英语论文——英语谚语中的比喻修辞

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题目（中文）：英语谚语中的比喻修辞

（英文）：The Tropes in English Proverbs

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The Tropes in English Proverbs

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Shanghai Normal University

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The Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Foreign Languages College, Shanghai Normal University

December 2011

Acknowledgments

I want to acknowledge the invaluable help of Ms. Shen, my constant consultant, who has made timely and useful suggestions on working out the outline, refining the earlier drafts and given me enlightening advice throughout the whole process of writing the thesis. I especially appreciate her guidance and wish to extend my sincere gratitude to her.

This work also owes much to my dear friends whose encouragement and great help inspires me to make further efforts when I encounter difficulties and was sometimes at loss.

My heart-felt thanks are also due to my father and mother, who have been in constant favor of me and offered me the best they could.

This thesis would not have been possible without the support and assistance that I received from them. My grateful thanks go to you all.

Abstract

People all know English proverbs are charming. Proverbs are widespread. They are simple but meaningful. They are vivid and humour, which they are the typical examples of aesthetic rhetoric and represents treasure of English language. They are the wisdom of English people. Using rhetoric is an important reason why the English proverbs are charming. Among them, the tropes are the most common rhetoric. Therefore, I analyze the tropes in English proverbs in this paper. Tropes can be divided into simile, metaphor, analogy, allegory, metonymy and synecdoche. This article focuses on simile, metaphor and synecdoche.

This paper is divided into four chapters. They are introduction, literature review, analysis and conclusion. The first chapter introduces the tropes of English proverbs. The second chapter makes a simple introduction about the importance of the tropes in English proverbs. Then this paper makes a brief analysis of the simile, metaphor and synecdoche in English proverbs. It includes their definition, structure and semantic effect. The article lists lots of examples to explain them. Sometimes they are explained in Chinese to make readers understand easily. The final chapter concludes the thesis.

This article helps us understand the meaning of the tropes in English proverb. If we can understand the semantic effect in English proverbs, we can comprehend and use these English proverbs better than before.

Key words: English proverbs; tropes; simile; metaphor; synecdoche