英语修辞学例子

1This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see. （simile）

2He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairytales and had passed me like a spirit. (simile)

3It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touch something. (simile)

4He jumped back as if he had been stung, and the blood rushed sintoshis wrinkled face. (simile)

5The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing. (simile)

6German guns and German planes rained down bombs, shells and bullets.

(metaphor)

7Nothing. No tracks but my own are stitched into the dusting of fresh snow, white as birch bark that fell during the night. No flittering shadows in the trees, not a sliver of bird song in the air. (metaphor)

8Strawberries flooded the market and prices dropped down. (metaphor)

9I suddenly came upon a wall of feeding elephants.(metaphor)

10The diamond department was the heart and center of the store. (metaphor)

11She may have tens of thousand of babies in one summer. (personification) 12... four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, swheres they struggled to survive

the dust and fumes from a busy main road. (personification)

13But the houses were cold, closed, unfriendly. (personification)

14My only worry was that January would find me hunting for a job again.

(personification)

15My blood froze. (hyperbole)

16When I told our father about this, his heart burst. (hyperbole)

17My heart almost stopped beating when I heard my daughter’s voice on the phone.

(hyperbole)

18Vingo sat stunned, looking at the oak tree. It was covered with yellow handkerchiefs—20 of them, 30 of them, maybe hundreds. (hyperbole)

19She gave me the impression of shavings more teeth, white and large and even, than were necessary for any practical purpose. (hyperbole)

20We are none of us getting any younger. (understatement)

21Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse. (understatement)

22…there was a loud cry from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged. But for the latter inconvenience, the carriage probably would not have stopped; carriages were often known to drive on, and leave their wounded behind, and why not? (understatement)

23Those of us are quitting are the impatient ones who lack the imagination to believe that the bright dream will glow again. (understatement)

24No one was more willing to do a favor for friend neighbor than he.

(understatement)

25The Great Wall was made not only of stones and earth, but of the flesh and blood of millions of men. (synecdoche)

26He says that it was the most beautiful tongue in the world. (synecdoche)