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论英语语音修辞格中头韵之美1. 前言头韵在英语里称为Alliteration，它源于拉丁语alliteratio，意为repetition of the same letter(重复使用同一字母)。
头韵又叫initial rhyme，或head rhyme，是指两个单词或两个单词以上的首字母相同，形成悦耳的读音。
头韵其实是一种古老的语音修辞手法，是古英语诗歌中的主要押韵形式。
沿用到现在，它变成了可用于各种体裁作品的修辞格，其主要修辞作用是增强语言的节奏感，此外还用于仿拟许多事物的声响，以使语言表达更为生动形象。
最常见的押头韵的短语有:first and foremost(首先)、(with)might and main (尽全力地)、saints and sinners (圣人与罪人)、now and never(机不可失，时不再来)、deep in debt(债台高筑)、(in)weal and (or) woe(无论是福还是祸)。
又如彭斯的My love is like red red rose，三个r字母连读，音韵之美，不可名状。
还有，爱伦坡的What it utters is its only stock and store(他说的都是陈词滥调)、莎士比亚的crafty confusion(装糊涂)、拜伦的fair forms(好身材)。
王尔德认为，人应该“淳朴而深奥”pure profundity等等，以上这些都是很好的头韵例子。
2. 头韵的结构特征《韦氏新大学辞典》里对于头韵的解释就是“在两个或两个以上邻近的词或音节中，通常为起首辅音的重复”。
范家材(1992:201)也在他的《英语修辞赏析》一书中认为这个定义相对来说比较允当。
但是从以下一些实例可以看出，这个定义本身也并不全面。
具体来说，头韵的格式主要分为以下几类:1)词首元音的重复:其重复的部分不是元音而是元音字母，并且这些元音字母发音可有所不同。
【导语】今天，⽆忧考来科普“优雅”的⼗⼀种英语表达，学习时间到！1、elegant ⾼雅的；优雅的英语释义：graceful and attractive in appearance or behavioran elegant woman 举⽌优雅的⼥性 a very elegant suit 雅致的套装 an elegant dining room 雅致的餐厅 Patricia looked beautiful and elegant as always. 帕特丽夏看上去跟往常⼀样美丽优雅。
2、graceful 优美的；优雅的；雅致的英语释义：moving in a smooth, relaxed, attractive way, or having a smooth, attractive shapegraceful movements 优雅的动作 He is easy in conversation and graceful in manner. 他谈吐从容，举⽌优雅。
She has a graceful carriage. 她举⽌优雅。
【辨析】elegant和graceful都表⽰“优雅的”“⾼雅的”。
elegant侧重于⼈为的⾼雅；graceful侧重于⾃然的、天⽣的优美。
3、gentle 温和的；轻柔的；温顺的；⽂雅的；出⾝名门的英语释义：calm, kind, or softgentle形容⼈的时候，意思是“性情温和的”，表⽰出于⾃我克制或对⽅的体贴。
形容物的时候，指的是事物运动变化的缓和，意思是“不陡的；平缓的”。
I admire his gentle gesture very much. 我羡慕他的优雅的姿势。
He is a man gentle in manner but firm in action. 他是⼀个举⽌⽂雅但⾏动坚决的⼈。
He was a person of gentle blood. 他出⾝名门。
头韵（Alliteration）头韵在英语里称为Alliteration,它源于拉丁语alliteratio,意为repetition of the same letter(重复使用同一字母).头韵又叫initial thyme,或head thyme,是指两个单词或两个单词以上的首字母相同,形成悦耳的读音.. 1．头韵的定义（1）在《普林斯顿诗歌百科全传》中，头韵的定义是：“一行诗文中，两个或两个以上的词具有相同音素或音节的任何重复。
”（2）J.P.Dabney，DavidMason，KennethBurke三位语言学家则认为头韵仅指相司辅音的重复。
（3）PercyGAdams认为头韵限于重读音节中起始的辅音或辅音群的重复。
《韦氏新大学辞典》把头韵定义为：“在两个或两个以上邻近的词或音节中，通常为首辅音的重复.”2. 头韵的构成方式2.1词首辅音的重复《韦氏新大学辞典》第九版把头韵释为：“在两个或两个以上邻近的词或音节中，通常为起首辅音的重复。
”Alliteration is the repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any v owel sounds I successive or closely associated words or syllables.For examalea. Snap shot of a senorita sitting in the sand.一个小姑娘, 坐在沙滩上,乘她不防备,照了一个相。
b. Soothing, Sensuous, Flagrantly Fragrant.安心安神,赏心悦目,香气四溢。
(商品广告)2.2词首辅音连缀的重复“辅音连缀的重复”，即辅音组合的重复，也称“辅音丛(consonantcluster)重复”。
举例如下：a. Plenty is no plague.多多益善。
押头韵英语写作摘要：1.引言：介绍押头韵在英语写作中的作用和价值2.什么是押头韵：定义和例子3.押头韵的作用：增强语言美感、提高可读性、彰显个性4.如何在英语写作中运用押头韵：技巧和注意事项5.实践案例：优秀作品中押头韵的应用6.总结：押头韵在英语写作中的重要性及提高写作水平的方法正文：押头韵（Alliteration）在英语写作中是一种常见且富有美感的修辞手法。
它指的是在一个词组或句子中，相邻的词以相同的字母开头，从而形成韵律美感。
这种修辞手法既适用于诗歌，也适用于散文。
在本文中，我们将探讨押头韵的定义、作用以及在英语写作中的实际应用。
什么是押头韵？押头韵是一种修辞手法，指的是在一个词组或句子中，相邻的词以相同的字母开头。
例如，"Splendid sun, shining sea"，这里的"S"发音相似，形成了一种优美的音韵效果。
那么，押头韵在英语写作中有什么作用呢？首先，它能增强语言美感。
通过有规律的字母重复，使文章更具音乐性和韵律感，让读者在阅读过程中感受到一种优美的语言韵味。
其次，押头韵能提高可读性。
恰当运用押头韵，能让读者在阅读时更容易记住关键词，从而提高作品的吸引力。
最后，押头韵能彰显个性。
在英语写作中，适当地运用押头韵，能使作品更具特色，展现出作者的独特风格。
如何在英语写作中运用押头韵呢？以下是一些建议：1.选择合适的单词：尽量选择发音相近的单词，以达到最佳的押韵效果。
2.保持适度：过多地使用押头韵可能会让文章显得过于矫揉造作，因此要适度运用。
3.关注句子结构：在运用押头韵时，注意保持句子的平衡和协调。
4.注重语境：根据文章的主题和氛围，选择恰当的押头韵词汇。
下面我们来看一个实践案例，这是美国诗人罗伯特·弗罗斯特的一首诗《雪夜林边小驻》中的片段："Whose woods these are I think I know,His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping here,To watch his woods fill up with snow."在这段诗中，弗罗斯特巧妙地运用了押头韵，如"woods"和"know"，"house"和"village"等，使整首诗韵味十足。
Alliteration: Hanging over the patient was a big ball made of bits of brightly colored paper, folded into the shape of tiny birds. (10221)Alliteration:I see advancing upon all this in hideous onslaught the Nazi war machine, with its clanking,heel-clicking, dandified Prussian officers. (10506)Alliteration: The cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free peoples in every quarter of the globe. (10515)Alliteration: I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. (10506)Alliteration: I tell you this because I am almost an old man.(10215)Alliteration:It was a splendid population –for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home. (10909)Alliteration: It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astoundingenterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences. (10909)Alliteration: It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, (10909)Alliteration: Little girls and elderly ladies in kimonos rubbed shoulders with teenagers and women in western dress. (10202)Alliteration: The fastest train in the world slipped to a stop in Hiroshima Station.