淇緸鏂规硶
Rhetorical Devices (2)
Personification
It is to treat a thing or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities.
1.
Youth
is
hot
and
bold
;
Age
is
weak
and
cold
.
Youth
is
wild
,
and
Age
is
tame
.
-----William Shakespeare
2. The match will soon be over and defeat is
staring
us in the face.
3. This time fate was
smiling
to him.
4. Thunder
roared
and a pouring rain started.
5. Dusk came
stealthily
.
6. The storm was
raging
and
angry
sea was continuously
tossing
their boat.
7. The sun
kissed
the green fields.
8. The thirsty desert
drank up
the water.
9.
The youth
were singing, laughing and playing the music instruments.
10. The trees and flowers around them
danced heartily
as if
touched
by merry mood.
11. The night, like some great loving mother,
gently lays her hand
at our fevered head.
12. Ill-gotten wealth is but an
evil friend
.
13. The leaves are
trembling
in the cold wind.
14. The storm was so
angry
that it wanted to destroy everything in the cold wind.
15. The thirsty soil
drank
in the rain.
1.
The waves were
dimpling
in the sunshine. (
娉涜捣绗戠獫
)
2.
The green mountains were
dancing
, and the rivers and lakes
smiling
.
3.
The rose
blushes
in the morning breeze.
4.
Time will
tell
.
5.
On the table
lay
some dog-eared books.
6.
The wind
sighed
in the tree tops.
7.
The moon is
riding
in the sky.
8.
The lamb
nodded
as I came home.
9.
Pride
goes
before a fall.
10.
Success, health, and happiness are
beckoning
to you.
11.
Poetry is the
queen
of arts.
12.
Truth never
grows old
.
Zoosemy
Opposite to personification, it is to treat a human as an object, like an animal, a plant,
an inanimate thing, or an abstract idea.
1.
鈥?/p>
A lucky dog you are
!
鈥?/p>
exclaimed Jim.
2. Terribly hungry, the man
wolfed down
all the cakes.
3. Children are
flowers
of our country.
4. She found in him
model and admiration
.
5. His spoilt children are
rotten goods
that will never prosper.
6.
Like a lion
he rushed to meet his foe.
7. He slept like a
dog
.
8. The prostitutes are
nothing but paper toys
, played, ruined, torn, and thrown into the
garbage can.