现代大学英语6 修辞总结

Unit 1 : 1. Satire:

1) This is associated with the names of David Ricardo, a stockbroker, and Thomas Robert Maltus, a divine.

2) Murray is the voice of Spencer our time; he is enjoying, as indicated, unparalleled popularity in high Washington circles. 2. Irony:

1) This is, in some ways, an admirable solution.

2) Couples in love should repair to R.H. Macy’

s, not their bedrooms 3) ```Social Darwinism came to be considered a bit too cruel. 4) It has again become a major philosophical, literary, and rhetorical

preoccupation, and an economically not unrewarding enterprise. 5) In the enduring words of Professor Milton Friedman, people must

be “free to choose”.

6) All, save perhaps the last, are great inventive descent form

Bentham, Malthus, and Spencer.

3. Critical attitude: The only form of discrimination that is still permissinle```is

discrimination against people who work for the federal government, especially on social welfare activities.

Unit 2: 1. Simile:

1) Its underwater grasses looked like green ribbons constantly unrolling, and the trees held thick sprays of wild orchids. 2) The burly arms of the oaks were huge with ferns and blooming bromeliads.

3) The native whites feared him as you would a rattlesnake, but``` 2. Foreshadowing: I heard that countless human skeletons were left bare in his bayou once when a hurricane blew the water out.

3. Suggestion: He had secluded himself in this remote area of the Everglades because he was not welcome elsewhere; from time to time he was halfheartedly sought for trial,```

4. Understatement: There was the little shack, not the most gracious of living quarters, and there was a murderer for our nearest and only neighbor, about thirty miles away.

5. Quotation :(a legend): But these marks o wild country called to my father like the legendary siren song.

6. Comparison: 1) King Richard in his gluttony never sat at a table more sump

tuous than ours was three times a day.

2) With the weight of this new stillness on it, this seal.

Unit 3:

1. Allusion: Like Creation, the portending global events are cosmic: They

change the relationship between the planet Earth and its star, the sun.

2. Metaphor: 1) It is not so much a battle cry for one side or the other,

as a design for negotiating and end to suicidal warfor making peace with the planet.

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2) How all my town territory would be altered, as if a

landslide had gone through it and skimmed off all meaning except loss of Mike.

3. Pun: But unlike the conventional marketplace, which deals in

goods—things that serve a useful purpose

“

bads

”

——

this scheme creates a marketplace in

things that are not only useless but often deadly.

Unit 4:

1. Personification: Each of the trees on the place had an attitude and a

presence—

the elm looked serene and the oak threatening, the maples friendly, the hawthorn old and crabby.

3. Alliteration: She did not ask me—was it delicacy or disapproval? 4. (通感)：

1) All afternoon while the men were gone I was full of happy

energy. (happy 实际上是用来修饰“我”)

4. Parallel structure: Against the belief in the all-encompassing power of single explanation, against```, against```(unit 5)

Unit 6:

1. Pseudo-serious tone: The creams, slightly muffled by oil,```as though torture were being carried out but they didn

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t last long: It was all over rather suddenly, and, his legs released, the pig righted himself. 2. Biblical allusion:

1) From then until the time of his death I held the pig steadily in the bowl of my mind;

2) The pig’

s lot and mine inextricably bound now, as though the rubber tube were the silver cord.

3. Alliteration: But even so, there was a directness and dispatch about animal burial.

4. Symbolize: He had evidently become precious to me, not that he represented a distant nourishment in a hungry time, but that he had suffered in a suffering world.

(对作者来说，

the suffering of the pig symbolizes the suffering of human beings.)

5. Humorous:

1) The frequency of our trips down the footpath through the orchard

to the pig yard delighted him, although he suffers greatly arthritis, moves with difficulty, and would be bedridden if he could find anyone willing to serve him meals on the tray.

2) I have come to believe that there is in hostesses a special power of

divination, and that they deliberately arrange dinners to coincide with pig failure or some other sort of failure.(humorously accuses the hostesses )

3) This was slapstick—the sort of dramatic treatment that instantly

appealed to my old dachund, Fre,```presided at the interment. 4) This uncertainty afflicts me with a sense of personal

determination; if I were in decent health I would know how many nights I had sat up with a pig.

6. Parallel structure:

1) ```with the fog shutting in every night, scaling for a few hours in

mid-day, then creeping back again at dark, drifting in first over the trees on the point, then```

2) ```everything about the last scene seemed overwritten—the dismal

sky, the shabby woods, the imminence of rain, the worm``