(10201) Alliteration: We still hare a handful of patients here who are being kept alive by constant care. (10219)Alliteration: We still hare a handful of patients here who are being kept alive by constant care. (10219)Antithesis:From them all Mark Twain gained a keen perception of the human race, of the difference between what people claim to be and what they really are. (10905)Antithesis: To Mark Twain, it was a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. (10920)Euphemism:Dictating his autobiography late in life, he commented with a crushing sense of despair on men's final release from earthly struggles.(10920)Euphemism: Each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares. (10221) Euphemism: Y ou drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady friend. (10608)Hyperbole:“Come back here,” I say. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (10412)Hyperbole: Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. (10901) Hyperbole: The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied a cosmos. (10904)Hyperbole: The trial that rocked the world.(11000)Hyperbole:Quickly the trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards. (10109)Hyperbole:The room is so thick with the dust of centuries that the mud-brick walls and vaulted roof are only dimly visible. (10108)Irony: Hiroshima ─the Liveliest City in Japan (10200)Irony: I congratulate myself of the good fortune that my illness has brought me. Because, thanks to it, I have the opportunity to improve my character. (10221)Irony: We are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind. (11010)Metaphor:"Well now, I'll spell it out." The house detective took his time, leisurely putting acloud of blue cigar smoke. (10608)Metaphor: After the preliminary sparring over legalities, Darrow got up to make his opening statement. (11009)Metaphor: All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic. (10904)Metaphor: All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic. (10904)Metaphor: As a result the nerves of both the Duke and Duchess were excessively frayed when the muted buzzer of the outer door eventually sounded.(10601)Metaphor: At last this intermezzo came to an end and I found myself in front of the gigantic City Hall.(10205)Metaphor: By the time the trial began on July 10, our town had taken on a circus atmosphere. (11006)Metaphor: Casually he debunked revered artists and art treasures, and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land. (10913)Metaphor: Even the self-assurance of Ogilvie flickered for an instant. (10607)Metaphor: Eyes bored into him. (10624)Metaphor: From the discouragement of his mining failures, Mark Twain began digging his way to regional fame as a newspaper reporter and humorist. (10908)Metaphor: Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire. (11014)Metaphor: He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people.(10411); Metaphor: He hopes that the scene will be clear for the final act, without which all his conquests would be in vain –namely, the subjugation of the Western Hemisphere to his will and to his system. (10514)Metaphor: He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada's Washoe region. (10907)Metaphor: Her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand (10401);Metaphor: Her tone would have withered anyone who knew her well. (10607)Metaphor: Her voice was a whiplash. (10624)Metaphor: His wife shot him a swift, warning glance. (10603)Metaphor: I did not understand what he was saying because he was shouting in Japanese, and because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to do with anything a Nippon railways official might say. (10201)Metaphor: I didn’t anticipate that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history.(11005)Metaphor: I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight.