英语主要修辞手法.pptVIP

2021/3/26 * Paradox: (似非而是的隽语) e.g. More haste, less speed.? What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young. We should work hard to learn being lazy. 2021/3/26 * Oxymoron: (矛盾修饰） It is a compressed paradox, formed by the conjoining(结合) of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous(不协调) terms一种把互相矛盾或不调和的词合在一起的修辞手法, 2021/3/26 * Oxymoron: (矛盾修饰） e.g. a deafening silence震耳欲聋的沉默; a mournful optimist悲伤的乐观. bitter-sweet memories; orderly chaos(混乱) ; proud humility(侮辱). 2021/3/26 * Climax: (渐进/层进） It is derived from the Greek word for “ladder” and implies the progression of thought at a uniform or almost uniform rate of significance or intensity, like the steps of a ladder ascending evenly. 一层层地推进与加强最终达到高潮或顶点。 2021/3/26 * Climax: (渐进/层进） e.g. I came, I saw, I conquered. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. The audience smiled, chuckled（窃笑）, and finally howled（捧腹大笑）. 2021/3/26 * Anti-climax or bathos: (突降） It is the opposite of Climax. It involves stating one’s thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity, from strong to weak, from weighty to light or frivolous. 采用突然下降的手法使句意从严肃、深刻、重要等等的概念中急转到滑稽、平庸、琐细等的概念上, 从而造成一种语义上的大的反差而获得一种鲜明、幽默的交际效果。 2021/3/26 * Anti-climax or bathos: (突降） What shall I do? I have lost my lover and lipstick too. An early morning walk in the foot hill of the Himalayas lifts his spirit above material concerns and inspires in him noble thoughts. It also makes him hungry. 2021/3/26 * Transferred Epithet: (移就/转类形容词） It is a figure of speech where an epithet (an adjective or descriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify(修饰) to another to which it does not really apply or belong. 2021/3/26 * Transferred Epithet: (移就/转类形容词） e.g. I spent sleepless nights on my project. He closed his busy life at the age of 80. The American society saw a gnawing虫咬般痛苦的 poverty during the Great Depression. They talked to the foreigners in hesitant En