English Rhetoric By Chen Ping Chapter Ten Semantic Figures of Speech 1 10.1 Simile 10.2 Metaphor 10.3 Metonymy 10.4 Synecdoche 10.5 Antonomasia 10.6 Personification 10.7 Parody 仿拟/ 戏仿 10.8 Synesthesia 10.9 Transferred Epithet Contents of This Chapter 210.1 Simile (1)Definition Two concepts or two similar things are imaginatively and descriptively compared because they have at least one quality or characteristic in common or in resemblance. The commonest connectives are “like” and “as”. It is one
