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高英第六册修辞整理（仅供参考） Lesson one 1 This is, in some ways an admirable solution. Irony 2 however Malthus was himself not without a certain felling of reasonability. Double negative 4 The elimination of the poor is nature’s way of improving the race. Irony 5 It has again become a major philosophical, literary, and rhetorical preoccupation, and an economically not unrewarding enterprise. Double negative irony 6 It is then argued that the government is inherently incompetent, except as regards weapons design and procurement and the overall management of the Pentagon irony 7 The allegation of government incompetence is associated in our time with the general condemnation of the bureaucrat–again excluding those associated with national defense. The only form of discrimination that is still permissible–that is, still officially encouraged irony 8 When these aberrations have occurred they have, oddly enough, all been in the Pentagon. Irony .9 All this would seem a considerable achievement for incompetent and otherwise ineffective people. Alliteration 10 The second design in this great centuries-old tradition is to argue that any form of public help to the poor only hurts the poor. Irony 11 this is perhaps our most highly influential piece of fiction. Irony metaphor 12 Can we really believe that any considerable number of the poor prefer welfare to a good job? Or that business people–corporate executives, rhetorical question 13 Again, expenditure on national defense is excepted. Irony 14 This is possibly the most transparent of all of the designs; Irony 15 Freedom we rightly cherish. Cherishing it, we should not use it as a cover for denying freedom to those in need. Inversion 16. Whether they be in Ethiopia, the South Bronx, or even in such an Elysium as Los Angeles, irony 17 All, save perhaps the last, are in great inventive descent from Bentham, irony 18