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Leon9Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through
eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endle summer of freedom and adventure.—metaphor ,hyperbole, parallelismI found another Twain as well—one who grew cynical, bitter, saddened by the profound
personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obseed with the frailties of the human race, who was clearly ahead a black wall of night.—metaphorThe cast of characters set before him in his new profeion was rich and varied—a
cosmos.—alliteration, metaphorHe went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in
Nevada’s Washoe region.simileFor eight months he flirted with the coloal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent,and was rebuffed.—extended metaphor―It was a splendid population—for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at
home..—alliterationThe grave world smiles as usual, and says…--personification..one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night‖ Casually he debunked
revered artists and art treasures, and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.—antithesis exaggerationTom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for Becky
Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.–elliptical sentenceBitterne fed on the man who had made the world lauth.—personification
Leon10The Trial That Rocked the World—hyperboleSeated in court, ready to testify on my behalf, were a dozen distinguished profeors and
scientists, led by Profeor Kirtley Mather of Harvard University.—periodic sentence 3 ―Don’t worry, son, we’ll show them a few tricks,‖ Darrow had whispered throwing a
reauring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.—transferred epithetAfter a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are
marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind.—ironyOne shop announced: DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE.—punDudley Field Malone called my conviction a ―victorious defeat.‖—oxymoronThe oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout
in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the paing years.—extended metaphor
―Why don’t you take one or two of the others?‖ I asked.rhetorical question)
Metaphor:
Mark Twain---Mirror of America
saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart
the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United States
All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...Steamboat decks teemed...main current of...but its flotsam
When 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 shots...Simile:
Most American remember M.T.as the father of......a memory that seemed phonographic
Hyperbole:
..cruise through eternal boyhood and...endle summer of freedom...The cast of characters...-a cosmos.Parallelism:
Most Americans remember...the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endle summer of freedom and adventure.Personification:
life dealt him profound personal tragedies...the river had acquainted him with......to literature's enduring gratitude......an entry that will determine his course forever...the grave world smiles as usual...Bitterne fed on the man...America 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 forever
Euphemism:
..men's final release from earthly struggle
Alliteration:
...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home
.with a dash and daring...a recklene of cost or consequences...Metonymy:
..his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe
Synecdoche
Keelboats,...carried the first major commerce
Unit 9 Mark Twain—Mirror of America
V.Rhetorical devices
1.Simile: Please refer to Leon 2.e.g.1)Indeed, this nation’s best-loved author was every bit as adventurous, patriotic, romantic,and humorous as anyone has ever imagined.(Para.1)
2)Tom’s mischievous daring, ingenuity, and the sweet innocence of his affection for
Becky Thatcher are almost as sure to be studied in American schools today as is the Declaration of Independence.(Para.15)
2.Metaphor
e.g.1)…who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night.(Para.1)
2)…main artery of transportation in the young nation’s heart.(Para.3)
3.Sarcasm: it is a figure of speech which attacks in a taunting and bitter manner, and its aim is to
disparage, ridicule and wound the feelings of the subject attacked.It is most often restricted to the making of brief, unpleasant remarks that are motivated by hostility and contempt.e.g.1)…I knew more about retreating than the man that invented retreating.(Para.6)
2)…one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler man in a night.(Para.13)
4.Alliteration: please refer to Leon 1.e.g.It was a splendid population –for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at
home.It was that population…and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and
a recklene of cost or consequences‖
5.Antithesis: please refer to Leon 1.e.g.1)…of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.(Para.5)
2)…a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.6.euphemism
e.g.1)He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confiderate guerrillas who
diligently avoided contact with the enemy.2)he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man’s final release from earthly
struggles
7.metonymy
e.g.…but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax.Unit 10 The Trial that Rocked the World
VII: Rhetorical devices
1.Metaphor:
No one,...that may case would snowball into......our town...had 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 legalities…
2.Simile:
...swept the arena like a prairie fire
...a palm fan like a sword...3.Metonymy
...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...The Christian believes that man came from above....below.4.Hyperbole:
The trial that rocked the world
His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.5.Ridicule:
Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was aisted...Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.6.Sarcasm:
There is some doubt about that.And it is a mighty strong combination.7.Transferred epithet
Darrow had whisper throwing a reauring arm round my shoulder.8.Antithesis
The Christian believes that man came from above.The evolutionist believes that he must
have come from below.9.Aonance:
when bigots lighted faggots to burn...10.Repetition:
The truth always wins...the truth...the truth...11.synecdoche
1)the case had erupted round my head
12.oxymoron(矛盾修饰法)
Dudley Field Malene called my conviction a , “victorious defeat”
Unit 11 What’s a Dictionary For?
IV.Rhetorical devices
1.Personification:
The storm...that greeted...An article in the Atlantic viewed it as a disappointment...The Yew York Times,...felt it
The Journal...saw...2.Alliteration:
...very little light on Lincoln...on Life
3.Sarcasm:
a concept of how things get written that throws very little light on Lincoln but a great deal on Life....“so simple” a thing that the writer takes plain, downright, man-in-the-street attitude that a door is a door and any damn fool knows that.4.Aonance:
The difference between the much-touted...and the much clouted...5.Synecdoche:
But neither his vanity nor his purse is...(metonymy)
What of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges...6.Metonymy
The Washington Post,...“keep Your Old Webster's”
in short,...written in the language that the 3rd International describes......very little light on Lincoln...on Life
7.Zeugma:
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses(e.g.John and his driving licence expired last week)or to two others of which it semantically suits only one(e.g.with weeping eyes and hearts).Compare with syllepsis.(语)轭式搭配法（一种修辞手段，指将一个动词与两个不同的名词或代词等搭配使同一个动词具有不同意义，如在John and his driving licence expired last week中的动词expired；或指将一个形容词与两个不同的名词搭配，在词义上该形容词虽仅适合于其中之一，但另一搭配
可产生不同的联想意义，如在with weeping eyes and hearts中）。
The iue of New York Times …hail the Second as the authority… and the Third as a scandal… To wage war and peace
With weeping eyes and hearts
8.metaphor
Life called it a ―non-word deluge‖
Modern linguistics gets its charter from Leonard Bloomfield’s language(1933)
But if so, he has walked into one of lexicography’s biggest booby traps
And, sure enough, in the definition which raised the Post’s blood preure
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