English Rhetoric
By Chen Ping
Chapter Ten Semantic Figures of Speech
10.1 Simile  10.2 Metaphor10.3 Metonymy10.4 Synecdoche 10.5 Antonomasia10.6 Personification10.7 Parody 仿拟/戏仿10.8 Synesthesia10.9 Transferred Epithet
Contents of This Chapter
10.1 Simile
DefinitionTwo concepts or two similar things are imaginatively and descriptively compared because they have at least one quality or characteristic in common or in resemblance.The commonest connectives are “like” and “as”. It is one of the comm ...