英语修辞学笔记整理

英语修辞学

Ⅰ. Phonetic figure of speech 语音修辞

1.Alliteration 押头韵

Bread not bombs.

Cut crimes with jobs not jails.

Time and tide waits for no man.

2.Assonance 押元音

Let us help you extend yourself.

Could anything ever replace the taste of old grape and apple juice. Haste makes waste.

Spend dime save your time.

3.Consonance

Women don’t angonize,organize.

Farms not arms.

4.Aposiopesis 中间间断法

Another step forward,you will…

5.Pun 双关

To Engla nd I will steal,and there I’ll steal.

If we don’t hang together,we hang separately.

On Sunday they pray for you,on Monday they prey on you.

You earn your living.You urn your dead.

Ⅱ.Syntactic figure of speech句法修辞

1. Repetition 重复

There is no,no,no,life.

2. Anaphora 句首重复

I want to know,I want to know who is the girl.

3.Epiphora 句尾重复

Reading makes a full man,conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

4.Simploce 首尾重复

Those who are toil to death,those who are worried to death,those who are bored to death.

5.Parallelism 平行结构

It was not anger,nor surprise,nor disapproval,nor horror,nor any of emotions that she has been prepared for.

Kind hearts are the gardens,kind thoughts are the roots,kind words are the flowers,kind deeds are the fruits.

6.Antithesis 对照

It was the season of light,it was the season of darkness;it was the spring of hope,it was the winter of despair.

When poverty comes in at the door,love flies out of at the window.

7.Climax 高潮

I came，I saw, I conquer.

I was born American,I live American,I shall die American.

8.Anticlimax 反高潮突降法

Where shall I find hope,happiness,friends,cigarette,burp.

9.Syllepsis 一语双叙

He lost his coat and temper.

She opened the door and her heart to the homeless child.

10.Zeugma 轭式修饰法

To make flying more comfortable,we want to great lenghths and great widths.

11.Chiasmus 交错排列法

One should eat to live not live to eat.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your wise are my wise.

12.Rhetorical question 反问

If winter comes,can sping be far behind?

Ⅲ.Semantic figure of speech语意修辞

1. Simile 明喻

As cool as cucumber (泰然自若)

Like a hen on the griddle

What A is to B,C is to D.

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.

Love and cough can not be hid.

2. Metaphor 暗喻

The world is a stage.

All the world’s a stage,and all the men and women merely players. Money is a bottomless sea,in which honour,conscience and truth may be drowed.

Some books are to be tasted,others to be swallowed,and some few to be chewed and digested.

Books are the ever-burning lamps and wisdom.

3.Personification 拟人

Australia is so kind,just trickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Laziness travels so slowly.

4.Metonymy 转喻

To read a Shakespeare or a Mark Twain is to eat a food full of protein. Without sweat,without bread.

A hundred bayonet were marching.

5.Synecdoche 提喻

The farm is short of hands.

There are hundreds of sails in the harbor.

The prisoner is in irons.

The poor man had six mouths to feed.

China beat Japan at volleyball.

6.Euphemism 委婉语

His wife is expecting another child.

7.Parody 仿写

I had no outlook but an uplook rather.My place in society was at bottom.