高级英语第一册修辞手法总汇

Twain began digging his way to regional fame...

Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...

Simile:

Most American remember M. T. as the father of...

...a memory that seemed phonographic

Hyperbole:

...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...

The cast of characters... - a cosmos.

America laughed with him.

Personification:

...to literature's enduring gratitude...

the grave world smiles as usual...

Bitterness fed on the man...

America laughed with him.

Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.

Antithesis:

...between what people claim to be and what they really are..

...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...

...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever

Euphemism:

… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.

...men's final release from earthly struggle

Alliteration

...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home

...with a dash and daring...

...a recklessness of cost or consequences...

Metonymy

...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe

Lesson 10

1) The trial that rocked the world (hyperbole) 2) Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder (transferred epithet)

3) The case had erupted round my head (synecdoche)

4) Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted (ridicule)

5) and it is a mighty strong combination (sarcasm)

6) until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century (irony)

7) There is some doubt about that.(sarcasm)

8) "The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below"(antithesis)

9) "His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world." (hyperbole)

10) Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fanlike a sword to repel his enemies. (ridicule，simile)

11) Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.(ridicule)

12) Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a, "victorious defeat. " (oxymoron )

Lesson 11

1) a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life (alliteration and sarcasm)

2) between the much-touted Second International (1934) and the much-clouted Third International (1961) (assonance and antithesis)

3) The Washington Post, in an editorial captioned "Keep Your Old Webster's" (metonymy)

4) In short, all of these publications are written in the language that the Third International describes (metonymy)

5) But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary's (synecdoche)

6) the Post’ s editorial fails to explain what is wrong with the definition, we can only infer from "so simple" a thing that the writer takes the plain, downright, man-in-the-street attitude that a door is a door and any damn fool knows that(sarcasm )

7) Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges ...(synecdoche)

Lesson 13.

1) he says he used to read me, and is rather charmingly deferential… (metonymy)

2) we might all take a lesson from him, knowing the latitude we can permit ourselves. (pun)

3) a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world? (antithesis)

4) the winepink width of water merging into lawns of aquamarine… (metaphor)

Lesson 5.

1) Here was the very heart of industrial America..(metaphor)

so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man to a macabre and depressing joke. (hyperbole, antithetical contrast)

2)Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination- and here were human habitations so abominable that they would have disgraced a race of alley cats.(hyperbole, antithetical contrast)

3) The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. (litotes, understatement)

4) Obviously… a chalet with a high-pitched roof, to throw off the heavy Winter snows, but still essentially a low and clinging building, wider than it was tall. (sarcasm)

5) And one and all they are streaked in grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint peeping through the streaks. (metaphor)

6) When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. (ridicule, irony)

7) I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer. (irony)

8) Safe in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy, God-forsaken villages of Iowa and Kansas, and the malarious tidewater hamlets of Goergia. (antonomasia)

9) It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. (hyperbole, irony)

10) They like it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them. (sarcasm)

11) It is that of a Presbyterian grinning. (metaphor)

12) Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. (metaphor)