5 Semantic Rhetoric 修辞学——语义修辞.ppt

Lecture 5;Contents;Simile;Four basic demands;Jim looks like his brother Billy. Jim and his brother are as like as two peas. My car runs as fast as the train. A real friend is like a mirror that can help you see any dirt on your face. Life was like a journey full of pitfalls. Records fell like ripe apples on a windy day.;Classification of Simile;Descriptive simile;Illuminative simile;Illustrative;Closed Simile;Open Simile;Commonly Used Forms of Simile;May (might) as well…as You might as well expect the sun to rise in the west as hope to move me. What The pen is to a writer what the gun is to a fighter. What the gun is to a fighter, the pen is to a writer. Leaves do for plants what lungs do for animals. more…than A fool can do no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.;Metaphor;The world is a stage. The theory is totally based on solid foundation. A romance was budding. The economy is overheating. She exploded. Embarrassed at our noisy children, we sheepishly tried to sneak into the dining room，hoping not to be noticed by others The temperature fell to a murderous -400C.;Classification;Invisible metaphor: The primary term is present, but the secondary term is not The secondary term is present but the primary term is not Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. The machine sitting at that desk was no longer a man; it was a busy New York broker.;Sustained metaphor: the primary term is successively compared to two or more secondary germs. Poetry is the scent of the rose，the lightening in the sky, the gleam of the fly, the sound of the sea.;Extended metaphor: an initial developed comparison is made and then developed All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.;Mixed metaphor: two or more incongruous comparison run together. At last he felt a ray of hope. I skimmed over the book