篇一：大学英语修辞手法总结英语修辞手法总结4) personification/p?s?n?f?ke?n/: (拟人）it gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes(赋予) to inanimate(无生命的) objects, or to ideas and abstractions(抽象). for example, the wind whistled through the trees.5) hyperbole/ha?p?b?l?/: (夸张） it is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. for instance, he almost died laughing.6) understatement: (含蓄陈述） it is the opposite of hyperbole, or overstatement. it achieves i
