Antithesis(对照修辞格)讲解PPT课件

1、2021/7/241 对照对照Antithesis2021/7/242DefinitionDefinition Fundamentally, contrasting ideas sharpened by the use of opposite or noticeably different meaning. A Dictionary of Literary Terms The rhetorical opposing contrasting of ideas by means of grammatically paralleled arrangements of words, clauses,

2、or sentences Websters Third New International Dictionary2021/7/243Four LevelsFour Levels1. WordsKnowledge makes humble, ignorance makes proud. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add and detract. ( Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address)T

3、he seed ye sow, another reaps;The wealth ye find, another keeps;The robes ye weave, another wears;The arms ye forge, another bears. ( Percy Bysshe Shelley: Song to the Men of England) 2021/7/2442. Phrase We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for t

4、he moon, but falling raucous discord on earth. ( R. M. Nixon: Inaugural Address)The issue was simple, he declared ”The Christian believes that man came from above. The evolutionist believes that he must have come from below.” ( Advanced English, Book 1, Unit 4)2021/7/2453. Clause I know not what cou

5、rse others may take: but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ( Patrick Henry) And so, my fellow American, ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. ( John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address)4. Sentences An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pe

6、ssimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them. ( Francis Bacon: Of Studies)2021/7/246Rhetorical EffectsRhetorical Effects1. 使用antithesis这一修辞格，可以使作者对事物的判断准确有力，揭示事物本质，刻画人物生动形象，入木三分。 In order to procure a quantity of false, peris

7、hable goods, he has sold the only true, lasting good, his own independence. ( Gilbort Highet: Diogenes and Alexander)2021/7/2472. 可使作品语言风趣幽默。DickinsonDickinson: ( again pounding the desk) No, sir, Englishmen! FranklinFranklin: ( He has been asleep, his chin on his chest; now an eye opens.) Please, M

8、r. Dickinson but must you start banging? How is a man to sleep?( Laughter) DickinsonDickinson: Forgive me, Dr. Franklin, but must you start speaking? How is a man to stay awake? ( Peter Stone and Sherman Edwards: 1776)2021/7/2483. 作品运用antithesis修辞格，可以揭示事物内部对立统一的辩证关系，不但加强了语势，而且因为句式平分均匀，读起来朗朗上口，记忆深刻。

9、It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heav