高级英语3 词汇.pptVIP

Figures of speech 1. simile（明喻） a figure of speech involving a comparison between two unlike entities. In a simile the resemblance is explicitly indicated by words like “like” or “as”. 2. metaphor（隐喻/暗喻） a figure of speech that based on a similarity of two or more things, denotes one of them by terms properly or literally signifying the other, as if they were identical. 3. metonymy（转喻/借代） a figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original. Rhetorical Devices metonymy: Metonymy is a figure of speech