The Way to Rainy Mountain修辞方法总结及作者介绍.ppt

 * About the Author N. Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1934. Momaday belongs to a generation of American Indians born when most tribal communities had long ceased to exist as vital social organizations. His Kiowa ancestors shared with other Plains Indians the horrors of disease, military defeat, and cultural and religious deprivation in the 19th century. Their only chance of survival was to adapt themselves to new circumstances. Momaday’s grandfather, for example, adjusted to changing conditions by taking up farming, a decision pressed upon him by the General Allotment Act of 1887. * …and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. (paragraph 1) metaphor * At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage seems almost writhe in fire. (paragraph 1) personification * …popping up like corn to sting the flesh. (paragraph 1) simile * My grandmother was spared the humiliation of those high gray walls by eight or ten years, but she must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors. (paragraph 3) synecdoche metaphor * …and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground. (paragraph 4) Metonymy * The skyline in all directions is close at hand, the high wall of the woods and deep cleavages of shade. (paragraph 6) Simile * This is a perfect freedom in the mountains, but it belongs to the eagle and the elk, the badger and the bear. (paragraph 6) The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness. (paragraph 6) alliteration * The great billowing clouds that sail upon it are shadows that move upon the grain like water, dividing light. (paragraph 7) simile * …they could see the dark lees of the hills at dawn across the Bighorn River, the profusion of light on the grain shelves, the oldest deity ranging after the solstices. (paragraph 7) simile * At the top of a ridge I caught sight of Devil’s Tower upthrust against th