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 elephant's 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 (X---tenor) is clothe (Y---vehicle).
Boys and girls, tumbling in the streets and playing, were moving jewels.
Boy (X---tenor) is jewel (Y---vehicle) .
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
Means of existence is wrung from
Metaphor: cataract of horrors
rid the earth of liberate people from his yoke
The scene will be clear for the final act.
Alliteration: dull, drilled,
for his hearth and home
with its clanking,
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
easier and safer prey
Repetition: We have but one aim and one single purpose
nothing will turn us---nothing
We will never parley, we will
This is our policy and this is our declaration
as we shall faithfully and steadfastly
Parallelism: The past, with its crimes,
its follies,
and
I see,...
the return of the bread-winner,
of their champion,
of their protector
We shall fight him by land,
submarinewe shall fight him by sea,
we shall fight him in the air
Any man
Any man


Noun phrases: I had not the slightest doubt where ...
With great rapidity and violence
Periodic sentences: When I invasion of Russia.
If Hitler woefully mistaken.

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