英语常用修辞手法.pptVIP

英语常用修辞手法 说明： 本课件是根据教学需要编制，现将部分基本内容上传,包括相似修辞格、联想修辞格 、修辞句等内容。它的特点是每个常用修辞手段的介绍之后都配有相应的练习，供同学们使用。 Figure of speech(修辞格；修辞手段) The value of figurative word(修饰性词汇的价值) Words used for what they suggest, in a sense not exactly literal, are called figurative expressions. When we call a distinguished person a star, the world a stage, or the moon the lamp of night. We use the words star, stage and lamp of night not in their literal sense, but with a fanciful(想象出来的) application. Such language makes the thought more vivid and more striking, and therefore attracts more of the reader’s attention. 4 Almost every notional(表意的)word has both a literal and a figurative sense. The verb invent in “paper was invented in China” and “Watt invented the steam engine” is used literally; in “When the teacher ask the boy why he had not come to the class the day before, he invented an excuse”, and “Jim often invents a story to amuse the children”. It is used in a figurative or unusual sense. When a student speaks of hammering away(连续敲打;刻苦钻研) at his algebra, or says that he has just squeezed(挤；压) through an examination in French, or that a date has slipped his 5 mind, he is using a figure of speech. The expressions noted are clearly more vivid than if he were to say that he is studying hard at his algebra, or that he was barely passed the examination, or forgotten the date. The general sense is the same in either case, but the language in the former instance suggests a livelier and more picturesque conception of the facts, and therefore attracts and holds the bearer’s attention more certainly. Again ,if we say “Imperialism is on its last legs”(奄奄一息；快要结束).We intend the expression on its (ones) last legs to mean near its death or end. Such a figurative expression will not 6 only express the literal truth of what we said, but will, by effective la