1. Writing skills: 1) language usage; 2) sentence structure usage

2. Rhetorical devices: 1) metaphor; 2）antithesis; 3) simile; 4) parody; 5) metonymy; 6) rhetorical question

3. Stylistic features: expository writing

Identify the rhetorical devices in the following sentences.

1. To prevent getting trampled by a stampede of data, viewers will rely on programmed electronic selectors that could go out into the info corral and rope in the subjects the viewer wants. ( )

2. And where there are agents, can counteragents be far behind? ( )

3. Where he saw internal memos, someone else saw Beethoven. ( )

Key:

1. metaphor;

2. parody;

3. metonymy

Tell why the following paragraph is vivid?

I can do almost anything to keep myself from writing. I can sharpen pencils. I can dust my desk. I can consider whether to use white or yellow paper. I can arrange my dictionary at a neat 45-degree angle to the wall. I can stare vacantly out the window, praying for inspiration. I can sharpen my pencils all over the world.

Key:

The author here provides specific and vivid examples instead of vague and boring ones to give concreteness and clarity to an idea. This passage gives the reader a vivid image of how he keeps himself from writing.

论文题目：英语修辞鉴赏与写作

作者：曾庆茂

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