大学英语四级修辞手法习题 修辞练习 Name the figures of speech used in each of the following sentences: 1. Records fell like ripe apples on a windy day. 2. My words swirled around his head like summer flies. 3. He is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing. 4. White Cloud Mountain is lungs of the City of Guangzhou. 5. Hitler’s attack on Poland in 1939 was like lightning. 6. The Wall Street definitely has more say in their policy making. 7. An individual human existence should be like a river --- small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. 8. He has a heart of stone. 9. Water is to fish what masses are to soldiers. 10. The grey hair should be respected. 11. The kettle is boiling. 12. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 13. More haste, less speed. 14(The influence of the Crown has increased. 15. The hand that rocked the cradle ruled the country. 16. Nervous hours came. 17. Better to rein in hell, than serve in heav’n. 18. To live a life half dead, a living death. 19. IBM has a handsome increase of productivity this year. 20. The child is father of the man. 21. but the plea fell on deaf ears. 22. The willows waved violently in the wind. 23. It was creative destruction. (9.11 attack) 24.All day long the sea waves sobbed with sorrow. 25. He liked the cup a bit too much. 26. The child gazed in wide-eyed astonishment at me. 27. He always speaks to us in a cold pleasant manner. 28. People often compare life to a road through the mountain because both have their ups and downs. 29. A man who is full of himself is empty. 30. She wept floods of tears. Keys: 1. simile 2.simile 3. zoosemy (metaphor) 4. metaphor 5. simile 6. metonymy 7. analogy 8. metaphor 9. analogy 10. synecdoche (metonymy) 11. metonymy 12. antithesis 13. antithesis 14. metonymy 15. synecdoche 16. transferred epithet 17. antithesis 18. oxymoron 19. transferred epithet 20. paradox 21. synecdoche 22. alliteration 23. oxymoron 24. alliteration (personification) 25. metonymy 26. transferred epithet 27. oxymoron 28. analogy 29. paradox 30. hyperbole. 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/dfeea2ee16791711cc7931b765ce0508773275a5.html