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Rhetorical Devices (Advanced English book two)

Lesson 1

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Wind and rain now wiped the house. ----metaphor We can batten down and ride it out.----metaphor

Everybody out the back door to the cars!----elliptical sentence

Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point--transferred epithet

Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads-metaphor. Simile

…it seized a 600,00 gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles away. -------personification

The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. -----simile The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. ----simile

Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked as the winds snapped. onomatopoeia Lesson2

…and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. ---euphemism

The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys, no women—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the camels, wailing a short chant over and over again.—elliptical sentence

A carpenter sits cross-legged at a prehistoric lathe, turning chair-legs at lightning speed.—historical present , transferred epithet

Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.—synecdoche

As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward—a long, dusty column, infantry, screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels.—onomatopoetic words symbolism

Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.—elliptical sentence

And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction, littering like scraps of paper.—simile

The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -----simile

They rise out of the earth，they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. -----alliteration押头韵

.. and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. ----simile

Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with flowing grey beards, all clamouring for a cigarette. -----transferred epithet

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12. Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive. —--elliptical sentence

13. 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. —-synecdoche

14. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward -- a long, dusty column,

infantry , screw-gun batteries, and then more infantry, four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron wheels. ---onomatopoeia

Lesson3

15. 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

16. 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 17. It was on such an occasion the other evening, as the conversation moved desultorily here and

there, from the most commonplace to thoughts of Jupiter, without and focus and with no need for one that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus.—metaphor

18. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to

the ends of the earth.—simile

19. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in

conversation.—alliteration

20. When E.M.Forster writes of ―the sinister corridor of our age,‖ we sit up at the vividness of

the phrase, the force and even terror in the image.—metaphor

21. and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. ---mixed-metaphor or metaphor

22. that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus. ----m

etaphor

23. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor 24. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. -----metaphor

25. 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 26. The conversation was on wings. ----metaphor

27. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sens

e and so ruin all conversation. -----sarcasm反讽

28. 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 29. 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 30. Is the phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy

31. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conv

ersation.—alliteration

32. When E.M.Forster writes of ―the sinister corridor of our age,‖ we sit up at the vividness of th

e phrase, the force and even terror in the image.—--metaphor

33. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated to t

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he ends of the earth.—simile

34. No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. --metaphor

Lesson 4

32. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been

passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.—alliteration

33. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any

burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.—parallelism; alliteration

34. 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 powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis 35. …in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up

inside.—metaphor

36. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression

37. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.—historical allusion引典, climax 38. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do

for your country.—contrast, winding

39. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.—regression (回环) 40. And so, my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do

for your country.—antithesis, regression

41. We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as w

ell as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. --parallelism

42. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike. alliteration 43. to assist free men and free governments in casting off the chains of poverty. ---repetition 44. And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion…-----metaphor 45. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. -----antithesis 46. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own

house. -----metaphor

47. 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. -----extended metaphor 48. to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak… ----metaphor

49. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds… -----parallelism

50. We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. 51. yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war. Synecdoche

52. 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 powerful challenge at odds and split asunder. antithesis

53. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. -----antithesis

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