1、| . the nerves of bothwere excessively frayed| Then the court broke into a storm of applause| Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witness| The town was stormed after the siege.| Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels.| His wife shot him a swift, wa
2、rning glance.| The words spat forth with sudden savagery| Ill spell it out.| Mark Twain - Mirror of America| saw clearly ahead a black wall of night| main artery of transportation in the young nations heart| The vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States| All would resurface in h
3、is books that he soaked up| My case would snowball into| Our townhad taken on a circus atmosphere.| The streetsprouted with| He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.| had not scorched the infidels| after the prelimilary sparring over legalities| the filigree of the spruce trees| Daughter of the for
4、est| I tried another line| A streak of amber3.metonymy 转喻A figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another. This substituted name may be an attribute of that other thing or be closely associated with it. A,B 两者在某一方面密切联系,提到A就会联想到B。但两者之间没有相似性。Metonymy
5、 can be derived from various sources:1) Names of persons Uncle Sam : the U.S.A2) Animals the bear:the Soviet Unionthe dragon: the Chinese3) Parts of the body heart: feelings and emotions head, brain: wisdom, intelligence, reason grey hair: old age4) Profession: the press: newspapers, reporters, etc
6、He met the press yesterday evening at the Grand Hotel.The bar: the legal profession5) Location of government, business, etcDowning Street: the British GovernmentThe White House: the US president and his governmentThe Capitol Hill: US CongressWall Street: US financial circlesHollywood: American filmm
7、aking industry| the red of the live coals glowing bright| He has a smooth tongue.| He took to the bottle.| tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers| Won 100 at the tables| Lost it at the bar| Theyll throw the book| his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe| The Washington Post,”keep You
8、r Old Websters”| In short,written in the language that the 3rd international describes| Those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home. (our modern civilization)4.Rhetorical question 修饰疑问句,反诘句,反问句It is a kind of syntactic devi
9、ce. It is asked for effect, as well as to emphasize; no answer expected. | But can you doubt what our policy will be?| Was I not at the scene of the crime?5. Antithesis 对照 The deliberate arrangement of contrasting words or ideas in balanced structural forms to achieve force and emphasis. 意义相反或相对的词、短
10、语、句子出现在对称的位置上。| between what people claim to be and what they really are| took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land| a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever| The Christian believes that man came form above. The evolutionist believes that must have come from below.| United we sta
11、nd, divided we fall.6. Hyperbole夸张A device of comparison using exaggeration or obvious overstatement for comic or dramatic effect. | cruise through eternal boyhood andendless summer of freedom| The cast fo characters- a cosmos| The trial that rocked the world| His reputation as an authority on Scrip
12、ture is recognized throughout the world.| I havent seen you for ages.(1) Exaggeration by using numerals:| Thanks a million.| The Middle Easter bazaar takes you back hundreds even thousands of years.| I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the s
13、oil.(2) Exaggeration by using comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives| Sherlock Holmes is considered by many people as the greatest detective in fictional literature.| There was never a child who loved her father more than I do.| I never saw a prettier sight.| You write ten times better than any man in the class.(3) Exaggeration by using extravagant adjectives:| where goods of every conceivable kind are sold.| The burnished copper containers catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.| The apprentices were incredibly young.(4
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