| Metaphor——A Tool for Writing |
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| 引用本文： | 周自强.Metaphor——A Tool for Writing[J].海外英语,2011(10):22-23,26. |
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| 作者姓名： | 周自强 |
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| 作者单位： | 河海大学常州校区外语部; |
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| 摘 要： | Figurative speeches, especially metaphors that prevail essays, novels, reports, poems, etc. give flavor, if not life, to writings, help express the inexpressible, bring the abstract concrete, make the tedious succinct, and illuminate the vague and the ambiguous bright and clear. It seems that metaphors to writing is what salt to cooking ─ and more. In this paper, we are attempting to drag it to a "down-to-earth" tool to be handy to common learners by quoting examples from various styles to show how it can be used to increase language power and how important it is for ordinary Chinese learners of English to get familiar with and learn to employ metaphors and other figurative speeches in writing. We should be able to use words in non-literal sense to lend force to an idea, to heighten effects, or to create atmosphere, so as to make our writings eligible at least for practical use and readable for an ordinary native speaker of English.
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| 关 键 词： | metaphor application tool for writing |
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