英语常用修辞.pptVIP

英语常用修辞 Simile 明喻 以两种具有相同特征的事物或者现象进行对比，本体和喻体都要出现，经常用like, as, as if, as though等联系。 例 Cool as a mountain stream, cool fresh Consulate. -- Consulate Cigarette 例 Some people are reliable as sunrise. -- Insurance Company Ad 例 Get a Beautyrest. And sleep like a baby again. -- Mattress Ad 例 What a pen to a writer is a gun to a fighter. Metaphor 暗喻 暗喻也是一种比喻，但是不会出现比喻词，本体和喻体之间的关系是暗含的。 例 The Holiday Inn Phuket Hotel is a paradise of sun, sand and sea. 例 A room for five toes. -- An Ad for Shoes 例 The daily diary of American dream. -- Wall Street Journal 例 If sleep is an 8-hour journey, why not travel first class? Aristocrat is a perfect vehicle to take you into a world of luxurious comfort? -- Mattress Ad Personification 拟人 把人的特点和特性加在事物上，使其人格化。 例 Sandals being what they are, toes now compete with fingers. 例 Why your skin drinks it down so quickly? -- Oil of Olay Hyperbole 夸张 夸张是一种故意言过其实，或夸大或缩小事物的形象，借以突出事物的某种特征或品格。 例 She has got a style all her own. Her smile could beat up a nation. Her fragrance captured a country. Lady Stetson. The spirit and fire of American. 例 Take Toshiba, take the world. -- Toshiba Where there is way for car, there is Toyota. -- Toyota Metonymy 转喻 转喻是比隐喻更进一步的比喻，本体根本不出现，直接用喻体代替本体。 例 The pen is mightier than sword. 例 The buses in America are on strike now. 例 He’s reading Shakespeare. 例 Uncle Sam John Bull Russian Bear Big Apple The White House Madison Avenue Downing Street Wall Street Capitol Hill Alliteration and Rhyme 头韵和押韵 例 Softer, smoother, silkier skin. The kind of skin you want to touch. -- Nivea Moisturizer 例 Health, humor and happiness… gifts we’d love to give.