3.英语修辞专题练习（二）夸张-低陈-借代-提喻-换喻
修辞练习(二)
练习：synecdoche, metonymy,hyperbole,understatement,antonomasia
1.According to our guide ,the biologist Tom Lovejoy, there are more different species
of birds in each square mile of the Amazon than exist in all of North
America-which means we are silently thousands of songs we have ever heard .
2.It is not altogether bad.
3.And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.
4.I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out
5.If Hitler invaded Hell and would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in
the House of Commons
6.Joe was not richer than his friend.
7.Just as the industrial Revolution took over an immense range of tasks from
men’s muscles an denormously expanded productivity.
8.Only billionires are able to collect Picasso.
9.If Saddam goes out of power,no faer is to be shed.
10.The lack of cohesion of the company accounted for the brain drain.
11.More hands are needed at harvest time.
12.On the fourteenth of March,at a quater to three in the afternoon,the greatest living
thinker ceased to think.
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