RHETORIC
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 the threshold...
Means of existence is wrung from the soil...
Metaphor: cataract of horrors
rid the earth of his shadow...liberate people from his yoke
The scene will be clear for the final act.
Alliteration: dull, drilled, docile...
for his hearth and home
with its clanking, heel-clicking...
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 British whipping...
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 never negotiate...
This is our policy and this is our declaration
as we shall faithfully and steadfastly
Parallelism: The past, with its crimes,
its follies,
and its tragedies...
I see,...I see...
the return of the bread-winner,
of their champion,
of their protector
We shall fight him by land,
we shall fight him by sea,
we shall fight him in the air
Any man or state...
Any man or state...
Let us...
Let us...
Noun phrases: I had not the slightest doubt where ...
With great rapidity and violence
Periodic sentences: When I awoke on...invasion of Russia.
If Hitler imagines that... woefully mistaken.