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英语中常见修辞格及其使用 Figurative expressions are pictorial and full of images. They are rich in English and have added much beauty, vividness and strength to the language. As figurative expressions present ideas in a new relationship either b comparison or by association, we sometimes find it rather hard to understand a figure. This is no wonder, since people’s knowledge and experience are different, and each culture has its own special way of thinking. Generally, a non-native speaker can hardly use a figurative expression properly unless he is able to interpret it correctly in a literal way. Therefore, a transformational study of the common figures of speech is by no means unnecessary. Besides, such a study is very helpful to our study of the western culture and to an improved appreciation of English and American literature. I. 使用语音手段的修辞格: 1. 头韵 (Alliteration): It refers to the appearance of the same initial consonant sound in two or more words, such as “as proud as peacock” and “as blind as a bat”. It is often used to give emphasis to words that are related in meaning.):在词的开头重复相同的元音或辅音.例如: ⑴ Time and tide wait for no man. ⑵ Suddenly the sky turned gray, ⑶ The day, which had been bitter and chill, grew soft and still. ⑷ … as the fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station. (1.2) ⑸ And ever since then they have been testing and treating me. 1.2) ⑺ The Russian danger… fighting for his hearth and home. (1.5) ⑻ I see also the dull, drilled, docile Brutish masses…(1.5) ⑼ It was s splendid population – for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home. (1.9) ⑽ It was that population … and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences. (1.9) ⑾ Even with the most educated and the most literate, the King’s English slips and slides in conversation. (2.3) ⑿ Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that … (2.4) 2. 拟声(Onomatopoeia): It refers to the fact of words co