Figures of Speech in Everyday U
Simile
Simile usually consists of three parts:
1. tenor or subject
年终述职报告2. vehicle or reference
3. comparative word or indicator of remblance
My love is like a red red ro.
tenor comparative word vehicle
1. John is as tall as his father.
分数混合运算题100道2. John is as tall as a Maypole.拼多多登录入口
Comparative Word:
like, not unlike, it was a bit like, can be likened to, as, as if, as though, as it were, be comparable to, may be compared to, similar to, akin to, be analogous to, be something of
More examples:
1. Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: tho who are without want to get in, and tho within want to get out. (P.M. Quitard)
2. Records fell like ripe apples on a windy day. (E.B. White)
3. The whole of my life has pasd like a razor --- in hot water or a scrape. ( Sydney Smith)
4. I wandered lonely as a cloud. (W.Wordsworth: The Daffodils)
5. Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark: and as that natural fear in children is incread with tales, so is the other. (Francis Bacon)
6. " I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school boy. I
am as giddy as a " ( Charles Dickens)
7. In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood.
(J. Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath)
8. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. ( Holy Bible)
9.He was a beautiful hor as though he had come out of a painting by Velasquez. ( Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls)
10. The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me as if I had gained a new friend.
Metaphor
The soldier was as brave as a lion in the battle.
The soldier was a lion in the battle.
少先队的呼号More Examples:
1. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. ( William Shakespeare)
2. Money is a bottomless a, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned. ( Kozlay)
3. Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly. ( Langston Hughes)
4. Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and remaining chapters in pro. ( Beverley Nichols)
5. The ca snowballed into one of the most famous trials in U.S. history.
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6. He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himlf for every man has need to be forgiven. (Fuller)
7. She has a photographic memory for detail.
8. I've got one of my Sahara thirsts on tonight. ( O. Henry: The Clarion Call)
铁塔图片9. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat. ( Time, October 29,1979)星期八
10. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. (Martin L. King)
11. The Dutchman was six-foot, a great, red-faced, hot-tempered treck-ox of a man.
(Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English)
12. When her husband is at a the wife needs understanding, comradeship, help with ch
ildren, and a chance of escaping sometimes from the prison of her home. ( The Sociology of Modern Britain)
雪的别称和雅称13. He knew how to work and the citadels would go down before him. (J. London: Martin Eden)
14. It is regrettable that our appeal remained a dead letter.
Anastrophe---Stylistic Inversion
1. " What have you been doing for the last two weeks, Dele?" he asked.
She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, and murmured a phra or two vaguely of Gen. Pinkney; but at length down went her head and out came the truth and tears. ( O.Henry: A Service Of Love)
2. This man was called "Beauty" by the other men of the fort. No one knew his first name, and in general he was known in the country as Beauty Smith. But he was anything save a
beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was pre-eminently unbeautiful. ( Jack London: White Fang)
3. Neatly upon his left ear on the callous pavement two waiters pitched Soapy. ( O. Henry: The Cop and the Anthem)
