
英语种重要修辞手法.doc
16页18 种重要修辞手法 1、语义修辞 1 明喻(simile) 俗称直喻,是依据比喻和被比喻两种不同事物的相似关系而构成的修辞格例如: a figure of speech in which denotes a simmilarility between things of different kinds.1.The snow was like a white blanket drawn over the field. 2.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. 认真观察以上各例,我们会发现它们的特点,由(as)... as, like 等引导,这些引导词被称作比喻词(acknowledging word),它们是辨别明喻的最显著的特征,明喻较为直白,比喻物和被比喻物之间相似点较为明显,所以明喻是一种比较好判断的修辞手法 2 暗喻(metaphor) 也称隐喻,是依据比喻和被比喻两种不同事物的相似或相关关系而构成的修辞格 例如: a figure of speech in which refers to sth that denotes literally in order to suggest a similarity.1.His friend has become a thorn in his side.(他的朋友已变成眼中钉肉中刺。
2.You are your mother’s glass.(你是你母亲的翻版) 3.Hope is a good breakfast, but it’s a bad supper. 由以上各例可知,暗喻没有引导词,这是明喻和暗喻在形式上的最大区别换句话说,有为明喻,没有为暗喻如:He has a heart of stone. He has a heart like stone.很显然,前句是暗喻,后句是明喻暗喻时,比喻物和被比喻物之间的相似点较为含蓄,猛一看它们毫无关系,实际却有着某种内在联系 谈到暗喻,有必要说说它的两种变体(variety):博喻(sustained metaphor)和延喻(extended metaphor),它们是英语比喻中的特殊类型 (1)博喻 连续使用多个喻体去比喻主体的方法就叫做博喻比如: There again came out the second flash, with the spring of a serpent and the shout of a fiend, looked green as an emerald, and the reverberation was stunning.(爆发了第二次闪电,她像蛇一样蜿蜒,如魔鬼般嘶叫,像翠玉般碧绿,轰隆隆震耳欲聋。
) 这个例子中对闪电的比喻就用了三个喻体,spring of a serpent(动态),shout of a fiend(声音),green as an emerald(颜色),它们从不同角度绘声绘色地把闪电呈现在读者面前由此可见,多喻体的使用其优势是单一喻体所无法比拟的它可以多角度、多侧面、多层次、多结构地表现主体 (2)延喻 据 Longman Modern English Dictionary 解释,延喻即 make an initial comparison and then develop it, expanding the author’s idea(作出初次比较再扩展,以延伸作者的意图)请看下例: A photographer is a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. (摄影师像鳕鱼,产卵百万为的是长成一条) 摄影师通常拍片成堆,难觅一成功之作,似鳕鱼产卵无数,长成者廖廖故萧伯纳把摄影师先比作 cod,再进一步用 cod 的习性比喻之,生动地道出了摄影师的艰辛。
这里 which 后的从句就显示了延喻的功能 与一般比喻相比延喻的使用更复杂一般比喻只需抓住主、喻体之间的相似之处,延喻不仅要注意比喻本身,还要注意延伸部分是否与喻体保持了一致也就是说,延伸部分应当是喻体的一部分,不能游离于其外 延喻的构成分以下几种: ①由动词构成 The mist, like love, plays upon the heart of the hills.(薄雾,如心灵深处的爱,在山的深处飘荡 b.Her eyes, pools of love, were rippling in tenderness.(她的双眼似爱的池塘,正泛着柔情蜜意的涟漪) ②由介词短语构成 a.The stone shaped as a kitten with crystal eyes.(石头形如小猫,眼似水晶b.The huge sunlight flamed like a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire.(煤气灯燃得像一朵巨大的大丽花,黄黄的火舌恰似花瓣 ③由句子构成 He is as poor as a church mouse, and a church mouse like him eats like a horse. (他一贫如洗,赤贫的他又特别能吃。
