Lesson2I. Are they really the same flesh as youself?——rhetorical question2. They rise out of the earth,they sweat and starve for a few yers,and then they sink back into then ameless mounds of the graveyard. — alliterati on ‘metaphor 3.Sore-eyed childre n clustereverywhere in un believable nu mbers,like clouds of flies. — simile4. Thanks to a lifetime of sitting in this position his left leg is warped out of shape. ——irony5. There was a fren zied rush of Jews. — tran sferred epithet6. A white skin is always fairly con spicuous. — syn ecdoche7. What gover nment service.——rhetorical questi on8. L ong lines of wome n,be nt double like in verted capital Ls,work their way slowly across thefields. — simile9. This kind of thing makes one 10.1 am not commenting,merely pointing to a fact.11.This wretched boy,who is a French citizen and has therefore been dragged from the forest toscrub floors and catch syphilis in garrison towns,actually has feelings of reverence before a whiteskin. ------ s yn ecdoche12. And really it was like watch ing a flock of cattle to see the long colu mn,a mile or two miles ofarmed men.—simile13. -------- w hile the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direct ion, glitteri ng likescraps of paper. metaphorLesson31. no one has any idea where it will go as it mean ders or leaps and sprkles or justglows. ----- metaphor2. they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.They are like the musketeers ofDumas — simile3. sudde nly the alchemy of con versati on took place — metaphor4. the glow of the con versatio n burst into flames ---- metaphor5. The con versatio n was on win gs. --- metaphor6. We ought to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasa nt. ----- m etaphor7. The Elizabetha ns blew on it as on a dan deli on clock,a nd its seeds multiplied, and floated tothe ends of the earth.— simile's blodrisoolnymyun derstateme nt8. I have an unending love affair with dicti on aries. ------ metaphor,alliterati on9. the King ' s English slips and slides in conversation. metaphor,a—eration10. Otherwise one will bind the conversation,one will not let it flow freely here andthere. ----- metaphor11. We would never have gone to Australia,or leaped back in time to the NormanConquest. ----- metaphor.Lesson51. Charles Lamb,as merry and enterprising a fellow as you will meet in a month ofSun days, un fettered the in formal essay with his m emorable Old China and Dream ' s Childre n. —metaphor2. There follows an in formal essay that en tures even bey ond Lamb ' metaphor3. the followi ng essay which un dertakes to dem on strate that logic,far from being a dry,pedantic discipli ne,is a livi ng,breath ing thin g,full of beauty,passi on,andtrauma.—metaphor,hyperbole4. My brain was as powerful as a dynamo,as precise as a chemist ' sscales. --- hyperbole,simile5. My brain ,that precisi on in strume nt,slipped into high gear. ----- mixed metaphor6. I was out one to let my heart rule my head. ----- metonymy7. if you were out of the picture,the field woud be ope n. ------- metaphor8. I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left. -------- tran sferred epithet9. “ Polly? ” he said in a horrified whisper. transferre—epithet10. Back and forth his head swiveled,desire wax in g,resoluti on waning. — an tithesis11. This loomed as a project of no small dime nsions. ------- un derstateme nt,litotes12. You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.-------- metonymy13. I might as well waste another.Who knew? ------- rhetorical question14. M aybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind,a few embers stillsmoldered. ---- metaphor15. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. ----- synecdoche,metonymy16. He has hamstrung his opponent before he could even start. ---- metaphor17. It was like digging a tunnel. ------ simile18. I will wander the face of the earth,a shambling,hollow-eyed hulk. -------- h yperbole1. Here was the very heart of in dustrial America. ------ metaphor2. here was a scene so dreadfully hideous,so in tolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced thewhole aspirati on of man to a macabre and depress ing joke. ---- hyperbole, an tithetical,con trast.3. here were huma n habitati ons so abo min able that they would have disgraced a race of alleycats. ---- hyperbole4. what I allude to is the un broke n and agonizing ugli ness,the sheer revolt ing mon strous ness,ofevery house in sight. ----- hyperbole5. one blinks before a man with his face shot away. ------- simile6. a steel stadium like a huge rat-trap somehere further down the line. ------ simile7. The country itself is not un comely. ------ litotes,u nderstateme nt8. Obviously, if there were architects of any professi onal sense or dig nity in the regi on ,theywould have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides. ----- sarcasm9. on theire low sides they bury themselves swin ishly in the mud. ------ metaphor10. When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of a friedegg. ----- ridicule,iro ny11. they have the most loathsome tow ns and villages ever see n by mortal eye. ---- hyperbole12. I award this champi on ship only after laborious research and in vessa ntprayer. ---- sarcasm,ir ony13. Pullman ,I have whirled through the gloomy,Godforsaken villages of Iowa and Kansas,andthe malarious tidewater hamlets of Georgia. ------ metaphor14. It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius ,uncompromisingly inimical toman. ---- hyperbole,iro ny15. Are they so frightful because the valley is full of foreigners-------- dull,insensate brutes,with nolove of beauty in them? ------ m etorical questi on16. It is in credible that mereig norance should have achieved such masterpieces ofhorror. ----- sarcasm,iro ny17. On certain levels of the American race,indeed,there seems to be a positive libido for theugly,as on other and less Christia n levels there is a libido for the beautiful. ------ an tithesis18. Beside it, the Parthenon would no doubt offend them. ------ sarcasm19. The effect is that of a fat woman with a black eye. metaphor1. The slightest men ti on of the decade brings no stalgic recollect ions to the middle-aged and curious questi oningsby the young — tran sferred epithet2. we had reached an intern ati onal stature that would forever preve nt us from retreati ng beh ind the artificial wallsof a provincial morality or the geographical protection of our two bordering ocea ns—metaphor3. War or no war,as the gen erati ons passed,it became in creas in gly difficult for our young peopleto accept sta ndards of behavior that bore no relati on ship to the bustl ing bus in ess medium in which they were expected to battle for success. —metaphor4. The war acted merely as a catalytic age nt in this breakdow n of the Victoria n social structure—metaphor5. Gree nwich Village set thee patter n. ---- metonymy6. it was only n atural that hopeful young writers,their minds and pens in flamed aga instwar,Babbittry,and “ Puritanical ” gemitaiyhor --------------7. the conven ti ons and to add their own little matchsticks to con flagrati on of “ flam ing youthwas Gree nwich Village that fanned the flames.------ metaphor8. Before long the moveme nt had become officially recog ni zed by the pulpit. ------ metaphor9. who had suffered no real disillusi onment or sense of loss ,now bega n to imitate the manners oftheir elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellio n. ------ metaphor10. An important book rather grandiosely entitled Civilization in the United States,writtenby” thirty intellectuals ” under the editorship of J.Harold Stearns,was the rallying point ofsen sitive pers ons disgusted with America. ----- m etaphor11. the country was blind and deaf to everything save the glint and ring of thedollar. ----- pers oni ficati on, met onymy ,syn ecdoche。