高级英语第一册所有修辞方法及例子总结.doc

Personification:1. The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you...2. dancing flashes3. the beam groan ... and protesting4. where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay, 5. life dealt him profound personal tragedies...6. the river had acquainted him with ...7. ...to literature's enduring gratitude...8. ...an entry that will determine his course forever...9. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.10. Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.HyperboleHyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to emphasize a point, to create humor, or to achieve some similar effects1) ... takes you ...hundreds even thousands of years2) innumerable lamps3) with the dust of centuries4) I see the ten thousand villages …5) ...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...6) America laughed with him.7) . The trial that rocked the world8) His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.9) Now I was involved in a trial reported the world over.Onomatopoeia:1) creak, squeak, rumble, grunt, sigh, groan, etc.tinkling, banging, clashing2) . its clanking, heel clicking 3) appreciative chuckle4) clucked his tongue Metaphor　 1) I had a lump in my throat2) At last this intermezzo came to an end...3) I was again crushed by the thought..4) hen the meaning ... sank in, jolting me out of my sad reverie5) little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers ...struggle between kimono and the miniskirtlittle old Japan---- traditional floating houses6) I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact\Hiroshima----people of Hiroshima, especially those who suffered from the A-bomb (keep her thoughts under control) E.g. 1) Whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was riot bowing down in the House of Rimmon2) I suppose they will be rounded up in hordes.3) The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except appetite and racial domination.4) Still smarting from many a British whipping5) rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yokea. his wife shot him a swift, warning glance. (give sb. an angry and quick glare)b. The words spat forth with sudden savagery. ( the detective said the words suddenly and savagely.)c. Her tone ...withered... (become shorter from her frightening voice)d. ...self-assurance...flickered... ( hesitate; move with a quick wavering light emotion)e. The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.1) f. Her voice was a whiplash. i. (a heavy blow)2) g. eyes bored into him i. (look at him pointedly or sharply)3) h. I’ll spell it out. a) (explain or speak out frankly and in detail)4) 1. Mark Twain --- Mirror of America5) 2. 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. 6) 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 .7) 4. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied — a cosmos. 8) Cast of characters: people of various sorts; cosmos: a place where one can find all sorts of characters 9) 5. Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as will. 10) current: stream, here not a good choice for the verb teem. 11) 6. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada 's Washoe region. 12) Succumbed…to: gave way to (yielded to, submitted to ) the gold and silver rush prevailing in that area.13) 7. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed . Flirted…wealth: did not try hard or persistently enough to get the colossal wealth…failed14) 8. From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. 6. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada 's Washoe region. 15) Succumbed…to: gave way to (yielded to, submitted to ) the gold and silver rush prevailing in that area.16) 7. For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed . Flirted…wealth: did not try hard or persistently enough to get the colossal wealth…failed17) Digging …fame: working hard to gain regional fame 18) Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles . Honed: sharpened/exercised. It is not suitable to say "sharpen one's muscles".19) saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...20) the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States 21) All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...( submarine comes back to the surface, here。