修辞格高级英语

Metaphor:

No one,... that may case would snowball into...
...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.
The street ...sprouted with ...
He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.
...champion had not scorched the infidels...
…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…

Simile:

...swept the arena like a prairie fire
...a palm fan like a sword...

Metonymy

...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...
The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below.

Hyperbole:

The trial that rocked the world

Ridicule:

Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted ...
Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

Sarcasm:

There is some doubt about that.

Transferred epithet

Darrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.

Antithesis

The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.

Assonance:

when bigots lighted faggots to burn...

Repetition:

The truth always wins...the truth...the truth...

Pun:

Darwin is right --- inside.

A pun is a play on words, or rather a play on the form and meaning of words. It is not strictly a figure of speech, but because it relied heavily on metaphorical or figurative meanings of words for its effect, it if often included in lists of such figures.

a. Words or phrases having two or more distinct meanings. Homonyms.

Local carpenter seeks local dentist for trade of skills. "I'll build your bridge, you build mine."

Standing at the door and looking at the newly employed young secretary, the two colleagues talked to each other. "She is pure and too inexperienced. We ought to teach her what is right and what is wrong." "Yea," said the other, "you teach her what is right and I teach her what is wrong."

For a church outreach visitation program, I was paired with a rather reserved woman. We knocked on one house’s front door. Thinking no one was home, we started to walk away. Just then, a man wrapped in a bath towel, dripping wet, appeared at the upstairs window. “We hope you can visit our church sometime,” my partner called up. “We’d like to see more of you.”

b. words having the same or almost same sound but differing in form and meaning. Homophones.
Seven days without water makes one weak.

Then there was the man in the restaurant. "You're not eating your fish," the waitress said to him. "Anything wrong with it?" "Long time no see (sea)," the man replied.

The major was about to address his men when the general came. The general talked to the soldiers and left. Then the major announced:" The general had just made a general speech. Now listen the major points."

An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country.

Oxymoron: formed by conj

oining of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous terms.

Malone called my conviction a "victorious defeat".
bitter sweet memories
proud humility
orderly chaos
a damned saint
an honourable villain.

Irony:

marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th century

Irony: a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.

Hiroshima---the liveliest city in the world.

Transferred epithet
Two high points of color appeared in the paleness of the Duchess of Croydon’s cheeks.
two points of high colour (high colour 指红晕)

“Thank you,” he said as the three of them shared a lingering hug.
“谢谢你们。”他说道，这三个人久久地拥抱在一起。
此处讲一个人落水被救，因而对救他的人心怀感激。

He must be doing some cold calculating just now.
刚才他肯定是在冷静地计算着。

Insurgencies tend to be resolved at the bargaining table.
(In for a dime, in for a dollar? By Linda Robinson U.S. News Oct.4 1999)
叛乱只能在谈判桌边才能解决。

On his sick bed he summoned his sons and daughters into his presence.

He passed many an anxious hour in the train.

I spoke to him in hesitant English.

He lives by honest labour.

No one,... that may case would snowball into...
...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.
The street ...sprouted with ...
He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.
...champion had not scorched the infidels...
…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…

Simile:

...swept the arena like a prairie fire
...a palm fan like a sword...

Metonymy

...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...
The Christian believes that man came from above. ...below.

Hyperbole:

The trial that rocked the world

Ridicule:

Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted ...
Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.

Sarcasm:

There is some doubt about that.

Transferred epithet

Darrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder.

Antithesis

The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.

Assonance:

when bigots lighted faggots to burn...

Repetition:

The truth always wins...the truth...the truth...

Pun:

Darwin is right --- inside.

A pun is a play on words, or rather a play on the form and meaning of words. It is not strictly a figure of speech, but because it relied heavily on metaphorical or figurative meanings of words for its effect, it if often included in lists of such figures.

a. Words or phrases having two or more dist

inct meanings. Homonyms.

Local carpenter seeks local dentist for trade of skills. "I'll build your bridge, you build mine."

Standing at the door and looking at the newly employed young secretary, the two colleagues talked to each other. "She is pure and too inexperienced. We ought to teach her what is right and what is wrong." "Yea," said the other, "you teach her what is right and I teach her what is wrong."

For a church outreach visitation program, I was paired with a rather reserved woman. We knocked on one house’s front door. Thinking no one was home, we started to walk away. Just then, a man wrapped in a bath towel, dripping wet, appeared at the upstairs window. “We hope you can visit our church sometime,” my partner called up. “We’d like to see more of you.”

b. words having the same or almost same sound but differing in form and meaning. Homophones.
Seven days without water makes one weak.

Then there was the man in the restaurant. "You're not eating your fish," the waitress said to him. "Anything wrong with it?" "Long time no see (sea)," the man replied.

The major was about to address his men when the general came. The general talked to the soldiers and left. Then the major announced:" The general had just made a general speech. Now listen the major points."

An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country.

Oxymoron: formed by conjoining of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous terms.

Malone called my conviction a "victorious defeat".
bitter sweet memories
proud humility
orderly chaos
a damned saint
an honourable villain.

Irony:

marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th century

Irony: a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.

Hiroshima---the liveliest city in the world.

Transferred epithet
Two high points of color appeared in the paleness of the Duchess of Croydon’s cheeks.
two points of high colour (high colour 指红晕)

“Thank you,” he said as the three of them shared a lingering hug.
“谢谢你们。”他说道，这三个人久久地拥抱在一起。
此处讲一个人落水被救，因而对救他的人心怀感激。

He must be doing some cold calculating just now.
刚才他肯定是在冷静地计算着。

Insurgencies tend to be resolved at the bargaining table.
(In for a dime, in for a dollar? By Linda Robinson U.S. News Oct.4 1999)
叛乱只能在谈判桌边才能解决。

On his sick bed he summoned his sons and daughters into his presence.

He passed many an anxious hour in the train.

I spoke to him in hesitant English.

He lives by honest labour.