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1、FiguresofSpeechinEnglishAcademicWritingTomakewritingefficient,effectiveandimpressive,peoplehavealotofmethodsnomatterwhatlanguagetheyareusing.Inlecturesandbooksaboutwritingpeoplehavealotofrulessuchas3Cs–clearness,concisenessandcompleteness;4Cs--clearness,conciseness,completenessandcreati
2、vity;or6Cs--clearness,concisenesscompleteness,consistency,creativityandconsideration;andothertermssuchasvividnessandoriginalityandsoforth.Indifferentareas,people’swritingisofdifferentstylesandtheyhavedifferentskillstoachievetheoutcometheyintendedto.Figuresofspeech,ingeneral,aretakenaspo
3、werfulskillsinpiecesofliterature.However,whenwearereadingfamousacademicworks,whetherarticlesorbooks,wefindalotoffiguresofspeechtomakeauthors’writingclear,concise,vivid,effectiveandimpressive.Readingclassicsineconomics,finance,management,philosophy,lawandsoforth,suchasAnInquiryintotheNat
4、ureandCausesoftheWealthofNationsbyAdamSmith,Dao-De-JingbyLaoZi,andEconomicsbyPaulW.SamuelsonandWilliamD.Nordhausthoughit’squiteamodernwork(inapracticalsenseofa‘classicalwork’),wefeelgreatlyimpressedandtouchedbytheirfiguresofspeech,whichareverypowerfultohelpauthors’expressingandreaders’u
5、nderstanding.Inthisbookwetakesamplesonlyfromthearticleswefocusonsothatweexperiencetherealityofauthors’applyingfiguresofspeechinacademicworksbecausewhatwegetarenotclassicsthoughtheyarefromfirst-classjournalsandbypresentfamousacademics.Inacademicwritingthemostcommonfiguresofspeecharemetap
6、horandanalogy.I.Simile1.definitionAsimileisanobviouscomparisonofonethingtoanothertoshowthesimilarity.2.functionAsimilemakestheexpressedthingmorevivid,moreconcreteandofcourseeasiertounderstand.3.characteristicsThetwothings,thecomparingandthecompared,areallpresent.Andbetweenthetwothings,t
7、hereisawordas‘as’,or‘like’etc.asinthesentences:‘Hisheartislikeadancingflower.’and‘Heislikeapotato.’Thecomparingandthecomparedcannotbeofonekind.4.samplesinacademicarticlesThechallengewillseemasdifficultaschangingajetenginewhilethejetisinflight.Inthissentence,theauthoruses‘changi
