99999 -15修辞 Devices of figuration.doc

99999 1) Metaphor: Mark Twain --- Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night...main artery of transportation in the young nations heartthe vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsamWhen railroads began drying up the demand......the epidemic of gold and silver fever...Twain began digging his way to regional fame...Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles......took unholy verbal shots... 2)Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of......a memory that seemed phonographic3) Hyperbole:...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...The cast of characters... - a cosmos.4) Parallelism:Most Americans remember ... the father of Huck Finns idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyers endless summer of freedom and adventure.5) Personification:life dealt him profound personal tragedies...the river had acquainted him with ......to literatures enduring gratitude......an entry that will determine his course forever...the grave world smiles as usual...Bitterness fed on the man...America laughed with him.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.6) Antithesis:...between what people claim to be and what they really are......took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land......a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever7) Euphemism:...mens final release from earthly struggle 8) Alliteration:...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home...with a dash and daring......a recklessness of cost or consequences...9) Metonymy:...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe10) SynecdocheKeelboats,...carried the first major commerce  10 10 10 1) Metaphor:　　No one,... that my case would snowball into... 　　...our town ...had taken on a circus atmosphere.　　The street ...sprouted with ...　　He thundered in his sonorous o