首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructe
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructe
admin
2020-03-30
78
问题
Analysts have had their go at humor, and I have read some of this interpretative literature, but without being greatly instructed. Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards(内在部分)are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
In a newsreel theatre the other day I saw a picture of a man who had developed the soap bubble to a higher point than it had ever before reached. He had become the ace soap bubble blower of America, had perfected the business of blowing bubbles, refined it, doubled it, squared it, and had even worked himself up into a convenient lather. The effect was not pretty. Some of the bubbles were too big to be beautiful, and the blower was always jumping into them or out of them, or playing some sort of unattractive trick with them. It was, if anything, a rather repulsive sight. Humor is a little like that; it won’t stand much blowing up, and it won’t stand much poking. It has a certain fragility, an evasiveness, which one had best respect. Essentially, it is a complete mystery. A human frame convulsed with laughter, and the laughter becoming mysterious and uncontrollable, is as far out of balance as one shaken with the hiccoughs or in the throes of a sneezing fit.
One of the things commonly said about humorists is that they are really very sad people—clowns with a breaking heart. There is some truth in it, but it is badly stated. It would be more accurate, I think, to say that there is a deep vein of melancholy running through everyone’s life and that the humorist, perhaps more sensible of it than some others, compensates for it actively and positively. Humorists fatten on trouble. They have always made trouble pay. They struggle along with a good will and endure pain cheerfully, knowing how well it will serve them in the sweet by and by. You find them wrestling with foreign languages, fighting folding ironing boards and swollen drainpipes, suffering the terrible discomfort of tight boot(or as Josh Billings wittily called them, "tire boots"). They pour out their sorrows profitably, in a form that is not quite a fiction not quite a fact either. Beneath the sparking surface of these dilemmas flows the strong tide of human woe.
Practically everyone is a manic depressive of sorts, with his up moments and his down moments, and you certainly don’t have to be a humorist to taste the sadness of situation and mood. But there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying, and if a humorous piece of writing brings a person to the point where his emotional responses are untrustworthy and seem likely to break over into the opposite realm, it is because humor, like poetry, has an extra content. It plays close to the big hot fire, which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat.
The passage’s success lies in its extensive use of______.
选项
A、parallelism
B、metaphors
C、metonymy
D、similes
答案
B
解析
综观全文,作者多次使用暗喻的修辞手法,使文章生动、含蓄而耐人寻味,激发人的思考。parallelism的意思是“排比”;metaphor的意思是“暗喻”;metonymy的意思是“转喻”;simile的意思是“明喻”。只有B为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/VnTO777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Readthefollowingparagraphandthenwritearesponsepaperofabout200words.WriteitneatlyontheANSWERSHEET2.Quit
Inourcontemporaryculture,theprospectofcommunicatingwith—orevenlookingat—astrangerisvirtuallyunbearable.Everyone
Inourcontemporaryculture,theprospectofcommunicatingwith—orevenlookingat—astrangerisvirtuallyunbearable.Everyone
Thepatient’sprogresswasveryencouragingashecould______getoutofbedwithouthelp.
Analystshavehadtheirgoathumor,andIhavereadsomeofthisinterpretativeliterature,butwithoutbeinggreatlyinstructe
Thebankmanageraskedhisassistantifitwaspossibleforhimto______theinvestmentplanwithinaweek.
Theprivatelifeofhavingeachindividualmakehisorherownchoiceofbeliefsandinterest______withouttheoverarchingpubl
Althoughmoneyisalwaysuseful,itisn’tall______.
AsApplepreparestoreportwhat(analystsproject)maybethecompany’sfirstyear-over-yearquarterlyearningsdeclineinadeca
Inno______shouldyoudothiswithouthelpandadvicefromyourdoctor—restrictingthedietofsmallchildrencanbeverydanger
随机试题
子宫内膜癌已累及宫颈间质,其分期应为
一足月新生儿,出生体重2800g,身长48cm,面色红润,哭声响亮,吸吮有力,母乳喂养。喂母乳后应竖抱起婴儿,轻轻拍其背部,目的是
墙体构造中勒脚的作用是()。
投入产出表中有一些基本的平衡关系,下列平衡关系中正确的是()。
下列属于景德镇“四大传统名瓷”的有()。
下列关于劳务派遣的说法,正确的是()
下列有关负强化的说法,表述正确的是()
毛泽东在抗日战争时期阐明了中国共产党在新民主主义革命阶段的基本纲领,即()
一个科学研究小组对5000只“冰川豹蛛”进行测量后发现,1996—2005年,这种蜘蛛的体形平均增大了8%~10%,同期当地每年的解冻期提前了20~25天,这支持了他们的猜想:剧烈的气候变化对当地蜘蛛的生长产生了影响。该研究小组负责人表示这种影响的后果很复
[2003年]设a>0,而D表示全平面,则I==_________.
最新回复
(
0
)