4. Irony: a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words which carry the opposite meaning.
1)After a while, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dare to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.
Examples:

Hi is now again seated in his usual sleepy corner. 他现在又坐在那个容易使他瞌睡的角落里。 He passed many an anxious hour in the train. 他在火车上度过了许多焦急不安的时光。 An awed hush fell upon the bystanders. 在场的人都惊得目瞪口呆。 Helen spoke with lazy calmness. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way…








That murderer has been put into the condemned cell. 那个杀人犯被投进了死囚牢房。 He crashed down on a protesting chair. 他一屁股坐了下来，椅子吱吱嘎嘎地响着，仿 佛是在提抗议似的。 On his sick bed he summoned his sons and daughters into his presence. 他在病床上把儿女们召唤到面前。 This new tendency has raised many a conservative eyebrow. 保守派人士的非难
Advanced English
Book One
The Trial That Rocked the Worlhniques & Language features
(I) Writing techniques:
1. Flashback: part of a film, play,etc. that shows a scene earlier in time than the main story


sleepless night cheerful sight three weary miles plods his weary way listen with openmouthed astonishment
3. Simile: a figure bof speech in which a similarity between two objects is directively expressed. 1) Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies. 2)The oratorial storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Malone blew up in the little court in dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative offices of the United States, …
2. Description of a debate: the oratorial debate between Darrow and Bryan
5) Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. (also Hyperbole) 6) When Malone finished there was a momentary hush. Then the court broke into a storm of applause that surpassed that for Btyan. 7) Now Darrow sprang his trump card by calling Bryan as a witness for the defence. 8) The oratorial storm that…, bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has grown with the passing years.
Figures of Speech
transferred epithet（转移修饰）
A transferred epithet is, as its name implies, a figure of speech where an epithet (an adj or descriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify to another to which it does not really belong. Generally, the epithet is transferred from a person to a thing or idea.