英语修辞学ENGLISH RHETORIC - iphonetic figures of speech.ppt

Phonetic figures of speech Alliteration头韵 Alliteration is the recurrence of the same initial consonant letter in a sequence of words. It is often used in the old English poetry. Perhaps the most famous example of alliterative poetry is the Old English epic, Beowulf. Alliteration in English survives today most obviously in flashy newspaper headlines, advertisements and business names, comic characters, and proverbs. The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. a. Used in poetry Upon Julias Voice So smooth , so sweet , so silvery is thy voice , As, could they hear, the Damned would make no noise, But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber) Melting melodious words, to Lutes of Amber. ——Robert Herrick Wherefore feed ,and clothes ,and save , From the cradle to the grave , Those ungrateful drones who would , Drain your sweat nay ,drink your blood! -----Percy Bysshe Shelley, Song To the Men of England b. Used in idioms and proverbs Many a little makes a miracle. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Time and tide waits for no man A fair face may hide a foul heart. Used in newspaper headlines A Forei gn Policy Without a Focus (“没有中心的外交政策”) ———《新闻周刊》 Soviet Suitor for US Asian Allies (“苏联向美 国的亚洲盟友发起亲善攻势”) ———《泰晤士报》 Splintered PLO Struggles to Stay Alive (“支离破碎的巴勒斯坦解放组织努力生存下 去”) ———《基督教科学箴言报》 d. Used in ads and slogans Vitamins for vim and vigor Cut costs without cutting corners Sea, sun, sand, seclusion-and Spain e. Used in speeches and some other cases I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine , with its clanking , heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, its crafty expert agents fresh from the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries. I see also the dull, drilled, docile , brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky , still smarting from many a British whipping , delighted to find what they believ