基础英语写作考试用英语写作修辞手法.doc

Simile 1)As cold water is to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. (Proverbs 25—the Bible) 2)He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. (George Eliot) 3)He arose joint by joint, as a carpenter’s rule opens, and beat the dust from his clothes. (The Cop and the Anthem) 4) Della’s beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining like a cascade of brown waters. 5)The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea. (Oscar Wilde) 6)A man without knowledge is like a house without foundation. 7)Air to us is what water is to fish. 8)Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. 9)Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body. Metaphor 1)Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player. (Shakespeare, Macbeth) 2)If music be the food of love, play on. (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night) 3)Some books are to be ___, others to be ___, and some few to be ___ and ___. (Francis Bacon, Of Studies) 4)All the world’s a stage, And all men and women merely players; They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages… (Shakespeare As You Like It) 5)He was strangled in the net of gossip. 6)His life became a whirlwind of design meetings, client conferences, and last-minute decisions. The Use of Simile and Metaphor Try to be idiomatic spend money like water as American as apple pie as strong as a horse work like horses as stupid as a goose as dry as sawdust (wet) like a drowned rat a black sheep fish in the air Personification 1)The ship sailed into the teeth of the hurricane. 2)The wind whistled through the trees. The wind was moaning through the trees. 3)If not always in a hot mood to smash, the sea is always stealthily ready for a drowning. (Joseph Conrad) 4)The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Wordsworth Resolution and Independence) Examples made by some students: 5)The rose blushes in the morning breeze. 6)The leaves ar