应用修辞可以让我们的语言更富于形象性。当我们运用不同的词汇，不管高级还是低级，修辞的运用将会比普通的词汇更有文学层面上的意义，从修辞中我们可以增加想要说明的效果，创造更有暗示性的景象，并且不动声色地为自己的水平加分。

　　针对GRE的写作，我们在常用的26种修辞中应用的并不多，来来去去的不过十几种常用的。下面，我们来看看11种修辞。

1）Simile：（明喻）It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as……as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other.

For example, as cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

2）Metaphor：（暗喻）It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated.

For example, the world is a stage.

　　以上两种比喻类修辞比较简单，在运用的时候想到什么适合的本体和喻体就可以进行“喻”。

　　3）Analogy：（类比）It is also a form of comparison, but unlike simile or metaphor which usually uses comparison on one point of resemblance, analogy draws a parallel between two unlike things that have several common qualities or points of resemblance.

　　类比的学习最好的老师就是Argument，阿狗里面的false analogy类比很多都是我们钻牛角尖的找出来的，但是，实际上我们很多的情况下在无话可说的时候都可以运用类比。比如说，我们在讨论政府职能的时候，假如我们不了解政府职能，我们可以从我们了解的组织谈起，比如我们可以讨论班级、学校、公司或者一些大型小型组织，从一个具体的问题到另一个问题而避免谈一些不熟悉的问题。具体的陈述可以类似如下开展：

　　When comes to the issue of empowerment

　　1. This point can be better illustrated by comparing a class（你熟悉的） with a business（你不熟悉的）. 然后business bla bla…

　　2. Teachers who possess power and exert it to conduct class play a similar role as business managers do. 然后，只讨论课堂不讨论商业了。

　　例如：

　　Students who are granted/given/empowered/endowed……… are more motivated… If power not rightly supervised and restricted, the class will get out of control and lead to/result in/turn into/prove to be flop/fiasco/blunder/failure/ catastrophe…

　　3. Elaborate a class进行详细的class描写

　　4. 点睛之笔 So is a business. 类比其实就是某种层面上的跑题，大部分的跑题是无意识的，但是我们要让这种有目的的跑题为我们的文章服务，这就是学习类比修辞的意义所在。