Directions: figure out what kind of rhetorical device is used in each of the following sentences. Choose from the list. (答案处只要填写字母选项即可)
A. simile B. metaphor C. metonymy D. synecdoche
E. parody F. personification G. alliteration H.assonance
I. onomatopoeia J. euphemism K. hyperbole L.parallelism
M. antithesis N. rhetorical repetition O. irony
P. oxymoron Q. pun R. transferred epithet
1) The machine-gun shot down the enemy like a mower cutting down the grass.
2) His hunger awoke and gnawed at him.
3) It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
4) The order came directly from the White House.
5) iPhone X: To Buy or Not to Buy
6) I'd give the world to see her.
7) The president passed away last night.
8) This is a victorious defeat.
9) I had a sleepless night again.
10) There was no one there to look at treatment approaches. No one to look at the diagnostics. No one to figure out what tools should be used.
11) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
12) What does that lawyer do after he dies?
---Lie still.
13) Life is a journey, travel it well.
14) Honk! Honk! The driver toots the horn.
15) The financial crash of 2007-08 and the resulting recessions are reckoned to have caused an extra 10,000 or so suicides in America and western Europe. ?
16) A Tale of Two Markets
17) He doesn't say much, and when he does, he doesn't say much.
18) Large factories wish to be given a freer hand in the right to hire and fire.
19) We had dinner at ten dollars a head.
20) The news is a dagger to his heart.
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