明喻和暗喻imile_amp;_Metaphor.ppt

simile 英音：[simili]美音：[s?m?,l?] definition 1.A simile is an expressed likeness 2.the simplest and most direct way of connoting an idea with something else. A figure of speech comparing two essentially unlike things and often Introduced by like or as simile. It is a comparison between two distinctly different things and the comparison is indicated by the word as or like: Oh, my love’s like a red, red rose That man can’t be trusted. He’s as slippery as an eel 鳗鱼. The old man’s hair is as white as snow. In the above three examples people and things of different categories are compared: a woman and a rose, a man and an eel, and hair and snow. But each pair has one similarity: loveliness, slipperiness and whiteness. The discrepancy between things compared makes their similarity all the more striking. COMMON FORMS: A. LIKE eyes are nothing like the sun They will never be able to save money to buy a new house they both spend money like water. B: AS 1.as+adj+as+n You are as sweet as sugar. As hot as an oven--as cold as a frog;热如炉,冷如蛙 As gay as a lark--as sick as a dog;乐如云雀,累如狗 As slow as the tortoise--as swift as the wind;慢如龟,疾如风 2.As+S+V Men fears death, as children fears to go in the darK 3.As …… ,so…… As B is …..,so is A….. As the lion is the king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds 4. As if/as though My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs. 我的笔记看起来就好像一群蚂蚁从墨水瓶里逃出来， 没把脚抹干净就在纸上行走似得 5. may/might as well +V…+as +V You may as well ask for the moon as (ask) for a bicycle, because you are not going to get either.你要自行车就好比要天上的月亮，因为两者中任何一个你都不能得到。 C. what Soap opera is for TV what the popular novel is for book. 肥皂剧之于电视，犹如通俗小说之于书籍 Water is to fishes what air is to men.鱼之于水，犹如空气于人 D. than, no more than/not any more …than A student can no more than obtain knowledge without studying than a farmer can get harvest without plou