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英语修辞
1.
音韵修辞格(
phonetic
devices
)
(1).
头韵(
Alliteration
)
在英语语言中两个或两个以上的相邻单词以相同的首音
< br>因素开头,形成顺口悦耳的读音,称为头韵修辞手法。
Eg : A light heart lives long.
Will, work and wait are the pyramidal
cornerstones for
success.
(2)
元韵
(Assonance)
若干押音单词重读音节中辅音虽不同而元音相同。
Eg : The first wealth is health .
(3).
谐音(
Assonance
)
Eg: litter and
batter.
Dress and boss.
(4).
拟声(
onomatopoeia
)
< br>
指通过仿拟相关事物的声音来构词。
Eg :
A window
rattles.
Giggle
meow
2.
语义修辞格(
semantic
devices
)
。
(1)
讽喻(
allegory
p>
)
.
以其他的事物形象来叙述事物,
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通常叙述的事是一个故
事,
故事中的人物,
事件及发生的事情别具意义,如寓
言等
。
Eg :
A farmer was driving his
cart along a country road.
The
cart
got
stuck
in
the
mud,
but
the
farmer
made
no
effort to
get it out.
Instead he began to pray to
the gods
for
help.
The
God
finally
appeared
and
told
the
man
to
get busy and push it.
“
Put your shoulder to the
wheel ,
”
God
advised. The moral of this story is clear: we must
not
rely
on
others
for
help.
Another
saying
which
has
come
from this fable is,
“
God help those who help
themselves.
(2)
隐
喻(
Allusion
)
指间接的提及某物,顺便提到。
Eg
:
It’
s
no
use
crying
over
spilt
milk,
because
all
the
forces of the universe were bent on
spilling it .
(3)
类比(
< br>analogy
)
同类相比,属于一种推理方式,由此及彼。
Eg
:
appropriate
praise
to
a
child
is
what
the
sun
to
a
flower.
(4)
警句(
epigram
)
用简洁的语句说明复杂的事物,揭示深刻的哲理。
Eg
:
It
is
easy
to
buy
books
than
to
read
them,
and
easier
to read them than to absorb them.
(5)
p>
委婉语(
euphemism
)
表示用温和的,
简洁的或模棱两可的表达方式来
替换那
些被人们认为是令人讨厌的,粗野的或直言不讳的词
语。
Eg: to be in Heaven
to feel one
’
s age
to lay off
(6)
p>
夸张(
hyperbole
)
指运用想象,
通过对描
述对象在数量,形象,特征,
作用等方面的夸大或缩小,突出事物的某种特征或品
质,鲜明的表达思想情感,从而达到强调的目的。
Eg: I am greater than the stars for I
know that they are up
in
the
sky
and
they
don
’
t
know
that
I
am
down
on
the
earth.
(7).
反语(
irony
)
表示幽默诙谐,谴责讽刺,批评蔑视等意义。
Egg
:
Slowly the
old lady stopped to pick (the cheque ) up.
Her present , her lovely present, with
trembling fingers she
tore it into
little bits.
(
8
)<
/p>
.
暗语(
Metaphor
)
用表示别的事物的词语来描述心中的事物。
The world is a stage.
Time
is a dressmaker specializing in a alteration.
(9).
借喻(
metonymy
)
亦称为转喻,通过对两者相近或类似的特征的联想,
借喻体来代替本体。
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