兩種具有***同特征的事物或現象進行對比（直接比喻），表明本體和喻體的關系，兩者都在對比中出現，其基本格式是“A像B",常用的比喻詞有as,like,as if, as though等。
eg: 1.The Snow was like a white blanket drawn over the field.
2.Like climbling a mountain, we struggle up three feet and fall back two.(正如爬山，我們費力三英尺，又掉下去兩英尺。）
二.暗喻（the metaphor)
不用比喻詞，根據兩個事物間的某些***同特征，用壹事物去暗示另壹事物的比喻方式。
eg:1.I will do anything I can to help him through life's dangerous sea.(我將全力幫助他穿越人生的驚濤駭浪。）
2.Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was building.(每壹封信就像落在肥沃土地上的種子，浪漫之花含苞待放。）
3. You are your mother's glass.(妳是妳母親的翻版。）
4.Hope is a good breakfast, but it's a bad supper.
辨別體會：He has a heart of stone. (暗喻）
He has a heart like stone. (明喻）
三.擬人（Personification)
把物比做人，人格化。
eg: 1.The sun looks over the mountain's rim. (太陽掛在山邊。）
2.The moans of the autumn wind wound in the deep of the the mountain.(秋風的呻吟縈繞在大山深處。）
3.Flu stalked about,touching one here and there with his evil finger.(流感四處遊蕩，用它罪惡的手指碰碰這個，碰碰那個。）
四.誇張(Hyperbole)
誇大，表達比實際事情更高，更強烈，更集中。
eg: I haven't seen you gor ages.(幾輩子不見了）
2. My gray hair can make a long long rope.(白發三千丈）
3.He hurried to the railway station, looking at his watch a hundred times.(他匆匆朝火車站去，看了壹百遍表。）
五.排比（Parallelism)
句式相同，
eg.Large shopping centers provide not only pleasant environment, abundant goods but also excellent services.
其它修辭手法還有雙關（pun),擬聲（onomatcpocia),頭韻法（alliteration),反復(Repetition)，倒裝(Inversion)等。