Rhetorical Devices
simile 明喻 metaphor 暗喻 hyperbole 夸张 metonymy 转喻 synecdoche 借喻 mixed metaphor 混合暗喻
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)
2. Perhaps it is because of my upbringing in English pubs that I think bar
conversation has a charm of its own. (hyperbole)
3. The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love affairs have broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern. (metaphor)
4. They are like the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived side by
side with each other, did not delve into each other's lives. (simile & metaphor)
5. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (metaphor) 6. The conversation was on wings. (metaphor) 7. Is the phrase in Shakespeare? (synecdoche)
8. …that suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place, and all at once
there was a focus.（metaphor）
9. The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock.（simile） 10. The King's English slips and slides in conversation.（alliteration） 11. the sinister corridor of our age（metaphor）我们的时代罪恶的走廊 12. Other people may celebrate the lofty conversations in which the great 1
personification 拟人 antithesis 对仗 parallelism 排比
transferred epithet 转移修饰 alliteration 押头韵
onomatopoeia 拟声词
minds are supposed to have indulged in the great salons of 18th century.（synecdoche）
13. I have an unending love affair with dictionaries.（metaphor） 14. Otherwise one will bind the conversation. （metaphor）
15. We would never have gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to the Norman Conquest. （metaphor）
16. The burying-ground is merely a huge waste of hummocky earth, like a
derelict building-lot.（simile）
17. …and fling over it a little of the dried-up, lumpy earth, which is like broken brick.（simile）
18. Are they really the same flesh as your self ?（synecdoche） 19. They sweat and starve for a few years.（alliteration）
20. …and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. （simile）
21. …turning chair-legs at lightning speed. (hyperbole) 22. There was a frenzied rush of Jews.（transferred epithet）
23. …are working in dark fly-infested booths that look like caves. （simile） 24. A white skin is always fairly conspicuous.（synecdoche） 25. The soil is exactly like broken-up brick .（simile）
26. …winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatter of iron
wheels.（onomatopoeia）
27. Their feet squashed into boots that looked like blocks of wood.（simile） 28. And really it was like watching a flock of cattle to see the long column.
（simile）
29. …while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction，
glittering like scraps of paper.（simile）
30. friend and foe（alliteration）
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31. …that the torch has been passed to a new generation of American.（metonymy）
32. We shall pay any price, bear any burden… （alliteration）
33. 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.（antithesis）
只要我们团结一致，我们将无所不能，完成众多的合作事业；一旦我们分歧对立，我们将一事无成，因为我们不敢遇见一个与我们意见相左的强大挑战，最后导致四分五裂。
34. … those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.（metaphor）
35. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor，it cannot save the few
who are rich.（antithesis）
自由社会若不能帮助众多的穷人，也就不能保护少数的富人。 36. But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.（metaphor）
37. And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the
master of its own house.（metaphor） 38. …to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak…（metonymy） 39. …that stays the hand of mankind's final war.（synecdoche）
40. If a beachhead of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in in creating a new endeavor.（metaphor） 小小的合作开端可以帮助我们消除如丛林般复杂的猜疑…
41. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will
light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.（metaphor）
42. 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 American will do for you, but what together we can do for the
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freedom of man.（antithesis） 43. strength and sacrifice（alliteration）
44. Greenwich Village set the pattern.（metonymy） 45. Their minds and pens inflamed against war.（metonymy）
46. … to add their own little matchsticks to the conflagration of “flaming youth”
（metaphor）
47. It was Greenwich Village that fanned the flames.（metonymy & metaphor） 48. The movement had become officially recognized by the pulpit.（metonymy） 49. … now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion.（metaphor）
50. ...by furnishing a pattern of Bohemianism that had become as conventionalized as a Rotary luncheon.（simile）
51. The country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of the dollar.（personification & metonymy）
52. The slightest mention of the decade brings nostalgic recollections to the
middle-aged and curious questionings by the young.（transferred epithet） 53. deliciously illicit thrill（transferred epithet）
54. the artificial walls of a provincial morality（metaphor）前喻后本 55. The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in this breakdown of the
Victorian social structure.（simile）
56. They “wanted to get into the fun before the whole thing turned belly up.”
（metaphor）
57. …while sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood. （alliteration &
metaphor）制作和尚未发售
58. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood.（metonymy） 59. In sports, the bigger superdomes, the more exciting teams…（synecdoche） 60. New York was never Mecca to me.（metonymy）
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61. The city’s bright glow arrogantly obscures the heavens. （personification）
城市里的灯光傲慢地闪烁着，使天空都黯然失色。
62. Nature constantly yields to man in New York. （personification） 63. …which Frederick Law Olmsted designed as lungs for the city’s poor…
（metaphor）
. The condescending view from the fiftieth floor of the city’s crowds below
cuts these people off from humanity.（transferred epithet）
65. — as impersonally as does the clattering subway turnstile beneath the
office towers.（simile）像地铁的栅栏门一样缺乏人性
66. The city swallows up the United Nations and refuses to take it seriously.
（personification）
67. Men and woman do their jobs professionally, and, like the pilots who from great heights bombed Hanoi.（simile）
68. So much of well-to-do America now lives antiseptically in enclaves tranquil and luxurious, that shut out the world.（metaphor）
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