高英修辞1-4课.docx

Lesson 11.…and no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows. ---mixed-metaphor or metaphor 2.…that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once there was a focus. ----metaphor 3. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor 4. We had traveled in five minutes to Australia. -----metaphor 5.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.--—metaphor6. The conversation was on wings. ----metaphor7. 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8. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each other, did notdelve into each others lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feelings. -----simile9. 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.—-simile10. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’sEnglish slips and slides in conversation—alliteration11. When E.M.F orster 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.—--metaphorLesson2The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot. -----simileThey 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. ----simileAnd really it was almost 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