Lecture-four-Figure-of-speech-英语修辞手法.pptVIP

Personification拟人 Personification is a figure of speech (generally considered a type of metaphor) in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. * Synecdoche提喻 Synecdoche (pronounced si-NEK-de-key) is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCs for alphabet) or the whole is used to represent a part. In rhetoric, synecdoche is often treated as a type of metonymy. The poor man has six mouths to feed. They were short of hands at harvest t