英语修辞手法与圣经谚语.docVIP

Figures of Speech ways of making our language figurative Simile Simile：is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other. For example, As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Major forms of simile: 1) In his dream he saw the tiny figure fall as a fly. 2) They crowded around the two strangers and the flood of questions came. 3) What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. 4) Love and cough cannot be hidden Novelty 1） 当一名医生必须要有胆量和巧手。 A doctor must have the heart of _____ and the hand of _____. Paris is a morgue without you; before I knew you, it was Paris, and I though it heavens; but now it is a vast desert of desolation and loneliness. It is like the face of a clock, bereft of its hands. ( Sarah Bernhardt to Victorian Sardou) All that had to show, as a man of letters, were these few tales essays, which had blossomed out like flowers in the calm summer of my heart and mind. ------ Hawthoren Metaphor Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested… In foreign policy, flying solo can be risky business. The tug of war between enterprise profit and public interest Personification It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes to inanimate objects, or to ideas and abstractions. For example, the wind whistled through the trees. Religion is an admirable teacher for those connected to it, while it is a silent voice for those who are not. Rough wind _______ This was the sign meteorologists had been waiting for. Not only does the sharp fall in ocean temperatures signal the breakup of the giant pool of warm water in the tropical Pacific that triggered one of the century’s greatest EL Nino’s unruly twin