课堂笔记(复习资料) 笔者:大二学生就读于宁波工程学院 大学课程:英语写作 任课老师:黄忠伟 §Figures Of Speech ▲Simile. ○What is it? ·Clarify and enhance an image. ○Patterns. ·Tenor + comparative word + vehicle. ·Subject + comparative word + reference. ·A is to B what C is to D. ○Examples. ·Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ·What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ·A home without love is no more than a body without a soul. ·Love and cough can not be hid. ·Truth and roses have thorns about them. ·Who is to blame but her tyrant of a father. ·A doctor must have the heart of a lion and a hand of a lady. ▲Metaphor. ○Pattern. ·A is B. ○Examples. ·Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of fire. ·The boy wolfed down the food. ·Some books are to be tasted. ·The policeman moved me out of the snack of traffic. ▲Metonymy. ○What is it? ·One thing for another; association. ○Examples. ·What it learned in the cradle is carried to the grave. ·She has the eye for the fair and the beautiful. ·Scepter and Crown. ·Scythe and Spade. ▲Parody. ○Examples. ·I have no outlook, but an uplook. My please in the society was at the bottom. ·A friend in need is a friend to be avoided. ·Fall in love. ·Walk in love. ·Where there is a will, there is a reality. (Original: Where there is a will, there is a way.) · To li
