Simile的修辞手法在托福听力中的运用可谓炉火纯青。
譬如：
1.Like引导
1) He sweats like a pig.
2) They slept like babies.
3) Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.
4) Records fell like ripe apples on a windy day.
2.As引导
1)She is as beautiful as a flower.
2)I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as am angel, I am as merry as a school boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man...
3)The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me as if I had gained a new friend.
注意：As引导的as...as结构在英语中得到了广泛应用，若能在口语交流或各种作文考试中用上一个，定会得到意料之外的成效，常见的as结构有：
firm as a rock坚如磐石
light as a feather轻如鸿毛
close as an oyster严守秘密
mute as a fish噤若寒蝉
strong as a horse强壮如牛
cool as a cucumber泰然自若
sober as a judge十分清醒
sure as a gun千真万确
在托福听力之修辞艺术（上篇）中，我着重给大伙介绍了夸张（Hyperbole）和明喻（Simile），今天大家来着讨一下暗喻（metaphor2）和Irony（反语）：
metaphor（暗喻）
试比较以下两种托福听力表达方法：
1）He is very nice.（别人非常不错。）
2）He really has a heart of gold.（他有一颗金子般的心。）
非常明显，第二种表达方法比第一种愈加栩栩如生。由于第二种用了metaphor（隐喻的修辞手法。顾名思义，metaphor（隐喻）也是一种比喻，但不同于Simile（明喻）的是：
metaphor（隐喻）由于不借用比喻词的帮忙而更显精练，其典型形式是A is B.
Simile（明喻）的修辞手法在托福听力中的运用可谓炉火纯青。
譬如：
1) A good book is a good friend. （好书是益友。）
2) He has a voice of gold.
3) Experience is the best teacher.（经验是最好的老师。）
4) She has a photographic memory for detail.（她对细节有照相机般的记忆力。）
当然，除去托福听力，metaphor（隐喻）的修辞手法在英语语言文学中的经典范例不胜枚举：
1）All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
（整个世界是座舞台，男男女女，演员而已。）
2）Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting3 of a fire.
（William B. Yeats）（教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。）
3）He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat.
（他有一种微波微笑，能不加热而使其他人温暖。）
注意：因为metaphor（隐喻）具备隐蔽性，故在托福听力中要特别小心今年来不断出现的metaphor（隐喻）结构，抓住其引申含义，以免导致误解；这也是托福听力困难程度增加的表现。
