英语修辞.Personification

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• (3) Bitterness fed on the man who made the world laugh.
• (4)The river slumbers /sleeps between broad prairies, kissing the long meadow grass, and bathes the overhanging boughs of elder bushes and willows, or the roots of elms and clumps of maples. ---Hawthorne
• 当我告别你的怀抱，马头琴声依然在我心缭 绕…
Homework
• 1. Write a fairy tale • 2. Watch the movie The King Lion • Here is part of the Dialogue between the
two lion cubs and their mother: • Mom: What are you doing? • Cub: I’m playing with a rabbit. • Mom: How many times have I told you not to play with your food?
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• 3) Adjectives (Personification by means of adjectives) • (1) Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shape. • (2) The hungry flames tear up the buildings faster than anything I’ve seen. • 饥饿的火焰以我见过的最快的速度烧毁 房屋。
English Rhetoric
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Fiຫໍສະໝຸດ Baiduures of Speech
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Figures of Similarity
相似修辞学
I. Figures of Similarity
• • • • 1.Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Analogy 4. Personification
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• 4) Verbs (Personification by means of verbs) • (1) The wind whistled through the trees. • (2) Smart riddle: • What did one mountain say to the other ? • Let’s meet in the valley.
• 5) night---empress of silence, and the queen of sleep (Christopher Marlowe; • 6) the moon---Diana, Luna, Phoebe; queen of heaven, queen of night (Shakespeare); queen and huntress, chaste and fair (B. Jonson)
Masculine
• 1) the sun---Helios, Apollo, Hyperion; the god of life and light (Byron) • 2) rivers---the Father of waters (of the Mississippi and the Irrawaddy(伊 洛瓦底江， 缅甸中部), for example )
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• Personification in song words of
Edelweiss (Listen to the song)
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Edelweiss
• Edelweiss, edelweiss, Every morning you greet me, Small and white Clean and bright You look happy to meet me.
Write a fairy tale
• • • • Animals: 1. a fox, a monkey, grapes 2. a tiger, a fox, squirrel, ant 3. sparrow, crow, phoenix , eagle
4. Personification
• Personification is a simple enough figure to recognize and to understand. • It is easy enough to use too, except for one problem--• gender, or the grammatical classification of the thing personified as masculine or feminine.
The King Lion
• Cub: mom, I will keep the rabbit as a pet. I’m not interested in hunting. • Mom: Oh, it’s the difference between living and dying. • One lion cub was tasting grass, the other asked: • ---What are you doing, brother? • -- I’m trying to be a vegetarian.
Feminine
• 1) nature---Mother Nature • 2) earth--- Mother Earth • 3) morning---Aurora；daughter of the dawn( Homer;) • 4) evening—the pale child, Eve
Feminine
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• (5) How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year. (Milton) • 时间，这个盗窃青春的小偷， 盗窃了 我二十又三年， 飞走了。
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• Personification can use a noun, a pronoun, an adjective or a verb.
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• 1) Nouns (Personification by means of nouns) • (1) Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king. • (2) He could even hear the whisper of leaves.
Personification
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• 4. Definition of Personification: • Personification is a figure of speech that gives human form or feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes to inanimate objects, or to idea and abstractions.
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• (3) I really like that blushing rose. • (含羞的玫瑰) • (4) They saw a smiling valley in autumn. • (5) The houses were cold, closed and unfriendly.
Here is a funny riddle in which personification is used
• I don’t have a mouth, but I can blow; • I don’t have legs, but I can move. • When I shout loudly, things are trembling; when I stand still, I’m nothing. What am I? • ---wind
Edelweiss
• Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow • Bloom and grow forever, • Edelweiss, edelweiss, • Bless my homeland forever.
• 1.牡丹之歌:
• • • • 有人说你娇媚，娇媚的身影哪有这样丰满； 有人说你富贵， 哪知道你曾历尽贫寒。 2.草原，你好！ 当我扑进你的怀抱，酒杯淹没的绿色波涛…
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• 2) Pronouns (Personification by means of pronouns) • (1) England has done what she promised to do. • (2) Death will come when he is least expected.
Here is a funny riddle in which personification is used
• I have hands and no legs, but I can walk. • I have face and no mouth, but I can talk. • ---What am I? • ---clock