高级英语第二册部分修辞
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Lesson1
1 We can batten down and ride
it out.--metaphor
2 Everybody out the back
door to the cars!--elliptical sentence
3
Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked
like guns as the winds snapped them.-simile
4
Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu
Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch
the
storm from their spectacular vantage point
--transferred epithet
5 Strips of clothing
festooned the standing trees, and blown down power
lines coiled like black spaghetti
over the
roads-metaphor, simile
Lesson3
1. …
and no one has any idea where it will go as it
meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
---mixed-metaphor or metaphor
3. … that
suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place,
and all at once there was a focus.
----metaphor
4. The glow of the
conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor
5. We had traveled in five minutes to
Australia. -----metaphor
The fact that their
marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love
affairs have been broken or even that
they got
out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a
concern.--—metaphor
6. The conversation was on
wings. ----metaphor
8. The bother about
teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will
probably try to talk sense and so
ruin all
conversation. -----sarcasm反讽
9. They are like
the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived
side by side with each other, did not
delve
into each other's lives or the recesses of their
thoughts and feelings. -----simile
10. … we
ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of
the Saxon peasant. ----
11. Otherwise one will
bind the conversation, one will not let it flow
freely here and there. ----
12. We would never
hay gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to
the Norman Conquest. ----
13. They are like
the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived
side by side with each other, did not
delve
into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their
thoughts and feelings.—-simile
14. Is the
phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy
15. The
Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,
and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends
of the earth.—simile
16. Even with the
most educated and the most literate, the King’s
English slips and slides in
conversation.—alliteration
17. When E.M.F
orster writes of ―the sinister corridor of our
age,‖ we sit up at the vividness of the
phrase, the force and even terror in the
image.—--metaphor
Lesson4
1. United,
there is little we cannot do in a host of co-
operative ventures. Divided, there is little we
can do,
for we dare not meet a power full
challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis
2.…in the past, those who foolishly sought
power by riding the back of the tiger ended up
inside.—metaphor
3. Let us never negotiate
out of fear, but let us never fear to
negotiate.—regression (回环:A-B-C)
4. All
this will not be finished in the first one hundred
days.—allusion 引典; climax递进
5. And so, my
fellow Americans ask not what your country can do
for you; ask what you can do for your
country.—antithesis, regression回环
6 We
observe today not a victory of party but a
celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well
as a
beginning, signifying renewal as well as
change. ----parallelism
7. Let the word go
forth from this time and place, to friend and foe
alike….—alliteration
8. Let every nation know,
whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall
pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to
assure the survival and the success of liberty.
----–parallelism; alliteration
9. United,
there is little we cannot do in a host of co-
operative ventures. Divided, there is little we
can do,
for we dare not meet a powerful
challenge at odds and split asunder.
----antithesis对句
10. To those peoples in the
huts and villages of half the globe… ------
11. …struggling to break the bonds of mass
misery…----
12. If a free society cannot
help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few
who are rich.
-----antithesis
13. … to
assist free men and free governments in casting
off the chains of poverty. ---repetition
14.
And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back
the jungle of suspicion…-----metaphor
15. Let
both sides explore what problems unite us instead
of belaboring those problems which divide us.
-----antithesis
let every other power
know that this hemisphere intends to remain the
master of its own house.
