《英语修辞例子》.doc

1.1 Alliterationsafe and sound1.2 Consonancerough and tough1.3 Assonancefair and square1.4 Rhymefit or fat1.5 OnomatopoeiaThe stream is murmuring through the woods.2.1 SimileThe gossip is like a net that strangled her.The news is like a dagger to his heart.He has no more idea of money than a cow. His voice sounded like a thunder in the hall.The machine-gun was shooting down the enemy like a mower cutting down grass. Habit is likened to a cable; Every day we weave a thread, and soon we cannot break it. 2.2 MetaphorThe night was pitch-black. At last he felt a ray of hope. The hallway was zebra-striped with darkness and moonlight.Not all slim girls are paper tigers. He was a walking encyclopedia.Applications for jobs flooded the Employment Agency.2.3 MetonymyThe kettle is boiling. He must have been spoilt from the cradle.Every government should attend to cleaning its own Augean stables.Bacchus has drowned more than Neptune but has killed fewer than Mars.The world is a stage.The diamond department was the heart and center of the store.2.4 Synecdoche The gray hair should be respected.The house was built by 40 hands.The law arrived just in time to catch the armed robber.George was one of the foes worthy of his steel.There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of a Frenchman.The Great Wall was made not only of stones and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men.2.5 Synesthesia The birds sat upon a tree and poured forth their lily like voice. Taste the music of Mozart.Johnson’s Baby Powder: the soft smell The light is braying like an assWhat a noisy scarf it is!Sweet Thames! Run softly, till I end my song.2.6 Transferred Epithetsleepless nightdizzy heightsweet voiceicy lookprotesting chaira hell of a workshop2.7 PersonificationThe sun kissed the green fields. The thirsty desert drank up the water. The youth were singing, laughing and playing the music instrument. The trees and flowers around them danced heartily as if touched by merry mood.Time and tide wait for no man.Ignominy, Want, Despair and Madness have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career. 2.8 HyperboleHer beauty made the bright world dim, and everything beside seemed like the fleeting image of a shade. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hour. Only a wizard could remember how many times I answered the telephone that day. I beg a thousand pardons. Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars. When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out. 2.9 Pun· Then there was a man in the restaurant. “You’re not eating your fish,” the waitress said to him. “Anything wrong with it?” “Long time no sea.” · Try our sweet corn. You’ll smile from ear to ear. · “Could I try on the trousers in the window?” asked the customer in the man’ shop. “You can if you want, sir,” replied the salesman, “but we do have a dressing-room.”· A bus driver was filling out a report on a highway accident he had just had. When he came to the question “Disposition of passengers,” he wrote, “Mad and blazes.”· Soccer Kicks Off With Violence. · “Fourth floor,” shouted the passenger to the elevator. “Here you are, son.” “How do you call me ‘son’?”“Sir, I called, or whatever. I’ve brought you up anyway.”ZoosemyTerribly hungry, the man wolfed down all the cakes.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.Like a lion he rushed to meet his foe.Being close to the emperor is like being close to a tiger.A man dies the way a lamp goes out.A false friend and a shadow attend only when the sun shines.。