高英Unit7-everyday use修辞

Rhetoric of the Text

SimileDefinition It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality

Simile The yard was like an extended living room.( Para.1) …my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. (para5) skin an uncooked barley pancake

Maggie’s hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back.( Para.23)

Hyperbole

It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis.

Hyperbole …She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.(para9)

Metaphor

Definition :It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated.

Metaphor When I looked at her like that 点击添加文本 something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the 点击添加文本 soles of my feet. ( Para.75)点击添加文本

MetonymyDefinition It is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the mane of one thing for that of another.

Example Out she peeks next with a Polaroid.( Para.22)

IronyDefinition It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.

Example “What don’t I understand?” I wanted to know. "Your heritage,” she said.( Para. 79-80)

PersonificationDefinition It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes to inanimate objects, or to ideas and abstractions

Example 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.(para.2)

Onomatopoeia

Definition : It is a device that uses words which imitate the sounds made by an object (animate or inanimate), or which are associated with or suggestive of some action or movement.

Onomatopoeia

Example: Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road.( Para.19)

Synecdoche It is hard to earn a dollar these days. The fox goes very well with your cap. Definition:It is involves the substitution of the part for the whole, or the whole for the part.

Allusion Grammar may be his heel of Achilles. The project is an economic albatross from the start.. Definition:Allusion is the figure of speech based on resemblance which as a reference of work of literature to another work of literature or to a well-known person, place or event outside of literature.

Transferred Epithet She has expensive taste in clothes. “I may do better than that”, I said with a mysterious wink. Definition: It is a figure of speech where an epit

het is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify to another to which it does not really apply or belong.

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