大学英语修辞第六章.pptVIP

Part ThreeFigures of speech What is a figure of speech? Two old and original terms: Trope: way of using words to mean other than what they literally mean, involving the deviation from its ordinary and literal meaning “You young people are morning sun.” Scheme: way of schematizing patterns of foregrounded regularity of form, either syntactically or phonetically, i.e. parallelism; repetition; chiasmus; etc. Figures of speech refer to all kinds of striking or unusual configurations of words or phrases, involving the variation of any unit of the language system—graphic字形, phonological音位, morphological形态, syntactic句法, semantic语义, and pragmatic语用。 41 commonly used figures of speech are listed in the textbook and they are grouped into four categories: phonetic, syntactic, semantic and logical. Chapter 7 Phonetic Figures of Speech 7.1 Alliteration头韵 Latin, “repeating and playing upon the same letter”, the first figure of speech used in English verse earlier than rhyme. the repetition of initial consonant in two or more adjacent words. It is good for sound rhyme, for musical effect and for significant emphasis. safe and sound; fresh and fragrant blossoms; tit for tat; with might and main; They are fighting for their hearth and home. in tongue twisters: 1) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper; 2) She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore. In proverbs: 1) No pains, no palm; no thorn, no throne; no cross, no crown. 2) Many a man, many a mind. 3) A gloved cat catches no mice. In Advertisements and slogans: 1) Vitamins for Vim and Vigor 2) Sea, Sun, Sand, Seclusion恬静----and Spain! 3) Workers of the world, unite! In newspaper headings: 1) Bread Not Bombs 2) Dare Devil Who Dared 3) Very Fancy, Very Fast 4) Hellfire from the Heaven 5) Cut Crime with Jobs – Not Jails Practice The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. (T.S. Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 7.2 Assonance元韵 the rep