a more perfect union 修辞手法解析

A More Perfect Union

Group member： 高扬 赵越 曲梓菁 隋缘

English rhetoric

First Part : Metaphor

Second Part : Alliteration

Third Part : Parallelism Forth part： Antithesis Fifth part: Transferred Epithet Sixth part: Repetition

Metaphor隐喻

It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery .(para3) 它沾上了这个国家奴隶制的原罪 original sin=unreasonable institution

Metaphor

Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity .(para.10)

这场竞选的第一年里，所有相反的预测被美 国人民对于这种团结的渴望所超越。

Were hungry for=want for

Metaphor

But the remarks that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. (para.15) 然而，这些引发铺天盖地争论的言论不仅仅 是观点不同那么简单 Firestorm =opinions of Wright’s

Metaphor

The blood that had spilled was our blood, the tears our tears; until this black church, on this bright day, seemed once more a vessel carrying the story of a people into future generations and into a larger world.( Para19) 流淌的血液是我们的血液，眼泪是我们的眼泪； 在这个阳光明媚的日子，这个黑人聚集的教堂， 再一次作为桥梁将一个民族的故事汇入未来的世 代和更大的世界 church =vessel

They are full of dancing, clapping, screaming and shouting that may seem jarring to the untrained ear (para20)

metonymy

转喻

他们跳舞、拍手、尖叫或是喧闹，不常来的 人还真的会受不了。

the untrained ear =the people who have never Played in this kind of church before

Metaphor

But for all those who scratched and clawed th eir way to get a piece of the American Dream, （para 32） 然而对所有艰难地迈向他们自己的美国梦的 人而言

Metaphor

…only serves to widen the chasm of misunders tanding that exists between the races(para 33) 或者对其根源不加甄别就一味谴责，只能加 深已有的种族间的误解鸿沟

Metaphor

…that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds (para 38)

我相信如果大家一起努力，我们能够去除我 们久已存在的种族伤痛的一部分，

Metaphor

the white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling (para 39)

艰难追求职位升迁的白人妇女

Alliteration 头韵

…or provide men and women of every color and creed their full rights and obligations as citizens of the United States. (para5) 完整地赋予各种肤色、各种信仰的人们作为 合众国公民的权利和义务。

Alliteration

….but views that denigrate both the greatness and the goodness of our nation (para.13)

…使用更具煽动性和攻击性的语言来表 达自己的立场

Alliteration

Our trials and triumphs became at once unique