washed down the windows

and made a racket like stones on the roof.

(simile)

雨水打在车窗上 ，

声音很大，

就像石头打在屋

顶上。< /p>

12. A home without love is no more a home than a body without a soul is not a man.

(simile)

13.

But

these

marks

or

wild

country

called

to

my

father

like

the

legendary

siren

song .

(simile)

……

就像希腊神话里海妖那动人的歌声一样诱惑着爸爸。

14. How

sharper than a serpent’s tooth

it is to have a thankless child. (Shakespeare)

(simile)

15. And at once they shut up like clams.

(simile)

16. altar , sword and pen ,

Fireside , the heroic wealth of hall and bower ,

Have forfeited their old English dower

Of inward happiness .

( Wordsworth )

(metonymy)

圣坛，宝剑，笔杆，还有那炉台，厅堂上以及内室里英雄的财产

（厅堂上以及内室

里英雄的家当）

都已 经丧失了它们内心的欢忭

（都已经丧失了它们内心的欢畅——）

那英

国的古传统。

17. He is a black sheep

（白色羊群中的黑狼）

in the family .

(metaphor)

害群之马

18. He treats his child as the apple in the eye.

(simile)

掌上明珠

19.

when

the

unjust

measurement

of

human

worth

on

the

scale

of

dollars

is

eliminated.

(metaphor)

1

当测量人的价值的不公正的衡量器具是美元被消除。

20. A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

(simile)

21. She was a warm- hearted, home-spun woman. (Hardy)

(metaphor)

22. England in the second half of the 16

th

century was a nest of singing birds.

(metaphor)

23. Above us hung a sullen sky.

(transferred epithet)

24. A mist of gulls drifted over the breaking surf.

(metaphor)

25. Bullets whistled ,whipping up fountains of snow .

(metaphor)

26. She closed her busy life at the age of eighty.

(transferred epithet)

27. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door

to the meaning of ultimate reality .

(metaphor)

28. We are called upon to help

the discouraged beggars in life’s

marketplace .

(metaphor)

29. It silhouettes our mother on the lake shore, the first light catching the soft red of her hair.

(transferred epithet)

30. With the quickness of a cat, she climbs up into the nest of cool-bladed leaves.

(simile)

31.

She

looked

both

young

and

aging, as

if

she

had

just

emerged

from

an

illness

or

some

crisis.

(simile)

32. I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.

(simile)

33. The men were held in the valley by a wall of fire. (fire like a wall)

(metaphor)

34. She was consumed with curiosity.

(metaphor)

35. Most of our fears are unreasonable , but they are impossible to erase .

(metaphor)

36. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against

the long night of physical slavery.

(metaphor)

37.

The heat

rose

up

and

hung

and

sweltered

like

a

sodden

blanket

in

St.

Louis .(Thomas

Wolfe)

(simile)

38. I am as irresponsible as a puff of wind .

(simile)

39. You have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by

men. (a

room is compared to freedom, while the house is compared to the whole society)

(metaphor)

40.

Read,

then,

the

following

essay

which

undertakes

to

demonstrate

that

logic,

far

from

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

(metaphor)

41.

If

not

always

in

a

hot

mood

to

smash,

the

sea

is

always

ready

for

a

drowning.

(personification)

42. Once in a while something slips

—

one of the actors goes up in his lines and the whole

performance stumbles and halts .

(metaphor)

43. One day the sun and the wind had a quarrel. The sun said he was stronger than the wind.

And the wind said he was stronger than the sun.

(personification)

44. A moment later, the hurricane lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet

through the air.

（

Joseph : Face to Face with Hurricane Camille

）

(pers onification)

45. I've never met anyone who thinks that if you rewound the tape of terrestrial evolution and

played it again, you'd wind up with a genetically identical human being the second time around .

(metaphor)

46. Walls have long ears.

(personification)

47. I scratched him gently with oily fingers and he remained quiet, as though trying to recall

the

satisfaction

of

being

scratched

when

in

health,

and

seeming

to

rehearse

in

his

mind

the

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