英语阅读技巧教学PPT-reading skill(15)-understand figurative language1.pptVIP

* The particular reading skill introduced in this unit is understanding figurative language. To make language clearer, more interesting, and more striking, all of us use expressions which are not literally true. We make comparisons in speaking and writing. Figurative language—language that compares—paints a picture for the reader. Figurative language can be confusing if it is understood literally. The ability to recognize and interpret (or: explain) figurative language may help us fully understand a writer’s point. Ⅰ. Reading Skills: Understanding Figurative Language 下一页 Look at the following examples taken from Reading Passage.??? There are many different ways of using figurative language. Listed here are just a few of them:??? a) Similes (明喻, 直喻). These are figurative expressions which directly compare one thing to another by using the words as or like. Look at the following example taken from Reading Passage A:??? The tobacco industry, coupled with Hollywood movies in which both male and female heroes smoked like chimneys , ... (Para. 3, Reading Passage A, Unit 5) Back 下一页 上一页 Ⅰ. Reading Skills: Understanding Figurative Language In this sentence, “... smoked like chimneys” means “... smoked heavily and continuously”, but the comparison between the two makes the idea clearer and more imaginative. b) Metaphors (暗喻), in which comparisons are only implied or suggested, without using as, like and the like. Take another example from Reading Passage A: 下一页 上一页 Back Ⅰ. Reading Skills: Understanding Figurative Language The tobacco industry ... completely won over people like my father, who were hopelessly hooked by cigarettes. (Para. 3, Reading Passage A, Unit 5)??? In this sentence, the idea of people relying on smoking is expressed as that of people being hooked by cigarettes. “Hook” is commonly used in relation to fishing and just as fish are hooked and cannot get away, so are cigarette smokers. This implied, parallel i