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Chapter 7 Reading and figures of speech ? Figures of speech can be classified into three categories, those modifying the meaning, those modifying the sound and those modifying the structure. Metaphor and belong to the first category, alliteration the second, and repetition the third. simile ? 1. Origin: Latin, meaning like ? 2. Comparative words: like, as ? 3. Function: describing shape, scenery, expressing emotions, explaining。 vivid description, making easy to understand, create interest. Structure of a simile ? Tenor + parative word + vehicle ? Subject + parative word + reference ? Example: My love is like a red red rose ? Tom is as tall as his brother (not a simile) ? Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile) ? maypole五月節(jié)花柱(過去英國人在五朔節(jié)持飄帶圍此柱跳舞) Type one: like ? Living without an aim is like sailing without a pass. ? Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out. ? 婚姻就像是一座圍城:在外面的人想進去,在里面的人想出來。 ——《 圍城 》 。 Type two: as ? Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark. ? Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books ? But love from love, towards school with heavy looks. Type two: as ? As firm as a rock ? As mute as a fish adj. 啞的;沉默的;無聲的 ? As strong as a horse ? As changeable as the weather ? As wet as a drowned rat Type three: what ? Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ? What sculpture is to a block of marble, n. 大理石;大理石制品 education is to the soul. ? What salt is to food, that wit and humor are to conversation and literature. Type four: than ? A home without love is no more than a body without a soul. ? He had no more idea of money than a cow Type five: and ? Love and cough n. 咳嗽 can not be hid. ? Truth and roses have thorns about them. ? Kings and bears often worry their keepers metaphor ? Education is not the filling of a pail 桶 , but the lighting of fire. ? Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned. ? 金錢是深不可測的海洋,能淹沒廉恥(信用 0、良心和是非感 ? Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and remaining chapters in prose. metaphor ? The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it. ? Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ? She has a photographic memory for details. ? The mountainous waves swallowed up the ship ? A policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to stop. ? 一位警察向我揮手,要我從長蛇陣般的車流中出來,并招呼我停下。 Metonymy n. [語言學(xué) ]轉(zhuǎn)喻 ? Definition: one thing for another。 association ? Function: brief, vivid, interestin