An Applied Analysis of the Vehicles of Figures of Speech

The vehicle of figures of speech plays a very important part in analogy. The selection of vehicles determines the characteristics and values of the language concerned in the figures of speech. The paper analyzes the difference of selection vehicles of figures of speech in the works of SHU She yu and WANG Shuo. In SHU She yu's works. the examples of vehicles tend to be those analogous objects in real life, and the author pays attention to the vividness and popularity of the vehicles used. In WANG Shou's works, the examples of vehicles used are those objects of secularity, thus gaining a sort of anti hero effect.