-----metaphor
17.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring
to this endeavor will light our country and all
who serve it, and the glow from that fire can
truly light the world. -----extended metaphor
18. …to strengthen its shield of the new and
the weak… ----metaphor
With a good conscience
our only sure reward, with history the final judge
of our deeds… -----parallelism
Lesson5
1
Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as
you will meet in a month of Sundays,
unfettered the informal essay with his
memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.—metaphor
2 Read,then,the following essay which
undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from
being a dry,
pedantic discipline, is a living,
breathing thing, full of beauty,passion,and
trauma.—metaphor,
hyperbole
3
Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing,
resolution waning.—antithesis
4
What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?—parody
5
This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,
and at first I was tempted to give her back to
Petey.==understatement
6 Maybe
somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few
embers still smoldered. Maybe
somehow I could
fan them into flame.—metaphor, extended metaphor
Lesson7
1. Here was the very heart of
industrial America, the center of its most
lucrative and characteristic
activity, the
boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation
ever seen on earth—and here was a scene
so
dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and
forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of
man to a
macabre and depressing
joke.—metaphor; hyperbole; parallelism; antithesis
2. Here was wealth beyond computation,
almost beyond imagination—and here were human
habitations
so abominable that they would have
disgraced a race of alley cats.—hyperbole;
antithesis
2. What I allude to is the unbroken
and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting
monstrousness, of every
house in sight.
----transferred epithet
3. …, there was not
one in sight from the train that did not insult
and lacerate the eye. ----hyperbole;
double
negatives (双否)
4. There was not a single
decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh
suburbs to the Greensburg
yards，and there was
not one that was not misshapen, and there was not
one that was not shabby.
----hyperbole;
repetition; double negatives
5. The country
itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the
endless mills.—litotes or understatement
6.
Obviously, if their were architects of any
professional sense or dignity in the region, they
would have
perfected a chalet to hug the
hillsides—a chalet with a high-pitched roof, to
throw off the heavy winter
snows, but still
essentially a low and clinging building, wider
than it was tall.-— ridicule （讽刺）
7. This they
have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards,
with a narrow, low-pitched roof.
----inversion
(倒装)
8. On their deep sides they are three,
four and even five stories high; on their low
sides they bury
themselves swinishly in the
mud. ----metaphor
what brick! -----ellipsis
(省略)
10. …, and so they have the most
loathsome (丑陋的) towns and villages ever seen by
mortal eye (人世
间). ---- hyperbole
11. I
award this championship only after laborious
research and incessant prayer. ----irony; sarcasm
12. And one and all they are streaked in
grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint
peeping
through the streaks.—metaphor
13.
When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is
the color of an egg long past all hope or
caring.—ridicule, irony, metaphor
14. I
award this championship only after laborious
research and incessant prayer.—irony
15. Safe
in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy,
God-forsaken villages of Iowa and Lansas,
and
the malarious tidewater hamlets of
Georgia.—antonomasia (换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or
allusion
16. It is as if some titanic and
aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man,
had devoted all the
ingenuity of Hell to the
making of them.—hyperbole, irony
17. They like
it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon would no
doubt offend them.—irony
18. It is that of a
Presbyterian grinning.—metaphor
19. …one
blinked before them as one blinks before a man
with his face shot away.
20.A few linger in
memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church
just west of Jeannette
----personification
21 …set like a dormer-window on the side of a
bare, leprous hill…----- metaphor
22. a steel
stadium like a huge rattrap somewhere further down
the line. ----simile
23. They like it as it
is: beside it, the Parthenon (帕特农神庙) would no
doubt offend them. ----
antonomasia
(换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or allusion
24. When it has
taken on the patina of the mills it is the color
of an egg long past all hope or caring.
----metaphor
25. It is as if some
titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly
inimical to man, had devoted all the
ingenuity
of Hell to the making of them. ----hyperbole;
irony
26. Such ghastly designs, it must be
obvious, give a genuine delight to a certain type
of mind.
----synecdoche (提喻)
27. Thus I
suspect (though confessedly without knowing) that
the vast majority of the honest folk of
Westmoreland county, and especially the 100%
Americans among them, actually admire the houses
they
live in, and are proud of them.
