英语中常用的修辞手法.pptVIP

Irony (2) (Here the word encouraging is used ironically, for the circumstances were not encouraging at all— they were, in fact, discouraging, for Miss Murdstone had said she didn’t like boys.) 4) We are lucky. It’s the other side on the thirteenth of December. That makes us feel real good. (David Parks: G. I. Diary) (The writer means exactly the opposite of what he says. 13 is an unlucky number to most Westerners, and therefore they are definitely not lucky. And since on that date (December 13) they will land “on the other side” of the Pacific, in Vietnam, to fight in the Vietnam War,