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1.
Metaphor
1)
P1 They surge to follow him, eager to be touched by a
few baptismal drops..
2) P1 … Alice Cooper, America’s singing ghoul, was ending
his act.
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2.
analogy
1)
P3 “This is a pilgrimage,” Chris said. “I ought to be
crawling on my knees.”
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3.
hyperbole
1)
P1 The Chicago Amphitheater was packed, sweltering, rocking.
2) P2 Some 14,000 screaming fans were crunching up to
the front of the stage at Capital Center, outside Washington,
D. C.
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4.
rhetorical question
1)
P4 How do you feel about all this adulation and hero worship？
2) P4 When Mick Jagger’s fans look at him as a high priest
or a god, are you with them or against them?
3) P4 Do you share Chris Singer’s almost religious reverence
for Bob Dylan?
4) P4 Do you think he – or Dylan – is misguided?
5) P4 Do you reject Alice Cooper as sick？Or are you drawn
somehow to this strange clown, perhaps because he acts
out your wildest fantasies?
6) P13 The big question remains: Why is he a culture hero?
What does he – or any other current rock success – tell
us about his fans? About ourselves and our society? Where
it is, where it was, where it’s heading?
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5.antithesis
1)
P5 It is they alone who combine invention and exaggeration,
reason and motion, word and sound, music and politics.
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6.onomatopoeia
1)
P5 Horowitz sees the rock music arena as a sort of debating
forum, a place where ideas clash and crash.
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7.
personification/metaphor
1)
P7 Bob Dylan touched a nerve of disaffection.
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8.
parallelism
1)
P7 He spoke of civil rights, nuclear fallout, and loneliness.
He spoke of change and of the bewilderment of an older
generation.
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