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I. Phonetic Devices语音修辞 Onomatopoeia（拟声）: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. 例：As you approach it, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. All was quiet again in Han Mansion except for some people snoring, the horse chewing mash, and geese crackling at intervals. I can hear the water splashing, the bees humming, and the frogs croaking. Alliteration（头韵）: It has to do with the sound rather than the sense of words for effect. It is a device that repeats the same sound at frequent intervals and since the sound repeated is usually the initial consonant sound, it is also called “front rhyme”. 例：The fair breeze blew, \the white foam flew, \The furrow followed free; \We were the first that ever burst \into that silent sea. Money makes the mare go. A?good?fame?is?better?than?a?good?face. Consonance (辅韵)：It refers to the repetition of the same consonants in the end of a group of words. (一组词，一句话或一行诗歌中，相同的词尾辅音重复出现) 例1：He laughs best who laughs last. 例2：With his three hundred waging The battle, long he stood. And like a lion raging, Expires in seas of blood. (此处也称诗歌的rhyme) Homoeotoleuton (谐缀), meaning similarity of endings, refers to the use of identical or similar sounding suffixes (后缀) on the final words of phrases or clauses. Homoeotoleuton is usually used in a verse but it also has a wonderful effect in a prose. 例：There is no security but opportunity on this earth.? I need time to drink but I need more time to think. Education is not received but achieved. Assonance（半谐音）：Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words. 例：All roads lead to Rome. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.城造在山上，是不能隐藏的。 Little strokes fell great oaks. II Semantic Devices 语义修辞 Simile (明喻)：A simile is a comparison between two quite different things, designed to create an unusual, interesting, emotional o