-----irony; sarcasm
28. It is incredible that
mere ignorance should have achieved such
masterpieces of horror. ---irony
Lesson10
1 The slightest mention of the decade brings
nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and
curious questionings by the young: memories of
the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit
to a
speakeasy, of the brave denunciation of
Puritan morality, and of the fashionable
experimentations in
amour in the parked sedan
on a country road; questions about the naughty,
jazzy parties, the
flask-toting‖sheik‖,and the
moral and stylistic vagaries of the ―flapper‖ and
the ―drug-store
cowboy‖.—transferred epithet
2 Second, in the United States it was
reluctantly realized by some—subconsciously if not
openly—that our country was no longer isolated
in either politics or tradition and that we had
reached an international stature that would
forever prevent us from retreating behind the
artificial
walls of a provincial morality or
the geographical protection of our two bordering
oceans.—metaphor
3 War or no war, as the
generations passed, it became increasingly
difficult for our young
people to accept
standards of behavior that bore no relationship to
the bustling business medium in
which they
were expected to battle for success.—metaphor
4 The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in
this breakdown of the Victorian social
structure, and by precipitationg our young
people into a pattern of mass murder it released
their
inhibited violent energies which, after
the shooting was over, were turned in both Europe
and
America to the destruction of an
obsolescent nineteenth century society.—metaphor
5 The prolonged stalemate of 1915-1916,the
increasing insolence of Germany toward the
United States, and our official reluctance to
declare our status as a belligerent were
intolerable to
many of our idealistic
citizens, and with typical American
adventurousness enhanced somewhat by
the
strenuous jingoism of Theodore Roosevelt, our
young men began to enlist under foreign
flags.—metonymy
6 Their energies had been
whipped up and their naiveté destroyed by the war
and now,in
sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the
country, they were being asked to curb those
energies and resume
the pose of self-deceiving
Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as
outmoded as the notion that
their fighting
had‖ made the world safe for democracy‖.—metaphor
7 After the war, it was only natural that
hopeful young writers, their minds and pens
inflamed
against
war,Babbittry,and‖Puritanical‖gentility,should
flock to the traditional artistic center(where
living was still cheap in 1919)to pour out
their new-found creative strength, to tear down
the old
world, to flout ht morality of their
grandfathers, and to give all to art,love,and
sensation.—metonymy synecdoche
8 Younger
brothers and sisters of the war generation, who
had been playing with marbles and
dolls during
the battles of Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry,
and who had suffered no real
disillusionment
or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners
of their elders and play with the
toys of
vulgar rebellion.—metaphor
9 These defects
would disappear if only creative art were allowed
to show the way to better
things, but since
the country was blind and deaf to everything save
the glint and ring of the dollar,
there was
little remedy for the sensitive mind but to
emigrate to Europe where‖ they do things
better.‖—personification ,metonymy, synecdoche
Lesson12
1 When it
did, I like many a writer before me upon the
discovery that his props have all been
knocked
out from under him, suffered a species of
breakdown ad was carried off to the mountains of
Switzerland.—metaphor
2 Therein
that absolutely alabaster landscape armed with two
Bessie Smith records and a
typewriter I began
to try to recreate the life that I had first known
as a child and from which I had
spent so many
years in flight.—metaphor
3 Once I was
able to accept my role—as distinguished, I must
say, from my‖ place‖—in the
extraordinary
drama which is America, I was released from the
illusion that I hated
America.—metaphor
4
It is not meant, of course, to imply that it
happens to them all, for Europe can be very
crippling
too;and,anyway,a writer,when he has
made his first breakthrough, has simply won a
crucial skirmish
in a dangerous, unending and
unpredictable battle.—metaphor
5
Whatever the Europeans may actually think of
artists, they have killed enough of them off by
now to know that they are as real—and as
persistent—as rain,snow,taxes or
businessmen.—simile
In this endeavor to wed
the vision of the
statesman, who is our strongest
arm.—metaphor
Lesson1
1 We can batten down and ride it out.--
metaphor
2 Everybody out the back door to the
cars!--elliptical sentence
3 Telephone poles
and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the
winds snapped them.-simile
4 Several
vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments
there held a hurricane party to watch the
storm from their spectacular vantage point--
transferred epithet
5 Strips of clothing
festooned the standing trees, and blown down power
lines coiled like black spaghetti
over the
roads-metaphor, simile
Lesson3
1. …
and no one has any idea where it will go as it
meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
---mixed-metaphor or metaphor
3. … that
suddenly the alchemy of conversation took place,
and all at once there was a focus.
