Rhetoric in Advanced English
1. The Middle Eastern bazaar takes you back hundreds—even thousands—of years.
(Metaphor)
2. It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and e a fairyland of dancing flashes, as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers.
(Metaphor)
3. It is a vast, sombre cavern of a room, some thirty feet high and sixty feet square.
(Metaphor)
4. The machine is operated by one man, who shovels the lined pulp into a stone vat, climbs up nimbly to a dizzy height to fasten ropes, and then throws his weight on to a great beam made out of a tree trunk to t the ropes and pulleys in motion.
(Transferred epithet)
5. Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening lined oil as the beam sinks earthwards, taut and protesting, its creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding wheels and the occasional grunts and sighs of the camels.
(Transferred epithet)
6. After three days in Japan, the spiral column becomes extraordinarily flexible.
(Innuendo)
7. Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its—oysters.
(Anticlimax/ Bathos)
8. But as I looked out over the bow, the prospects of a good catch looked bleak.
(Understatement)5570
9. According to our guide, the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North America—which means we are silencing thousands of songs we have never even heard.
(Metaphor)
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(Metaphor)
11. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes.
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(通感)
12. Why do some images startle us into immediate action and focus our attention on ways to respond effectively? And why do other images, though sometimes equally dramatic, produce instead a kind of paralysis, focusing our attention not on ways to respond but rather on some convenient, less painful distraction?
(Parallelism)
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13. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: … my skin like an uncooked barley pancake.
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(Simile)
14. It ems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raid in flight.
(Simile)
15. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.adverb
(Metaphor)
16. Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s.
(Simile)
17. You didn’t even have to look clo to e where hands pushing the dasher up and do
wn to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood.
(Metaphor)
18. “Mama,” Wangero said, sweet as a bird.
(Simile)
19. Impresd with her they worshiped the well-turned phra, the cute shape, the scalding humour that erupted like bubbles in lye.手表的英语
(Simile)
20. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people.
(Metaphor)
哈尔滨会计培训学校21. She gasped like a bee had stung her.
(Simile)
22. It’s really a new day for us.
(Metaphor)
23. I e the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,…
(Metaphor)
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24. I e the German bombers and fighters in the sky, still smarting from many a British whipping, delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.
(Metaphor)
25. Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I e …
(Parallelism)
26. We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable pur.
(Repetition)
27. We are resolved to destroy Hitler and every vestige of the Nazi regime.
(Hyperbole)
28. From this nothing will turn us—nothing.
(Repetition)
29. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang.
(Repetition, Hyperbole)
30. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by a, we shall fight him in the air, …
(Parallelism)
31. Any man or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.
(Antithesis)
32. That is our policy and that is pour declaration.
(Parallelism)
33. He hopes, no doubt, that all this may be accomplished before the winter comes, and that he can overwhelm Great Britain before the Fleet and air-power of the United States may intervene. He hopes that he may once again repeat, upon a greater scale than ever before, that process of destroying his enemies one by one by which he has so long thrived and prospered, and that then the scene will be clear for the final act, without which all his conquests would be in vain.
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