高级英语(2)修辞格汇总
Simile
1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughts and feelings.
2.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of the earth.
3.…like clouds of flies.
4.Everything is done… like inverted capital Ls…
5.And really it was like watching a …armed men,flowing peacefully up the r
oad,while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite directi on,glittering like scraps of paper.
6.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales,
as penetrating as a scalpel.
7.Same age,… but dumb as an ox.
8.Peter lay … coat huddled like a great hairy…
9.It was like digging a tunnel.
10.I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.
11.Grandmother Macleod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo…
12.… the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarlet lanterns on the thin
hairy stems.
13.At night the lake was like black glass…
14.The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder…
metaphor
1.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simpl y not a concern.
2.…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and f eeling.
3.It was on such … suddenly the alchemy of conversation … was a focus.
4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.
5.We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.
6.The conversation was on wings.
7.As we listen… to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.
8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…of common sense.
9.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.
10.When E.M.Forster writes of -the sinister corridor of our age,we sit up at t he vividness of the phrase,the force and even terror in the image.
11.They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years,…are gone.
12.Down the centre…a little river of urine.
13.…in the past,… by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.
14.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.
15.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.
16.… we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a
forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak…
17.… yet both… stays the hand of mankind’s final war.
18.And if a beached of cooperation may push…
19.The energy, the faith…will light our…and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
20.… unfettered the informal… children.
21.There follows… frontier.
22.Read, then, the following… demonstrate that logic…
23.“In other words, if you were out the picture, the field would be open.
24.First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window.
25.I fought off a wave of despair.
26.Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.
27.The first man has poisoned the well before…
28.He has hamstrung his opponent before he could…
29.Frantically I thought back the tide of panic…
30.The rat!
31.… through the filigree of the spruce trees…
32.…. and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the people of…
33.… with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.
mixed metaphor 1.The charm of conversation is…it will go as it meanders or leaps and
sparkles or just glows.
2.My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.
metonymy 转喻，借代
1.Is the phrase in Shakespeare?
2.… but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.
3.Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.
4.You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.
5.…those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat
world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.
synecdoche提喻
1.Other people may…in which the great minds are supposed…
2.Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
3.… actually has… a white skin.
4.…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom…
5.There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.
6.The damn bone’s flared up again.
alliteration
1.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slip
s and slides in conversation.
2.They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years,…are gone.
3.She accepted her…as a beast of burden.
4.Let the word go forth from this time and place,to friend and foe alike…
5.…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom…
6.…but a call to bear the burden of a long…
7.… the same high standards of strength and sacrifice…
antithesis 对比
1.We observe today … symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying
renewal as well as change.
2.For man holds… human poverty and …human life.
3.United,there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.Divi
ded,there is little we can do,for we dare not meet a power ful challenge at odds and split asunder.
4.Let us never negotiate out of fear , but let us never fear to negotiate.
5.... not as a call to bear… but a call to …
6.It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an
ugly smart girl beautiful.
7.Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.
8.If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If there
is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force.
9.Look at me --- a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man with
an assured future. Look at Petey--- a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll n ever know where his next meal is coming from. parallelism
1.Let every nation know,whether it wishes us well or ill,that we shall pay a
ny price,bear any burden,meet any hardship,suppor any friend,oppose a ny foe ,to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
repetition 反复
1.For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain
beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
personification
1．The gazelle I was feeding seemed to know that this thought was in my mind…not like me.
2．The two grey squirrels were still there, gossiping at us…
3．The water was always icy, for the lake was fed by springs…
transferred epithet 移就
1. A carpenter sitscross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lig
htning speed.
2.Instantly, from…there was a frenzied rush of Jews...cigarette.
3.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.
4.…meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious
hands.
5.Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes.
6.… I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency
to look the other way.
7.Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked…
exaggeration/ hyperbole 夸张
1.Perhaps it because of my upbringing in English pubs…its own.
2.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales,
as penetrating as a scalpel.
3.It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.
4.… he just … with mad lust…
5.You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the
constellations of outer space.
6.... dresses that were always miles too long.
7.…those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat
world…
Elliptical sentence
1.The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys,no women—threaded th
eir way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and t he taxis and the camels,wailing a short chant over and over again.
2.No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind.
3.Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.