----metaphor
4. The glow of the
conversation burst into flames. ----metaphor
5. We had traveled in five minutes to
Australia. -----metaphor
The fact that their
marriages may be on the rocks, or that their love
affairs have been broken or even that
they got
out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a
concern.--—metaphor
6. The conversation was on
wings. ----metaphor
8. The bother about
teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will
probably try to talk sense and so
ruin all
conversation. -----sarcasm反讽
9. They are like
the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived
side by side with each other, did not
delve
into each other's lives or the recesses of their
thoughts and feelings. -----simile
10. … we
ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of
the Saxon peasant. ----
11. Otherwise one will
bind the conversation, one will not let it flow
freely here and there. ----
12. We would never
hay gone to Australia, or leaped back in time to
the Norman Conquest. ----
13. They are like
the musketeers of Dumas who, although they lived
side by side with each other, did not
delve
into, each other’s lives or the recesses of their
thoughts and feelings.—-simile
14. Is the
phrase in Shakespeare? ----metonymy
15. The
Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion clock,
and its seeds multiplied, and floated to the ends
of the earth.—simile
16. Even with the
most educated and the most literate, the King’s
English slips and slides in
conversation.—alliteration
17. When E.M.F
orster writes of ―the sinister corridor of our
age,‖ we sit up at the vividness of the
phrase, the force and even terror in the
image.—--metaphor
Lesson4
1. United,
there is little we cannot do in a host of co-
operative ventures. Divided, there is little we
can do,
for we dare not meet a power full
challenge at odds and split asunder.—antithesis
2.…in the past, those who foolishly sought
power by riding the back of the tiger ended up
inside.—metaphor
3. Let us never negotiate
out of fear, but let us never fear to
negotiate.—regression (回环:A-B-C)
4. All
this will not be finished in the first one hundred
days.—allusion 引典; climax递进
5. And so, my
fellow Americans ask not what your country can do
for you; ask what you can do for your
country.—antithesis, regression回环
6 We
observe today not a victory of party but a
celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well
as a
beginning, signifying renewal as well as
change. ----parallelism
7. Let the word go
forth from this time and place, to friend and foe
alike….—alliteration
8. Let every nation know,
whether it wishes us well or i11, that we shall
pay any price, bear any burden,
meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to
assure the survival and the success of liberty.
----–parallelism; alliteration
9. United,
there is little we cannot do in a host of co-
operative ventures. Divided, there is little we
can do,
for we dare not meet a powerful
challenge at odds and split asunder.
----antithesis对句
10. To those peoples in the
huts and villages of half the globe… ------
11. …struggling to break the bonds of mass
misery…----
12. If a free society cannot
help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few
who are rich.
-----antithesis
13. … to
assist free men and free governments in casting
off the chains of poverty. ---repetition
14.
And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back
the jungle of suspicion…-----metaphor
15. Let
both sides explore what problems unite us instead
of belaboring those problems which divide us.
-----antithesis
let every other power
know that this hemisphere intends to remain the
master of its own house.
