[研究生入学考试]figures of speech教学教材

metaphor
Education is not the filling of a pail 桶, but the lighting of fire.
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
A policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to stop.
一位警察向我挥手，要我从长蛇阵般的车流中出来， 并招呼我停下。
Metonymy n. [语言学]转喻
Definition: one thing for another; association
婚姻就像是一座围城：在外面的人想进去，在里面 的人想出来。——《围城》。
Type two: as
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark.
Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books
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parody
A husband in hand is worth two in the bush.
He married a bit more than he could chew. A word in time saves nine. He was born with a Cadillac in his mouth. To eat is human; to digest, divine. To lie or not to lie—the doctor’s dilemma
in society was at the bottom
parody
Original: Where there is a will, there is a way. Imitation: Where there is a will, there is a relative. There there is a will, there is a lawsuit.
onomatopoeia
Definition: imitation of sound. Function: association, direct, vivid. Example: The snake hissed. Giggle, clap, patter, mew, rumble
poeia
Function: brief, vivid, interesting Example: What is learned in the cradle is
carried to the grave
metonymy
A thousand mustaches[ mə'stɑ:ʃ, 'mʌstæʃ ] n.
simile
1. Origin: Latin, meaning like 2. Comparative words: like, as 3. Function: describing shape, scenery,
expressing emotions, explaining; vivid description, making easy to understand, create interest.
onomatopoeia
Sound from nature: Murmur, babble, swish, patter, rumble,
roll, rustle, zip, toot, tick, tinkle, screech, bang,bubble, clang,crack, splash, grumble
Structure of a simile
Tenor + comparative word + vehicle Subject + comparative word + reference Example: My love is like a red red rose Tom is as tall as his brother (not a simile) Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile) maypole五月节花柱（过去英国人在五朔节持
euphemism
Definition: to talk about unpleasant things in a pleasant way.
Under the weather. Social disease Hard of hearing Join one’s ancesters Wash one’s hands
胡子，髭
can live together but not four breasts.
一千个男人可以住在一起，而两个女人却不行。
The pen is mightier adj. 有力的；强有力的；有 势力的 than the sword.
He keeps a good table and one gets plenty to eat and drink in his house.
But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.
Type two: as
As firm as a rock As mute as a fish adj. 哑的；沉默的；无声的 As strong as a horse As changeable as the weather As wet as a drowned rat
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.
onomatopoeia
Geese gaggle. Horses neigh, snort. Magpies chatter. Mice squeak. Pigs squeal, grunt. Lions roar. Tigers growl, roar.
onomatopoeia
Snakes hiss. Wolves howl.
personification
Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
Apes gibber. Asses bray. Bees hum, buzz, drone. Bulls bellow. Cows low, moo Cocks crow Hens cackle, cluck
onomatopoeia
Chicken cheep. Cats mew, purr Dogs bow-wow. Doves coo. Ducks quack. Elephants trumpet. Frogs croach.
飘带围此柱跳舞）
Type one: like
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out.
Metonymy
This is the struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
It is a pity that there is more ignorance than knowledge in the country.
She has retired from the stage to teach.
他招待丰盛，每个人在他家里都吃得痛快，喝得痛 快。
She has the eye for the fair and the beautiful.
The wolf and the pig mingled together in his face.
China won 4 golds and 5 silvers. We drove a Ford to Hyde Park.
[研究生入学考试]figures of speech
Chapter 7 Reading and figures of
speech
Figures of speech can be classified into three categories, those modifying the meaning, those modifying the sound and those modifying the structure. Metaphor and belong to the first category, alliteration the second, and repetition the third.
Type three: what
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, n. 大理石；大理石制品 education is to the soul.
What salt is to food, that wit and humor are to conversation and literature.
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
She has a photographic memory for details.
The mountainous waves swallowed up the ship
Type four: than
A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
He had no more idea of money than a cow
Type five: and
Love and cough n. 咳嗽 can not be hid. Truth and roses have thorns about them. Kings and bears often worry their keepers
Parody
Definition: imitation of well-known sayings Function: humorous, ironical, interesting Example: I have no outlook, but an uplook. My place
金钱是深不可测的海洋，能淹没廉耻（信用0、良心和是非 感
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and remaining chapters in prose.
metaphor
The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it.