[研究生入学考试]figures of speech.ppt

Chapter 7 Reading and figures of speech Figures of speech can be classified into three categories, those modifying the meaning, those modifying the sound and those modifying the structure. Metaphor and belong to the first category, alliteration the second, and repetition the third. simile 1. Origin: Latin, meaning like 2. Comparative words: like, as 3. Function: describing shape, scenery, expressing emotions, explaining; vivid description, making easy to understand, create interest. Structure of a simile Tenor + comparative word + vehicle Subject + comparative word + reference Example: My love is like a red red rose Tom is as tall as his brother (not a simile) Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile) maypole五月节花柱（过去英国人在五朔节持飘带围此柱跳舞） Type one: like Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out. 婚姻就像是一座围城：在外面的人想进去，在里面的人想出来。——《围城》。 Type two: as Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark. Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books But love from love, towards school with heavy looks. Type two: as As firm as a rock As mute as a fish adj. 哑的；沉默的；无声的 As strong as a horse As changeable as the weather As wet as a drowned rat Type three: what Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. What sculpture is to a block of marble, n. 大理石；大理石制品 education is to the soul. What salt is to food, that wit and humor are to conversation and literature. Type four: than A home without love is no more than a body without a soul. He had no more idea of money than a cow Type five: and Love and cough n. 咳嗽 can not be hid. Truth and roses have thorns about them. Kings and bears often worry their keepers metaphor Education is not the filling of a pail 桶, but the lighting of fire. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned. 金钱是深不可测的海洋，能淹没廉耻（信用0、良心和是非感 Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in po