What rhetorical devices did Liu Yong use?

Liu Yong uses rhetorical devices such as metaphor, personification and rhetorical questions. In the poem, Jasper is dressed as a tree, ten thousand green silk tapestries hang down, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors. Metaphorical rhetoric is used to compare willow trees to Jasper, wicker to green silk tapestries and spring breeze to scissors. The phrase "I don't know who cut the thin leaves" personifies the spring breeze with anthropomorphic rhetoric, which shows the ingenuity of nature.

Original text:

Jasper dressed as a tree, hanging down ten thousand green silk tapestries.

I don't know who cut the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors.

The first sentence of the poem, "Jasper is as high as a tree", compares the willow tree to an ancient girl, which makes the image of the willow tree look lovely and full of youthful vitality. The second sentence, "A tapestry of ten thousand strands of moss hangs down", compares willow leaves to the moss nepotism hung down by a girl. The third and fourth sentences "I don't know who cut the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors" capture the characteristics of weeping willows and compare the spring breeze to scissors, showing the magic and dexterity of the spring breeze. This poem is full of people's joy in early spring. The novelty and appropriateness of metaphor and metaphor is the success of this poem.