辞格练习

辞格练习

1

Identify the figure of speech used in each of the following sentences. (choose from

metonymy, synecdoche, antonomasia and allusion)

1. This newspaper

–

and probably the whole country

–

will wait its time and see how

the new faces perform before judging them.

2. Mr. Adam, how can a nation of only two million souls stand up to an empire of ten

million?

3. The moon was above, cold and beautiful, and the music reminded Soapy of those

days when his life contained such things as mothers and roses and clean thoughts and

collars.

4. It was not only writers, you know, it was a thoroughly representative gathering

–

science, politics, business, art, the world.

5. Friendship never forgets.

6. He always keeps a good table, and one gets plenty to eat and drink in his house.

7. Who holds the purse rules the house.

8. All that sleepless night I replayed the moment those black gloves came up to the car

window.

9. When I stay in Rwanda, when I came across the hungry mouths, big or small, I felt

sympathetic and helpless as well.

10. I have an opinion of you, sir, to which it is not so easy to give the mouth.

11. Then the surgeon cut me open and took out the appendix and stitched me up again.

12. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscle, but he had to

leave the city for a while because of some of scathing columns he wrote.

13.

The

accused

woman

knew

that

she

would

have

to

bite

the

bullet

until

the

new

evidence in the case could prove her innocence.

14. You have been used as a cat

’

s paw by that woman; she only wants you to help her

get into local society.

15. It was reported that Italy was beaten by unknowns from North Korea.

16. But

in

spite of himself, he became deeply interested in

this Polish girl with

the

intense gray eyes and delicate features, who was as keen on test tubes as himself.

17. But, as it is clear from the city

’

s guide

–

book, Chester still has many survivals of

it past, both in the form of picturesque traditions and equally picturesque bricks and

stones.

18. He (fish) desperately takes the death.

19. The bright death quivered at the victim

’

s throat.

20. Most Alzheimer

’

s disease isn

’

t hereditary: the key risk factor is age, not family

history.

21.

Wherefore feed, and clothe, and save,

From the cradle to the grave,

Those ungrateful drones who would,

Drain your sweat

–

nay, drink your blood?

22.

Champagne

used

to

be

drunk

only

by

the

very

rich,

but

now

a

lot

of

people

occasionally drink it

23. If donkey brags at you, don

’

t brag at him.

24. A hedge between keeps friendship green.

25. Homer sometimes nods.

26. She has come to realize that life is not a bed of roses.

27. The invention of machinery had brought into the world a new era

–

the industrial

Age. Money had become king.

28. The gentleman in me made me stand up to go away, but the journalist in me made

me stand still.

29.

Beauty

and

the

Beast

was

what

people

used

to

call

them

when

Helen

and

her

husband went out walking together.

30. His waterloo was a woman.

31. It is unfair that historians always attribute the fall of kingdoms to Helen of Troy.

32. The crafty enemy was ready to launch a new attack while outwardly holding out

the olive branch.

33. The criminal was bound in irons, but made good his escape.

34.

Had

he

chosen

painting

instead

of

politics,

he

would

have

been

a

great

master

with the brush.

35. On seeing him, the miserable creature fell upon his shoulder, sobbing and crying,

and pointing to the fountain, where some women were stooping over the motionless

bundle and moving gently about it.

36. Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back.

37. He is an enemy worth your steel; there is no cowardice in him.

38.

The

rather

arresting

spectacle

of

little

old

Japan

adrift

amid

beige

concrete

skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the

miniskirt.

39. I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

40.

With

all

the

red

tape

I

ran

into

a

city

hall,

it

took

me

three

months

to

get

my

business license.

41.

“

Judas!

Traitor!

”

I

ejaculated,

“

you

are

a

hypocrite,

too,

are

you?

A

deliberate

deceiver.

”

42. In the present instance, it was sickness and poverty together that she came to visit.

“

Einstein is my admiration,

”

the little girl said.

43. There was no harm in Sam, but he was always merry and liked a bit of skirt.

44.

This

man

is

a

very

able

lawyer,

but

the

bench

has

not

yet

admitted

him

into

practice.

45. Nowadays more and more people have a liking for cotton.

46. The camp, the pulpit and the law,

For rich men

’

s sons are free.

1. The indefatigable bell now sounded for the fourth time.

2. His supervisor was probably already pacing up and down with a dismissal speech

rehearsed.

3. Tom closed the car window and sat back in his seat, in hostile silence. His uncle

cleared his throat and said: “Well, I hope we get on reasonable well.”