Personification：拟人
A moment later, the hurricane, in one mighty swipe, lifted the entire roof off the house and...
It seized a 600, 000-gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it … Simile：明喻
The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards way.
The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.
metaphor：暗喻
We can batten down and ride it out. Wind and rain now whipped the house. Camille had raked its way northward across… Contrast：对比
Scenery：lively, happy, vigorous, cheerful, etc.
Psychology：repentant, penitent(悔罪的; 忏悔的) , guilty, sad. Hiroshima symbolizes war crime, sin, death, terror, etc. Humour：幽默
serious looking men, bob up and down, the cab driver, the usher, meeting the mayor in his socks, spinal column flexible, Hiroshima---oysters, small man with very large eye-glasses, his eyes nearly closed behind their thick lenses, etc.
Irony：讽刺
Hiroshima---the Liveliest City in Japan
Each day of suffering that helps to free my from earthly cares congratulate myself on the good fortune that my illness has brought me 你这个狠心贼! Metonymy(借代)：
b. Animals the bear：the Soviet Union
the dragon ：the Chinese (a fight between the bear and the dragon)
c. Parts of the body
heart：feelings and emotions
head, brain：wisdom, intelligence, reason grey hair：old age d. Profession：
the press：newspapers, reporters etc.
He met the press yesterday evening at the Grand Hotel. the bar：the legal profession
e. location of government, business etc.
the White House：the US president and his government Wall Street：US financial circles
Hollywood：American filmmaking industry
e.g.She was a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head. ...little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers ... struggle between kimono and the miniskirt
I thought that Hiroshima still felt the impact Anti-Climax：反高潮
a town known throughout the world for its---oysters The duties of a soldier are to protect its country and peel potatoes.
Euphemism：委婉的说法
e.g：He was sentenced to prison---He is now living at the government's expenses.
The boy is a bit slow for his age. to go to heaven---dead
to go to the bathroom, do one's business, answer the nature's call, wash my hands.
Each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares. Rhetorical Question：反问
Was I not at the scene of the crime? Antithesis：对语; 对句; 对偶; 对照
The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have
come from below.
What people claim to be and what they really are. We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit. It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.
The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword. Oxymoron：矛盾修饰法 a victorious defeat a deafening silence
The mother is undergoing the joyful pain and painful joy of childbirth.
The parental discipline can be described as cruel kindness. Pun：双关
DARWIN IS RIGHT –INSIDE.
'Seven days without water make one weak'.\"'七天没有水使人虚弱'/'七天没有水也成一星期。-- A pun on the likeness of 'weak' and 'week'..
From above, below. Transferred epithet：移就
Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.
I buried my head under the miserable sheet, and cried like a child.
The doctor's face expressed a kind of doubting admiration.
sleepless night, forgetful snow
The sailors swarmed into a laughing and cheering ring around the two men.
The American society saw a gnawing poverty during the Great Depression.
Darrow walked slowly round the baking court. hyperbole：夸张
The trial that rocked the world.
When I told our father about this, his heart burst.
My heart almost stopped beating when I heard my daughter’s voice on the phone.
There are a thousand reasons why more research is needed on solar energy.
synecdoche提喻：
The case had erupted round my head not long after I arrived in Dayton ... (a part for the whole) The fox goes very well with your cap. (the whole for a part)
He is the Newton of this century. (the general for the specific ) There are about 100 hands working in his factory. (a part for the whole)
synesthesia：通感
微风过去，送来缕缕清香，仿佛远处高楼上渺茫的歌声似的。 天阶夜色凉如水，卧看牵牛织女星。 甜言蜜语，甜甜的笑，甜蜜的吻。
sweet voice sour remark icy look sharp cry
Music, when soft music voices die, vibrates in the memory. Here we sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears. The same bright face I tasted in my sleep. Irony：反语： 你这个死鬼！
I award this championship only after laborious research and incessant prayer.
Sarcasm：讽刺
Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense of dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides.
ridicule：嘲弄式的讽刺，讥讽
…they made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse. Irony When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. ridicule
They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. sarcasm
It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror. Sarcasm &
irony
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