Diction III Imagery Used to Enrich Writing

Using figurative language Figurative language uses figures of speech to convey unique images and create some sort of special effect or impression. Transferred Epithet Simile Metaphor Personification

1.Transferred epithet: A figure of speech in which the epithet is transferred from the appropriate noun to modify another to which it does not really belong.

• The plowman homeward plods his weary way.

• • Weary 显然指 plowman 这里放在 way 之前，是英

• 语中常见的修饰语的转移（ transferred epithet ） :

• • sleepless night

• Franklin Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed

• smiling attention.

• • The Grape of Wrath

• I was surprised to find him living in such drab and cheerless surroundings.

• They prolonged the clasp for the photographer, exchanging smiling words.

• 2. Simile

• A simile makes a comparison between unlike things, suggesting an unexpected likeness, and it uses the word “like” or “as” to do so.

• “A is like B.”

• • play Life is like a _____.

• • He is like a _____ when he eats.wolf

• • His hand was small and cold; it felt

• like_______.wax

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Simile

:Examples of similes She was like an angel. My heart is like a singing bird. Life was like a box of chocolate. You !never know what you are going to get .We were as quiet as frightened mice .My love is like a red, red rose .My love resembles a rose

Complete your custom simile

• He was slow like ______.

a round mirror • The moon is like ____________.

ghost • The scarecrow was as scary as ____.

• Men fear death • children fear to go in the dark as________________________.

like/ as

• The check fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing.

• Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit. We cannot flower and grow without it.

• • Under the bundle tottered the old woman, her face as white as a linen sheet.

• • Cool as a mountain stream.

• My roommates stood there as motionless as statues.

as if/ as though

• My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs.

• I see students taking premedical courses with joyless determination. They got off to their lab as if they were going to the dentist.

A is to B what C is to D. What C is to D, A is to B.

• Praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

• The pen is to a writer what the gun is to a fighter. • Marx did for the development of society what Darwin did for the development of biology.