1、metaphor(暗喻、隐喻)
2、euphemism （委婉语）
3、antithesis(对比、对照)
4、metonymy(转喻) 由特点代
5、parallism(平行结构)
6、oxymoron(矛盾)
7、anticlimax(渐降)
8、irony(反语)
9、hyperbole(夸张)
10、synecdoche(提喻) ：以局部代整体
11、pun(双关)
12、transferred epithet(移就)
13、periodic(圆周句)
14、understatement(轻描淡写)
15、inversion(倒装)
16、repetition(重复)
17、alliteration(头韵)
18、sarcasm （讽刺）
19、simile(明喻)
20、personification(拟人)
Lesson 9
1. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer ’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.
(hyperbole )
2. I found another Twain as well---one who grew cynical ,bitter…….who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.
(metaphor )
3. main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart
(metaphor )
4. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied -----a cosmos
(metonymy )
5. the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are
(antithesis )
6. succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever
(metaphor )
7. he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent , and was rebuffed .
(metaphor )
8. for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax
(metonymy )
9. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles:
(metaphor )
10. America laughed with him
(personificati 、hyperbole )
11. Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.
(inversion )
12. a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever
(antithesis )
13. they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; where they have left no sign that they had existed
(parallelism )
Lesson10
1. So has every other teacher
(inversion )
2. Butler was a 49-year-old farmer who before his election had never been out of his native country
(metaphor )
3. My friend the attorney –general says that John knows what he is here for.
(sarcasm )
4. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century.
(irony )
5. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.
(sarcasm )
6. Gone was the fierece fervour of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.
(inversion)
7. Mr. Bryan, with passionate spirit and enthusiasm, has given most of his life to politics.
(sarcasm )
8. When Malone finished there was a momentary hush. Then the court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that for Bryan.
(antithesis )
9. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT-----INSIDE.(This was J.R. Darwin ’s Everything to Wear Store)
(pun )
10. Then came the climax of the trial:
(inversion )
11. His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognised throughout the world.
(hyperbole )
12. Dudley called my conviction a ―victorious defeat ‖
(oxymoron )
13. The oratorial storm that Clarence and Dudley blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative offices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years.
(metaphor )
Lesson 11
1. Just what ’s a dictionary for? What does it prpose todo? What does the common reader go to a dictionary to find? What has the purchaser of a dictionary a right to expect for his money?
(repetition )
2. Some dictionaries give various kinds of other useful information. Some have tables of weights and measures on the flyleaves. Some list historical events and some, home remedies.
(repetition )
3.between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International
(antithesis )
4. If the editorials were serious, the public—and the stockholders—have reason to be grateful that the writers on these publications are more literate than the editors.
(sarcasm )
5.Then follows a series of special meanings, each particularly defined and, where necessary, illustrated by a quotation.
(inversion )
1、metaphor(暗喻、隐喻)
2、euphemism （委婉语）
3、antithesis(对比、对照)
4、metonymy(转喻) 由特点代
5、parallism(平行结构)
6、oxymoron(矛盾)
7、anticlimax(渐降)
8、irony(反语)
9、hyperbole(夸张)
10、synecdoche(提喻) ：以局部代整体
11、pun(双关)
12、transferred epithet(移就)
13、periodic(圆周句)
14、understatement(轻描淡写)
15、inversion(倒装)
16、repetition(重复)
17、alliteration(头韵)
18、sarcasm （讽刺）
19、simile(明喻)
20、personification(拟人)
Lesson 9
1. Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer ’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.
(hyperbole )
2. I found another Twain as well---one who grew cynical ,bitter…….who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.
(metaphor )
3. main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart
(metaphor )
4. The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied -----a cosmos
(metonymy )
5. the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are
(antithesis )
6. succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever
(metaphor )
7. he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent , and was rebuffed .
(metaphor )
8. for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax
(metonymy )
9. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles:
(metaphor )
10. America laughed with him
(personificati 、hyperbole )
11. Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.
(inversion )
12. a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever
(antithesis )
13. they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; where they have left no sign that they had existed
(parallelism )
Lesson10
1. So has every other teacher
(inversion )
2. Butler was a 49-year-old farmer who before his election had never been out of his native country
(metaphor )
3. My friend the attorney –general says that John knows what he is here for.
(sarcasm )
4. After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century.
(irony )
5. The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.
(sarcasm )
6. Gone was the fierece fervour of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.
(inversion)
7. Mr. Bryan, with passionate spirit and enthusiasm, has given most of his life to politics.
(sarcasm )
8. When Malone finished there was a momentary hush. Then the court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that for Bryan.
(antithesis )
9. One shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT-----INSIDE.(This was J.R. Darwin ’s Everything to Wear Store)
(pun )
10. Then came the climax of the trial:
(inversion )
11. His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognised throughout the world.
(hyperbole )
12. Dudley called my conviction a ―victorious defeat ‖
(oxymoron )
13. The oratorial storm that Clarence and Dudley blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative offices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years.
(metaphor )
Lesson 11
1. Just what ’s a dictionary for? What does it prpose todo? What does the common reader go to a dictionary to find? What has the purchaser of a dictionary a right to expect for his money?
(repetition )
2. Some dictionaries give various kinds of other useful information. Some have tables of weights and measures on the flyleaves. Some list historical events and some, home remedies.
(repetition )
3.between the much-touted Second International and the much-clouted Third International
(antithesis )
4. If the editorials were serious, the public—and the stockholders—have reason to be grateful that the writers on these publications are more literate than the editors.
(sarcasm )
5.Then follows a series of special meanings, each particularly defined and, where necessary, illustrated by a quotation.
(inversion )