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常见的修辞格 Simile （明喻） Simile is a figure of speech involving a comparison between two or more things which are essentially different but have at least one property or characteristic in common. Words like as, as...as, as if, as though,( just) as... so, and like are the commonly used expressions to make the comparison. In writing the writer may compare something abstract to something concrete, something remote to something proximal, something unfamiliar to something familiar, and so forth. e.g. That man can’t be trusted. He’s as slippery as an eel. The old man’s hair is as white as sno