TheWaytoRainyMountain修辞方法总结及作者介绍
About the AuthorN. Scott Momaday was born in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1934. Momaday belongs to a generation of American Indians born when most tribal communities had long cead to exist as vital social organizations. His Kiowa ancestors shared with other Plains Indians the horrors of dia, military defeat, and cultural and religious deprivation in the 19th century. Their only chance of survival was to adapt themlves to new circumstances. Momaday’s grandfather, for example, adjusted to changing conditions by taking up farming, a decision presd upon him by the General Allotment Act of 1887.
…and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. (paragraph 1) metaphor
At a distance in July or August the steaming foliage ems almost writhe in fire. (paragraph 1) personification
…popping up like corn to sting the flesh. (paragraph 1) simile
fuelpump My grandmother was spared the humiliation of tho high gray walls by eight or ten year
s, but she must have known from birth the affliction of defeat, the dark brooding of old warriors. (paragraph 3) synecdoche metaphor
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…and their ancient nomadic spirit was suddenly free of the ground. (paragraph 4) Metonymyrecognize的名词
lysi The skyline in all directions is clo at hand, the high wall of the woods and deep cleavages of shade. (paragraph 6) Simile
This is a perfect freedom in the mountains, but it belongs to the eagle and the elk, the badger and the bear. (paragraph 6) The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could e, and they were bent and blind in the wilderness. (paragraph 6)alliteration
The great billowing clouds that sail upon it are shadows that move upon the grain like water, dividing light. (paragraph 7)similecondlife
itunes store是什么意思 …they could e the dark lees of the hills at dawn across the Bighorn River, the profusion of light on the grain shelves, the oldest deity ranging after the solstices. (paragr
aph 7) simile
At the top of a ridge I caught sight of Devil’s Tower upthrust against the gray sky as if in the birth of time the core of the earth had broken through its crust and the motion of the world was begun. (paragraph 8) simile personification
in celebration of violence There are things in nature that engender an awful quiet in the heart of man; Devil’s Tower is one of them. (paragraph 8)Metonymy
There, in a very little while, wood takes on the appearance of great age. (paragraph 11) Synecdoche Metonymy
swordsman The windowpanes are black and opaque; you imagine there is nothing within, and indeed there are many ghosts, bones given up to the land. (paragraph 11) Synecdoche Metaphor
The aged visitors who came to my grandmother’s hou when I was a child were made of lean and leather and they bore themlves upright.
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盛夏的果实日文版 … the scars of old and cherished enmities (paragraph 12)…battles that took place in the past and were remembered fondly by tho old warriors
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Now there is a funeral silence in the rooms, the endless wake of some final word. (paragraph 14) Metaphor .Personification
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line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. (paragraph 14) simile
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