英文修辞手法详解figuresofspeech.docxVIP

Figures of speech （修辞）are ways of making our Ianguage figurative. When we use words in other than their ordinary or literal sense to lend force to an idea, to heigh ten effect, or to create suggestive imagery, we are said to be speaking or writing fi guratively. Now we are going to talk about some com mon forms of figures of speec h. 1） Simile :（明喻）It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two un like eleme nts hav ing at least one quality or characteristic （特性）in com mon. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associa