英语修辞集锦.docx

1、英语修辞集锦Antithesis1. 单词平行对照Knowledge make humble, ignorance makes proud.2. 短语平行对照One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.3. 从句平行对照The world will little note, not long remember what we say here but it can forget what we

2、did here.4. 句子平行对照A miser grows rich by seeming poor.An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.Money is a good servant but a bad master.Work has a bitter foot but a sweet fruit.The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Wher

3、e there is a marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. (Parody and Antithesis)Contrast语义上的相对或者相反就被称作对照。1. Caesar: Cowards die many times before their death;the valiant never taste of death but once.2. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.3.

4、Men always want to be a womans first love; women have a more subtle instinct, what they like is to be a mans last romance.4. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman a fool of him in twenty minutes.5. A bank is a place where they lean you an umbrella in fair weather an

5、d ask for it back again when it begins to rain.HyperboleHyperbole is a way of describing something in order to make it sound bigger, smaller, better, worse, etc. than it really is.分为Extended Hyperbole和Reduced Hyperbolee.g. 1.His eloquence could split rocks.2. It is the last straw that breaks the cam

6、els back.1.数词夸张e.g. 1.One father is more than a thousand teachers.2. This makes him roar like a thousand bulls.2.通过其他词汇夸张a.通过动词夸张e.g. In its wake, budget cuts and food shortages have hit the new nation of Russia and press have shot out of the world.b.通过名词夸张e.g. 1.Its a crime to stay inside on such a

7、 good day.2. I was beaten myself into all the colors of rainbows.c.通过形容词夸张e.g. 1.Divorce has become a lucrative process, simple to arrange and easy to forget, and ambitious females can repeat it as often as they please and parlay their winnings to astronomical figures.2. And I will luve thee still,

8、my dear,Till the seas gang dry,And the rocks melt withe sun,O I will luve thee still, my dear,while the sands olife shall run.3. She has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she die before it can catch her last word.3.用虚拟语气夸张e.g. 1.Some movie stars wear their sunglasses, e

9、ven in church, they are afraid God might recognize them and ask for autograph.2.and the fattest women I have ever seen in my life dozing in a straight-back chair. It was as if a sack of grain were supported by a matchbox.4.用形容词比较级和最高级夸张e.g. The most effective water powerwomens tears.5.用其他辞格表示夸张e.g.

10、1.A drop of ink may make a million think. (Metonymy, Contrast and Hyperbole)2. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on his shoes. (Personification, Comparison and Hyperbole)InversionInversion can be divided into two different types: grammatical inversion and rhetoric

11、al inversion respectively. But the functions vary due to different purposes:1 To give emphasis to a part of the sentence.2 To achieve sentence balance.3 To achieve metrical pattern.4 To achieve coherence.Now lets learn the following examples according to the four functions.1. Most true is it that “b

12、eauty is in the eye of the gazer.”2. Rising behind the city was the 4000-foot Mount Vesurius, a grass covered slope where the shepherds of Pompeii took their goats, to graze.3. The Sun is not a bed when IAt night upon my pillow lie;And round the earth his way he takes,And morning after morning makes

13、,While here at home, in shining day,We round the sunny garden play,Each little Indian sleepy head,Is being kissed and put to bed.4. My opinion of the coal trade on that river is that it may require talent, but it certainly requires capital. Talent, Mr. Micauber has; capital Mr. Micauber has not.Meta

14、phorMetaphor is an implied comparison or a condensed simile for it omits the word as or like.1.of 短语型a).a/the + n. + of + n.e.g. the bridge of friendshipb).a + n. + of + a + n.e.g. a fox of a man; a girl of a boyA policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to stop.2.名词型e.g. 1.All

15、the world is stage, and all men and women merely player.2. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.3.动词型e.g. 1.The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it.2. The case snowballed into one of the most famous trials in US history.3. He that cannot forgive others bre

16、ak the bridge over which he must pass himself for everyone has the need to be forgiven.4.形容词型e.g. 1.She has a photographic memory for details.2. He has the microwave smile that warms others without heat.MetonymyMetonymy is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with