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— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — 英语修辞 手法 英语修辞  1.音韵修辞格（phonetic devices）  (1).头韵（Alliteration）  在英语语言中两个或两个以上的相邻单词以相同的首音因素开头，形成顺口悦耳的读音，称为头韵修辞手法。  Eg : A light heart lives long.  Will, work and wait are the pyramidal cornerstones for success.  (2) 元韵(Assonance)  若干押音单词重读音节中辅音虽不同而元音相同。  Eg : The first wealth is health .  (3).谐音（Assonance）  Eg: litter and batter.  Dress and boss.  (4). 拟声（onomatopoeia）  指通过仿拟相关事物的声音来构词。  Eg : A window rattles. Giggle meow  2.语义修辞格（semantic devices）。  (1) 讽喻（allegory）.  以其他的事物形象来叙述事物，通常叙述的事是一个故  事，故事中的人物，事件及发生的事情别具意义，如寓  言等。  Eg : A farmer was driving his cart along a country road.  The cart got stuck in the mud, but the farmer made no effort to get it out. Instead he began to pray to the gods for help. The God finally appeared and told the man to get busy and push it. “Put your shoulder to the wheel ,”  God advised. The moral of this story is clear: we must not rely on others for help. Another saying which has come from this fable is, “God help those who help themselves.  (2)隐喻（Allusion）  指间接的提及某物，顺便提到。  Eg : It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it .  (3)类比（analogy）  同类相比，属于一种推理方式，由此及彼。  Eg : appropriate praise to a child is what the sun to a flower.  (4)警句（epigram）  用简洁的语句说明复杂的事物，揭示深刻的哲理。  Eg : It is easy to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.  (5)委婉语（euphemism）  表示用温和的，简洁的或模棱两可的表达方式来替换那  些被人们认为是令人讨厌的，粗野的或直言不讳的词语。  Eg: to be in Heaven to feel one’s age to lay off  (6)夸张（hyperbole）  指运用想象，通过对描述对象在数量，形象，特征，  作用等方面的夸大或缩小，突出事物的某种特征或品质，鲜明的表达思想情感，从而达到强调的目的。  Eg: I am greater than the stars for I know that they are up in the sky and they don’t know that I am down on the earth.  (7).反语（irony）  表示幽默诙谐，谴责讽刺，批评蔑视等意义。  Egg：Slowly the old lady stopped to pick (the cheque ) up.  Her prese