英语修辞学ENGLISH RHETORIC - iphonetic figures of speech.ppt

Phonetic figures of speech,,Alliteration头韵,Alliteration is the recurrence of the same initial consonant letter in a sequence of words. It is often used in the old English poetry. Perhaps the most famous example of alliterative poetry is the Old English epic, Beowulf. Alliteration in English survives today most obviously in flashy newspaper headlines, advertisements and business names, comic characters, and proverbs. The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing.,a. Used in poetry,Upon Julia's Voice So smooth , so sweet , so silvery is thy voice , As, could they hear, the Damned would make no noise, But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber) Melting melodious words, to Lutes of Amber. ——Robert Herrick,,Wherefore feed ,and clothes ,and save ,From the cradle to the grave ,Those ungrateful drones who would ,Drain your sweatnay ,drink your blood! -----Percy Bysshe Shelley, Song To the Men of England,,b. Used in idioms and proverbs,All that glitters is not gold.Care killed the cat.Soft fire makes sweet malt.Money makes mare go.Rob Peter to pay Paul Safe and sound,,Many a little makes a miracle.The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.Time and tide waits for no manA fair face may hide a foul heart.,Used in newspaper headlines,A Forei gn Policy Without a Focus (“没有中心的外交政策”) ———《新闻周刊》Soviet Suitor for US Asian Allies (“苏联向美国的亚洲盟友发起亲善攻势”) ———《泰晤士报》Splintered PLO Struggles to Stay Alive (“支离破碎的巴勒斯坦解放组织努力生存下去”) ———《基督教科学箴言报》,d. Used in ads and slogans,Vitamins for vim and vigorCut costs without cutting cornersSea, sun, sand, seclusion-and Spain,e. Used in speeches and some other cases,I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine , with its clanking , heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers, its crafty expert agents fresh from the cowing and tying down of a dozen countries. I see also the dull, drilled, docile ,,,brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky , still smarting from many a British whipping , delighted to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey.                               -------------------Winston S. Churchill, “Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of U . S. S. R.,Used in play/book titles,The Pilgrim’s ProgressThe School for ScandalPride and Prejudice,Assonance 准押韵,Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words as in, "some ship in distress that cannot ever live." The I’s in those words have the same vowel sounds but they do not have to rhyme.,,Another example is "Do you like blue". Here the "oo" sound is repeated within the sentence. This example rhymes. Assonance includes but is not limited to alliteration with vowel sounds. Assonance is more a feature of verse than prose. It is used in (mainly modern) English-language poetry, and is particularly important in Old French, Spanish and Celtic languages.,,Hear the mellow wedding bells. — Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells" And murmuring of innumerable bees - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Princess VII.203 The crumbling thunder of seas — Robert Louis Stevenson How now brown cow — unknown That solitude which suits abstruser musings - Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Consonance 辅音韵,Consonance is a stylistic device, often used in poetry. Repetition of two or more consonants using different vowels, for example, the "i" and "a" followed by the "tter" sound in "pitter patter.",Comparison with assonance and alliteration,It repeats the consonant sounds but not vowel sounds. This is not to be confused with Assonance. Assonance is the repetition of only vowel sounds. Alliteration differs from consonance insofar as alliteration requires the repeated consonant sound to be at the beginning of each word, where in consonance it is anywhere within the word, although often at the end.,,For example, the sentence "Few flocked to the fight" is considered to display alliteration, because the only repetition occurs in the "f" sounds at the beginnings of the words. On the other hand, "All mammals named Sam are clammy" shows consonance, as the repeating consonant sound "m" is found within the word.,7.4 Onomatopoeia [,ɔnəmætə‘pi:ə] 拟声,Or an onomatopoeic word--the formation or use of words such as buzz, hiss or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.,Onomatopoeia,Geese gaggle.嘎嘎地叫 Horses neigh, snort.马嘶叫 Magpies chatter. 喜鹊啁啾 Mice squeak.老鼠吱吱叫 Pigs squeal, grunt. 猪尖叫/发出呼噜声 Lions roar.Tigers growl, roar.I'm hungry -- my stomach's rumbling. 我饿得肚子咕咕叫.,Onomatopoeia,Sound from nature:Murmur, babble, swish, patter, rumble, roll, rustle, zip, toot, tick, tinkle, screech, bang,bubble, clang,crack, splash, grumble,Aposiopesis [,æpə,saiə'pi:sis]顿绝法,A sudden breaking off of a thought in the middle of a sentence, as though the speaker were unwilling or unable to continueAn aposiopesis is most effective when the listener can successfully deduce what is missing. Three categories of using aposiopesis:,。