英语修辞习题.docx

文档来源为 : 文档来源为 :从网络收集整理 .word 版本可编辑 .欢迎下载支持 . PAGE 1 PAGE 1文档来源为 :从网络收集整理 .word 版本可编辑 .欢迎下载支持 . Syntactic figures of speech1 Identify the figure(s) of speech used in each of the following sentences. Repetition Repetition Anadiplosis anaphora antithesis epiphora parallelism simploce I came, I saw, I conquered. And this day will come, shall come, must come. To err is human; to forgive divine. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. It is in the soil of ignorance that poverty is planted. It is in the soil of ignorance that disease flourishes. It is in the soil of ignorance that racial and religious strife takes root. (Lyndon B. Johnson) Deep rivers move in silence, shallow brooks are noisy. The denial of human rights anywhere is a threat to human rights everywhere. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Jesse Jackson) Faith is a good guide, reason is a better guide, truth is the best guide. If we fail in this defense it will not be for lack of money. It will be on account of money. Money has been the most serious handicap that we have –met. (Clarence Farrow) Speech is silver; silence is golden. The taste of America is becoming French in its conversation, French in its comforts and French in its discomforts, French in its eating, and French in its dress, French in its manners, and will become French in its art. (Anthony Trollope ) Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give up the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act. (Thomas Jefferson) Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; ... (Francis Bacon) I will recruit for myself and you as I go; I will scatter myself among men and women as I go. (Walt Whiteman) Rich and poor, intelligent and ignorant, wise and foolish, virtuous and vicious, man and womanit is ever the same, each soul must depend wholly on itself. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton) Ⅲ . Revise each of the faulty sentences, using the fig