-----metaphor
17.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring
to this endeavor will light our country and all
who serve it, and the glow from that fire can
truly light the world. -----extended metaphor
18. …to strengthen its shield of the new and
the weak… ----metaphor
With a good conscience
our only sure reward, with history the final judge
of our deeds… -----parallelism
Lesson5
1
Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as
you will meet in a month of Sundays,
unfettered the informal essay with his
memorable Old China and Dream’s Children.—metaphor
2 Read,then,the following essay which
undertakes to demonstrate that logic, far from
being a dry,
pedantic discipline, is a living,
breathing thing, full of beauty,passion,and
trauma.—metaphor,
hyperbole
3
Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing,
resolution waning.—antithesis
4
What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?—parody
5
This loomed as a project of no small dimensions,
and at first I was tempted to give her back to
Petey.==understatement
6 Maybe
somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few
embers still smoldered. Maybe
somehow I could
fan them into flame.—metaphor, extended metaphor
Lesson7
1. Here was the very heart of
industrial America, the center of its most
lucrative and characteristic
activity, the
boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation
ever seen on earth—and here was a scene
so
dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and
forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of
man to a
macabre and depressing
joke.—metaphor; hyperbole; parallelism; antithesis
2. Here was wealth beyond computation,
almost beyond imagination—and here were human
habitations
so abominable that they would have
disgraced a race of alley cats.—hyperbole;
antithesis
2. What I allude to is the unbroken
and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting
monstrousness, of every
house in sight.
----transferred epithet
3. …, there was not
one in sight from the train that did not insult
and lacerate the eye. ----hyperbole;
double
negatives (双否)
4. There was not a single
decent house within eye range from the Pittsburgh
suburbs to the Greensburg
yards，and there was
not one that was not misshapen, and there was not
one that was not shabby.
----hyperbole;
repetition; double negatives
5. The country
itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the
endless mills.—litotes or understatement
6.
Obviously, if their were architects of any
professional sense or dignity in the region, they
would have
perfected a chalet to hug the
hillsides—a chalet with a high-pitched roof, to
throw off the heavy winter
snows, but still
essentially a low and clinging building, wider
than it was tall.-— ridicule （讽刺）
7. This they
have converted into a thing of dingy clapboards,
with a narrow, low-pitched roof.
----inversion
(倒装)
8. On their deep sides they are three,
four and even five stories high; on their low
sides they bury
themselves swinishly in the
mud. ----metaphor
what brick! -----ellipsis
(省略)
10. …, and so they have the most
loathsome (丑陋的) towns and villages ever seen by
mortal eye (人世
间). ---- hyperbole
11. I
award this championship only after laborious
research and incessant prayer. ----irony; sarcasm
12. And one and all they are streaked in
grime, with dead and eczematous patches of paint
peeping
through the streaks.—metaphor
13.
When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is
the color of an egg long past all hope or
caring.—ridicule, irony, metaphor
14. I
award this championship only after laborious
research and incessant prayer.—irony
15. Safe
in a Pullman, I have whirled through the gloomy,
God-forsaken villages of Iowa and Lansas,
and
the malarious tidewater hamlets of
Georgia.—antonomasia (换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or
allusion
16. It is as if some titanic and
aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man,
had devoted all the
ingenuity of Hell to the
making of them.—hyperbole, irony
17. They like
it as it is: beside it, the Parthenon would no
doubt offend them.—irony
18. It is that of a
Presbyterian grinning.—metaphor
19. …one
blinked before them as one blinks before a man
with his face shot away.
20.A few linger in
memory, horrible even there: a crazy little church
just west of Jeannette
----personification
21 …set like a dormer-window on the side of a
bare, leprous hill…----- metaphor
22. a steel
stadium like a huge rattrap somewhere further down
the line. ----simile
23. They like it as it
is: beside it, the Parthenon (帕特农神庙) would no
doubt offend them. ----
antonomasia
(换称：专有名词指代一般名词) or allusion
24. When it has
taken on the patina of the mills it is the color
of an egg long past all hope or caring.
----metaphor
25. It is as if some
titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly
inimical to man, had devoted all the
ingenuity
of Hell to the making of them. ----hyperbole;
irony
26. Such ghastly designs, it must be
obvious, give a genuine delight to a certain type
of mind.
----synecdoche (提喻)
27. Thus I
suspect (though confessedly without knowing) that
the vast majority of the honest folk of
Westmoreland county, and especially the 100%
Americans among them, actually admire the houses
they
live in, and are proud of them.
