Figures of Speech          英语修辞格
I. Simile（明喻）   A simile is a figure of speech in which two quite different things are compared because they appear to be similar at least one characteristic.
Open simile —    —– The man over there is like a pig.    In this sentence, the secondary term “pig” has many characteristics such as fat, lazy, dirty, greedy and gross. In which respect or respects is that man like a pig? It does not say. So, it is called an open simile (it does not give any definite  ...