Rhetorical Devices 修辞格.pptVIP

Rhetorical Devices Figures of speech Metonymy Synecdoche Metaphor Alliteration Assonance Onomatopoeia personification Hyperbole Euphemism Simile Repetition Parallelism 1. Doctors usually likened the heart to a pump. 2. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt. 3. My brain was as powerful as a dyname, as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel. And think of it! ---I was only eighteen. 4. A heavy silence blanketed the room. The fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima station. 5. The dye-market, the pottery-market and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. 6. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey. 7. Hearing the lovers tearfully pouring out their hearts, the moon was so moved that she forgot to move. 8. The baby crocodile thought hard. At last he had a good idea. 9. Walls have ears. 10. They counted fifty sails in the harbour. 11. The minute Presley took the stage, the museum hall burst into cheers. 12. Sheila is such a cool girl that she is good at letting her mind rule her heart. 13. From this nothing will turn us---nothing. 14. In the court, she found scores of arrows piercing her chest. 15. To get a decent apartment these days in New York you have to pay an arm and a leg. 16. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, 和风吹荡，水花飞溅， The furrow followed free; 船儿破浪前进， We were the first that ever burst 闯入那沉寂的海洋领域， Into that silent sea. 我们是第一群人。 (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The rime of the Ancient Mariner) 17. When wine sinks, words swim. 18. The din of the stall-holder; crying their wares, of donkey-boys and porters clearing a way for themselves by shouting vigorously, and of would-be purchasers arg