99053-大学英语-第一次读写课

Brief introduction to the teaching in the new semester:

●Teaching plan:

1) Six Units: Unit 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10

2) A formal test on Apr. 16

3) Music Knowledge & Singing Competition on May. 7

4) News Listening Competition on June 4

5) The course ends on June. 13

●The evaluation system:

平时成绩：

Presentation:

Hand in the ppt and draft at least one week before your presentation.

The latest news (informative & insightful)

Within 10 minutes (video length ≦3 mins)

Rubrics: (5’)

Delivery: 2’Language: 1’

Ppt: 1’Depth of thought: 1’

Rubrics:

Delivery: 2’Language: 1’

Ppt: 1’Depth of thought: 1’

Rhetorical Devices

A “rhetorical device”is a use of language that creates a literary effect and, ideally, prompts an emotional response.

Rhetorical devices generally fall into three parts: phonetic devices, semantic devices and syntactic devices.

Phonetic devices（音韵修辞格）：Alliteration（头韵）, Assonance（元韵）, Consonance（谐音）, Onomatopoeia（拟声）, etc.

Semantic devices（语义修辞格）：simile（明喻）, metaphor（暗喻）, metonymy（借喻）, parody （仿拟）, hyperbole（夸张）, irony（反语）, personification（拟人）, paradox（隽语）, pun（双关）, analogy（类比）, euphemism（委婉语）, satire（讽刺）, Zeugma（轭式搭配）etc.

Syntactic devices（句法修辞格）：parallelism（排比）, repetition（重复）, inversion（倒装）, ellipsis （省略）, rhetorical question（设问）, parentheses（插入语）, etc.

Semantic devices：

1) Simile:

It’s a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common. The comparison is purely imaginative, that is the resemblance between the two unlike things exists only in our minds, not in the nature of the things themselves. To make the comparison, words like “as”, “like”, “so…as”, “as…as”, “seem”, “as though”, “similar to” etc. are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other.

Signified/subject本体signifier/reference喻体simile marker/comparative word比喻词

Used in phrases:

1.As stubborn as a mule顽固不化

2.As clever as a monkey聪明伶俐

3.As cunning as a fox奸诈狡猾

4.As strong as a horse/ox力大如牛

5.As weak/sick as a cat体弱多病/病入膏肓

6.As slippery as eel奸诈狡猾

7.As stupid as an owl/a goose愚蠢之极

8.As poor as a mouse/rat一贫如洗

9.As regular as a clock循规蹈矩

10.As pale as a ghost/sheet脸色苍白

11.As precise as a surgeon精益求精

12.As fresh as a rose生机勃勃

13.As cheap as dirt一文不值

14.As firm as a rock坚如磐石

15.As lithe as a panther轻巧自如

16.As bold as brass 厚颜无耻

17.As mute as a fish噤若寒蝉

18.As close as an oyster守口如瓶

19.As sure as a gun千真万确

20.As sober as a judge十分清醒

Used in sentences:

1)Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.

2)He jumped back as if he had been stung.

3)The gate of the building seemed to be the entrance to a vast hive of six or seven floor.

4)I wandered lonely as a cloud.

A and

B 结构：and将本体和喻体合在一起陈述，and起到了比喻词的作用。