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A Teaching Plan of a Recorded Lesson Topic：A Brief Introduction to English Rhetoric Lecturer: Ding Chengtao (丁承涛) Time：

9:00-9:40am，May 9, 2018 Place: Classroom 409, Wahan No.68 High School Audience: Students of Class 4, Senior Grade 3

Goals: The students will be able to use the basic figures of speech to have a better understanding of the relevant sentences. Procedures:

Step 1. What is rhetoric? Step 2. Learn the 12 figures of speech and their examples. Step 3. Practice I.

Match the terms with their definitions.

Figures of Speech Definitions Simile

an implied simile without“like”or “as”

Metaphor a figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another with“like”or “as”

Metonymy a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another Synecdoche a figure of speech which consists in taking a part for the whole, or the whole for a part Personification a figure of speech in which less exact but milder or less blunt words or phrases are used in place of disagreeable or unpleasant expression Euphemism the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis Hyperbole a figure of speech that gives human form, character, or sensibility to animals, plants, objects, ideas or abstractions Understatement the opposite of hyperbole Oxymoron a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms are combined to produce an epigrammic effect Pun the expression of actual intent in words that carry the opposite meaning Irony a figure of speech in which a qualifying adjective transferred from a person to a thing Transferred Epithet a figure of speech depending upon a similarity of sound and a disparity of meaning

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II.

Identify the figures of speech in the following sentences. 1.

Today’s homework is as easy as ABC.

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They spent money like water. 3.

Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale. 4.

He had a heart of stone. 5.

A carpet of green grass covered the slopes of the mountain. 6.

He is the black sheep in the family. 7.

He liked the cup a bit too much. 8.

She has a sharp tongue. 9.

She has an eye for beauty. 10.

Grey hair is taken good care of. 11.

China won the championship at the tournament. 12.

Wuhan has witnessed a great change recently. 13.

I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods. 14.

He was gathered to his fathers. 15.

She is in the family way. 16.

Do you want to wash your hands? 17.

Do you think the boy an under-achiever? 18.

I beg a thousand pardons. 19.

The noise was loud enough to wake up the dead. 20.

Please drop me a line. 21.

They cost quite a pretty penny. 22.

She is a clever fool. 23.

More haste, less speed. 24.

The child is the father to the man. 25.

Professor: You missed my class yesterday, didn’t you?

Student: Not in the least, sir, not in the least. 26.

Why is every book like a tree in summer?

----Because every book is full of leaves. 27.

The hard-working boy seldom reads more than an hour per week. 28.

I have taken a nervous exam.

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