英语写作修辞手法(2010-2011 学年第一学期) 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 toB what C is to D. ○ Examples. · Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. · What sculpture is toa 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 ofa father. ·A doctor must have the heart ofa lion and a hand ofa lady. ▲ Metaphor. ○ Pattern. ·A is B. ○ Examples. · Education is not the filling ofa 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 isa friend to be avoided. · Fall in love. · Walk in love. · Where there isa will, there isa reality. (Original: Where there isa will, there isa way.) · To lie or not to lie------the doctor's
