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修辞方法Rhetorical Devices (2) Personification It is to treat a thing or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities. 1. Youth is hot and bold; Age is weak and cold. Youth is wild, and Age is tame. -----William Shakespeare 2. The match will soon be over and defeat is staring us in the face. 3. This time fate was smiling to him. 4. Thunder roared and a pouring rain started. 5. Dusk came stealthily. 6. The storm was raging and angry sea was continuously tossing their boat. 7. The sun kissed the green fields. 8. The thirsty desert drank up the water. 9. The youth were singing, laughing and playing the music instruments. 10. The trees and flowers around them danced heartily as if touched by merry mood. 11. The night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand at our fevered head. 12. Ill-gotten wealth is but an evil friend. 13. The leaves are trembling in the cold wind. 14. The storm was so angry that it wanted to destroy everything in the cold wind. 15. The thirsty soil drank in the rain. The waves were dimpling in the sunshine. (泛起笑窝) The green mountains were dancing, and the rivers and lakes smiling. The rose blushes in the morning breeze. Time will tell. On the table lay some dog-eared books. The wind sighed in the tree tops. The moon is riding in the sky. The lamb nodded as I came home. Pride goes before a fall. Success, health, and happiness are beckoning to you. Poetry is the queen of arts. Truth never grows old. Zoosemy Opposite to personification, it is to treat a human as an object, like an animal, a plant, an inanimate thing, or an abstract idea. 1. “A lucky dog you are!” exclaimed Jim. 2. Terribly hungry, the man wolfed down all the cakes. 3. Children are flowers of our country. 4. She found in him model and admiration. 5. His spoilt children are rotten goods that will never prosper. 6. Like a lion he rushed to meet his foe. 7. He slept like a dog. 8. The prostitutes are nothing but paper toys, played, ruined, torn, a