受欢迎英语英语中常见的修辞手段

2021年1月26日发(作者：sochi)

英语修辞
(English Rhetoric)
Figures
of
speech
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.


1.

Simile
明喻
: An explicit comparison, e.g. The pen is to a writer
what the gun is to a soldier.
2.

Metaphor
暗喻
: An implicit comparison, e.g. Some books are to
be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed.
3.

Personification
拟人
:
The
attribution
of
animate
qualities
to
inanimate objects, e.g. the wind whistled through the trees.
4.

Onomatopoeia
拟声
:
the
imitation
of
sounds,
e.g.
tinkle,
clank,
bang
5.

Hyperbole
夸张
: Overstatement, exaggeration, e.g. A drop of ink
may make a million think.
6.

Understatement
低调陈述
:
A restrained statement, e.g.
He
could
do better.
7.

Euphemism
委婉语
:
An
inoffensive
expression,
e.g.
the
needy,
cease to think
8.

Parallelism
排比
:
Parallel
structures,
e.g.
We
shall
fight
him
by
land …by sea … in the air.

9.

Repetition
重复
: repetition o
f the same words, e.g. Don’t trouble
trouble until …

10.

Antithesis
对照
:
Contrast,
e.g.
Men
make
houses,
women
make
homes.
Penny wise, pound…

11.

Climax
渐进
:
Progression
of
thought,
e.g.
I
came,
I
saw,
I
conquered.
12.

Anti-climax
突降
:
Sudden
descent
of
thought,
e.g.
He
lost
his
empire, his family and his pen.
13.

Paradox
隽语
: A seemingly contradictory statement, e.g. The child
is father of the man.
14.

Oxymoron
矛盾修辞
: the combination of contradictory terms, e.g.
cruel sweet love
15.

Transferred epithet
移就
: a descriptive term transferred from the
appropriate
noun
to
modify
another
to
which
it
does
not
really
apply, e.g. sleepless night, expensive tastes, sweet teeth
16.

Alliteration
头韵
: Head rhyme, e.g. Practice makes perfect.
17.

Assonance
腹韵
: V
owel rhyme, e.g. First thrive, then wife.
18.

Consonance
尾韵
: End rhyme, e.g. East or west, home is best.