(10405)Metaphor: I see that small group of villainous men who plan, organize, and launch this cataract of horrors upon mankind. (10507)Metaphor: I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. (10506)Metaphor: I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil. (10506)Metaphor: I was again crushed by the thought (10209)Metaphor: In his sonorous organ tones, he thundered that the Bible would not be going to be driven out of the court. (11013)Metaphor: Mark Twain ─Mirror of America(10900)Metaphor: Mark Twain became obsessed with the frailties of the human race and saw clearly ahead a black wall of night. (10901)Metaphor: Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles. (10909) Metaphor: She used to read to us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. (10407)Metaphor: She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us(10407);Metaphor: Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but can't see well. (10409);Metaphor: Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. (10905)Metaphor: Steamboat decks teemed not only with the main current of pioneering humanity, but its flotsam of hustlers, gamblers, and thugs as well. (10905)Metaphor: The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breath of his oratory as he should have. (11014)Metaphor: The crowd seemed to feel that their champion had not scorched the infidels with the hot breath of his oratory as he should have. (11014)Metaphor: The Duchess kept firm tight rein on her racing mind. (10619)Metaphor:The dye-market, the pottery-market and the carpenters' market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. (10107)Metaphor: The geographic core, in Twain's early years, was the great valley of the Mississippi River, main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart. (10903)Metaphor: The streets sprouted with rickety stands selling hot dogs, religious books and watermelons. (11006)Metaphor: The words spat forth with sudden savagery, all pretense of blandness gone. (10606) Metaphor: We shall fight him in the air, until we have rid the earth of his shadow and liberated its peoples from his yoke. (10508)Metaphor: When railroads began drying up the demand for steam-boat pilots and the Civil War halted commerce, Mark Twain left the river country. (10906)Metaphor: When the meaning of these last words sank in, it jolted me out of my sad reverie.(10212)Metaphor: When you round a corner, you see a fairyland of dancing flashes, as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers. (10105)Metaphor: You pass from the heat and glare of a big, open square into a cool, dark cavern which extends as far as the eye can see. (10101)Metonymy:“You must belong to those beef-cattle peoples down the road,” I said. (10420) Metonymy: America laughed with him. (10913)Metonymy: For making money, his pen would prove mightier than his pickax. (10908) Metonymy: I thought that Hiroshima still felt the atomic impact.(10207)Metonymy: Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles. (10909)Metonymy: She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. (10401)Metonymy: "Today it is the teachers, "he continued, "and tomorrow the magazines, the books, the newspapers.”(11010)Metonymy: The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below. (11012)Metonymy: When she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says “Well, that is California all over.”(10909)Metonymy: When they find who done that last night, who killed that kid and its mother, then high-tailed it, they'll throw the book, and never mind who it hits, or whether they got fancy titles neither. (10606)Metonymy: Y ou drove there in your fancy Jaguar, and you took a lady friend. (10608) Metonymy: Y ou won a hundred at the tables, then lost it at the bar. (10609)Onomatopoeia:The beam sinks earthwards, with creaks blending with the squeaking and rumbling of the grinding-wheels. (10109)Onomatopoeia: The house detective clucked his tongue reprovingly. (10610) Onomatopoeia: The obese body shook in an appreciative chuckle. (10603)Onomatopoeia: Ancient girders creak and groan, ropes tighten and then a trickle of oil oozes down a stone runnel into a used petrol can.(10109)Onomatopoeia: As you approach the copper-smiths' market, a tinkling and banging and clashing begins to impinge on your ear. (10105)Onomatopoeia: The camels pulling the grinding-wheels made occasional grunts and sighs. (10109)Onomatopoeia: Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. (10101)Oxymoron: Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a "victorious defeat." (11024)Parallelism: I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land, guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. I see them guarding their homes where mothers and wives pray…I see the ten thousand villages of Russia where the means of existence is wrung so hardly from the soil.