修辞格及作用分析 英语修辞格的语用学分析.doc

修辞格及作用分析 英语修辞格的语用学分析 He is the apple of her eye. She was my worst nightmare. The house will be paradise. That pudding was an absolute dream. 1The invisible metaphor refers to either of the following two types. 1) The primary term (tenor) is present, but the secondary term (vehicle) is not-but it is hinted at by other words (in many cases by the verb or verbs). For example, Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. (Francis Bacon) In the sentence, the secondary term quot;foodquot; does not appear literally, but it is suggestec by the verbs quot;tastedquot;, quot;swallowedquot;, quot;chewedquot; and quot;digestedquot;. 2) The doctor was an affable local practitioner with white hair... quot;We all want a little patching and repairing…‖(Kipling) Human beings are liable to illness the way clothes easily get caught; human beings need medical care the way the clothes need patching and repairing. In this sense, human beihgs can be compared to clothes. It is just natural for the writer to replace quot;clothesquot; with quot;wequot; (human being). In the sentence, quot;patchingquot; and quot;repairing hint at the secondary term一(clothes). 2. The secondary term is present in the sentence but the primary term is not. Then primary