2. Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti over roads. (simile)
3. Read the following essay, which undertakes to demonstrate the logic, far from a dry, pedantic discipline, is a living thing, full of beauty, passion and trauma. (metaphor) 4. Back and forth, his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning. (antithesis) 5. Once I was able to accept my role-as distinguished, i must say, from my place-in the extraordinary drama which is America, i was release from the illusion that I hate America. (metaphor)
6. It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touch something. (simile)
7. The diamond department was the heart and center of the store. (metaphor)
8. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. (repetition)
9. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do. (antithesis结构相同，意义相反)
10. Here was wealth beyond computation, almost beyond imagination----and here was human habitation so abominable that they disgraced a race of alley cats. (hyperbole) 11. Both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom. (alliteration)
12. ...and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. (repetition)
13. Together let us explore the star, conquer the desert, eradicate diseases, tap the ocean depth and encourage the arts and commerce. (parallelism)
14. How and why he had come to Princeton, New Jersey, is a story of struggle, success, and sadness. (alliteration押头韵)
15. A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled. (simile)
16. Whatever the Europeans may actually think of artists, they have killed enough of them off by now to know that they are as real---and as persistent---as rain, snow, taxes or businessman. (simile)
17. Maybe somewhere is the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still moldered. (metaphor)
18. There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear. (synecdoche部分带整体)
19. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and the constellations of other space. (hyperbole夸张)
20. It happened that I, as a law student, was taking a course in logic myself, so I had all the facts at my finger tips. (metonymy转喻)
21. It is, after all, easy to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make a ugly smart girl beautiful. （antithesis）
22. He is not a grave man until he is a grave man. (pun双关)
23. I love those long purposeless days in which I shed all that I have ever been. （transferred epithet 转移修饰）
24. The young moon lies on her back tonight as her habits in the tropics. (personification)
25. When he came back, we found him in an armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever. (euphemism委婉语)
26. An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for good of his country. (pun) 27. After the war, it was only natural that hopeful young writers, their minds and pens inflamed against war, Babbittry, and “Puritanical” gentility, should flock to the traditional artistic center. (metaphor)
28. But we shall not always expect...to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (metaphor)
29. The hurricane tore three large cargo ships from their moorings and beached them. (personification)
30. The glow of the conversation burst into flames. (metaphor)
31. The slightest mention of the decades brings nostalgic recollections to the middle-aged and curious questionings by the young. (transferred epithet)
32. Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. (alliteration)
33. That the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. (parallelism)
34. Younger brothers and sisters of the war generation had suffered no real disillusionment or sense of loss, now began to imitate the manners of their elders and play with the toys of vulgar rebellion. (metaphor)
35. Yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the band of mankind’s final war. (synecdoche)
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