泛三修辞练习，考题10分的范围。
Parallelism(对句法) 比较或对比，并联或并列
1. It is certain that if you were to behold the whole woman, there
is that dignity in her aspect, that composure in her motion, that
complacency in her manner, that if her form makes you hope, her
merit makes you fear.
2.We shall flight on the beaches, we shall flight on the landing
grounds, we shall flight in the streets……….
3.
The seed ye sow, another keeps; the wealth ye
find, another keeps; the robes ye weave, another wears.
4.
Their powers of conversation were considerable.
They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an
anecdote with humor, and laugh at their acquaintance with
spirit.
5.
No one can be perfectly free till all are free;
no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be
perfectly happy till all are happy.
Pun(双关)
1.
She phoned him in the next room on his cell
phone. Close call.
2.
He bought a donkey because he thought he might
get a kick out of it.
3.
Mothers everywhere want their children to give
peas a
chance. Peas/piss/peace
4.
His horse is missing a bit. I got it right from
the horse’s mouth.
5.
His exam was on the human skeleton, so he
decided to bone up.
6.
Those who study the moon are optimists. They
look at the bright side.
7.
The couple grew fruit trees and lived to a ripe
old age.
8.
Studying fungus is a way to mold young
minds.
9.
Librarians are always going by the books.
10.
He forgot to pay me for the computer I sold him.
Bad cache memory.
Antithesis(对比)
1.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a
little literature.
2.
I had walked into that reading room a happy
healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
3.
If the economy stays down, can the conservatives
stay up?
4.
“An egg today is better than a hen
tomorrow.”
5.
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Transferred Epithet (移位修辞)
1... for it was the last story of the evening and there was nothing
between it and the unwelcome bed.
2. At the word, they vanished away toward the woods, and we drifted
silently after them in the melancholy gloom.
3.I can remember how very dark that room was, in the dark of the
moon, and how packed it was with ghostly stillness…
4. It was a very satisfactory room, and there was a lightning rod,
which was…
6.
In the wonderful performance the passionate
throat of a young man touched us deeply that we could not control
ourselves and shed tears.
Alliteration(押头韵)
1.
The grand power of a good sermon is also its
interpretive power.
2.
The woods are lively, dark and deep.
3.
Ah, what a delicious day.
4.
Yes, I have read that little bundle of
pernicious prose, but I have no comment to make upon it.
5.
I saw Sally sell sea shells on Sunday.
6.
The show is set to be bigger and better on its
2003 return.
7.
Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the
table.
8.
As long as you have the determination and
perseverance, you can do anything. You got to live and learn.
Understatement (保守陈述)分为meiosis(减数分裂)
,litotes（间接肯定）.
1.
I am not unmindful of your devotion.
2.
As lean was his horse as it is a
rake. And he was not right
fat.
3.
Thou wouldst be great. Art not without ambition,
but without. The illness should attend it.
4.
He was a man of no mean wealth.
5.
The English poet Thomas Gray showed no
inconsiderable powers as a prose writer.
Jargons (行话)
1.
A cybercafe can be a physical location, but more
than it is just a virtual space.
2.
Within the exchange alone, there are 1492
separate topic-specific folders.
3.
And, let’s be truthful here, 30 hours a month
ignores shareware downloads.
4.
There are a couple of bugs in their software
released last month.
5.
In 1988 two new viruses appeared; Stone and the
Internet worm.
6.
He announced a criminal investigation into the
latest wave of hacker…
7.
My browser is outdated and does not support the
frames feature.
Euphemism(委婉)
1.
Mike is a beautician in a hair
saloon. = Hairdresser
2.
More attention must be paid to the under
achievers in the class. = Poor student
3.
The enemy troops carried out a pacification
campaign. = War
4.
The smiths are seeking a live-in
help. = Maid or servert.
5.
From young he had been found of taking things
without permission, and now he was in rehabilitation
home. 拘留所
6.
The soldier made the supreme sacrifice in the
battle. = Death.
7.
I’m afraid she can’t act that part- she’s a
little on the plump side. = Fat
8.
“Where is the washroom, please” he asked the
waiter. = toilet.
Synecdoche(相似词替换)
1.
The president’s administration contained the
best brains in the country.
2.
They wanted fifty sails in the harbor.
3.
They were short of hands at harvest time.
4.
He walked the boards for a living.
5.
The kettle is boiling.
Analogy(类比)
1.A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same things,
all warming their hands at the fires of their own prejudices, will
not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their
beliefs.
2.
Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys
agreements, as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a
hill.
3.
Political and religious systems, social customs,
loyalties and traditions, they all came tumbling down like so many
rotten apples off a tree.
4.
Having a strong set of personal law is like
having a strong foundation for a new house.
Parenthesis(插入语修辞) 有----，（）。
1.
I have already said that, in my opinion,
combativeness is a constituent part of human nature.
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