船舶英语修辞总结(高级英语)

2021年1月20日发(作者：sister)
1. Simile: a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify
and enhance an image. It is explicit comparison recognized by the use of words like, as, seem, as
if, as though, such as.





e.g. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.



…
and the fattest woman I have ever seen in my life dozing in a straight-backed chair. It
was as if a sack of grain was supported by a match box.










The pen to a writer is what a gun to a fighter.









We
have
no
more right
to consume
happiness without
producing
it
than
to consume
















wealth without producing it.









Words and feather are tossed by the wind.









When he moves, his little agility suggested a tame panther without the claws.

2.
Metaphor:
a
figure
of speech containing
an
implied
comparison,
in which
a word
or
phrase
ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another.





e.g. The sunshine of happiness is made up of very little beams.







(compare: Happiness is like sunshine: it is made up of very little beams.)








Money is bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drown in it.







Beware of little expenses. A
small leak will sink a great ship.







I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed.







His hostility melted.







By this time the volcanic fires of his nature had burnt down.
3. parallelism: comes from Greek, it means to be alongside one another. It put the words, phrases,
clauses and sentences similar or close in meaning, or structure alongside one another.




e.g. with this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to











go to jail together…







It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the emotions that she




had been prepared for.


4.
Antithesis:
the
rhetorical
opposing
or
contrasting
of
ideas
by
means
of
grammatically
paralleled arrangement of words, clauses or sentences.




e.g. when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.







Men make houses, women make home.







We found ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit.







As for me: give me liberty or give me death.

5.
allusion(
典故，
隐喻，
): usually an implicit reference, perhaps to another work of literature or
art, to a person or an event.






e.g. Y
our want your pound of flesh?








I
never
believe
until
then
that
any
meal
could
defeat
me,
but
on
that
day
I
met
my



waterloo.
6.
Anaphora:
the
rhetorical
device
of
repeating
a
word
or
phrase
at
the
beginning
of successive
clauses or sentences.






eg.
Let
us
be
dissatisfied
until
America
…
Let
us
dissatisfied
until
slums
…
Let
us
be
dissatisfied until integration
…