高级英语修辞格汇总

高级英语修辞格汇总

一、 词语修辞格

（1） simile 明喻

① ...a memory that seemed phonographic

② ―Mama,‖ Wangero said sweet as a bird. ―can I have these old quilts?‖

③ Most American remember Mark Twain as the father of...

④ Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail.

⑤ Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye.

⑥ My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake.

⑦ She gasped like a bee had stung her.

（2） metaphor 暗喻

① It is a vast, sombre cavern of a room,…

②

③ The dye-market, the pottery market and the carpenters’ market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb the bazaar. A

④ At last this intermezzo came to an end…

⑤ …showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse…

⑥ After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …

⑦ ⑧ saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

⑨ main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

⑩ All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...

When railroads began drying up the demand...

Twain began digging his way to regional fame...

Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...

The Duchess of Croydon kept firm, tight rein on her racing mind.

Her voice was a whiplash.

and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind…

But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding.

I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer

21 22 23 We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God’s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated （3） metonymy 借代，转喻

① In short, all of these publications are written in the language that the Third International describes

① The case had erupted round my head

② The case had erupted round my head Or what of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges ...

③ But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionary's

（5） Antonomasia换称

指专有名词和普通名词之间的互替，有背景的专有名词在换称中的专有名词的背景来自三种渊源：宗教，古代及当代的历史和文学。

宗教或神话渊源：Solomon（所罗门）—a wise man（聪明人） Judas（犹大）—a traitor（叛徒）Satan — the father of lies

历史渊源：Nero（尼禄）—a tyrant（暴君）

文学渊源：Uncle Tom（汤姆大叔）—a Negro who compromises and conforms with the Whites（妥协顺应的黑人）

（6） personification 拟人

① …until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes… ② Every here and there, a doorway gives a glimpse of a sunlit courtyard, perhaps before a mosque or a caravanserai, where camels lie disdainfully chewing their hay…

③ ...to literature's enduring gratitude...

④ The grave world smiles as usual...

⑤ Bitterness fed on the man...

⑥ America laughed with him.

⑦ Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.

（7） transferred epithet 移就

① Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder

② The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle.

③ I have been exhilarated by two days of storms, but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. (V. Sackville-West, No Signposts in the Sea)

（8） hyperbole 夸张

① The roadway is about twelve feet wide, but it is narrowed every few yards by little stalls where goods of every conceivable kind are sold.

② I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out.

③ If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

④ I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil, but where there are still primordial human joys, where maidens laugh and children play.

⑤ ...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...

⑥ The cast of characters... - a cosmos.

⑦ America laughed with him.

⑧ The trial that rocked the world

⑨ His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world."

（9） oxymoron 矛盾修饰法 （10） euphemism 委婉语

① … a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.

② ...men's final release from earthly struggle

（11） irony

-- the use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning. 反语 用词语表达与它们的字面意思相异或相反的用法

① Hiroshima—the ―liveliest‖ city in Japan

② ―Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s‖. Wangero said, laughing .

③ … until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century

（12） sarcasm

-- a cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound. 讽刺，挖苦意在伤害他人的尖刻的，常带讽刺意味的话语

① My friend the attorney-general says that John Scopes knows what he is here for," Darrow drawled. "I know what he is here for, too. He is here because ignorance and bigotry(顽固

② There is some doubt about that.

③ a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life

④ the Post’ s editorial fails to explain what is wrong with the definition, we can only infer from "so simple" a thing that the writer takes the plain, downright,

（13） ridicule（嘲笑）

Words or actions intended to evoke contemptuous laughter at or feelings toward a person or thing 愚弄有意激起对某人或某事的蔑视的笑 …… 此处隐藏：7806字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……