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1、,Rhetoric of the Text,Simile, It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common., To make the comparison, words like as, as.as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality,Definition,Simile,my skin like an uncook
2、ed barley pancake. (para5),skin,an uncooked barley pancake,The yard was like an extended living room.( Para.1),Maggies hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back.( Para.23),Hyperbole, It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggerat
3、ion to achieve emphasis.,Hyperbole,She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.(para9),Parallelism,Metaphor,Definition :It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a sim
4、ile, this comparison is implied rather than stated.,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,点击添加文本,Metaphor,When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. ( Para.75),Metonymy, It is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the mane of one thing fo
5、r that of another.,Definition,Example, Out she peeks next with a Polaroid.( Para.22),Irony, It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.,Definition,Example, “What dont I understand?
6、” I wanted to know. “Your heritage,” she said.( Para. 79-80),Personification, It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes to inanimate objects, or to ideas and abstractions,Definition,Example, She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “n
7、o” is a word the world never learned to say to her.(para.2),Onomatopoeia,Definition : It is a device that uses words which imitate the sounds made by an object (animate or inanimate), or which are associated with or suggestive of some action or movement.,Onomatopoeia,Example: Like when you see the w
8、riggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road.( Para.19),Synecdoche,The fox goes very well with your cap.,It is hard to earn a dollar these days.,Definition：It is involves the substitution of the part for the whole, or the whole for the part.,Allusion,The project is an economic alba
9、tross from the start,Grammar may be his heel of Achilles.,Definition：Allusion is the figure of speech based on resemblance which as a reference of work of literature to another work of literature or to a well-known person, place or event outside of literature.,Transferred Epithet,“I may do better than that”, I said with a mysterious wink.,She has expensive taste in clothes.,Definition： It is a figure of speech where an epithet is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify to another to which it does not really apply or belong.,Thank you !,
