人教高中英语选修11 U1 Learning about Language.pptxVIP

A Brief Introduction to English Rhetoric;I. Background;Examples from the recent reading comprehension;3. 2018年5月6日校周考 Passage C The richest land is likely to be found further north in reponse to the heat, opening up the possibility of agriculture in areas such as Siberia that has long been too cold for good farming. But the same effect could turn todays bread-basket regions as the American Midwest into dust bowls. 短文改错 When he left her a penny for a tip, she replied politely on his way out, “Thank you for the generous tip, Mister.”;II. Definition;III. Figures of Speech;1. Simile;;2. Metaphor;A nest is to a bird what a house is to a man. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.;3. Metonymy;The kettle boils. Could you give me a hand with this? The room sat silent. My father was not scientific, so I had to look for a road without having a map. Lend me your ears, please. a complete Shakespeare I had the muscle, and they made money out of it.;4. Synecdoche;There are about 100 hands working in his factory. He is the Newton of this century. The fox goes very well with your cap.;5.Personification ;A smile can open doors and tear down walls. It can be used to express almost any emotion. The city saw a series of fierce fights between blacks and whites in the 1960s and Dr King was shot and killed in 1968. When the World Education Forum met in 2000, it calculated that there were 113 million children not in school.;6. Euphemism;He is out visiting the necessary. His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. Deng Xiaoping passed away in 1997.;7. Hyperbole;I beg a thousand pardons. Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars. When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out. There is a world of music out here! There was no other like it in the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. His friends praised his daughters performance to th