英语修辞例子.doc

1.1 Alliteration safe?and?sound 1.2 Consonance rough and tough 1.3 Assonance fair and square 1.4 Rhyme fit or fat 1.5 Onomatopoeia The stream is murmuring through the woods. 2.1 Simile The 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 Metaphor The 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 Metonymy The 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 ass What a noisy scarf it is! Sweet Thames! Run softly, till I end my song. 2.6 Transferred Epithet sleepless night dizzy height sweet voice icy look protesting chair a hell of a workshop 2.7 Personification The 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 a