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For some people, the light of human attention has an unbearable brilliance.
For some people, the light of human attention has an unbearable brilliance.
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For some people, the light of human attention has an unbearable brilliance. Like ivy along the dim edge of a garden, they prefer the social shadows, shunning parties, publicity and fame of any sort. Then there are the flowers of the human
arboretum
. For them, being in the view of others seems necessary for life itself. From Hollywood to fabricated prime-time reality, this spotlight-dependent species is thriving.
But what about the individuals who crave attention for more desperate reasons? Those who resort to unusual ways to get it? Lately, it seems, a dark bloom of these characters has emerged. For motives known only to themselves, they have won
notoriety
by drawing on an almost sacred well of social status: victim hood.
In early April, U.S. national news outlets tracked the disappearance of Audrey Seiler, a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Police and hundreds of concerned citizens searched for four days before Seiler was discovered. Seiler said she was kidnapped. Within hours, however, her story fell apart. Police announced that her
abduction
had been a hoax. Why would a popular student make herself disappear? Her motive remains a mystery, but perhaps it had something to do with the search parties and the news bulletins that surrounded her.
Sympathy is a powerful sentiment that can connect complete strangers. But if it’s used to manipulate, the backlash can be much more intense.
In February, at Waterbury, Connecticut, man was arrested as a result of exploiting sympathy. Edward Valentin told reporters that he had received word that his wife, serving in Iraq, had been killed in an explosion. Police said Valentin admitted the fabrication, reasoning that if people felt sorry for him maybe the military would send his wife home. Evidence, however, points elsewhere. In its extreme form, such a craving shows up in mental disorders, where sufferers may seek attention by causing themselves harm. But even when it comes with no diagnosis, a deep craving to be noticed can have a wide impact.
For these individuals, victim hood represents a "pure state of guilt-free entitlement", said psychol ogist Richard Levak, of Del Mar, California "They go from being
utterly
deprived to being utterly indulged. In today’s world…people have become more depressed and disconnected from each other. So you get people who crave affection and attention and approval. They don’t know how to ask for it and they don’t know how to get it. That leaves them vulnerable, " Levak said. [br] In the first two paragraphs, the rhetoric device used in the writing is________.
选项
A、paradox
B、analogy
C、metaphor
D、pun
答案
C
解析
本题为修辞手法判断题。通读前两段可发现文中多处用了隐喻的修辞。如第1段第1句For some people, the light of human attention has an unbearable brilliance,此处无出现like、as…等表示明喻的词,但其实是把human attention“他人的关注”比作fight“光芒”;第2段中they have won notoriety by drawing on an almost sacred well of social status: victim hood,实际是把victim hood“受害者地位”比喻为an almost sacred well of social status“社会地位中的一口神圣之井”,因此选C项。A项是“悖论”的修辞手法,指一句话中或者前后两句话表面看起来前后矛盾,实则富有哲理,如The more you give, the more you hays. “赠人玫瑰,手有余香。”B项为“类比”,即将两个本质上不同的事物就其共同点进行比较,D项为“双关”,它巧妙地利用同音异义或者同形异义现象使一个词语或句子具有两种不同的含义,从而产生意象不到的幽默、滑稽效果,用在此处意味深长,引发读者遐想。
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