1.Simile 明喻
明喻是將具有共性的不同事物作對比.這種共性存在於人們的心裡,而不是事物的自然屬性.
標誌詞常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等.
例如:
1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud.
3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.
2.Metaphor 隱喻,暗喻
隱喻是簡縮了的明喻,是將某一事物的名稱用於另一事物,通過比較形成.
例如:
1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
3.Metonymy 借喻,轉喻
借喻不直接說出所要說的事物,而使用另一個與之相關的事物名稱.
I.以容器代替內容,例如:
1>.The kettle boils. 水開了.
2>.The room sat silent. 全屋人安靜地坐著.
II.以資料.工具代替事物的名稱,例如:
Lend me your ears, please. 請聽我說.
III.以作者代替作品,例如:
a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亞全集
VI.以具體事物代替抽象概念,例如:
I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力氣,他們就用我的力氣賺錢.
4.Synecdoche 提喻
提喻用部分代替全體,或用全體代替部分,或特殊代替一般.
例如:
1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory.(部分代整體)
他的廠里約有100名工人.
2>.He is the Newton of this century.(特殊代一般)
他是本世紀的牛頓.
3>.The fox goes very well with your cap.(整體代部分)
這狐皮圍脖與你的帽子很相配.
5.Synaesthesia 通感,聯覺,移覺
這種修辭法是以視.聽.觸.嗅.味等感覺直接描寫事物.通感就是把不同感官的感覺溝通起來，借聯想引起感覺轉移，“以感覺寫感覺”。
通感技巧的運用，能突破語言的局限，豐富表情達意的審美情趣，起到增強文采的藝術效果。比如：欣賞建築的重複與變化的樣式會聯想到音樂的重複與變化的節奏;聞到酸的東西會聯想到尖銳的物體;聽到飄渺輕柔的音樂會聯想到薄薄的半透明的紗子;又比如朱自清《荷塘月色》里的“ 微風過處送來縷縷清香,仿佛遠處高樓上渺茫的歌聲似的”。
例如:
1>.The birds sat upon a tree and poured forth their lily like voice.(用視覺形容聽覺，鳥落在樹上，由它發出的聲音聯想到百合花)
鳥兒落在樹上,傾瀉出百合花似的聲音.
2>.Taste the music of Mozart.(用嗅覺形容聽覺)
品嘗Mozart的音樂.
6.Personification 擬人
擬人是把生命賦予無生命的事物.
例如:
1>.The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads.(把夜擬人化)
2>.I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods.(把鳥擬人化)
7.Hyperbole 誇張
誇張是以言過其實的說法表達強調的目的.它可以加強語勢,增加表達效果..
例如:
1>.I beg a thousand pardons.
2>.Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars.
3>.When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out.
8.Parallelism 排比, 平行
這種修辭法是把兩個或兩個以上的結構大體相同或相似,意思相關,語氣一致的短語.句子排列成串,形成一個整體.
例如:
1>.No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
2>.In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon you and yours, to the last of your bad race, to answer for them. In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon your brother, the worst of your bad race, to answer for them separately.
9.Euphemism 委婉,婉辭法
婉辭法指用委婉,文雅的方法表達粗惡,避諱的話.
例如:
1>.He is out visiting the necessary. 他出去方便一下.
2>.His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. 他與妻子關係不融洽.
3>.Deng Xiaoping passed away in 1997. (去世)
10.Allegory 諷喻,比方(原意“寓言”)
建立在假借過去或別處的事例與對象之上，傳達暗示，影射或者譏諷現世各種現象的含義。
英文解釋：an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor 摘自英語專業《大學英語教程》一書
這是一種源於希臘文的修辭法,意為"換個方式的說法".它是一種形象的描述,具有雙重性,表層含義與真正意味的是兩回事.
例如:
1>.Make the hay while the sun shines.
表層含義：趁著出太陽的時候曬草
真正意味：趁熱打鐵
2>.It's time to turn plough into sword.
表層含義：是時候把犁變成劍