高级英语修辞手法.doc

Personification:拟人
A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and...
It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it …
Simile：明喻
The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards way.
The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.
metaphor:暗喻
We can batten down and ride it out.
Wind and rain now whipped the house.
Camille had raked its way northward across…
Contrast:对比
Scenery: lively, happy, vigorous, cheerful, etc.
Psychology: repentant, penitent(悔罪的; 忏悔的) , guilty, sad.
Hiroshima symbolizes war crime, sin, death, terror, etc.
Humour：幽默
serious looking men, bob up and down, the cab driver, the usher, meeting the mayor in his socks, spinal column flexible, Hiroshima---oysters, small man with very large eye-glasses, his eyes nearly closed behind their thick lenses, etc.
Irony:讽刺
Hiroshima---the Liveliest City in Japan
Each day of suffering that helps to free my from earthly cares
congratulate myself on the good fortune that my illness has brought me 你这个狠心贼!
Metonymy(借代):
a. Names of persons Uncle Sam: the USA
b. Animals the bear: the Soviet Union
the dragon : the Chinese (a fight between the bear and the dragon)
c. Parts of the body
heart: feelings and emotions
head, brain: wisdom, intelligence, reason
grey hair: old age
d. Profession:
the press: newspapers,