课堂笔记（复习资料）
笔者：大二学生就读于宁波工程学院大学课程：英语写作
任课老师：黄忠伟
§Figures Of Speech
▲Simile.
○What is it?
·Clarify and enhance an image.
○Patterns.
·Tenor + comparative word + vehicle.
·Subject + comparative word + reference.
·A is to B what C is to D.
○Examples.
·Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
·What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
·A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
·Love and cough can not be hid.
·Truth and roses have thorns about them.
·Who is to blame but her tyrant of a father.
·A doctor must have the heart of a lion and a hand of a lady.
▲Metaphor.
○Pattern.
·A is B.
○Examples.
·Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of fire.
·The boy wolfed down the food.
·Some books are to be tasted.
·The policeman moved me out of the snack of traffic.
▲Metonymy.
○What is it?
·One thing for another; association.
○Examples.
·What it learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.
·She has the eye for the fair and the beautiful.
·Scepter and Crown.
·Scythe and Spade.
▲Parody.
○Examples.
·I have no outlook, but an uplook. My please in the society was at the bottom.
·A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
·Fall in love.
·Walk in love.
·Where there is a will, there is a reality. (Original: Where there is a will, there is a way.)
· To lie or not to lie------the doctor's dilemma.
▲Personification.
○Examples.
·The rain to the wind said. / "You push and I'll pelt."
·Slang is a language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.
▲Onomatopoeia.
○Examples.
·Dais started laughing.
·Dais started gigging.
▲Euphemism.
○Examples.
·Under the weather.
·Join one's ancestors.
·Advanced in age.
·Run one's races.
▲Hyperbole/Overstatement.
○Examples.
·A sea of troubles.
▲Understatement.
▲Parallelism.
○Examples.
·So was it when my life began. / So is it now I am a man. / So be it when I shall grow old. ▲Contrast.
○Examples.
·Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
▲Antithesis.
○Examples.
·Give me liberty, or give me death.
·The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
▲Oxymoron.
○Examples.
·Painful pleasure.
·Living death.
·Poor rich guys.
·Falsely true.
·Shine darkly.
·Love-hate relationship.
▲Pun.
○Examples.
·We must hang together, or we shall hang separately.
·Seven days without water make one week.(week------weak)
·Make your every hello a real good-buy.(good-buy------good-bye)
▲Zeugma.
○Examples.
·She opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy.
▲Allusion.
○Examples.
·The heel of Achilles.
·Open sesame.
·Cinderella.
·Fig leaf.
·Tower of Bible.
▲Irony.