4.Emotional type. Unstable. Impression. Worst of all, a faddist.
5.‘I n the library,’…
6.Peter, why?....
7.“Anything?” I asked, looking at him narrowly.
8.Beautiful she was.
9.One more chance…10.But just one more.
11.Hasty Generalization
12.Ad Misericordiam
13.After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand!
Rhetorical questions
1.Are they really the same flesh as …or coral insects?
Onomatopoetic
1.As the storks …winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter
of iron wheels.
Understatement
1.I am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact.
2.This looked as a project of a small dimensions,…
Sarcasm
1.Anyone can be sorry…owing to some kind of accident of or even…of
sticks.
Contrast
1.As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward…
Inverted sentence
1.In your hands, my fellow citizens,…
2.Cool was I and logical.
3.One more chance…
4.Five grueling nights this took,…
Double negation
1.It was not be thought that I was without love for this girl.
Analogy
1.Just as Pygmalion loved the perfected woman hr had fashioned, so I loved
mine.
2.I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps they had gone
away to some far place of belonging. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.
Allusion
1.Just as Pygmalion loved the perfected woman hr had fashioned, so I loved
mine.
2.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein…
高级英语第二册修辞分析
《高级英语》修辞分析及参考答案 1. But we shall not always expect…to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (metaphor) 2. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. (metaphor) 3. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. (metaphor) 4. We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak. (metaphor) 5. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion…(metaphor) 6. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (metaphor) 7. Sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. (simile) 8. Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (transferred epithet) 9. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (antithesis) 10. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. (antithesis) 11. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you;ask what you can do for your country. (antithesis) 12. Charles Lamb, as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month of Sundays, unfettered the informal essay with his memorable Old China and Dream’s Children. (metaphor) 13. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier. (metaphor) 14. Logic, far from being a dry, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. (metaphor and hyperbole) 15. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. (simile and hyperbole) 16. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. (hyperbole) 17. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. (ellipsis and simile) 18. A nice enough young fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. (ellipsis) 19. Not, however, to Petey. (ellipsis) 20. My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear. (metaphor) 21. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. (antithesis) 22. In other words, if you were out of the picture, the field would be open. (metaphor) 23. I said with a mysterious wink. (transferred epithet) 24. He just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat. (hyperbole) 25. Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter. (metonymy) 26. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker. (metonymy) 27. If there is an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force. (antithesis) 28. The raccoon coat huddled like a great hairy beast at his feet. (simile) 29. Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame. (metaphor) 30. Surgeons have X-rays to guide them during an operation. (metonymy)
高级英语第一册修辞手法总结
Lesson 1 1．"We can batten down and ride it out," he said. (Para. 4) metaphor 2 .Wind and rain now whipped the house. (Para. 7) personification 、metaphor 3. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. (Para.11) simile 4. He held his head between his hands, and silently prayed: “Get us through this mess, will Y ou?”(Para. 17) alliteration 5. It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. (Para.19) personification 6. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. (Para.19) simile、onomatopoeia(拟声) 7. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point. （Para. 20）transferred epithet 8 8. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist, and 26 people perished.（Para. 20）simile、personification 9. and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads.(Para.28) simile 10.household and medical supplies streamed in by plane, train, truck and car. (Para. 31) metaphor Lesson 4 1. Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm around my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. (para2) Transferred epithet 2. The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton as science master and football coach at secondary school.(para 3) Synecdoche 3. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century.(para14) Irony 4. '' There is some doubt about that '' Darrow snorted.(para 19) Sarcasm 5. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.(para 20) Antithesis 6. Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie.(para 22) Alliteration; Simile 7. The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breadth of his oratory as he should have. (Para 22) He appealed for intellectual freedom, and accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death between science and religion. (Para 23) The court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that Bryan. Snowball:grow quickly; spar: fight with words; thunder: say angrily and loudly; scorch: thoroughly defeat; duel: life and death struggle; storm of applause: loud applause by many people; the oratorical duel; spring the trump card.Metaphor
