Rhetorical Devicessimile 明喻metaphor 暗喻hyperbole 夸张metonymy 转喻synecdoche 借喻euphemism 委婉语repetition 反复rhetorical question 反问句personification 拟人antithesis 对仗parallelism 排比transferred epithet 转移修饰alliteration 押头韵anti-climax 反高潮1. We can batten down and ride it out. （metaphor）2. Wind and rain now whipped the house. （metaphor）3. The group heard gun-like reports as other upstairs windows disintegrated.（simile）4. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade. （simile）5. The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. （simile）6. It seized a 600,000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 312miles away.（personification）7. Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them. （simile）8. Richelieu Apartments were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist. （simile）9. With two walls in their bedroom sanctuary beginning to disintegrated, John ordered... （metaphor）10. Blown-down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over the roads. （simile）11. Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi. （metaphor）12. testing and treating （alliteration）13. A town known throughout the world for its—oysters.（anti-climax）14. eternal boyhood and endless summer of freedom and adventure （hyperbole）15. …who saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. （metaphor）16.The geographic core，in Twain's early years，was the great valley of the Mississippi River，main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart.（metaphor）17. cast of characters （alliteration）18. He soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic.（simile）19. …what people claim to be and what they really are.（antithesis）20. He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region.（metaphor）21. He flirted with the colossal wealth. （metaphor）22. Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. （metaphor）23. His pen would prove mightier than his pickax. （metonymy）24. Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles.（metaphor）25. …for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home.（alliteration）26.dash and daring （alliteration）27. …the grave world smiles as usual, and says …Well，that is California all over.‟（personification）28. American laughed with him.（personification）29. ... if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges.（metaphor）30. Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh.（personification）31. the bowl of a volcanic crater (metaphor)32. He commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles. (euphemism)33. They vanished from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness; where they left no sign that they had existed-a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.（parallelism and antithesis）34. She will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burnscars down her arms and legs.（fore shadowing 埋伏笔）35. …my skin like an uncooked barely pancake (simile)36. She washed us in a river of make-believe，burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know.(mixed metaphor 混合暗喻：一个本体，多个喻体)37. She used to read to us without pity, forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. （metaphor）38. …his chin like a kinky mule tail (simile)39. Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish. (simile)40. Maggie's brain is like an elephant's. （simile）41. “Mama,” Wangero said, sweet as a bird. （simile）42. She gasped like a bee had stung her. （simile）43. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land. （metaphor）44. I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking, heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers.（onomatopoeia 拟声）45. the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery （alliteration）46. …the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts （simile）47. Can you doubt what our policy will be? （rhetorical question）48. We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. （repetition）49.We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fighthim in the air.（parallelism）50. We have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke.（metaphor）（alliteration，metonymy）52. Everybody off! （elliptical sentence 省略句）53. Was I not at the scene of the crime? （rhetorical question）54. Several vacationers at the luxurious Richelieu Apartments there held a hurricane party to watch the storm from their spectacular vantage point.（transferred epithet）。