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Figures of speech simile: As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. The water lay gray and wrinkled like an elephant’s skin. My very thoughts were like the ghostly rustle of dead leaves. As brave as a lion; as busy as a bee; as timid as as mouse (胆小如鼠)；as black as pitch/coal; as white as snow/a sheet; as old as hills; as cool as a cucumber Metaphor: Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels. He swam bravely against the tide of popular applause. Snow clothes the ground. The town was stormed after a long siege. The society was his college. A book that is shut is but a block.. The gas hissed out of the torn ballon, Insull threw away his imperial pride and went on his knees to the bankers. 桱ohn Dos Passos Personification: That produced by the use of adjectives. yThe blushing rose; the thirsty ground. That produced by the use of nouns. The similes of spring; the whisper of leaves. That produced by the use of verbs. The kettle sings; the waves danced. The dancing daffodils; the thirsty crops Time will tell. Money talked as sweetly in Athens as it had in Chicago in the old days. John Dos Passos Metonymy: The pen is mightier than the sword. ( Here you have the instrument (pen or sword) as a name for the people wielding it.)（ Those who use the pen have more influence than those who use the sword.） Gray hairs should be respected. ( the symbol (gray hair) as a name for the persons.( old people) symbolized) He is too fond of the bottles. (= He is too fond of drinking; the container(wine bottle) as a name for the thing (wine) contained) I have never read Li Bai.( the poet (Li Bai) as a name for the thing made (poems written by Li Bai) She is far from the cradle. ( She has grown up. ) What is learned in the cradle is carried into the grave. (Things learned in childhood will not be forgotten till death.) His purse would not allow him that luxury.