英语修辞 术语+效果+举例

Parallelism
平行结构
The ideas that are to be equally stressed should be paired and sequenced in the same grammatical form
To create a good visual image and help our reader move quickly from one idea to the next.
The whole point of a pun is the user's intent to produce a humorous or witty effect from the juxtaposition of meanings .
If we don't hang together we'll hang separately.
Repetition
重复
It is a powerful rhetorical device which creates good rhythm and parallelism to make the language musical,emphatic, attractive and memorable.
I came, i saw, i conquered.
We want peace, we want freedom, we want a better life.
Anticlimax
突降法
It is figure of speech that involves stating one's thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity.
It is used to gain more emphasis to convey strong emotions.
例如No pains ,no gains .
But in a large sense we can't dedicate ,we can't consecrate,we can't hallow this ground.
It is used for the sake of aesthetic feeling or to give a sense of logical progression of ideas. Or for emphasis of the repeated word of idea.
For glances beget ogles,ogles sighs wishes ,wishes words,and words a letter.
Death pays all debts.
Assonance
元韵
It is the resemblance of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of a sequence of words.
It creates a musical rhythm for a particular effect of euphony and convey various
It is employed to achieve emphasis.
We are the hollow men,
We are the stuffed men.
Anadiplosis
顶真
It is the repetition of the last part of a unit or sentence at the beginning of the next unit or sentence
设问
It is one question that does not need an answer, for the answer is suggested by the speaker,or presumed by the speaker to be fairly obvious or probably known to the audience.
It can express sophisticated idea, deep thought and event twisted concepts in the complex society.
One should eat to live,not live to eat.
Rhetorical questions
Sow nothing，reap nothing.
Simploce
首末同时重复
It is the repetition of two sets of words or phrases,of which one set is repeated at the beginning and the other set is repeated at the end of sentence.
It is often employed to ridicule or satirize.
Sometimes used to achieve emphasis or for the effect of being comic or humorous.
Where shall i find hope, happiness, friends, cigarettes?
Government of the people ,by the people ,and for the people,shall not perish from the earth.
Antithesis
对偶
Placing contrasting ideas side by side for emphasis and rhythm. The elements are contrary in meaning but similar in form.
同上
Farms Not Arms
Onomatopoeia
拟声
It is used to describe the phenomenon of language sounding like the thing it refers to .
It helps make description.
It helps make the implied exquisiteness of the diction more directly to readers in an auditory way.
It often serves the purpose of laying an emphasis, or getting the audience to be more involved and interested.
If winter comes , can spring be far behind?
It is often used for comic or satiric effect. To produce a witty, humorous or satirical effect, it ought to be original and creative.
Today ,he has a blue heart and coat.
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Alliteration
头韵
It is the repetition of initial consonant in sequence of words
It is good for sound rhyme,musical effect and significant emphasis
Word repetition can knit the ideas together,emphasize an idea, and generate emotional force.例如long，long ago.
Anaphora
句首重复
It is the repetition of the same word at beginning of successive clauses, sentences or verses.
Climax
层进
It it the arrangement of words, phrase, clauses or sentences in ascending order of importance.
Ideas arrranged in such a way develop gradually, like climbing a ladder, each idea outweighting the preceding one. It is extremely effective in stirring up feelings and emotions, and helps to drive home a point.
Mew -mew ,says the cat.
Pun
双关
A pun involves the use of a polysemous word to suggest two or more meanings,commonly literal meaning versus figurative meaning,or involves the use of homonyms.
Syllepsis
一语双叙
It is a construction in which the word that governs two of more other words means differently when it is collocated with these words separately.
Zeugma
轭式搭配
It is a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although its use is not grammatically or logically correct with all of them.
sensory impressions.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Consonance
辅韵
It refers to the repetition of the final and identical consonants whose preceding vowels are different.
Simile
明喻
It is a figure of speech by which two concepts or two dissimilar things are imaginatively and descriptively compared because they have at least one quality or characteristic in common or resemblance.
It always gives strength, adds vividness and appeals to the audience's emotion. It results in linguistic brevity and rhythmic harmony.
It is the best of times; it is the worst of times .
We ate a bun and a glass of milk.
They went to the graveyard with weeping eyes and hearts.
chiasmus
交错重复句
It is a construction involving the repetition of word or syntactic elements in reverse order.(a b //b a )
Epiphora
句末重复
It it a repetition of the same words or phrases at the end of successive lines,clauses or sentences.
It it always used to stress heavily.
Grasp all ,lose all.