1This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see. （simile）2He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairytales and had passed me like a spirit. (simile)3It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touch something. (simile)4He jumped back as if he had been stung, and the blood rushed sintoshis wrinkled face. (simile)5The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. (simile)6German guns and German planes rained down bombs, shells and bullets.(metaphor)7Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver of bird song in the air. (metaphor)8Strawberries flooded the market and prices dropped down. (metaphor)9I suddenly came upon a wall of feeding elephants.(metaphor)10The diamond department was the heart and center of the store. (metaphor)11She may have tens of thousand of babies in one summer. (personification) 12... four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, swheres they struggled to survivethe dust and fumes from a busy main road. (personification)13But the houses were cold, closed, unfriendly. (personification)14My only worry was that January would find me hunting for a job again.(personification)15My blood froze. (hyperbole)16When I told our father about this, his heart burst. (hyperbole)17My heart almost stopped beating when I heard my daughter’s voice on the phone.(hyperbole)18Vingo sat stunned, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs—20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds. (hyperbole)19She gave me the impression of shavings more teeth, white and large and even, than were necessary for any practical purpose. (hyperbole)20We are none of us getting any younger. (understatement)21Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse. (understatement)22…there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged. But for the latter inconvenience, the carriage probably would not have stopped; carriages were often known to drive on, and leave their wounded behind, and why not? (understatement)23Those of us are quitting are the impatient ones who lack the imagination to believe that the bright dream will glow again. (understatement)24No one was more willing to do a favor for friend neighbor than he.(understatement)25The Great Wall was made not only of stones and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men. (synecdoche)26He says that it was the most beautiful tongue in the world. (synecdoche)27Many eyes turned to a tall,20—year black girl on the U.S. team. (synecdoche)28Several years later, word came that Napoleonyh himself was coming to inspect them. (metonymy)29Al spoke with his eyes,“yes”. (metonymy)30So, during any five-week shape-up, focus more on the tape measure than on the bathroom scale. (metonymy)31Against the Oval Earth man, the first card I can play is the analogy of the sun and moon. (metonymy)32Senior citizens are respected in our country. (euphemism)33There are several pensioners in my school. (euphemism)34He has difficulty distinguishing between imaginary and factual information.(euphemism)35He needs help in learning to adhere to rules and standards of fair play.(euphemism)36Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip bombarded the western Negev with dozens of Qassam rockets and mortar shells on Wednesday, burdening diplomatic efforts to revive a truce that expired over the weekend. (euphemism)37Rushing thongs, blinded by the darkness and smoke, rushed up on a street and down the next trampling the fallen in a crazy fruitless dash toward safety.(transferred epithet)38Sometimes they threw (him) bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and a shower of stones and abuses. (transferred epithet)39And the first tender singing of the passionate throat of a young collier, who has since drunk himself to death. (transferred epithet)40I suggest too that you avoid the big swamp in the southeast corner of the island.We call it Death Swamp. (transferred epithet)41Of the thousands of people who stand under Michelangelo’s heroic ceiling in the Sistine Chapel, very few are aware that they are looking a perhaps the greatest watercolor painting in the world. (transferred epithet)42It must be created by the blood and the work of all of us who believe in the future, who believe in man and his glorious man—made destiny. (parallelism)43... Because good technique in medicine and surgery means more quickly—curedpatients, less pain, less discomfort, less death, less disease and less deformity.(parallelism)44Napoleon was astonished. “Either you are mad, or I am,” He declared. “Both，sir!”cried the Swede proudly. (pun)45First gentleman: Thou art always figuring disease in me, but thou art full of error,I am sound. Lucio: Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as things thatare hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee. (pun)46Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested. (synesthesia)07级英教（3）班常婷12007243601。