1、精選優質文檔-傾情為你奉上精選優質文檔-傾情為你奉上專心-專注-專業專心-專注-專業精選優質文檔-傾情為你奉上專心-專注-專業高級英語第一冊修辭小結MARK TWAINMetaphor: Mark Twain - Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night.main artery of transportation in the young nations heartthe vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States All would res

2、urface in his books.that he soaked up.Steamboat decks teemed.main current of.but its flotsamWhen railroads began drying up the demand.the epidemic of gold and silver fever.Twain began digging his way to regional fame.Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.took unholy verbal s

3、hots. Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of.a memory that seemed phonographicHyperbole:.cruise through eternal boyhood and .endless summer of freedom.The cast of characters. - a cosmos.Parallelism:Most Americans remember . the father of Huck Finns idyllic cruise through eternal boyhoo

4、d and Tom Sawyers endless summer of freedom and adventure.Personification:life dealt him profound personal tragedies.the river had acquainted him with .to literatures enduring gratitude.an entry that will determine his course forever.the grave world smiles as usual.Bitterness fed on the man.America

5、laughed with him.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.Antithesis:.between what people claim to be and what they really are.took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.a world which will lament them a day and forget them foreveEuphemism:.mens final release from earthly struggle Alliteration:.the sl

6、ow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.with a dash and daring.a recklessness of cost or consequences.Metonymy:.his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxeSynecdocheKeelboats,.carried the first major commerce The trialMetaphor: No one,. that may case would snowball into. .our town .had

7、taken on a circus atmosphere. The street .sprouted with . He thundered in his sonorous organ tones. .champion had not scorched the infidels.after the preliminary sparring over legalitiesSimile: .swept the arena like a prairie fire .a palm fan like a sword. Metonymy .tomorrow the magazines, the books

8、, the newspapers. The Christian believes that man came from above. .below.Hyperbole: The trial that rocked the world Ridicule: Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was assisted . Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.Sarcasm: There is some doubt about that. Transferred epithet Darrow had whisper throwing a re

9、assuring arm round my shoulder. Antithesis The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.Assonance: when bigots lighted faggots to burn.Repetition: The truth always wins.the truth.the truth.Pun: Darwin is right - inside.Irony: marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th centuryBLACKMAIL Tra