Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences.
Point out the figures of speech used in the following sentences.
1.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away.
2.The manager has a feeling of victorious defeat in his heart after he fails in the match.
3.The assistant kept a respectful distance to the boss when they met in the corridor.
4.No one has any idea where it will go when it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
5.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.
6.The cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people in every quarter of the globe.
7.It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.
8.Back and forth his head swiveled,desire waxing,resolution waning.
9.There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond lamb’s frontier
10.The wind seized a Gulfport oil tank and dumped it away.
11.United,there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures,divided,there is little we can do,for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
12.The whole city was in the sadness after the people heard that the great politician passed away.
13.Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
14.I am dying to know the truth of the case.
15.Sword and cross in hand,the European conquers fell upon the American continent.
16．I leaped to my feet,bellowing like a bull.
17．There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.
18． Instantly,from the dark holes all around,there was a frenzied rush of Jews,many of them old grandfathers with ……
19．Still,a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
20．United,there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures.Divided,there is little we can do,for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
1.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. metaphor
2. The manager has a feeling of victorious defeat in his heart after he fails in the match.
oxymoron
3. The assistant kept a respectful distance to the boss when they met in the corridor.
transfered epithet
4. No one has any idea where it will go when it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows.
personification
5. The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.
simile
6. The cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people in every quarter of the globe.
personification
7. It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.
metaphor
8. Back and forth his head swiveled, desire waxing, resolution waning.
personification
9. There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond lamb’s frontier
personification
10. The wind seized a Gulfport oil tank and dumped it away.
personification
11. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures, divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
antithesis
12. The whole city was in the sadness after the people heard that the great politician passed away.
metaphor
13. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.
antithesis
14. I am dying to know the truth of the case.
exaggeration
15. Sword and cross in hand, the European conquers fell upon the American continent.
personification
16．I leaped to my feet, bellowing like a bull.
simile
17．There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.
metaphor
18． Instantly, from the dark holes all around, there was a frenzied rush of Jews, many of them old grandfathers with ……
19．Still, a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.
metaphor
20．United, there is little we cannot do in a host of co-operative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do, for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
antithesis
差不多吧.前两年学的.