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RHETORIC Simile: a comparison between two unlike things having at least one quality or characteristic in common. tenor: the subject of the comparisonVehicle: 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 elephants 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 horrorsrid the earth of his shadow...liberate people from his yokeThe scene will be clear for the final act.Alliteration: dull, drilled, docile...for his hearth and homewith its clanking, heel-clicking...Assonance: the use of the same or related, vowel sounds in successive wordsclanking, heel-clicking,…cowing and tying ...plodding on like crawling locusts, ...smarting from many a British whipping...easier and safer preyRepetition: We have but one aim and one single purposenothing will turn us---nothingWe will never parley, we will never negotiate...This is our policy and this is our declarationas we shall faithfully and steadfastlyParallelism: The past, with its crimes,its follies, and its tragedies...I see,...I see...the return of the bread-winner,of their champion, of the