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1、1 This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see. （simile）2 He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairytales and had passed me like a spirit. (simile)3 It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touch something. (simile)4 He jumped back as if he had been
2、 stung, and the blood rushed sintoshis wrinkled face. (simile)5 The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. (simile)6 German guns and German planes rained down bombs, shells and bullets. (metaphor)7 Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, whit
3、e as birch bark that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver of bird song in the air.(metaphor)8 Strawberries flooded the market and prices dropped down.(metaphor)9 I suddenly came upon a wall of feeding elephants.(metaphor)10 The diamond department was the heart and
4、center of the store. (metaphor)11 She may have tens of thousand of babies in one summer. (personification)12 . four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, swheres they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road. (personification)13 But the houses were cold, closed, unfriendly. (pe
5、rsonification)14 My only worry was that January would find me hunting for a job again. (personification)15 My blood froze. (hyperbole)16 When I told our father about this, his heart burst. (hyperbole)17 My heart almost stopped beating when I heard my daughters voice on the phone. (hyperbole)18 Vingo
6、 sat stunned, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds. (hyperbole)19 She gave me the impression of shavings more teeth, white and large and even, than were necessary for any practical purpose. (hyperbole)20 We are none of us getting any
7、 younger. (understatement)21 Last 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
8、 have stopped; carriages were often known to drive on, and leave their wounded behind, and why not? (understatement)23 Those of us are quitting are the impatient ones who lack the imagination to believe that the bright dream will glow again. (understatement)24 No one was more willing to do a favor f
9、or friend neighbor than he. (understatement)25 The Great Wall was made not only of stones and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men. (synecdoche)26 He says that it was the most beautiful tongue in the world. (synecdoche)27 Many eyes turned to a tall,20year black girl on the U.S. team.
10、 (synecdoche)28 Several years later, word came that Napoleonyh himself was coming to inspect them. (metonymy)29 Al spoke with his eyes,“yes”. (metonymy)30 So, during any five-week shape-up, focus more on the tape measure than on the bathroom scale. (metonymy)31 Against the Oval Earth man, the first
11、card I can play is the analogy of the sun and moon.(metonymy)32 Seniorcitizensarerespectedinourcountry. (euphemism)33 Thereareseveralpensionersinmyschool. (euphemism)34 Hehasdifficultydistinguishingbetweenimaginaryandfactualinformation. (euphemism)35 Heneedshelpinlearningtoadheretorulesandstandardso
12、ffairplay. (euphemism)36 Palestinian 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)37 Rushing thongs, blinded by the darkness and smoke, ru
13、shed up on a street and down the next trampling the fallen in a crazy fruitless dash toward safety. (transferred epithet)38 Sometimes they threw (him) bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and a shower of stones and abuses. (transferred epithet)39 And the first tender s
14、inging of the passionate throat of a young collier, who has since drunk himself to death. (transferred epithet)40 I suggest too that you avoid the big swamp in the southeast corner of the island. We call it Death Swamp. (transferred epithet)41 Of the thousands of people who stand under Michelangelos
15、 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)42 It 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 manmade destiny. (
16、parallelism) 43 . Because good technique in medicine and surgery means more quicklycured patients, less pain, less discomfort, less death, less disease and less deformity. (parallelism)44 Napoleon was astonished. “Either you are mad, or I am,” He declared. “Both，sir!”cried the Swede proudly. (pun)45
17、 First 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 that are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee.(pun)46 Some 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