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A colorful garden a colorful life the word colorful is used in its literal sense to describe the many different colors of the flowers. the word is used in its figurative sense because life does not have any color. There are syntactic devices, lexical devices, phonetic devices. 句法 词汇 音韵 Major Types of rhetorical devices Simile 明喻 Metaphor 暗喻 Transferred epithet （转类形容/移就） Oxymoron 矛盾形容法 [??ks?m?:r?n] Metonymy转喻，借代 Synecdoche提喻 [s??nekd?ki] Personification 拟人 Antithesis 对照，对立，对比 [?n?t?θ?s?s] Parallelism 排比, 平行 Pun 双关 Chiasmus交错法[ka???zm?s] Irony 反语 Hyperbole 夸张 Euphemism 委婉 Analogy 类比 Parody 仿拟 Paradox似非而是的隽语 Alliteration头韵 Consonance辅音韵 Assonance 半谐音 Onomatopoeia拟声 Rhetorical question 反问 My books are water, those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water. (Mark Twain) （CP.）Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. oxymoron a condensed paradox at the level of a phrase 1) a clever fool 2) a victorious defeat 3) open secret 4) bitter sweet memory 5) a wonderful lousy poem 6) true lie 7) busy idleness 8) sound of silence 9) living dead 10) A mournful optimist The kettle is boiling. kettle---- water He took to the bottle. bottle ----- liquor, wine, alcohol (He took to drinking.) We await word from the crown. Crown ---- king Her heart ruled her head. Use your brains. heart ----- feelings or emotions; head, brain ----- wisdom, intelligence, reason Personification （拟人） When curiosity knocks, imagination answers. This time fate was smiling to him. Vernal breezes green the Thames with a kiss. (Lord Byron) Antithesis （对偶） A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed(并列) in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure To make antithesis, the elements should be antonyms or direct opposites in meaning but similar in form, but sometimes it also involves word order, for word order, on many occasions, determines the meaning. That’s one smal