(10506)Parallelism: The past, with its crimes, its follies, and its tragedies, flashes away. (10505) Parallelism: We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air.(10508)Personification: America laughed with him. (10913)Personification: Bitterness fed on the man who had made the world laugh. (10919) Personification: In later life Twain acknowledged that the river had acquainted him with every possible type of human nature. (10905)Personification: He kept a notebook in which there was an entry that would determine his course forever. (10910)Personification: Broke and discouraged, he accepted a job as reporter with the V irginia CityTerritorial Enterprise, to literature's enduring gratitude. (10907)Personification: It was that population that gave to California a name, which she bears unto this day – and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says 'Well, that is California all over. '"(10909)Personification: It was that population that gave to California a name, which she bears unto this day – and when she projects a new surprise, the grave world smiles as usual, and says 'Well, that is California all over. '"(10909)Personification: Mark Twain was saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him. (10901)Personification: Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.(10918)Personification:The Middle Easter bazaar takes you back hundreds ─even thousands ─of years. (10101)Personification: The trickle becomes a flood of glistening linseed oil as the beam sinks earthwards, taut and protesting.(10109)Personification:When you round a corner, you see a fairyland of dancing flashes, as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers. (10105)Pun: DARWIN IS RIGHT – INSIDE. (This was J. R. Darwin's everything to Wear Store.) (11016)Rhetorical Question: Was I not at the scene of the crime? (10201)Simile: I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pan-cake. (10404)Simile: "Maggie's brain is like an elephant’s," Wangero said, laughing. (10423);Simile: "Mama," Wangero said sweet as a bird.(10424);Simile: All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory that seemed phonographic. (10904)Simile: Gone was the fierce fervor of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire. (11014)Simile: Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies. (11020)Simile: I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. (10506)Simile: Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. (10411).Simile:Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure. (10901) Simile: She would shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand. (10407)Synecdoche: Don't ask me why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. (10409) Synecdoche: It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it. (10427)Synecdoche: She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. (10408)Synecdoche: She would always look anyone in the eye. (10405)Synecdoche: The rather arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers is the very symbol of the incessant struggle between the kimono and the miniskirt.(10207)Synecdoche: The restaurant boat gave you an arresting spectacle of little old Japan adrift amid beige concrete skyscrapers. (10207)Transferred Epithet: A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun. (10414)Transferred Epithet: "Don't worry, son, we'll show them a few tricks," Darrow had whispered, throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open. (11002)。
一、名词解释当我们谈论修辞手法时，"alliteration"（头韵）指的是在一句话或者一段文字中，使用相同的辅音音素来重复强调语言的节奏和表现力。
这种修辞手法的简单例子包括“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”以及“she sells sea shells by the sea shore”的用法。
二、历史起源据学术研究，头韵这种修辞手法可以追溯到古代英格兰和日耳曼部落，他们使用这种方法来传唱和记忆长篇故事和诗歌。
头韵不仅在英语诗歌中广泛使用，也在世界许多不同的语言中有类似的表达方法。
三、用法头韵在文学作品和修辞设备中的使用非常广泛，以至于学术界出现了专门研究头韵的领域。
许多著名的诗人和作家如莎士比亚、弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和埃德加·爱伦·坡都在他们的作品中使用了头韵来增强表现力。
无论是诗歌、小说还是广告宣传，头韵都具有将文本内的意义和情感加以强化的作用。
通过重复的声音，读者或听众能够更容易地将注意力集中在作者想要传达的信息上。
四、头韵与其他修辞手法的关系头韵与其他常见的修辞手法如押韵、倒装和排比等常常混为一谈，然而，它们之间仍有很大的差异。
押韵是指两个或多个字的结尾音节相同，而头韵是指相同的辅音音素在单词开头重复出现。
倒装强调的是句子的语序的颠倒，排比是指一种一句话中的表现力和节奏感的增强方法。
尽管它们有些相似之处，但是每种修辞手法都有其独到之处。
五、头韵在不同语言中的表现形式头韵并不只是英语修辞手法的一部分，它在世界各地的不同语言中也有着诸多表现形式。
在汉语中，头韵手法被称为“首字母音韵”。
在古典文学中，我国古诗往往使用首字母音韵来增强诗歌的表现力和韵律感。
在法语和西班牙语中也有类似的修辞手法，用来提升作品的文学价值和情感表达。
头韵修辞手法作为一种普遍存在于世界各地的文学技巧，体现在诗歌、散文和广告等不同领域中，对于表现力的提升起着不可或缺的作用。
