Alliteration_等修辞手法

1. Phonetic stylistic devices

Examples:

 Bye, Bye, Balanced Budget (Alliteration)

 The rain is Spain stays mainly in the plain. (Assonance)

 When I lent I was a friend, when I asked I was unkind. (Consonance)

 Wit once bought is worth twice taught. (Rhyme)

 She banged the door after her. (Onomatopoeia)

2. Lexical stylistic devices

Simile 明喻 Metaphor 暗喻

Metonymy 转喻 Synecdoche 提喻

Personification 拟人 Hyperbole 夸张

Understatement 低调陈述 Euphemism 委婉

Irony 反语 Paradox 隽语

Oxymoron 矛盾修饰 Analogy 类比

Allegory 讽喻 Antonomasia 换称

Apostrophe 呼语 Parody 仿拟

Allusion 用典 Pun 双关

Syllepsis 一语双序 Zeugma 拈连

Transferred Epithet 移就

Examples:

1) The old man’s hand trembled like a leaf. (simile)

2) He is as sly as a fox. (simile)

3) Be careful of that thief; he is a slippery customer. (metaphor)

4) The parks are the lungs of our city. (metaphor)

5) He drank a cup. (metonymy) (代替杯中酒)

6) He was steeped in Shakespeare. (metonymy) （代替他的作品）

7) Two heads are better than one. (synecdoche) （部分代替整体）

8) The trees and flowers around them danced heartily as if touched by merry mood. (personification)

9) I sat for a while, frozen with horror. (hyperbole)

10) I was not a little surprised at the news. (understatement)

11) The teachers say my son is slow. (euphemism)

12) He is a man who is most dependable when you are not in need. (irony)

13) The Child is father of the Man. (paradox)

14) More haste, less speed. (paradox)

15) bitter-sweet memories (oxymoron) Alliteration 头韵

Assonance 半谐音

Consonance 尾韵

Rhyme 诗行的尾韵

Onomatopoeia 拟声 16) It’s with our judgments as with our watches; none go just alike, yet each believes his own.

(analogy)

17) No rose without a thorn. (allegory)

18) All that glisters is not gold. (allegory)

19) Uncle Sam (美国) (Antonomasia )

20) Romeo (情郎 ) (Antonomasia)

21) England! awake! awake! awake! (Apostrophe)

22) Quality breeds success. (仿Familiarity breeds contempt.) (Parody)

23) “You want your pound of flesh, don’t you?” (来自“The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare”)

(Allusion )

24) a surprised silence (Transferred Epithet )

25) We spent an anxious night. (Transferred Epithet )

26) On Sunday they pray for you and on Monday they prey on you. (pun)

27) But a cannon-ball took off his legs,

So he laid down his arms. (Pun )

28) She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair. (Syllepsis) （两个短语都能搭配）

29) He lost the game and his temper. (Syllepsis ) （两个短语都能搭配）

30) weeping eyes and hearts (Zeugma ) （只有一个是合理的搭配）

31) The woman opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy. (Zeugma ) （只有一个是合理的搭配）

3. Syntactical stylistic devices

Reverse 序换 Anadiplosis 蝉联

Regression 回环 Epigram 警句

Repetition 反复 Anaphora 首语反复

Epiphora 尾语反复 Parallelism 平行结构

Antithesis 平行对照 Rhetorical Question 设问

Climax 渐进 Anti-climax 突降

Examples:

 Like son, like father. (Reverse)来自Like father, like son.

 With Bewick on my knee, I was then happy: happy at least in my way. (Anadiplosis )

 It is better to make friends fast than to make fast friends. (Regression )

 It is a wise father that knows his own child. (Epigram )

 We have but one aim and one single, irrevocable purpose. (Repetition)

 Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams dazzling,

Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard.

Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows,

Give me an arbour, give me the trellised grape… (Anaphora)

 “It’s their wealth and security that makes everything possible; makes you art possible, makes

literature, science, even religion possible.” (Epiphora)

 Their sun-burned faces were dark, and their sun-whipped eyes were light. (Parallelism)

 Speech is silver; silence is golden. (Antithesis )

 Can a man be too cruel to his mother’s enemy? (Rhetorical Question )

 I am sorry, I am so very sorry. I am so extremely sorry. (climax)

 I lost my bag and with it, my wallet, my ID card, and my dirty socks. (Anti-climax)