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English Figures of Speech Simile(明喻): A simile is a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike of being similar using the words like or as a simile is the comparison of two things using the words like or as. Example: The man cant be trusted. He is as slippery as an eel. Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream. Metaphor(暗喻): It is closely related to the simile. A metaphor, like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison. Example: The world is a stage. Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Personification(拟人): A personification poem means that the poem is about an object that is being described as a person. It is a figure of speech. The strategy is used to give object, things or animals human characteristics which we recognize ourselves. Example ：I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods. The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads. Hyperbole(夸张): Hyperbole is a description that is exaggerated for emphasis. Example: When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out. I beg a thousand pardons. Parallelism(排比，平行结构): Parallelism is the use of corresponding or parallel constructions in writing. It refers to using elements in sentences that are grammatically similar or identical in structure, sound, meaning, or meter. Example: No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. (6)Irony(反语): Irony is the uses of words to express something other than the opposite of the literal meaning or opposite happens of what is expected. It is a figure of speech in which there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said what is really meant. It is charact