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RHETORIC Simile: a comparison between two unlike things having at least one quality or characteristic in common. tenor: the subject of the comparison Vehicle: the image of which this idea is conveyed The vehicle is almost always introduced by the word like or as. The bus (tenor) went as slowly similarity as a snail (vehicle). The water lay grey and wrinkled like an elephants skin. Her eyes were jet black, and her hair was like a waterfall. Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things, but the comparison is implied rather than stated. Contrary to a simile in which the resemblance between two unlike things is clearly stated, in a metaphor nothing is mentioned. The essential form of a metaphor is X is Y, and all forms of metaphor can be condensed into this form. Snow clothes the ground. Snow (Xtenor) is clothe (Yvehicle). Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels. Boy (Xtenor) is jewel (Yvehicle) . The ship ploughed the sea. Ship (X tenor) is plough (Y vehicle) Metaphor: They will be rounded up in hordes. I see Russian soldiers standing on the threshold... Means of existence is wrung from the soil... Metaphor: cataract of horrors rid the earth of his shadow...liberate people from his yoke The scene will be clear for the final act. Alliteration: dull, drilled, docile... for his hearth and home with its clanking, heel-clicking... Assonance: the use of the same or related, vowel sounds in successive words clanking, heel-clicking,… cowing and tying ...plodding on like crawling locusts, ...smarting from many a British whipping... easier and safer prey Repetition: We have but one aim and one single purpose nothing will turn usnothing We will never parley, we will never negotiate... This is our policy and this is our declaration as we shall faithfully and steadfastly Parallelism: The past, with its crimes,