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Chapter 1 Simile 明喻 Objectives of Learning Simile To know what simile is. To know the classifications of simile. To know that simile is cultural specific. Simile 1.1 What is simile? Simile is a comparison between two unlike things from different domains. These four sentences are not simile, because the two things involved belong to the same domain. Simile or not? -John looks like his brother Billy. -My car runs as fast as the train. -The child is like a man. -The one standing there looks like a beggar. Simile 1.2 What is simile composed of? A is like B. -- A is the subject (本体). -- B is the reference (喻体). -- the simile marker (比喻词): as, be like, seem, be similar to, be akin to , as if / though, such as, compare… to, treat… as, regard… as; 1.3 The classifications of simile: The examples of simile can be descriptive (描述型); illustrative (说明型) – to explain; illuminative (启发型) – to give light to. 1.3 The classifications of simile:descriptive, illustrative or illuminative? What kind of simile do they belong to? A thought struck him like a silver dagger. Tennis is like a ping pong game scaled up to a sizable court. 3. Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and bloom? But we hope it, we know it. 有时候我们的命运就像冬天里的一株果树，谁会相信那些树枝还会变绿开花呢？但我们知道，我们仍抱着希望。 Descriptive simile Fill in the blanks with the words dam wall. 1. He was a man who never smiled, and whose face was as blank as a whitewashed ___. 2. The tensions of the two-day exercise broke like a ___ giving way to a flood, and she laughed with them, comforted those who cried with relief. Compare the following sentences with the ones in the left. 1’. He was a man who never smiled, and who has a blank face. 2. The tensions of the two-day exercise broke, and she laughed with them, comforted those who cried with relief. Descriptive simile Question: What is the feature of descriptive simile? We can see in our mind’s eye the vivid pic