Rhetorical techniques used by Zhu Ziqing in "Spring"

The sentences using rhetorical techniques in "Spring" by the modern essayist Zhu Ziqing include:

1. Looking forward to, looking forward to, the east wind is coming, and the footsteps of spring are approaching.

Detailed explanation: At the beginning of the work, the author uses a repeated figure of speech. The repeated use of the verb "hope". Abrupt, powerful and eager to reflect people's eagerness to look forward to the coming of spring. Then use an "anthropomorphic" rhetorical figure to convey the message of spring.

2. Everything looked like just waking up, and Xinxinran opened his eyes. The mountains are moist, the water is rising, and the sun is blushing.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses personification. Personifying the sun not only captures the characteristics of the spring sun, expresses the warmth of the spring sun, but also shows the inner charm of the spring sun. The whole sentence forms a parallel sentence, using "personification" and "parallel" to describe the mountains, water, and sun in broad strokes, concisely outlining the general outline of early spring.

3. The grass secretly emerged from the soil, tender and green.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses an anthropomorphic figure of speech. Words such as "stealing" and "drilling" vividly express the tenacious vitality of the grass.

4. Peach trees, apricot trees, and pear trees, if you don’t let me, and I won’t let you, they are all full of flowers.

Detailed explanation: This sentence is a rhetorical device of parallelism, personification and metaphor. It depicts the blooming of peach blossoms, apricot blossoms and pear blossoms very vividly and vividly. "Red is like fire, pink is like clouds, and white is like snow." Three "metaphors" are used together. And these three metaphorical sentences form a parallel sentence.

5. There is a sweetness in the flowers. When you close your eyes, the trees seem to be full of peaches, apricots and pears.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses the rhetorical techniques of synesthesia and parallelism. "Flower" refers to vision, and the author transplants it to the sense of taste, saying that it is "with sweetness". Looking at the spring blossoms and thinking of the autumn fruits - the trees full of "peaches, apricots, and pears" really satisfy the craving for a fruit harvest. This kind of imagination not only broadens the horizon of depiction, but also renders the loveliness of spring flowers from another angle.

6. Thousands of bees are buzzing under the flowers. Butterflies of all sizes were flying around.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses the "personification" figure of speech. The word "noisy". The personification of bees is very apt. This description both expresses sound. It implies a bustle and excitement, and also implies a scene full of spring and vitality.

7. Wild flowers are everywhere: various kinds, with names and without names, scattered in the grass, like eyes, like stars, and they are blinking.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses metaphor and personification. The wild flowers in the grass are "like eyes, like stars, and they are blinking", very vivid. It is these small wild flowers that together with other flowers form a large family of spring flowers, making the spring land extraordinarily beautiful and enchanting.

8. The willow wind is not cold on your face, it’s good, it’s like a mother’s hand caressing you.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses the rhetorical techniques of quotation and metaphor. The sentence first quotes a poem by monk Zhinan of the Southern Song Dynasty to describe the warmth and softness of the spring breeze, which is very kind and touching.

The spring breeze "touches you like a mother's hand" uses the "metaphor" figure of speech. This metaphor makes people feel very kind and life-like. It can easily evoke people's childhood memories and feel the mother's love. Warmth and greatness.

9. The birds settled their nests among the flowers and leaves, became happy, and showed off their clear throats to their friends, singing melodious songs that matched the breeze and flowing water.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses an anthropomorphic figure of speech. The birds all come to "show off" their singing voices, and their melodious tunes "match the breeze and the flowing water." The author uses "bird singing" and other cheerful expressions of birds to set off people's happy mood, reflecting that spring brings joy to people, birds, and all creatures on the earth.

10. Look, it looks like cow hair, like flower needles, like filaments, densely woven diagonally, and there is a thin layer of smoke on the roof of the house.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses metaphor, parallelism and personification. The author compares the continuous spring rain to cow hair, flower needles, and thin threads. These three metaphors are used together to form a parallelism. Then, the word "woven" is used to personify the spring rain and describe the spring rain as extremely moist.

11. When going to the countryside, on the paths and by the stone bridges, there are people holding umbrellas and walking slowly; there are also farmers working in the fields, wearing straw hats and hats.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses a rhetorical device of duality to describe the activities of various people in the countryside.

12. Their houses are sparse and silent in the rain.

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses overlapping and personification rhetorical techniques. The "overlapping sound" here reflects the beauty of sound and language. The house "quietly in the rain" personifies the house and depicts the house that has been dormant all winter more spiritually, decorating the countryside in the misty early spring.

13. Spring is like a baby that just landed, it is new from head to toe. It grows.

Detailed explanation; This sentence compares spring to a "doll", which is both metaphor and personification. Spring is not knowable, feelable, or touchable like other things, but the author compares it to a newborn baby and gives it new life.

14. Spring is like a little girl, full of flowers, smiling and walking.

Detailed explanation: This tenth day uses both "metaphor" and "personification", comparing spring to a "little girl". Spring gradually grows up and turns into a "flowery" little girl. She is slim, graceful, "smiling and walking", which is really endearing to people.

15. Spring is like a strong young man, with iron-like arms, waist and feet, leading us forward

Detailed explanation: This sentence uses "metaphor" and "personification" "Used both ways, spring is compared to a "youth" with "iron arms, waist and feet", with ideals, courage, achievements, and the courage to take on responsibilities. Spring, the "robust youth", "leads us forward." Here, the author praises spring to his heart's content. And it is further revealed that spring has unstoppable creativity and infinite good hope.