高英A ：1---5课修辞
1. “Mama,” Wangero said, sweet as a bird. Simile 2. We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air, until, with God?s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke. Parallelism
3. She gasped as if a bee had stung her. Simile 4. The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt. Metonymy
5. As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. Onomatopoeia
6. It was a splendid population—for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.Alliteration 7. Franklin Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed smiling attention. transferred epithet 8. We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. Repetition 9. Next to health, heart and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile. Alliteration
10. … until, with God?s help, we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke. metaphors 11. The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes. Anti-climax 12. When we came back we found him in an armchair, peacefully gone to sleep— but for ever. Euphemism
13. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn?t it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Rhetorical question
14. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Personification 15. We will never parley, we will never negotiate with Hitler or any of his gang. Parallelism & repetition
16. This may teach the young man not to play with fire. Metaphor
17. This diligent student seldom reads more than an hour per month. Irony
18. You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern … Contrast
19. Until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes…metaphor ;Personification
20. Vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. Metaphor 21. Which towers to the vaulted ceiling and dwarfs the camels and their stone wheels. Hyperbole
22. The beam sinks earthward, taut and protesting,… Personification 23. I had a lump in my throat. Metaphor 24. Hiroshima — the “Liveliest” City in Japan. Irony
25. Because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind.
Metaphor
26. “Mama,” Wangero said, sweet as a bird. Simile
27. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn?t necessarily need to know. Metaphor
28. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Personification 29. But, without even considering that threat, shouldn?t it startle us that we have now put these clouds in the evening sky which glisten with a spectral light? Rhetorical question
30. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. Metaphor
31. … ah, yes, for there are times when all pray—for the safety of their loved ones, the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector. Parallelism 32. “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.” Anti-climax
33. Have you ever seen 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? That is the way my Maggie walks. Analogy 34. …ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground. Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and… Pun 35. “Well” said Asalamalakim, “there you are.” “Uhnnnh,” I heard Maggie say.
“There I was not,” I said, “before ?Dicie? cropped up in our family, so why should I try to trace it that far back ?” Pun
