高英2修辞(2020年九月整理).doc

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●Unit 1 Put Talk and King’s English

●Metaphor

◆No one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.

◆They got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.

◆They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by side with each

other, did not delve into each other’s…

◆Suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place

◆The glow of the conversation burst into flames.

◆We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.

◆The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock, and its seeds multiplied, and floated

to the ends of the earth.

◆I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.

◆Otherwise one will bind the conversation, one will not let it flow freely here and there.

◆We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest.

●Unit 2 Marrakech

●The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a derelict building-lot.

(Simile)

● A white skin is always fairly conspicuous. (Metonymy)

●Instantly, from the dark holes all round, there was a frenzied rush of Jews. (Transferred epithet)

●Four or five thousand men in all, winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron

wheels. (onomatopoeia)

● A mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds

drifted over them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of paper. (symbolism, simile) ●Unit 3 Inaugural Address

●Synecdoche

Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of m ankind’s final war.

●Antithesis

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative venture. Divided, there is little we can do, …(P.6)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. (P.8)

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which pided us. (P.15)

●Metaphor

The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, … (P3)

…in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.

But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.

Let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.

We renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to

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strengthen its shield of the new and the weak.

If a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion, … (P19)

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. (P24)

●Parallelism

Symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. (P.1)

…born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace… (P.3)

…pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe …(P.4)

Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths and encourage the arts and commerce. (P. 17)

Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; (P22)

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, …

(P27)

●Repetition

... The slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. (P3)

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed. (P11)

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. (P14)

Bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.

(P16)

●Unit 4 Love is a Fallacy

●Metaphor

Ventures even beyond Lamb’s frontier.

Logic… is a living, breathing thing, …

My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.

Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.

●Simile

My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales, a s penetrating as a scalpel.

Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.

It was like digging a tunnel. At first, … and all was bright.

●Hyperbole

Logic is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion and trauma.

He just stood and stared with mad lust at the coat.

●Metonymy

I was not one to let my heart rule my head.

Surgeons have X-rays

●Antithesis

It is easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.

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●Synecdoche

There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

●Unit 5 The Sad Young Men

●Metaphor

?We had reached an international stature that would forever prevent us from retreating

behind the artificial walls of a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our

two bordering oceans.

?The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the Victorian social

structure.

?This one lasted until the money ran out, until the crash of the world economic structure

at the end of the decade called the party to a hall and forced the revelers to sober up and

face the problems of the new age.

?Their very homes were often uncomfortable to them; they had outgrown town and

families.

?As it became more and more fashionable throughout the country for young persons to

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