英语修辞手法汇总大全Rhetorical-Devices

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the transference of an adjective to a noun to which it is not wholly appropriate 转类形容法
• More example: • This bad news has brought me a
sleepless night. • They climbed to a dizzy height and then
8. Anti-climax: 突降法
• The sudden appearance of an trivial idea following one or more significant ideas. It is usually comic(滑稽的)in effect.
The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes.
3.Metonymy
• The substitution of the name of one thing for that of another with which ot is closely related
• 换喻
Metonymy
• 以典型的人体组织、器官或部位代人的抽象行 为或能力:
She was a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not the one to let my heart rule my head. 她十个让人动情的姑娘,而我则不 是让感情支配理智的人。 • 以特征指人或物:
jumped down.
7. Rhetorical question: 反诘
• A question neither requiring nor intended to produce a reply but asked for emphasis. More example: If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Shelley: Ode to the West Wind)
• 通过隐喻或明喻,拟人或夸张等这些形 象化说法,文字能用非字面的意义获得 超过普通语言的效果
1.Simile & Metaphor
• 1. Simile 明喻 He is brave as a lion. The water lay gray and wrinkled like an elephant’s skin. 2. Metaphor My love is a red red rose. Applications for jobs flooded the company.
9. Climax: 渐强法
• Arrangement of phrases or sentences in ascending order of importance.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon: Of Studies)
Metonymy
More examples:
John Bull---England Uncle Sam---USA The Pentagon---US military establishment The White Street---US President Helen---beautiful woman
Gray hairs should be respected.
Metonymy
• 以作家名借代作品或观念: He has never read Li Bai.
• 以容器借代被盛的东西,或以产地代产品: He is too fond of the bottle. Hollywood---American film industry
4. Synecdoche 提喻
The naming of a part to mean the whole or the whole to a part
We need more hands to do this job. This is a fleet of 50 sails. The birds sang to welcome the smiling year.
• 一种暗喻的句式: n. (A) + of + n. (B) • More Examples: • I have the devil of a teeth sick. • Down with the Bourbons, and that great pig of
Louis XVI !
• Your turn to practice: • 他们有一个宝贝女儿。 • They have a treasure of a daughter. • 他住在贫民窟一样的屋子里。 • He lives in a slum of a house.
5. Personification 拟人
• The thirsty desert drank up the water.
• It’s really a beautiful morning: the trees are whispering and birds are singing…
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6. Transferred Epithet:
Rhetorical Devices Figures of Speech
• An expression such as a metaphor or simile or a device such as personification or hyperbole in which words are used in a nonliteral way to achieve an effect beyond the range of ordinary language.
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