[研究生入学考试]figures of speech
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What salt is to food, that wit and humor are to conversation and literature.
Type four: than
A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
He had no more idea of money than a cow
Type five: and
Love and cough n. 咳嗽 can not be hid. Truth and roses have thorns about them. Kings and bears often worry their keepers
Chapter 7 Reading and figures of
speech
Figures of speech can be classified into three categories, those modifying the meaning, those modifying the sound and those modifying the structure. Metaphor and belong to the first category, alliteration the second, and repetition the third.
金钱是深不可测的海洋，能淹没廉耻（信用0、良心和是非 感
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and remaining chapters in prose.
metaphor
The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it.
飘带围此柱跳舞）
Type one: like
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out.
Structure of a simile
Tenor + comparative word + vehicle Subject + comparative word + reference Example: My love is like a red red rose Tom is as tall as his brother (not a simile) Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile) maypole五月节花柱（过去英国人在五朔节持
A policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to stop.
一位警察向我挥手，要我从长蛇阵般的车流中出来， 并招呼我停下。
Metonymy n. [语言学]转喻
Definition: one thing for another; association
Some books are to be tasted, others swalloweΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu, and some few to be chewed and digested.
She has a photographic memory for details.
The mountainous waves swallowed up the ship
But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.
Type two: as
As firm as a rock As mute as a fish adj. 哑的；沉默的；无声的 As strong as a horse As changeable as the weather As wet as a drowned rat
simile
1. Origin: Latin, meaning like 2. Comparative words: like, as 3. Function: describing shape, scenery,
expressing emotions, explaining; vivid description, making easy to understand, create interest.
Type three: what
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, n. 大理石；大理石制品 education is to the soul.
metaphor
Education is not the filling of a pail 桶, but the lighting of fire.
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
婚姻就像是一座围城：在外面的人想进去，在里面 的人想出来。——《围城》。
Type two: as
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark.
Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books
Function: brief, vivid, interesting Example: What is learned in the cradle is
Type four: than
A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
He had no more idea of money than a cow
Type five: and
Love and cough n. 咳嗽 can not be hid. Truth and roses have thorns about them. Kings and bears often worry their keepers
Chapter 7 Reading and figures of
speech
Figures of speech can be classified into three categories, those modifying the meaning, those modifying the sound and those modifying the structure. Metaphor and belong to the first category, alliteration the second, and repetition the third.
金钱是深不可测的海洋，能淹没廉耻（信用0、良心和是非 感
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and remaining chapters in prose.
metaphor
The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it.
飘带围此柱跳舞）
Type one: like
Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out.
Structure of a simile
Tenor + comparative word + vehicle Subject + comparative word + reference Example: My love is like a red red rose Tom is as tall as his brother (not a simile) Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile) maypole五月节花柱（过去英国人在五朔节持
A policeman waved me out of the snake of traffic and flagged me to stop.
一位警察向我挥手，要我从长蛇阵般的车流中出来， 并招呼我停下。
Metonymy n. [语言学]转喻
Definition: one thing for another; association
Some books are to be tasted, others swalloweΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu, and some few to be chewed and digested.
She has a photographic memory for details.
The mountainous waves swallowed up the ship
But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.
Type two: as
As firm as a rock As mute as a fish adj. 哑的；沉默的；无声的 As strong as a horse As changeable as the weather As wet as a drowned rat
simile
1. Origin: Latin, meaning like 2. Comparative words: like, as 3. Function: describing shape, scenery,
expressing emotions, explaining; vivid description, making easy to understand, create interest.
Type three: what
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, n. 大理石；大理石制品 education is to the soul.
metaphor
Education is not the filling of a pail 桶, but the lighting of fire.
Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.
婚姻就像是一座围城：在外面的人想进去，在里面 的人想出来。——《围城》。
Type two: as
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark.
Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books
Function: brief, vivid, interesting Example: What is learned in the cradle is