高级英语第二册修辞复习.doc

PAGE PAGE 6 Lesson 1 Pub Talk and the King’s English The conversation had swung from Australian convicts of the 19th century to the English peasants of the 12th century. Who was right, who was wrong, did not matter. The conversation was on wings.—metaphor As we listen today to the arguments about bilingual education, we ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant. —metaphor I have an unending love affair with dictionaries-Auden once said that all a writer needs is a pen, plenty of paper and the best dictionaries he can afford--but I agree with the person who said that dictionaries are instruments of common sense. —metaphor Even with the most educated and the most literate, the Kings English slips and slides in conversation. —alliteration Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great minds are supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th century Paris, but one suspects that the great minds were gossiping and judging the quality of the food and the wine. —synecdoche Otherwise one will tie up the conversation and will not let it go on freely. —metaphor Lesson 3 Inaugural Address Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of these human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.—alliteration Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty—parallelism United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.