英语修辞手法PPT课件

• Assonance 半谐音
Байду номын сангаас• •
Antithesis 对照，对立，对比 [ænˈtɪθəsɪs]
Parallelism 排比, 平行
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Onomatopoeia拟声 Rhetorical question 反问
• Pun 双关
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Simile
• It is a rhetorical device which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common.
• Metaphor requires greater ability on the part of the reader to perceive the hidden association, the insight into persons, things or ideas that is implied.
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• A colorful garden
a colorful life
• the word colorful is used in its literal
sense to describe the many different colors of the flowers.
• the word is used in its figurative
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Metaphor
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Major Types of rhetorical devices
• Simile 明喻
• Chiasmus交错法[kaɪˈæzməs]
• Metaphor 暗喻
• Irony 反语
• Transferred epithet （转类形 • Hyperbole 夸张
容/移就）
• Euphemism 委婉
• Literal 原意 • Words used in their original meanings are
used literally. • Figurative 比喻义 • Words used in extended meanings for the
purpose of making comparisons or calling up pictures in the reader’s or listener’s mind are used figuratively. • （fig.）
Rhetorical Devices
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Rhetorical Device
• What is rhetorical device?
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literal or figurative
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Simile
• The world is like a stage. • Jim was as cunning as a fox.
• Words in a dictionary are like objects in a museum; They are interesting but merely on display. When words are used in communication, they come to life and go to work for us.
• A simile should meet the following four basic demands: – It has the comparative words such as “like”, “as”, or “as if”, “and”, etc. – There should be two things involved in comparison -----the tenor (本体) and the vehicle (喻体); – The two things must be substantially different; – The two things should be similar in at least one quality.
• Oxymoron 矛盾形容法
• Analogy 类比
[ˌɒksɪ'mɔ:rɒn] • Metonymy转喻，借代 • Synecdoche提喻
• Parody 仿拟 • Paradox似非而是的隽语 • Alliteration头韵
[sɪˈnekdəki]
• Consonance辅音韵
• Personification 拟人
sense because life does not have any
color.
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• There are syntactic devices, lexical devices, phonetic devices.
• 句法 • 词汇 • 音韵
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Rhetorical Devices
• There are quite a number of rhetorical devices. Each device has its own form and characteristics, and its own way of achieving effect. Sometimes two or more devices can be used together for greater impact.
• A simile is different from an ordinary, literal comparison.
– Jim looks like his brother Billy. ×
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Metaphor
• It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated.