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对Face to face with Hurricane Camille的修辞分析

The analysis of Rhetoric about <<Face to face with Hurricane

Camille >>

摘要：运用修辞手法能使句子或文章变得生动，更富有感染力，同时分析句子或文章所使用的修辞手法，能够更容易理解作者想要表达的意思，对文章理解得更通透.

Rhetorical devices make sentences or articles vivid and more appealing, simultaneous analysis of rhetoric used by sentences or articles, can more easily understand the authors want to express the meaning of the article, to understand more fully. Key Words

1.Antithesis：对比 After we finished this essay, we have learned that there are several obvious examples that the antithesis between protagonist and antagonist,for example ,the comparison between man and man when facing the hurricane.The female neighbor was on the verge of panic ,while the leading role John still kept calm and made plans on that terrible situation .It left a deep impression that John was a brave man but the female neighbor was weak from the comparison of two people.What is more importantly,there is a more obvious antithesis between the leading actor John and the natural disaster -the

对Face to face with Hurricane Camille的修辞分析

Hurricane Camille.When the hurricane Camille became more and more forceful,even they can taste sea water.At that moment ,Richelieu Apartment were smashed apart as if by a gigantic fist ,and seconds after the roof blew off the Koshak house.We could know the damage as a result of hurricane Camille.However, John was composed and fearless on that perishing circumstance,even always be considerate of others forwardly.This comparison highlights the theme of this article -the relationship between nature and man。It makes languages of the article more vivid by describing the struggle against natural disasters.

2.Personification拟人

For example，“The roar of the hurricane now was overwhelming.” It is a common sense that the hurricane can’t roar except man .In addition,the word “roar”indicates that the hurricane was quietly forceful and the situation is so bad.In other words, The author describes the hurricane more vivid by personification.Besides,”A moment later,in one mighty swipe ,lifted the entire roof off the house and skimmed it 40 feet through the air.”or ”It seized a 6000000

对Face to face with Hurricane Camille的修辞分析

gallon Gulfport oil tank and dumped it 3.5 miles

away.”The author portray the hurricane as a powerful

giant to highlight the huge damage because of the hurricane Camille.

3.Simile 明喻

In paragraph 13，there is a sentence that”The wind

sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards

away.”The wind is compared to the roar of a train passing a few yards away.We can know that the wind becomes more

and more stronger,even the degree of the wind approximately.Then the circumstance is worse than ever

before which make the atmosphere among these these people more nervous.Simultaneously,readers will be addicted to the article.

4. Metaphor 暗喻

In paragraph 28,”stripes of clothing festooned the standing trees ,and blown-down power lines coiled like

black spaghetti over the roads.The word “ spaghetti”

refers to “意大利面”，however，the “ spaghetti” symbolizes electric wire.Now we can image the terrible situation that it is in a mess here and there at that

moment.

对Face to face with Hurricane Camille的修辞分析