❖ His face was as grey as ashes.
❖ As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds. 3、 用what表示
❖ What light is to the eye knowledge is to the mind.
❖ heart: feelings and emotions ❖ head, brain: wisdom, intelligence, reason
skin. ❖ Her eyes were jet black, and her hair was like a
waterfall.
❖Байду номын сангаас2、 用as表示
❖ Every tree and every branch was encrusted with bright and delicate hoarfrost, white and pure, as snow, delicate and defined as carved ivory.
❖ In Japan there is an incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.
❖ She was a girl who excited the emotions, but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.
22. pun 24. analogy
1. Simile (明喻)
❖ a comparison between two unlike things having at least one quality or characteristic in common
❖ 1. 用like ❖ The water lay grey and wrinkled like an elephant's
❖ Snow clothes the ground. ❖ The ship ploughed the sea. ❖ All the world is a stage, and all the men and women
merely players... . ❖ The boy wolfed down the food the moment he
❖ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
❖ Judicious praise is to the children what the sun is to flowers.
2. Metaphor (暗喻)
❖ a comparison between two unlike things, but the comparison is implied rather than stated
grabbed it. ❖ He swam bravely against the tide of popular
applause. ❖ main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart
3. Personification (拟人)
❖ The Middle Easter bazaar takes you...
❖ The window winked at me.
❖ dancing flashes
4. Metonymy (换喻)(借代）
❖ a figure of speech that consists in using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is associated
a figure that endows objects, animals, ideas, or abstractions with human form, character, or sensibility
Life dealt him profound personal tragedies... the river had acquainted him with ... ... to literature's enduring gratitude... Bitterness fed on the man... America laughed with him.
21. onomatopoeia 23. antonomasia
2. metaphor 4. metonymy 6. irony 8. repetition 10. parallelism 12. transferred epithet 14. alliteration 16. litotes 18. assonance 20. rhetorical question
Common forms of figures of speech
1. simile 3. personification 5. synecdoche 7. epigram (paradox) 9. antithesis 11. euphemism 13. oxymoron 15. hyperbole 17. anti-climax 19. periodic sentence
Figures of Speech 英语修辞
❖Figures of speech (修辞) are ways of making our language figurative. When we use words in other than their ordinary or literal sense to lend force to an idea, to heighten effect, or to create suggestive imagery, we are said to be speaking or writing figuratively.