高级英语I第5课段落、修辞

Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R. ________________________________________ Structural and stylistic analysis 　　 Part I: a piece of narration 　　Background of the speech 　　Part II. the speech proper 　　an argument or persuasion 　　Section 1: The Nazi regime… horrors upon mankind… 　　Scenario on both sides of the border. 　　To arouse emotion. 　　Section 2: I have to declare the…in determination and in resources. 　　What we should do. 　　Section 3: This is no time…life and power remain. 　　Further persuasion, to convince the audience of the justification of the decision. Speech on Hitler's Invasion of the U.S.S.R. ________________________________________ RHETORIC Simile: a comparison between two unlike things having at least one quality or characteristic in common. tenor: the subject of the comparison Vehicle: the image of which this idea is conveyed The vehicle is almost always introduced by the word "like" or "as". The bus (tenor) went as slowly similarity as a snail (vehicle). The water lay grey and wrinkled like an elephant's skin. Her eyes were jet black, and her hair was like a waterfall. Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things, but the comparison is implied rather than stated. Contrary to a simile in which the resemblance between two unlike things is clearly stated, in a metaphor nothing is mentioned. The essential form of a metaphor is X is Y, and all forms of metaphor can be condensed into this form. Snow clothes the ground. Snow (X---tenor) is clothe (Y---vehicle). Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels. Boy (X---tenor) is jewel (Y---vehicle) . The ship ploughed the sea. Ship (X --- tenor) is plough (Y ---vehicle) Metaphor: They will be rounded up in hordes. I see Russian soldiers standing on the threshold... Means of existence is wrung from the soil... Metaphor: cataract of horrors 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 with its clanking, heel-clicking... Assonance: the use of the same or related, vowel sounds in successive words clanking, heel-clicking,… cowing and tying ...plodding on like crawling locusts, ...smarting from many a British whipping... easier and safer prey 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... 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... Noun phrases: I had not the slightest doubt where ... With great rapidity and violence Periodic sentences: When I awoke on...invasion of Russia. If Hitler imagines that... woefully mistaken.