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Figures of Speech By Xia Yunhong figures of speech Figures of speech can be classified into three categories, those modifying the meaning, those modifying the sound and those modifying the structure. Metaphor and simile belong to the first category, alliteration the second, and repetition the third. 1 Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want go get out. 1 simile 1. Origin: Latin, meaning like 2. Comparative words: like, as 3. Function: describing shape, scenery, expressing emotions, explaining; vivid description, making easy to understand, create interest. Structure of a simile Tenor + comparative word + vehicle Subject + comparative word + reference Example: My love is like a red red rose Tom is as tall as his brother (not a simile) Tom is as tall as a Maypole.(simile) Type one: like Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. Type two: as Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark. As firm as a As mute as a As strong as a As changeable as As wet as a Type three: what Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Type four: than A home without love is no more than a body without a soul. Type five: and Love and cough can not be hid. 2 Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of fire. Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned. 3 The wolf and the pig mingled together in his face. What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave. 3 metonymy Definition: one thing for another; association Function: brief, vivid, interesting 3 metonymy Metonymy can be derived from various sources:? a. Names of persons Uncle Sam: b. Animals the bear: the dragon : 3 metonymy c. Parts of the body heart: head, brain: grey hair: d. Profession: the press: newspapers, reporters etc. the bar: the legal profession e. location of government, business etc. Downing Street: the British Government the White House: the US president and his go