I have a dream修辞手法分析.doc

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. 今天，我高兴地同大家一起，参加这次将成为我国历史上为了争取自由而举行的最伟大的示威集会。 Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation（(Allusion典故it can introduce variety and energy into an otherwise limited discussion and please the reader by reminding him of a pertinent story or figure and thus can enrich the work or speech by association and give it depth ）and Periodic Sentence圆周句It drawing the listener’s attention to the end of the sentence, and it can be used to produce humorous and emphatic effect ）. ③This momentous decree（antonomasia换称 it is the replacement of a proper noun by a common noun for the purpose of being easily understood） came ④as a great beacon light of hope（smile）（a comparison of things of different groups but they have same characteristics） to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in ⑤the flames of withering injustice (metaphor)（A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things.）. It came⑥as a joyous daybreak（transferred epithets移就 it bears the characteristics of brevity and vividness.） to end the long night of their captivity（smile）. 100年前，一位伟大的美国人——今天我们就站在他象征性的身影下——签署了《解放宣言》。这项重要法令的颁布，对于千百万灼烤于非正义残焰中的黑奴，犹如带来希望之光的硕大灯塔，恰似结束漫漫长夜禁锢的欢畅黎明。 But one hundred years later (repetition)( draw people’s attention to it or to emphasis the emotions), the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on⑧⑨a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity (oxymoron矛盾修饰法in it, apparently contradictory expressions are juxtaposed for witty or striking effect. )and transferred epithets转移修饰法) and metonymy转喻（是指用某个属性的或者暗示的词代替真正要表达的东西或人using lonely island to replace the pove