Frequentely-ud Figures of Speech
1. Alliteration (头韵) Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
"The daily diary of the American dream."
---(advertising slogan for The Wall Street Journal)
"What we want is Watneys."
---(advertising slogan for Watney's beer)
2. Anaphora （首语重复） Repetition of the same word or phra at the beginning of successive claus or vers.
"I'm not afraid to die. . . . I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about mylf for five minutes."
---(Kinky Friedman, When the Cat's Away)
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the as and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
---(Winston Churchill, speech to the Hou of Commons, 4 June 1940)
3. Antithesis （对语，对句）The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phras.
Man propos, God dispos.
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." ---(Goethe)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the ason of Light, it was the ason of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all goi
ng direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
---Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him."
---(E. M. Forster, Howard's End)
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall u my time."
---(Jack London)
"Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."
----(commercial slogan for Sara Lee baked goods)
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
---(Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964)
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扔实心球"Look your best while you wear our least."
---(Commercial slogan for Jockey underwear)
"We think in generalities, but we live in details."
---(Alfred North Whitehead)
"The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression."
---(Harold Pinter)水猪
励志网名男生4. Apostrophe 顿呼法〔叙述中忽然对不在场的第三者所发出的直接呼语；或对无生命物发出呼唤.。 Breaking off discour to address some abnt person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Frailty, thy name is woman. 脆弱啊，你的名字就是女人.
Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee . . .."
---(William Wordsworth, "London, 1802")
"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art"
---(John Keats)
"Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art!"
---(Edgar Allan Poe, "To Science")
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
. . . Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead."
---(James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
"Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own.
初中作文《遇见》600字 ---(Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon")
"O stranger of the future!
O inconceivable being!
whatever the shape of your hou,
however you scoot from place to place,华语男歌手
二年级上册数学题no matter how strange and colorless the clothes you may wear,
I bet nobody likes a wet dog either.
I bet everyone in your pub,
even the children, pushes her away."
---(Billy Collins, "To a Stranger Born in Some Distant Country Hundreds of Years from Now")
5. Assonance (谐韵，半韵) Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
"Tho images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented a.
---(W.B. Yeats, "Byzantium")
"The terms alliteration, assonance, and rhyme identify kinds of recurring sound that in practice are often freely mixed together. In considering a poem, it may not be easy or uful to decide where one stops and another starts."
---(Tom McArthur, The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992)
"Old age should burn and rave at clo of day;
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light."
---(Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")
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"It beats as it sweeps as it cleans."
---(Advertising slogan for Hoover vacuum cleaners)
