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辅修专业学士学位毕业论文（设计） 题目（中文）： 英语谚语中的比喻修辞 （英文）： The Tropes in English Proverbs 学 院 年级专业 学生姓名 学 号 指导教师 完 成 日 期 年 月 The Tropes in English Proverbs Written by Supervised by A Thesis Submitted to Shanghai Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Arts Foreign Languages College, Shanghai Normal University December 2011 Acknowledgments I want to acknowledge the invaluable help of Ms. Shen, my constant consultant, who has made timely and useful suggestions on working out the outline, refining the earlier drafts and given me enlightening advice throughout the whole process of writing the thesis. I especially appreciate her guidance and wish to extend my sincere gratitude to her. This work also owes much to my dear friends whose encouragement and great help inspires me to make further efforts when I encounter difficulties and was sometimes at loss. My heart-felt thanks are also due to my father and mother, who have been in constant favor of me and offered me the best they could. This thesis would not have been possible without the support and assistance that I received from them. My grateful thanks go to you all. Abstract People all know English proverbs are charming. Proverbs are widespread. They are simple but meaningful. They are vivid and humour, which they are the typical examples of aesthetic rhetoric and represents treasure of English language. They are the wisdom of English people. Using rhetoric is an important reason why the English proverbs are charming. Among them, the tropes are the most common rhetoric. Therefore, I analyze the tropes in English proverbs in this paper. Tropes can be divided into simile, metaphor, analogy, allegory, metonymy and synecdoche. This article focuses on simile,