基础英语写作考试用英语写作修辞手法

•1)As cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (Proverbs 25—the Bible)

•2)He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot)

•3)He arose joint by joint, as a carpenter’s rule opens, and beat th e dust from his clothes. (The Cop and the Anthem)

•4) Della’s beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters.

5)The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be

as blue as the great sea. (Oscar Wilde)

•6)A man without knowledge is like a house without foundation. •7)Air to us is what water is to fish.

•8)Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

•9)Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.

•Macbeth) •2)If music be the food of love, play on. (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night) •3)Some books are to be ___, others to be ___, and some few to be ___ and ___. (Francis Bacon, Of Studies)

•4)All the world’s a stage,

•And all men and women merely players;

•They have their exits and entrances,

•And one man in his time plays many parts,

•His acts being seven ages…

•(Shakespeare As You Like It)

•5)He was strangled in the net of gossip.

•6)His life became a whirlwind of design meetings, client conferences, and last-minute decisions.

The Use of Simile and Metaphor

Try to be idiomatic

spend money like water

as American as apple pie

as strong as a horse

work like horses

as stupid as a goose

as dry as sawdust

(wet) like a drowned rat

a black sheep

fish in the air

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•2)The wind whistled through the trees.

•The wind was moaning through the trees.

•3)If not always in a hot mood to smash, the sea is always stealthily ready for a drowning. (Joseph Conrad)

•4)The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Wordsworth Resolution and Independence)

•Examples made by some students:

•5)The rose blushes in the morning breeze.

•6)The leaves are trembling in the wind.

•7)Please water the thirsty flowers.

•8)Look at the smiling moon. How bright it is!

•Metonymy is a figure of speech which involves the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another. In other words, it involves a “change of name”; the substituted name suggest s the thing meant. •1)He must have been spoiled from the cradle.

•2)You can get a good cup at Black’s café.

•3)The whole town went out to welcome him.

•4) Sword and cross in hand, the European conquerors fell upon the continent of America.