高级英语(2)修辞格汇总
Simile 1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughts and feelings. 2.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of the earth. 3.…like clouds of flies. 4.Everything is done… like inverted capital Ls… 5.And really it was like watching a …armed men,flowing peacefully up the r oad,while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite directi on,glittering like scraps of paper. 6.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. 7.Same age,… but dumb as an ox. 8.Peter lay … coat huddled like a great hairy… 9.It was like digging a tunnel. 10.I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull. 11.Grandmother Macleod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo… 12.… the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarlet lanterns on the thin hairy stems. 13.At night the lake was like black glass… 14.The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder… metaphor 1.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simpl y not a concern. 2.…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and f eeling. 3.It was on such … suddenly the alchemy of conversation … was a focus. 4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames. 5.We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. 6.The conversation was on wings. 7.As we listen… to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. 8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…of common sense. 9.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. 10.When E.M.Forster writes of -the sinister corridor of our age,we sit up at t he vividness of the phrase,the force and even terror in the image. 11.They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years,…are gone. 12.Down the centre…a little river of urine. 13.…in the past,… by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. 14.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers. 15.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house. 16.… we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a
高级英语第二册修辞全集
Lesson2 I. Are they really the same flesh as youself?——rhetorical question 2. They rise out of the earth,they sweat and starve for a few yers,and then they sink back into the n ameless mounds of the graveyard. — alliterati on ‘metaphor 3.Sore-eyed childre n cluster everywhere in un believable nu mbers,like clouds of flies. — simile 4. Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape. ——irony 5. There was a fren zied rush of Jews. — tran sferred epithet 6. A white skin is always fairly con spicuous. — syn ecdoche 7. What gover nment service.——rhetorical questi on 8. L ong lines of wome n,be nt double like in verted capital Ls,work their way slowly across the fields. — simile 9. This kind of thing makes one 10.1 am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact. 11.This wretched boy,who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest to scrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns,actually has feelings of reverence before a white skin. ------ s yn ecdoche 12. And really it was like watch ing a flock of cattle to see the long colu mn,a mile or two miles of armed men.—simile 13. -------- w hile the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direct ion, glitteri ng like scraps of paper. metaphor Lesson3 1. no one has any idea where it will go as it mean ders or leaps and sprkles or just glows. ----- metaphor 2. they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers of Dumas — simile 3. sudde nly the alchemy of con versati on took place — metaphor 4. the glow of the con versatio n burst into flames ---- metaphor 5. The con versatio n was on win gs. --- metaphor 6. We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasa nt. ----- m etaphor 7. The Elizabetha ns blew on it as on a dan deli on clock,a nd its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.— simile 's blodrisoolnymy un derstateme nt
高级英语(1)修辞格汇总
一、词语修辞格 （1）simile 明喻 ①...a memory that seemed phonographic ②“Mama,” Wangero said sweet as a bird .“can I have these old quilts?” ③Most American remember M. T. as the father of... ④Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. ⑤Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. ⑥My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. ⑦She gasped like a bee had stung her. （2）metaphor 暗喻 ①It is a vast, sombre cavern of a room,… ②Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. ③The dye-market, the pottery market and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb the bazaar. A ④the last this intermezzo came to an end… ⑤…showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse… ⑥After I tripped over it two or three times he told me … ⑦Mark Twain --- Mirror of America ⑧saw clearly ahead a black wall of night... ⑨main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart ⑩All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up... ?When railroads began drying up the demand... ?...the epidemic of gold and silver fever... ?Twain began digging his way to regional fame...
