高级英语修辞格

1.You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see, losing itself in the shadowy distance. [metaphor]
2. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. [onomatopoeia]
3. It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes…… [metaphor]
4. The dye-market, the pottery-market and the carpenters' market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. [metaphor]
5. The machine is operated by one man, who shovels the linseed pulp into a stone vat, climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes, and then throws his weight on to a great beam made out of a tree trunk to set the ropes and pulleys in motion. [transferred epithet]
6. Ancient girders creak and groan, ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a used petrol can. [onomatopoeia]
7. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards , taut and protesting, its creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding- wheels and the occasional grunts and sighs of the camels. [onomatopoeia]
1.Was I not at the scene of the crime? [rhetorical question]
2. At last this intermezzo came to an end…… [metaphor]
3. 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. [metonymy]
4. Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town Known throughout the world for its--oysters. [anti-climax]
5. We still have a handful of patients here who are being kept alive by constant care. [alliteration]
6. I felt sick, and ever since then they have been testing and treating me. [alliteration]
1. I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking, heel clicking; dandified Prussian officers……[onomatopoeia]
2. I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. [alliteration, simile]
3. Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men who plan, organise, and launch this cataract of horror upon mankind...[parallel structure, metaphor]
4. We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. [repetition]
5. From this nothing will turn us--nothing. [inversion]
6. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. [repetition]
7. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God's help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke. [parallel
2. structure]
8. The Russian danger is therefore our danger, and the danger of the United States, just as the cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause

of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe. [alliteration]
1. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. [hyperbole]
2. a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race, who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. [metaphor]
3. The geographic core, in Twain's early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart. [metaphor]
4. Keelboats, flatboats, and large rafts carried the first major commerce. [synecdoche]
5. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied--a cosmos. [metaphor]
6. Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. [metaphor]
7. He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. [euphemism]
8. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region. [metaphor]
9. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed. [analogy]
10. From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. [metaphor]
11. ... but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. [metonymy]
12. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles,… [synecdoche]
13. “It was a splendid population--for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home ... It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day--and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says “Well, that is California all over.” [alliteration ]
14. “... one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night.” [ ridicule]
15. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. [personification]
16. …he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles…[euphemism]
. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. [transferred
epithet]
2. When I was indicted on May 7, no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history. [metaphor]
3. until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. [irony] [assonance]
4. Gone was the fierce fervour of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire. [si

mile]
5. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT--INSIDE. (This was J. R. Darwin's Everything to Wear Store.) [pun]
6. Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”[oxymoron]