英语修辞手法分析.pptVIP

Rhetorical Devices Analysis 贺建艳 2013105062 Irony 1. Irony(反讽) is the use of words that the opposite of what you really mean, often as a joke and with a tone of voice that shows this. Examples 1) I award this champion only after laborious research and incessant prayer. (L.1, Para.5) 2) It is as if some titanic and aberrant genius, uncompromisingly inimical to man, had devoted all the ingenuity of Hell to the making of them. (L.14, Para.5) 3) It is incredible that mere ignorance should have achieved such masterpieces of horror.(L.11, Para.6) Sarcasm(讽刺) is a way of using words that are the opposite of what you mean in order to be unpleasant to somebody or to make fun of them. Sarcasm . (1) Obviously, if there were architects of any professional sense or dignity in the region, they would have perfected a chalet to hug the hillsides… (L.6, Para.3) (2) They are incomparable in color, and they are incomparable in design. (L.13, Para.5) Ridicule (1) When it has taken on the patina of the mills it is the color of an egg long past all hope or caring. (L.2, Para.4) (2) They made it perfect in their own sight by putting a completely impossible penthouse, painted a staring yellow, on top of it. (L.15, Para.8) Examples Ridicule(嘲讽) refers to unkind comments that make fun of somebody/something or make them look silly. Understatement Understatement(低调陈述) is the opposite of hyperbole. It achieves its effect of emphasizing a fact by deliberately understating it, impressing the listeners or the readers more by what is merely implied or left unsaid than by bare statement. (1) The country itself is not uncomely, despite the grime of the endless mills. （L.1, Para.3） Examples (1) Here was the very heart of industrial America, the center of its most lucrative and characteristic activity, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth—and here was a sense so dreadfully hideous, so intolerably bleak and forlorn that it reduced the whole aspiration of man