三、修辞手法

在写作应试技巧的最后部分，我们想谈谈一些常见的修辞手法。其实， 对文章的修辞手段具体是什么，绝大多数考生并不陌生，因为在中学语文课里，我们已接触过大量的修辞格。在英语学习中，只要稍加留意，我们会发现，修辞格的使用在文章中也不罕见。我们要在一篇 150 字左右的英语考试作文中拿高分，从某种意义上来说，我们不仅在谋篇布局上下功夫，有时也不得不“show off”我们的语言功底、甚至修辞能力。当然，我们不提倡言之无物、无病呻吟。但有目的、适量的修辞能使文字具体形象、新鲜活泼。1.明喻(Simile):

  1. He is as brave as a lion.

  2. Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.

  3. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far

    country.

  4. as cold as ice; as good as gold;

as strong as an ox; as cunning as a fox;

  1. 暗 喻 (Medtaphor): (1)Jim was a fox.

  1. The world is a stage.

  2. I skim over the book to taste the tone of it. (4)At last he felt a

    ray of hope.

  1. 拟人(Personification):

    1. The wind whistled through the trees.

    2. It's almost as if the insects kept reproducing themselves!

  2. 夸 张 (Hyperbole): (1)Thanks a million.

  1. He almost died laughing.

  2. Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

  1. 委婉语(Euphemism):

    1. “die”的委婉语：pass away, go to sleep, go to heaven,depart;

      (2)“old people” 的 委 婉 语 ：senior citizens; (3)“mad”的委婉语：feeble-minded, queer;

  2. 对照(Antithesis):

    1. Speech is silver; silence is gold.

    2. If the economy stays down, can the conseratives stay up? (3)It

      takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

  3. 象声词、拟声(Onomatopoeia):

    1. You will hear the vroom-vroom of engines, seeing the highway is

      the mind's eye.

    2. Then gang goes my ale.

  4. 头韵(Alliteration):

    1. Message printed on the bag offered leisurely, lucrative work of

      delivering more such bags.

    2. The sun sank slowly.]

    3. Our country is getting prosperous and powerful.

    4. We are becoming increasingly aware all that can befall patients

      in their illness when information is denied or distorted.

  5. 排比句(parallelism)

    1. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to south

      Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of (同义重复)Julia delights in giving parties; entertaining guests is a real pleasure.

(简洁) Julia delights in giving parties.