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1.Simile

., like,
as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as.

1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud.

3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.

2.Metaphor ,

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1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

3.Metonymy ,

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I.,:

1>.The kettle boils. .

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2>.The room sat silent. .

II..,:

Lend me your ears, please. .

III.,:

a complete Shakespeare

VI.,:

I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. ,.

4.Synecdoche

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1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory.()

100.

2>.He is the Newto()n of this century.()

3>.The fox goes very well with your cap.()

5.Synaesthesia ,,

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1>.The birds sat upon a tree and poured forth their lily like voice.(
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2>.Taste the music of Mozart.()

Mozart.

6.Personification

1>.The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads.()

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2>.I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods.()

7.Hyperbole

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1>.I beg a thousand pardons.

2>.Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars.

3>.When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out.

8.Parallelism ,

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1>.No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be
perfectly happy till all are happy.

2>.In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon you and yours, to the last of your bad
race, to answer for them. In the days when all these things are to be answered for, I summon your brother, the
worst of your bad race, to answer for them separately.

9.Euphemism ,

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1>.He is out visiting the necessary. .

2>.His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. .

3>.Deng Xiaoping passed away in 1997. ()

10.Allegory ,()

an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by
suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

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1>.Make the hay while the sun shines.

2>.It's time to turn plough into sword.

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11.Irony

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1>.It would be a fine thing indeed not knowing what time it was in the morning.

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2>"Of course, you only carry large notes, no small change on you. "the waiter said to the beggar.

12.Pun

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1>.She is too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise.

2>.An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country.

3>.If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately.

13.Parody

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1>.Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year.

2>.A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

3>.If you give a girl an inch nowadays she will make address of it.

14.Rhetorical question ()

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1>.How was it possible to walk for an hour through the woods and see nothing worth of note?

2>.Shall we allow those untruths to go unanswered?

15.Antithesis ,,

1>.Not that I loved Caeser less but that I loved Romemore.

2>.You are staying; I am going.

3>.Give me liberty, or give me death.

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16.Paradox

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1>.More haste, less speed.

2>.The child is the father to the man.()

17.Oxymoron ,

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1>.No light, but rather darkness visible.

2>.The state of this house is cheerless welcome.

18.Climax ,

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1>.I am sorry, I am so sorry, I am so extremely sorry.

2>.Eye had not seen nor ear heard, and nothing had touched his heart of stone.

19.Anticlimax

climax,,.

1>.On his breast he wears his decorations, at his side a sword, on his feet a pair of boots.

2>.The duties of a soldier are to protect his country and peel potatoes.

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