Figures of speech
Ps：（1.8.3）意为第1课第8段第3行，粗体字为修辞对象。
一．Alliteration押头韵
1. the King's English slips and slides in conversation.(1.18.2)
2. that is to say as a beast of burden.(2.19.12)
3. to friend and foe alike,(3.3.2)锦旗
4.that we shall pay any price, bear any burden,(3.4.2)
5. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. （4.47.6）
6.I e also the dull, drilled, docile , brutish mass ...(14.8.14)
7.just as the cau of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cau of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe.（14.13.2）
二．Allusion典故
齐武
1.whether for him, the arch anti-Communist, this was not bowing down in the Hou of Rimmon.(14.5.2)(from the <Bible>)
三．Analogy类比:将两个本质上不同的事物就其共同点进行比较，通过比喻手法的综合运用帮助说明道理或描述某种复杂情况。
1.Have you ever en a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him? （7.9.1）
四．Antithesis对照
1.symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.(3.1.2)
2.United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do,(3.6.2)
3.If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.（3.8.6）
4.my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.(3.25;26.1)
5. It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful. （4.24.3）
6. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing，resolution waning. （4.47.6）
7.Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is (14.10.11)
五．Assonance谐音、押韵
1.with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, (14.8.12)
2. the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries. I e also the dull, drilled, docile , brutish mass of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.(14.8.14)
3. still smarting from many a British whipping, (14.8.17)
4.an easier and a safer prey.(14.8.18)
六．Climax层进：在排列句子成分时，根据由浅入深、从小到大、从轻到重、由少到多、从高到低的原则，选择恰当的词语，使语义层层递进，起到加强语义的作用。
1.All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.Nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet.（3.20.2）
七．Comparison and contrast对比
1. As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward ,(2.22.1)
敝帚自珍造句2. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to e the long column, a mile or two miles of armed men, flowing peacefully up the road, while the great white birds drifted o
ver them in the opposite direction, glittering like scraps of Paper.(2.26.6)
八．Exaggeration夸张
1. and thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape.(2.9.6)
九．Hyperbole夸张
1.Perhaps it is becau of my up-bringing in English pubs that I think bar conversation has a charm of its own. (1.3.1)
2.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries(1.17.1)
小动物的图片3.A carpenter sits crosslegged at a prehistoric（史前的，陈旧的） lathe,凉拌蕨根粉（2.9.4）
One could probably live there for years without noticing that for nine-tenths of the people the reality of life is an endless back-breaking struggle to wring（榨出）a little food out of an eroded soil.(2.17.7)
4., showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blou for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door.（7.7.1）
5. chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, （7.7.4）
6.And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.（7.18.2）
7.She put on some sunglass that hid everything above the tip of her no and her chin.（7.81.1豆浆的英语）
8. If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the Hou of Commons. (14.5.6)如果希特勒入侵地球，丘吉尔都要为魔鬼这样可憎可恶的角色说好话。
十．Irony反讽：语言上正话反说，用词语表达与它们的字面意思相异或相反的用法。
1.All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are.(2.16.1)
十一.Litotes曲言法；间接肯定法（正话反说，用no，not博士硕士，none，never以及否定词缀等否定词或否定表达来表述肯定的内容，该手法是从不同的角度强调事物的重要性，故意轻描淡写。）
1. This loomed as a project of no small dimensions, （4.58.4）
十二港大面试.Metaphor暗喻;隐喻：它不用比喻词，直接把甲事物（喻体）当作乙事物（本体）来描述，其比喻关系隐含在句意中，从而更生动、更深刻地说明事理，增强语言的表现力。
1.The charm of conversation is that it does not really start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where It will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.(mixed Metaphor混喻;1.2.1)
