Simile1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughts and feelings.2.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of the earth.3.…like clouds of flies.4.Everything is done… like inverted capital Ls…5.And really it was like watching a …armed men,flowing peacefully up the road,while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite directi on,glittering like scraps of paper.6.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales,as penetrating as a scalpel.7.Same age,… but dumb as an ox.8.Peter lay … coat huddled like a great hairy…9.It was like digging a tunnel.10.I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.11.Grandmother Macleod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo…12.… the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarlet lanterns on the thinhairy stems.13.At night the lake was like black glass…14.The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder…metaphor1.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simpl y not a concern.2.…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and f eeling.3.It was on such … suddenly the alchemy of conversation … was a focus.4.The glow of the conversation burst into flames.5.We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.6.The conversation was on wings.7.As we listen… to think ourselves back into the shoes of the Saxon peasant.8.I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…of common sense.9.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.10.When E.M.Forster writes of -the sinister corridor of our age,we sit up at t he vividness of the phrase,the force and even terror in the image.11.They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years,…are gone.12.Down the centre…a little river of urine.13.…in the past,… by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.14.But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.15.And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.16.… we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from becoming merely aforum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak…17.… yet both… stays the hand of mankind’s final war.18.And if a beached of cooperation may push…19.The energy, the faith…will light our…and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.20.… unfettered the informal… children.21.There follows… frontier.22.Read, then, the following… demonstrate that logic…23.“In other words, if you were out the picture, the field would be open.24.First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif at a bakery window.25.I fought off a wave of despair.26.Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind, a few embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into flame.27.The first man has poisoned the well before…28.He has hamstrung his opponent before he could…29.Frantically I thought back the tide of panic…30.The rat!31.… through the filigree of the spruce trees…32.…. and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the people of…33.… with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.mixed metaphor 1.The charm of conversation is…it will go as it meanders or leaps andsparkles or just glows.2.My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.metonymy 转喻，借代1.Is the phrase in Shakespeare?2.… but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.3.Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.4.You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.5.…those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neatworld of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.synecdoche提喻1.Other people may…in which the great minds are supposed…2.Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.3.… actually has… a white skin.4.…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom…5.There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.6.The damn bone’s flared up again.alliteration1.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides in conversation.2.They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years,…are gone.3.She accepted her…as a beast of burden.4.Let the word go forth from this time and place,to friend and foe alike…5.…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom…6.…but a call to bear the burden of a long…7.… the same high standards of strength and sacrifice…antithesis 对比1.We observe today … symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifyingrenewal as well as change.2.For man holds… human poverty and …human life.3.United,there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.Divided,there is little we can do,for we dare not meet a power ful challenge at odds and split asunder.4.Let us never negotiate out of fear , but let us never fear to negotiate.5.... not as a call to bear… but a call to …6.It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make anugly smart girl beautiful.7.Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.8.If there is an irresistible force, there can be no immovable object. If thereis an immovable object, there can be no irresistible force.9.Look at me --- a brilliant student, a tremendous intellectual, a man withan assured future. Look at Petey--- a knothead, a jitterbug, a guy who’ll n ever know where his next meal is coming from. parallelism1.Let every nation know,whether it wishes us well or ill,that we shall pay any price,bear any burden,meet any hardship,suppor any friend,oppose a ny foe ,to assure the survival and the success of liberty.repetition 反复1.For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certainbeyond doubt that they will never be employed.personification1．The gazelle I was feeding seemed to know that this thought was in my mind…not like me.2．The two grey squirrels were still there, gossiping at us…3．The water was always icy, for the lake was fed by springs…transferred epithet 移就1. A carpenter sitscross-legged at a prehistoric lathe,turning chair-legs at lightning speed.2.Instantly, from…there was a frenzied rush of Jews...cigarette.3.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.4.…meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curioushands.5.Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes.6.… I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendencyto look the other way.7.Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked…exaggeration/ hyperbole 夸张1.Perhaps it because of my upbringing in English pubs…its own.2.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scales,as penetrating as a scalpel.3.It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.4.… he just … with mad lust…5.You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars and theconstellations of outer space.6.... dresses that were always miles too long.7.…those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from our neatworld…Elliptical sentence1.The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys,no women—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and t he taxis and the camels,wailing a short chant over and over again.2.No gravestone, no name, no identifying mark of any kind.3.Not hostile, not contemptuous, not sullen, not even inquisitive.4.Emotional type. Unstable. Impression. Worst of all, a faddist.5.‘I n the library,’…6.Peter, why?....7.“Anything?” I asked, looking at him narrowly.8.Beautiful she was.9.One more chance…10.But just one more.11.Hasty Generalization12.Ad Misericordiam13.After he promised, after he made a deal, after he shook my hand!Rhetorical questions1.Are they really the same flesh as …or coral insects?Onomatopoetic1.As the storks …winding up the road with a clumping of boots and a clatterof iron wheels.Understatement1.I am not commenting, merely pointing to a fact.2.This looked as a project of a small dimensions,…Sarcasm1.Anyone can be sorry…owing to some kind of accident of or even…ofsticks.Contrast1.As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching southward…Inverted sentence1.In your hands, my fellow citizens,…2.Cool was I and logical.3.One more chance…4.Five grueling nights this took,…Double negation1.It was not be thought that I was without love for this girl.Analogy1.Just as Pygmalion loved the perfected woman hr had fashioned, so I lovedmine.2.I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps they had goneaway to some far place of belonging. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not.Allusion1.Just as Pygmalion loved the perfected woman hr had fashioned, so I lovedmine.2.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein…。