现代大学英语（精读）笫三册——lesson7.ppt

Unit 7 The Rivals Figure of speech simile, metaphor, synecdoche and personification (1)the signified (本体) (2)the signifier(喻体) (3)similarity(相似点) (4)dissimilarity(相异点) The growing savings and loan scandal is a time bomb for President Bush that might not go off this year but could cause him serious political troubles by 1992. Simile: Words often used: like not unlike it was a bit like can be likened to as as if as though as it were be comparable to may be compared to similar to akin to be analogous to be something of Types: descriptive, illustrative and illuminative I believe it was Mrs. Thatcher who introduced the idea of all the heads of government at the economic summits addressing each other by their first names. I know it helped put me at ease when I felt like the new kid at school at my first economic summit in Ottawa in 1981. I waited for a lull in the meeting and said,“My name is Ron.” This very week the governing National Party had voted to open its membership to blacks, an organizational turnaround analogous to a P.L.O. recruitment drive among Jews. If not entirely dead, apartheid was clearly in the intensive-care unit with the oxygen turned off. Carlos Lehder was to cocaine transportation what / as Henry Ford was to cars. Willy Loman(《推销员之死》的主角)is a myth. And his brother returns, as it were, almost from the dead. He’s another myth. Willy can barely remember his mother. It’s as though he were dropped onto the earth from an eagle’s wing. A lot of my works goes to the center of the question of where we belong if there is any root to life—because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long. Dislocation, maybe, is part of out uneasiness. Metaphor: (1)cognitive喻体认同本体 Police work on inner-city streets (市中心贫民区)is a domestic Vietnam, a dangerous no-win struggle fought by confused, misdirected and unappreciated troops. Writing my autobiography was a pre-emptive