英语修辞手法.pptxVIP

Figures of speech (修辞) are ways of making our language figurative. When we use words in other than their ordinary or literal sense to lend force to an idea, to heighten effect, or to create suggestive imagery, we are said to be speaking or writing figuratively.第1页/共41页第一页，共42页。 Common forms of figures of speech1. simile 2. metaphor3. personification 4. metonymy5. synecdoche 6. irony7. epigram (paradox) 8. repetition9. antithesis 10. parallelism11. euphemism 12. transferred epithet13. oxymoron 14. alliteration15. hyperbole 16. litotes17. anti-climax 18. assonance19. periodic sentence 20. rhetorical question21. onomatopoeia 22. pun23. antonomasia 24. analogy第2页/共41页第二页，共42页。 1. Simile (明喻)a comparison between two unlike things having at least one quality or characteristic in common1. 用likeThe water lay grey and wrinkled like an elephants skin. Her eyes were jet black, and her hair was like a waterfall. 第3页/共41页第三页，共42页。 2、?用as表示Every tree and every branch was encrusted with bright and delicate hoarfrost, white and pure, as snow, delicate and defined as carved ivory.??? His face was as grey as ashes.As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds. 3、?用what表示 What light is to the eye knowledge is to the mind.?? Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.?? Judicious praise is to the children what the sun is to flowers. 第4页/共41页第四页，共42页。 2. Metaphor (暗喻)a comparison between two unlike things, but the comparison is implied rather than statedSnow clothes the ground. The ship ploughed the sea.All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players... .The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it. He swam bravely against the tide of popular applause.main artery of transportation