tailieunhanh - mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'mcgraw hill s essential american slang phần 8', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 2 6 DICTION paragraph and even total composition controls a figurative word making it fly in an unusual direction. Effective figures depend on total diction on all your words. You do not improve writing by sticking in occasional similes or metaphors. They must be woven into prose. When they are figures of speech add great richness. Look again at the comparison of style to the feathers of an arrow. It enhances meaning on at least four levels. First it clarifies and concretizes an unfamiliar and abstract idea style in a striking visual image. Second it enlarges our conception of style endowing style with the functions of the feather in the arrow providing stability and guidance and disassociating it from the qualities of a feather in a cap vanity pretentiousness pointless decoration . Third the figure implies judgment that style in the arrow-feather sense is good while style in the hat-feather sense is bad. Finally the figure entertains we take pleasure in the witty succinctness with which a complicated idea is made clearer and enriched by the image of the two feathers. Thus figures clarify they expand and deepen meaning they express feelings and judgments and they are pleasurable. We observe these virtues over and over as we look at the more common figures of speech. The most frequent and most useful are similes and metaphors. Similes first. Similes A simile is a brief comparison usually introduced by like or as. The preposition like is used when the following construction is a word or phrase My words swirled around his head like summer flies. E. B. White The conjunction as introduces a clause that is a construction containing its own subject and verb FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 297 The decay of society was praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. G. K. Chesterton A simile consists of two parts tenor and vehicle. The tenor is the primary subject words in White s figure the decay of society and artists in Chesterton s. The vehicle is the thing to .

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