④由从句构成 The chess-board is the world, where the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. (棋盘如世界,游戏规则如同自然法则 ) 总的来说,延喻是喻体的一部分,能够进一步描绘喻体发出的动作或产生的状态,对喻体特性进行扩展,解释喻体的功用它使喻体由单一性变化为多样性,在结构、内涵等方面具有单一喻体无法比拟的修辞效果,所以学习好延喻对于提高写作效果是非常有帮助的 3 拟人(personification) 拟人手法是把物,诸如动物、植物、物体、思想或抽象概念等比作人,赋予它们人的特性、外表、思维、动作即把本来适用于人的词汇用于物,使之人格化Represent an abstract idea or quality as a person or creature.请看下面举例: 1.Freedom blushed for shame.(自由因羞愧而脸红 2.How rarely reasons guide the stubborn choice.(固执的选择很少是理智的) 3.The sun looks over the mountain’s rim.(太阳挂在山边。
) 4. The moans of the autumn wind wound in the deep of the mountains.(秋风的呻吟萦绕在大山深处) 5. Flu stalked about, touching one here and there with his evil finger. (流感四处游荡,用它罪恶的手指碰碰这个,碰碰那个) 4 委婉(euphemism ) 委婉的英语定义是 speak with good words,就是把话说得好听些,婉转些,使听者感到愉快委婉法在各种语言中都有使用,十分广泛 英语中的委婉修辞大致可以分为两类,一类是用暗示手法,转换角度使语言温和愉悦,另一类是用好字眼来代替不好的刺眼的字眼 1.Your painting is not so good. (画画得差,却说成“不太好”,good 总比 bad 好听)2.He wasn’t at all embarrassed by her low-income, and decided to marry her soon.(这里的 low-income 其实是贫穷 poverty 的婉转暗示。
) 3.Jackson, a black brought up in the inner city, ran swiftly along the track and beat all the others. (inner city 用来婉称 slum——贫民窟,表示了对那位黑人运动员的尊重) 5 夸张(hyperbole) 夸张手法是人们从主观出发,有意识地把事实夸大,故意言过其实,以达到强调或突出的一种修辞手法它偏重于情感,而不太注重事实,表达得比实际事情更高、更强烈、更有集中性,具有诙谐、讥讽、褒贬等功用一般说来,凡事物,都可适当地利用夸张去修饰例如: use phrases with strong\intense feelings to describe unimportant things in an unrealistic way.1.The tumult reached the stars.(闹声震天) 2.My gray hair can make a long long rope.(白发三千丈) 3.I haven’t seen you for ages.(几辈子不见了。
) 4.Having been elected chairman, he felt as if he were on the top of the world.(被选为主席后,他感觉似乎站在了地球之巅 ) 5.He hurried to the railway station, looking at his watch a hundred times.(他匆匆朝火车站去,看了一百遍表) 夸张的最常用手法有以下几种: (1)利用数词 ①His eyes fell on the page, but his mind was a million miles away.(他的眼睛在书页上,可心思却在十万八千里之外) ②I am ten times better than you in handwriting.(我写字比你好十倍) (2)利用极端概念 ①I’ll keep it a secret till the end of the world.(我将把秘密保持到世界末日) ②I will love you till the seas gone dry, the rocks melt with the sun.(我爱你到海枯石烂。
) (3)利用形容词和副词 ①The cost mounted to astronomical figures.(花销达到天文数字 ) ②I am thirsty to death for the book.(我想那本书想得要命) 如果用 terrible, terrific, awful, horrible, fantastic 等感情强烈的词去修饰并不重要的事情,就具有夸张的成分 (4)利用形容词和副词的最高级 ①I’m the happiest man in the world.(我是世界上最幸福的人) ②Shakespeare is universally well known. (莎士比亚名冠天下) (5)利用介词短语 ①Bill Gates rounded up a wealth beyond calculation.(比尔·盖茨聚财无数) ②Don’t let the chance slip through fingers.(不要让机会溜掉) (6)利用名词 ①He is always punctual as the Big Ben.(他总是守时如大本钟) ②They cried to high heaven for a timely rainfall.(他们喊声震天乞求及时雨。
) 6 矛盾修饰法(oxymoron) 顾。
