Rhetorical Devices in Hitler’s invasion of the U.S.S.R
Metaphor:
They will be rounded up in hordes.This is not bowing down in the House of Rimmon
I see Russian soldiers standing on the threshold...Means of existence is wrung from the soil...cataract of horrors
Behind all this glare, behind all this storm
rid the earth of his shadow...liberate people from his yoke
The scene will be clear for the final act.Alliteration: dull, drilled, docile...for his hearth and home
Onomatopoeia:
clanking, heel-clicking,…
Allusion:
This is not bowing down in the House of Rimmon
simile:
cowing and tying...plodding on like crawling locusts
Repetition: We have but one aim and one single purpose
nothing will turn us---nothing
We will never parley, we will never negotiate...This is our policy and this is our declaration
as we shall faithfully and steadfastly
Parallelism: The past, with its crimes，its follies，and its tragedies...Behind all this glare, behind all this storm, I see that small group of villainous men...I see,...I see...the return of the bread-winner，of their champion，of their protector
We shall fight him by land，we shall fight him by sea，we shall fight him in the air
Any man or state...Any man or state...Let us...Let us...Periodic sentences: When I awoke on...invasion of Russia.If Hitler imagines that...woefully mistaken.inversion:
From this nothing will turn us.But this I will say
Rhetorical Question:
But can you doubt what our policy will be?
Rhetorical Devices in But what’s a dictionary for?
1.Personification:
–.The storm...that greeted...–.An article in the Atlantic viewed it as a disappointment...–.The Yew York Times,...felt it
–.The Journal...saw...
2.Alliteration:
–....very little light on Lincoln...on Life
3.Assonance:
–.The difference between the much-touted...and the much clouted...
4.Synecdoche:
–.What of those sheets and jets of air that are now being used, in place of old-fashioned oak and hinges...
But neither his vanity nor his purse is any concern of the dictionarys
5.Metonymy
–.The Washington Post,..."keep Your Old Websters"
–.in short,...written in the language that the 3rd International describes...
6.Metaphor
Life called it "a non-word deluge"
Modern linguistics gets its charter from Leonard Bloomfields Language(1933).But if so, he has walked into one of lexicographys biggest booby traps
anyone who tries to thread his way through the many meanings now included under door may have to sacrifice brevity to accuracy
And, sure enough, in the definition which raised the Posts blood pressure
7.Simile
The difference,...is not like the difference between yearly models but.Like the difference between the horse and buggy and the automobile
8.Antithesis
between the much-touted Second International(1934)and the much-clouted Third International(1961)
Rhetorical Devices in No signpost in the sea
Transferred epithet
1)and the cool support of the water
2)and the sky a tender palette of pink and blue（Transferred epithet
and Metaphor）
3)but above all I love these long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been.2.Alliteration:
1)on a less practical plane
2)And now see how I stand, as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid
3)clear of cloud
4)I would never have believed in the simple bliss of being
5)the hiss of sudden spray
3.Personification
The young moon lies on her back tonight as is her habit in the tropics, and as, I think, is suitable if not seemly for a virgin.4.Hyperbole
I wondered what mortal controlled it, in what must be one of the loneliest, most forbidding spots on earth.5.Metonymy
1)in the evening she wears soft rich colours
2)he says he used to read me
6.Metaphor
1)a new Clovis, loving what I have despised …
2)an Endymion young and strong
3)the sea … with no ripples at all but only the lazy satin of blue
4)the red ball(the sun)
7.analogy:
These coasts remind me of people;either they are forbidding and unapproachable, or else they present no mystery and show all they have to at a glance.8.Antithesis
… a small manageable domain in a large unmanageable world?
9.onomatopoeia ：
And then I like all the small noises of a ship: the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf, the slap of a rope, the hiss of sudden spray.10.Euphemism
I want my fill of beauty before I go.11.Simile
1)it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures
2)dismissive as Pharisee
3)as sentimental and sensitive as any old maid doing water colours of sunsets
4)my imagination …so austere in the foreground but nurturing what treasures of tenderness, like delicate flowers, for the discovery of the venturesome
5)…gives a cry like a sea-bird
6)… we are as pleased a children when our game succeeds
7)I like the footfall of naked feet in the dust, silent as a cat passing.8)the faint creaking, as of the saddle-leather to a horseman riding across turf
Rhetorical Devices in Ships in the Desert
Personification
1)Where there should have been gentle blue-green waves lapping against the
side of the ship, there was nothing but hot dry sand.(Para.1)
Hyperbole
the population explosion(Para.5)
Metaphor
1)another ghostly image(Para.6)
2)these ghosts in the sky(Para.8)
Metonymy
1)the relationship between the two superpowers(Para.23)
