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Personification:
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.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...Bitterne fed on the man who had made the world laugh.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.Hyperbole
Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used to emphasize a point, to create humor, or to achieve some similar effects
1)...takes you...hundreds even thousands of years
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3)with the dust of centuries
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5)...cruise through eternal boyhood and...endle summer of freedom...6)America laughed with him.7).The trial that rocked the world
8)His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world.9)Now I was involved in a trial reported the world over.Onomatopoeia:
1)creak, squeak, rumble, grunt, sigh, groan, etc.tinkling, banging, clashing
2).its anking, heel icking
3)appreciative chuckle
4)clucked his tongue
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5)I had a lump in my throat At last this intermezzo came to an end...I was again crushed by the thought..hen the meaning...sank in, jolting me outof my sad reverie little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers...struggle between kimono and the miniskirt
little old Japan----traditional floating houses
6)I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact
Hiroshima----people of Hiroshima, especially those who suffered from the A-bomb
(keep her thoughts under control)E.g.1)Whether for him, the arch 3)The Nazi regime is devoid of all theme and principle except and racial domination.a.his wife shot him a swift, warning glance.(give sb.an angry and quick glare)
b.The words spat forth with sudden savagery.(the detective said the words suddenly and savagely.)
c.Her tone...withered...(become shorter from her frightening voice)
d....self-aurance...flickered...(hesitate;move with a quick wavering light emotion)
e.The Duche kept firm tight rein on her racing mind.1)f.Her voice was a whiplash.i.(a heavy blow)
2)g.eyes bored into him
i.(look at him pointedly or sharply)
3)h.I’ll spell it out.a)(explain or speak outfrankly and in detail)
4)1.Mark Twain---Mirror of America
5)2.Most 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.6)3.The geographic core, in Twain's early years was the great valley of the Miiippi
River , main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart.7)4.The cast of characters set before him in his new profeion was rich and varied — a
cosmos.8)Cast of characters: people of various sorts;cosmos: a place where one can find all sorts
of characters
9)5.Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but
its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as will.10)current: stream, here not a good choice for the verb teem.11)6.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in
Nevada 's Washoe region.12)Succumbed…to: gave way to(yielded to, submitted to)the gold and silver rush
prevailing in that area.13)7.For eight months he flirted with the coloal wealth available to the lucky and the
persistent, and was rebuffed.Flirted…wealth: did not try hard or persistently enough to get the coloal wealth…
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34)failed 8.From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist.6.He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada 's Washoe region.Succumbed…to: gave way to(yielded to, submitted to)the gold and silver rush prevailing in that area.7.For eight months he flirted with the coloal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent, and was rebuffed.Flirted…wealth: did not try hard or persistently enough to get the coloal wealth…failed Digging …fame: working hard to gain regional fameMark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.Honed: sharpened/exercised.It is not suitable to say “sharpen one's muscles”.saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...the vast basin drained three-quarters of the settled United StatesAll would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...(submarine comes back to the surface, here reappear)When railroads began drying up the demand......took unholy verbal shots...my case would snowball into...our town...had taken on a circus atmosphere.The street...sprouted with...He thundered in his sonorous organ tones.… had not scorched the infidels...…after the preliminary sparring over legalities…The case had erupted on my head.Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a …But although Malone had won the oratorical duel with Bryan.Then the court broke into a storm of applause that …He accused Bryan of calling for a duel to the death …
Irony: a figure of speech in which the meaning literally expreed is the opposite of the meaning intended and which aims at ridicule, humor or sarcasm.1)Hiroshima---the Liveliest City in Japan
2)marching backwards to the glorious age of the 16th century
Anti-climax : the sudden appearance of an absurd or trivial idea following a serious significant ideas and suspensions.This device is usu.aimed at creating comic or humorous effects.1)a town known throughout the world for its---oysters
Parallelism
the repetition of sounds, meanings and structures serve to order, emphasize, and point out relations
(1)The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies...(2)the return of the bread-winner, of their champion, of their protector(3)We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air.(4)are still primordial human joys, where maidens laugh and children play.(5)Let us...Let us...(6)He hopes...He hopes
(7)Behind all this glare, behind all this storm
Litotes(double negative)(语轻意重法,间接肯定法)
a)A negative before another word to indicate a strong affirmative in the opposite
direction.b).Sarcasm
1)ah, yes, for there are times when all pray
2)There is some doubt about that.3)His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the
world.Alliteration（头韵）repetition of vowel sound
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3)4)its anking, heel ickingRhetorical question
1)E.g.… but can you doubt what our policy will be?
Aonance e.g.when bigots lighted faggots to burn...Repetition –
Antithesis(两个结构相似但是意思相反的平行从句便是对偶句)
1)E.g.Anyman or state who fights on against Nazidom will have our aid.Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe.(E.g.The coward does it with a ki, the brave man a sword.)
2)From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are.3)...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land...4)...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever
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e)I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish maes of the Hun soldiery plodding...a memory that seemed phonographic...swept the arena like a prairie fire...a palm fan like a sword...The oratorical storm … blew up in the little court in Dayton swept like a fresh
wind …
Periodic sentence(圆周句)
Periodic sentences achieve forcefulne by suspense.The eential elements in the sentence are withheld until the end.松散句把主要意思放在次要意思之前，先说最重要的事情，因而读者在看到最初的几个词后就知道这句话的意思。圆周句的安排则相反：把最重要的意思放到最后面，并且直到最后一个词时句子的结构才完整。读者只有看完整句话才知道它说什么。
She decided to study English though she was interested in music.（松散句）
Although she was interested in music, she finally decided to study English.（圆周句）
1)E.g.The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away.2)aims or slackening of effort in the great democracies who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken.• Euphemism:
• 1)he commented with a crushing sense of despair on man's final release from
earthly struggles
• 2)He tried soldiering for two weeks with a motley band of Confederate guerrillas
who diligently avoided contact with the enemy.1)Metonymy:
but for making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe
2)...tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers...3)The Christian believes that man came from above.The evolutionist believes that he
must have come from below.Ridicule
1)Bryan, ageing and paunchy, was aisted...2)Bryan mopped his bald dome in silence.3)...a palm fan like a sword...Transferred epithet
1)e.g.Darrow had whispered throwing a reauring arm round my shoulder.2)Antithesis
3)e.g.The Christian believes that man came from above.The evolutionist believes that
he must have come from below.•
Oxymoron
Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat”.Pun
Darwin is right---inside.Synecdoche
The case had erupted on my head.
