U8-简化版综合英语论述.ppt

The writer is particularly successful in his effective use of comic exaggeration, and several rhetorical devices have been employed to achieve it, could you find them out? 1 ) The use of vivid similes A simile is a direct comparison of one thing to another by using the word like or as. 2) The use of appropriate metaphors A metaphor is an expression which describes one thing in terms of another thing with which it can be compared without using the word like or as. 3) The use of parallelisms 4) The use of striking contrast 5) The use of vocabulary which emphasizes not the normal order in a c