English Rhetoric

English Rhetoric

ration

头韵

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

nce

元韵

Little strokes fell great oaks.

ance

尾韵

Farms Not Arms

opoeia

声喻法

We ahed and oched at the exhibits.

pesis

说话中顿法

ophe

顿呼法

tion

反复

The rain pours and pours.

ra

首语反复

I came, I saw, I conquered.

双关

Have a nice trip, buy-buy!

ra

尾语反复

And this day will come, shall come, must come.

ce

首尾反复

I will recruit for myself and you as I go

；

I will scatter among men and women as I go.

losis

顶针

If we fail in this

defence it will not be for lack of money. It will be

on

account

of

money.

Money

has

been

the

most

serious

handicap

that we have met.

elism

排比

Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men

use them;

esis

对偶

To err is human; to forgive divine.

层进法

I honored him, I trusted him, and I loved him.

imax

突降法

One

describes

the

glory

of

the

English

queen,

and

one

describes

a

charming Indian screen.

sis

一语双叙

She made up her mind and her face.

轭式搭配

Mchade advised us to keep our public image intact and our students

in their seats.

us

交错配列

A

miser

grows

rich

by

seeming

poor.

An

extravagant

man

grows