-----irony; sarcasm
28. It is incredible that
mere ignorance should have achieved such
masterpieces of horror. ---irony
Lesson10
1 The slightest mention of the decade brings
nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and
curious questionings by the young: memories of
the deliciously illicit thrill of the first visit
to a
speakeasy, of the brave denunciation of
Puritan morality, and of the fashionable
experimentations in
amour in the parked sedan
on a country road; questions about the naughty,
jazzy parties, the
flask-toting‖sheik‖,and the
moral and stylistic vagaries of the ―flapper‖ and
the ―drug-store
cowboy‖.—transferred epithet
2 Second, in the United States it was
reluctantly realized by some—subconsciously if not
openly—that our country was no longer isolated
in either politics or tradition and that we had
reached an international stature that would
forever prevent us from retreating behind the
artificial
walls of a provincial morality or
the geographical protection of our two bordering
oceans.—metaphor
3 War or no war, as the
generations passed, it became increasingly
difficult for our young
people to accept
standards of behavior that bore no relationship to
the bustling business medium in
which they
were expected to battle for success.—metaphor
4 The war acted merely as a catalytic agent in
this breakdown of the Victorian social
structure, and by precipitationg our young
people into a pattern of mass murder it released
their
inhibited violent energies which, after
the shooting was over, were turned in both Europe
and
America to the destruction of an
obsolescent nineteenth century society.—metaphor
5 The prolonged stalemate of 1915-1916,the
increasing insolence of Germany toward the
United States, and our official reluctance to
declare our status as a belligerent were
intolerable to
many of our idealistic
citizens, and with typical American
adventurousness enhanced somewhat by
the
strenuous jingoism of Theodore Roosevelt, our
young men began to enlist under foreign
flags.—metonymy
6 Their energies had been
whipped up and their naiveté destroyed by the war
and now,in
sleepy Gopher Prairies all over the
country, they were being asked to curb those
energies and resume
the pose of self-deceiving
Victorian innocence that they now felt to be as
outmoded as the notion that
their fighting
had‖ made the world safe for democracy‖.—metaphor
7 After the war, it was only natural that
hopeful young writers, their minds and pens
inflamed
against
war,Babbittry,and‖Puritanical‖gentility,should
flock to the traditional artistic center(where
living was still cheap in 1919)to pour out
their new-found creative strength, to tear down
the old
world, to flout ht morality of their
grandfathers, and to give all to art,love,and
sensation.—metonymy synecdoche
8 Younger
brothers and sisters of the war generation, who
had been playing with marbles and
dolls during
the battles of Belleau Wood and Chateau-Thierry,
and who had suffered no real
disillusionment
or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners
of their elders and play with the
toys of
vulgar rebellion.—metaphor
9 These defects
would disappear if only creative art were allowed
to show the way to better
things, but since
the country was blind and deaf to everything save
the glint and ring of the dollar,
there was
little remedy for the sensitive mind but to
emigrate to Europe where‖ they do things
better.‖—personification ,metonymy, synecdoche
Lesson12
1 When it
did, I like many a writer before me upon the
discovery that his props have all been
knocked
out from under him, suffered a species of
breakdown ad was carried off to the mountains of
Switzerland.—metaphor
2 Therein
that absolutely alabaster landscape armed with two
Bessie Smith records and a
typewriter I began
to try to recreate the life that I had first known
as a child and from which I had
spent so many
years in flight.—metaphor
3 Once I was
able to accept my role—as distinguished, I must
say, from my‖ place‖—in the
extraordinary
drama which is America, I was released from the
illusion that I hated
America.—metaphor
4
It is not meant, of course, to imply that it
happens to them all, for Europe can be very
crippling
too;and,anyway,a writer,when he has
made his first breakthrough, has simply won a
crucial skirmish
in a dangerous, unending and
unpredictable battle.—metaphor
5
Whatever the Europeans may actually think of
artists, they have killed enough of them off by
now to know that they are as real—and as
persistent—as rain,snow,taxes or
businessmen.—simile
In this endeavor to wed
the vision of the
statesman, who is our strongest
arm.—metaphor