Idioms like "black sheep, new broom, a wet blanket, sit on the fence" are examples of ______.
A: transfer
B: metonymy
C: metaphor
D: simile
A: transfer
B: metonymy
C: metaphor
D: simile
举一反三
- Would you like a cup or two? A: synecdoche B: metonymy C: metaphor D: simile
- When ________ is used, two essentially unlike things are compared and the comparison is often introduced by a phrase like "like" or "as". A: metaphor B: simile C: metonymy D: parody
- He is the soul of the team. A: simile B: metaphor C: personification D: metonymy
- By the hundreds and thousands these abominable houses cover the bare hillsides, like gravestones in some gigantic and decaying cemetery. A: simile B: metaphor C: metonymy D: synecdoche
- Which of the following is not a semantic rhetorical device? A: Metaphor B: Metonymy C: Parallelism D: Simile