(e) “Touch pitch and be defiled.”
(f) “Rome was not built in a day.”
(g) “No gains without pains.”
(h) “Nothing venture nothing win.”
Use of Illustrations.
An apt illustration is always a help to a writer or speaker. The mind of the reader or hearer is interested in tracing the comparison, and receives a stronger impression than it does when the thought is stated simply by itself.
Many of the most famous orators have been very gifted in employing similes to express their meaning. You should cultivate the habit of using illustrations. Although there is sometimes danger in employing them, yet where carefully and rightly used they not only ornament the composition, but render its thoughts and ideas more striking, more impressive and more easily remembered.
A Simile is a comparison explicitly stated; as,