S i m i l e 1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughtsand feelings.2.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of theearth.3.…like clouds of flies.4.Everything is done… like inverted capital Ls…5.And really it was like watching a …armed men;flowingpeacefully up the road;while the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction;glittering like scraps of paper.6.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo; as precise as achemist’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 rigidas a cameo…12.…the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarletlanterns on the thin hairy 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 simply not a concern.2.…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feeling.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 writes of -the sinister corridor of our age;we sit up at the 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 a forum 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 fewembers 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 rat31.… 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 metaphor1.The charm of conversation is…it will go as it meandersor leaps and sparkles or just glows.2.My brain; that precision instrument; slipped into highgear.metonymy 转喻;借代1.Is the phrase in Shakespeare2.… 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 fromour neat world 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 deadlyatom…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;theKing’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 friendand foe alike…5.…both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadlyatom…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 abeginning; signifying renewal as well as change.2.For man holds… human poverty and …human life.3.United;there is little we cannot do in a host ofco-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 fearto negotiate.5.... not as a call to bear… but a call to …6.It is; after all; easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smartthan to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.7.Back and forth his head swiveled; desire waxing;resolution waning.8.If there is an irresistible force; there can be noimmovable object. If there is an immovable object; there can be no irresistible force.9.Look at me --- a brilliant student; a tremendousintellectual; a man with an assured future. Look at Petey--- a knothead; a jitterbug; a guy who’ll never know where his next meal is coming from.parallelism1.Let every nation know;whether it wishes us well or ill;thatwe shall pay any price;bear any burden;meet anyhardship;suppor any friend;oppose any foe ;to assure the survival and the success of liberty.repetition 反复1.For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can webe certain beyond 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 prehistoriclathe;turning chair-legs at lightning speed.2.Instantly; from…there was a frenzied rush ofJews...cigarette.3.I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.4.… meticulously turning it round and round in his smalland curious hands.5.Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes.6.…I was ashamed; ashamed of my own timidity; thefrightened tendency to look the other way.7.Her defiant face; momentarily; became unguarded andunmasked…exaggeration/ hyperbole 夸张1.Perhaps it because of my upbringing in English pubs…itsown.2.My brain was as powerful as a dynamo; as precise as achemist’s scales; as penetrating as a scalpel.3.It is not often that one so young has such a giantintellect.4.… he just … with mad lust…5.You are the whole world to me; and the moon and the starsand the constellations of outer space.6.... dresses that were always miles too long.7.…those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons fromour neat world…Elliptical sentence1.The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys;nowomen—threaded their way across the market place between the piles of pomegranates and the 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 eveninquisitive.4.Emotional type. Unstable. Impression. Worst of all; afaddist.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 shookmy handRhetorical questions1.Are they really the same flesh as …or coral insectsOnomatopoetic1.As the storks …winding up the road with a clumping of bootsand a clatter of 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 oreven… of sticks.Contrast1.As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marchingsouthward…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 hadfashioned; so I loved mine.2.I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps theyhad gone away 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 hadfashioned; so I loved mine.2.I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein…。