英语修辞一览表FigureofSpeechRhetoric.docVIP

Figure of Speech Rhetoric No. Figure of speech Definition Example 1 Simile 明喻 An explicit comparison is made between two or more things that are unlike but have something in common. Normally introduced by like or as. 1. Hea lion. 2. Mercy falls like the gentle rain from the sky upon the earth. 2 Metaphor 暗喻 An implicit comparison between two or more things that are unlike but that have something in common.Military glory is a bubble blown from blood. (Jerrold) 3 Analogy 类比 Relates the unfamiliar things to the familiar things 类比：一种逻辑推理形式或一个例子，基于这样的假设，如果已知两个事物在某些方面是相似的，那么它们在其它方面也一定是相似的 A New York Times article describes methadone as a drug that blocks the craving from heroin. 4 Allegory 象征 generalization about human nature expressed symbolically Just as the tiger can not change his stripes, neither can man deny his basic drive to survive. 5 Metonymy 转喻 The substitution of the name of an adjunct or attribute of a thing for the name of the thing itself. The kettle is boiling. (Really it’s the water in the kettle.) 6 Synecdoche 代喻 A form of metonymy in which a part---usually an important part---is used for the whole; or the whole for the part. All hands on deck! (“Hands” used for sailors) 7 Personification 拟人 The ascription of life or personality to inanimate objects or to abstractions. And Time, a maniac scattering dust, And life, a Fury slinging flame. (Tennyson, In Memoriam) 8 Zoosemy 拟物法 The case of domesticated animals or to reverse personification animal or things attributes applied to people Children are flowers of our country. 9 Onomatopoeia 拟声 The use of words whose sound is “an echo to the sense”How the little ladies talk----Tittle tattle, tittle tattle! 10 Irony 反语Use of a word in such a way that it conveys a meaning opposite to its literal meaning. Typically, there is an intention to mock. “oh, wonderful timing!” (someone has arrived at the worst possible moment) 11 Paradox 隽语A statement is made which appears to be contradictory or true, but on clos