Лексические стилистические приёмы: художественное сравнение, метонимия, оксюморон, ирония, аллюзия

Художественное сравнение (simile):

a) The indoor bar area of the Standard had a loosely desert theme… the floor was cork, the lamps like giant desert flowers. (H. Fielding, “Olivia Joules”) b) Soon she was hearing her own heavy breathing, like a sound effect in a horror film. (H. Fielding, “Olivia Joules”) c) For a second, in the semi-darkness of the tunnel they stared at each other, mesmerized, like a cat and a goldfish. (H. Fielding, “Olivia Joules”)

Схожесть не очевидна:

a) Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through. (J. Swift) b) Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite right. (S. Johnson)

Стёртое сравнение: You are like an elephant. His hair was like snow.

Развёрнутое сравнение:

I. II.

How like a winter hath my absence been Yet this abundant issue seemed to me

From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! But hope of orphans and unfathered fruit.

What freezing have I felt, what dark days seen! The summer and his pleasures wait on thee,

What old December’s bareness everywhere! And, thou away, the very birds are mute;

And yet this time removed was summer’s time, Or, if they sing, ‘tis with so dull a cheer,

The teeming autumn, big with rich increase, That leaves look pale, dreading the winter’s near.

Bearing the wanton burthen of the prime, (W. Shakespeare, Sonnet 97)

Like widowed wombs after their lords decease: