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w 1. Origin: Latin, meaning like w 2. Comparative words: like, as w 3. Functions: describing shape, scenery; expressing emotions; explaining; vivid description, making easy to understand; creating interest.
• Truth and roses have thorns about them.
• Kings and bears often worry their keepers.
• A word and stone let go cannot be recalled. 说出去的话就像抛出去的石子， 是收不 回的。
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)
Type Three: what
Two Patterns: A is to B what C is to D. What C is to D, A is to B.
Type Three: what
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. The pen is to a writer what the gun is to a fighter. 作家的笔犹如战士的枪。
Type Six: others
Who is to blame but her tyrant of a father.
－Robert Burns 啊，我的爱人像一朵红红的玫瑰；
六月里迎风初开； 啊，我的爱人像一曲甜蜜的歌；
唱得合拍又柔和。 (王佐良译）
Kindness is the golden chain by which the
world is bound. (Goethe)
仁爱是联结世界的一条金链。
Simile
• As firm as a rock • As mute as a fish • As strong as a horse • As brave as a lion • As obstinate as a cow • As white as snow • As black as ink / pitch • As changeable as the weather • As wet as a drowned rat • As blind as a bat • As fat as a pig • As proud as a peacock
Type Four: than
• A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
• He wk.baidu.comad no more idea of money than a cow
Type Five: and
• Love and cough can not be hid. 爱情像咳嗽一样是掩盖不了的。
.
Type Three: what
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. 教育之于心灵犹如雕刻之于大 理石。 What salt is to food, wit and humor are to conversation and literature
Figures of Speech
Figures Of Speech
In English Stylistics
Simile
A figure of speech in which one thing is liken to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance an image. It is an explicit comparison recognizable by the use of the word like or as.
Type Two: as
• Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark.
• Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books.
• But love from love, towards school with heavy books. (Love goes towards love, as schoolboys go from their books. But love goes from love, as schoolboys go towards school with heavy books.)
( A Dictionary of Literary Terms)
O, my love’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: O, my love’s like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune.
• Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile)
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.
• Truth and roses have thorns about them.
• Kings and bears often worry their keepers.
• A word and stone let go cannot be recalled. 说出去的话就像抛出去的石子， 是收不 回的。
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)
Type Three: what
Two Patterns: A is to B what C is to D. What C is to D, A is to B.
Type Three: what
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. The pen is to a writer what the gun is to a fighter. 作家的笔犹如战士的枪。
Type Six: others
Who is to blame but her tyrant of a father.
－Robert Burns 啊，我的爱人像一朵红红的玫瑰；
六月里迎风初开； 啊，我的爱人像一曲甜蜜的歌；
唱得合拍又柔和。 (王佐良译）
Kindness is the golden chain by which the
world is bound. (Goethe)
仁爱是联结世界的一条金链。
Simile
• As firm as a rock • As mute as a fish • As strong as a horse • As brave as a lion • As obstinate as a cow • As white as snow • As black as ink / pitch • As changeable as the weather • As wet as a drowned rat • As blind as a bat • As fat as a pig • As proud as a peacock
Type Four: than
• A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
• He wk.baidu.comad no more idea of money than a cow
Type Five: and
• Love and cough can not be hid. 爱情像咳嗽一样是掩盖不了的。
.
Type Three: what
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. 教育之于心灵犹如雕刻之于大 理石。 What salt is to food, wit and humor are to conversation and literature
Figures of Speech
Figures Of Speech
In English Stylistics
Simile
A figure of speech in which one thing is liken to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance an image. It is an explicit comparison recognizable by the use of the word like or as.
Type Two: as
• Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark.
• Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books.
• But love from love, towards school with heavy books. (Love goes towards love, as schoolboys go from their books. But love goes from love, as schoolboys go towards school with heavy books.)
( A Dictionary of Literary Terms)
O, my love’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June: O, my love’s like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune.
• Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile)
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.