Figures of speech 修辞
1. 简历背景Her rich relatives rained birthday prents on her only son. Metaphor暗喻
2. Wrong ideas may harm man just like dias. Simile明喻
3. Some word may be defaced by careless usage. Personification拟人
4. The leaves are trembling in the cold wind. Personification拟人
5. The storm was so angry that I wanted to destroy everything in its way. Personification拟人
6. Many people bowed before Force, but eventually Force would surrender to Reason. Personification拟人/Metonymy借喻
7. Selfless people are like cows, which eat straw but produce milk. Simile明喻
8. “What do you think of the roast duck?” “Not bad.” Understatement弱化
9. His friends praid his daughter’s performances to the skies. Overstatement夸张
10. His writing is clear and clean. Alliteration头韵
11. His unfriendly tongue surprid her. Metonymy借喻
12. There is fertile soil for popular music in China today. Metaphor暗喻
Simile明喻
1. O my love’s like a red, red ro. ----Robert Burns
2. That man can’t be trusted. He’s as slippery as an eel泥鳅.
3. The old man’s hair is as white as 准考证查询snow.
古文生日祝福
Metaphor暗喻
1. The picture of tho poor people’s lives was caved so sharply in his heart that he could never forget it.
儿童筷子
2. There was a medieval magnificence中世纪的宏伟壮丽 about the big dining-hall.
3. The street faded into a country road with 庐山旅游线路straggling hous by it.
4. There were a few lordly poplars高贵的白杨 before the hou.
5. All his former joy was drowned in the embarrassment and confusion he was feeling at the moment.
6. He often prefaced以…为开场白 his remarks by “I can’t help thinking…”
7. The charcoal fire glowed and dimmed rhythmically有节奏地 to the strokes of the bellows.
Personification拟人
1. Youth is hot and bold.
Age is weak and cold.
骨刺的症状Youth is wild, and Age is tame. ---William Shakespears
2. 避孕套如何正确使用The match will soon be over and defeat is staring us in the face.
3. This time fate was smiling to him.
4. Thunder roared咆哮and a pouring rain started.
5. Dusk come stealthily.悄悄地
6. The storm was raging狂暴的 and an angry a was continuously tossing摇动 their boat.
Synecdoche提喻
1. The farm were short of hands during the harvest ason.
2. He had to earn his daily bread by doing odd jobs.
3. Germany beat Argentina 2 to 1 in this exciting football match.
4. The poor creature could no longer endure her sufferings.
Overstatement夸张
1. She is dying to know what job has been assigned her.
2. On hearing that he had been admitted to that famous university, he whispered to himlf, “I’m the luckiest man in the world.”
坐公交车Understatement 轻描淡写/弱化
1. It took a few dollars to build this indoor swimming pool.
2. “He is really strange,” his friends said when they heard he had divorced his pretty and loving wife.
Irony讽刺，反讽
1. When the day came it was raining heavily, and you say ”What fine weather for an outing!”
2. A barbarous野蛮的，粗俗的 act was called civilized or cultured.
Euphemism委婉语
1. To die: to pass away, to leave us, one’s heart has stopped beating
2. Old people: nior citizens
3. Mad: emotionally disturbed
4. Dustman清洁工: sanitation worker
5. Lavatory盥洗室: bathroom, men’s/women’s room
6. Invasion, raid侵略: military action
7. Concentration camps集中营: strategic hamlets战略村
8. Driving inhabitants away or controlling them: pacification讲和；绥靖；平定
Transferred Epithet移位，移就
1. She was so worried about her son that she spent veral sleepless nights.
2. In his quiet laziness he suddenly remembered that strange word.
3. The assistant kept a respectful distance from his boss when they were walking in the corridor.
4. He said “Yes” to the question in an unthinking moment.
5. The old man put a reassuring hand on my shoulder.
Oxymoron矛盾修辞法
1. The coach had to be cruel to be kind to his trainees.
2. When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that it was a victorious defeat.
3. The president was conspicuously abnt on that occasion.
4. She read the long awaited letter with a tearful smile.
Alliteration头韵
1. Wherefore feed, and clothe, and save,
From the cradle to the grave,
Tho ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat ---- nay, drink your bold?
----PERCY Bysshe Shelley
2. I e also the dull了无生趣的, drilled受过训练的, docile听话的, brutish mass of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts.
The Russian danger is therefore our danger,…just as the cau of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cau of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe.
