英语修辞简介

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he had come out of a painting by Velasquez. (Earnest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls)
2. ---and the fattest woman I have ever seen in my life dozing in a straight-backed chair. It was as if a sack of grain was supported by a matchbox.
3)than 型
Eg: 1. A fool can no more see his own foolishness
than he can see his ears.
2. Man cannot help craving for expression any more than birds can help singing.
Personification
2. Inanimate objects or abstractions are addressed directly as human beings.
6)Dead metaphor
Eg: 1. a “bottle neck”
2. When they reached the foot of the mountain, they found a running brook.
3. Personification(拟人)
Definition: a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to animals, or gives life or personality to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Personification
1. Inanimate objects or abstractions are described as human
Eg: Australia is so kind, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.
4)Idiomatic or proverbial metaphor
Eg: It is only a castle in the air.
5) Condensed metaphor
Eg: 1.a rain of kisses / a sea of flowers 2. I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
Introduction to English Figures of Speech
Cont来自百度文库nts
1.喻类修辞 2.代类修辞 3.对照并列类修辞 4.声音类修辞
1.喻类修辞
1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Personification 4. Transferred epithet
2. He treats his daughter as the apple in the eye.
3. Samuel Johnson regarded a dictionary as a watch.
2. Metaphor(暗喻)
Definition: A figure of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used one thing is applied to anther.
4) and型
Eg: 1. A word and a stone let go cannot be
recalled.
2. Truth and roses have thorns about them.
5) 动词型
Eg: 1. He compares his genius to a lightening flash.
1)Nominal metaphor
Eg: 1. Time is money.
2. The news is a dagger to his heart.
2)Verbal metaphor
Eg: 1.The electricity failure paralyzed the
train service.
1. Simile(明喻)
Definition: A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance an image.
(In dealing with simile, an additional point should be noted: the two things compared are in different kinds and are said to be similar in one respect only, and not in all ways.)
2. Her hostility melted.
3)Adjectival metaphor
Eg: 1.There is no rosy prospect for him.
2. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat.
1) like和as型
eg: 1.The cheque fluttered to the floor
like a bird with a broken wing.
2.Use a book as a bee does flowers.
2) 虚拟句型
Eg: 1. He was a beautiful horse that looked as though
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