英语修辞格汇总(高级英语-第一册)
1. 明喻simile Simile refers to a direct comparison between two or more things, normally introduced by like or as. He has been as drunk as a fiddler’s bitch. 1. 他醉得像小提琴手的母狗。 2. 他曾喝得酊名大醉/烂醉如泥。 If We haven’t got any money, we can’t buy a television.It’s as plain as the nose on your face. 1. 如果我们没有钱，就不能买电视机。这就像脸上的鼻子一样清楚明了。 2. 没有钱我们就不能买电视机。这就像秃子头上的虱子——明摆着的事。 Mr. Smith may serve as a good secretary, for he is as close as an oyster. 史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他嘴巴紧得像牦蛎. 史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他守口如瓶。 I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 2. 隐喻metaphor Metaphor is an implied comparison between two or more things achieved by identifying one with the other. That lady tries to make sheep’s eyes at her new boss. 1. 那位女士想向新老板投去绵羊之眼。 2. 那位女士想向新老板献媚。 Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes, as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers. The dye-market, the pottery-market, and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. It is a vast ,somber cavern of a room ,some thirty feet high and sixty feet square , and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly visible. Churchill, he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist, this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smarting from many a British whipping
高级英语第二册部分修辞
Lesson1 1 We can batten down and ride it out.--metaphor 2 Everybody out the back door to the cars!--elliptical sentence 3 Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile 4 Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point--transferred epithet 5 Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor, simile Lesson3 1. … and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. ---mixed-metaphor or metaphor 3. … that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus. ----metaphor 4. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor 5. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. -----metaphor The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.--—metaphor 6. The conversation was on wings. ----metaphor 8. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin all conversation. -----sarcasm反讽 9. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings. -----simile 10. … we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. ---- 11. Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there. ---- 12. We would never hay gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. ---- 13. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did not delve into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings.—-simile 14. Is the phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy 15. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends of the earth.—simile 16. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.—alliteration 17. When E.M.F orster writes of ―the sinister corridor of our age,‖ we sit up at the v ividness of the phrase, the force and even terror in the image.—--metaphor Lesson4 1. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a power full challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis 2.…in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.—metaphor 3. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression (回环:A-B-C)
高级英语(1)修辞格汇总
一．词语修辞格 (1) simile 明喻 它根据人们的联想，利用不同事物之间的相似点，借助比喻词(如like，as等)起连接作用，清楚地说明甲事物在某方面像乙事物 I wandered lonely as a cloud. ( W. Wordsworth: The Daffodils ) 我像一朵浮云独自漫游。 They are as like as two peas. 他们两个长得一模一样。 His young daughter looks as red as a rose. 他的小女儿面庞红得象朵玫瑰花。 ①―Mama,‖ Wangero said sweet as a bird . ―C an I have these old quilts?‖ ②Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. ③My skin is like an uncooked（未煮过的）barley pancake. ④The oratorial（雄辩的）storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind though the schools… ⑤I see also the dull（迟钝的）, drilled（训练有素的）, docile（易驯服的）, brutish （粗野的）masses of the Hun soldiery plodding（沉重缓慢地走）on like a swarm（群）of crawling locusts（蝗虫）. （2）metaphor 暗喻 暗含的比喻。A是B或B就是A。 All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players演员. ( William Shakespeare )整个世界是座舞台，男男女女，演员而已。 Education is not the filling of a pail桶, but the lighting of a fire. ( William B. Yeats ) 教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。 ①It is a vast（巨大的）, sombre（忧郁的）cavern（洞穴）of a room,… ②Mark Twain --- Mirror of America ③main artery（干线）of transportation in the young nation's heart ④The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind. ⑤Her voice was a whiplash（鞭绳）. ⑥We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air,
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Unit 1 Middle Eastern Bazaar 1. Onomatopoeia: is the formation of words in imitation o the sounds associated with the thing concerned. e.g. 1) tinkling bells (Para. 1) 2) the squeaking and rumbling (Para. 9) 2. Metaphor: is the use of a word or phrase which describes one thing by stating another comparable thing without using “as” or “like”. e.g. 1) the heat and glare of a big open square (Para. 1) 2) …in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar (Para. 7) 3. alliteration: is the use of several words in close proximity beginning with the same letter or letters. e.g. 1) …thread their way among the throngs of people (Para. 1) 2)…make a point of protesting 4. Hyperbole: is the use of a form of words to make sth sound big, small, loud and so on by saying that it is like something even bigger, smaller, louder, etc. e.g. a tiny restaurant (Para. 7) a flood of glistening linseed oil (Para. 9) 5．Antithesis: is the setting, often in parallel structure, of contrasting words or phrases opposite each other for emphasis. e.g. 1) …a tiny apprentice blows a big charcoal fire with a huge leather bellows…(Para. 5) 2) …which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camels and their stone wheels. (Para. 5) 6. Personification: a figure of speech in which inanimate objects are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form. e.g. …as the burnished copper catches the light of …(Para.5) Unit 2 V: Figures of speech Metaphor: 暗喻 A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison. 暗喻是一种修辞，通常用指某物的词或词组来指代他物，从而暗示二者之间的相似之处。 1). And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything in Nippon railways official might say. 2). …I was again crushed by the thought…(Page 13, Para. 4, Line 1)