今天小编要为大家讲解的是SAT写作手法中的暗喻法,希望各位SAT考生认真学习。
首先我们看一下暗喻的定义:
Metaphor is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated. 从这个定义中,我们要注意到暗喻的对比是暗指的,没有明显陈述出来,也就是没有like 或者as 这样的比喻词。
有一个经典的暗喻:The world is a stage.
以下为英语Metaphor的4种常见的运用格式:
名词型
最常见的句式是“甲是乙”,喻体一般体现在句子的表语部分。
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
金钱是无底的海洋,荣誉、良心和真理都可以淹没在其中。
动词型
Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested 。
书有可浅尝者,有可吞食者,少数则须咀嚼消化。
形容词型
He has a photographic memory.
他有照相机般的记忆力。
of短语型
它的结构是a/the+N1+of+N2
the bridge of friendship / the valley of despair.
a flower of a girl, a fox of a man