We all know that prose can be divided into lyric prose, narrative prose and argumentative prose. No matter what kind of prose, there must be rhythm. Rhythm can be extended to the flat format, rhyming rules and prosodic rules of ancient poetry.
The rhythm of lyric prose, like hazy, elegant and soft classical music, is to express the true feelings and let readers sing. This requires solid writing skills, especially ancient poetry. The charm of ancient poetry is the beauty of rhyme and artistic conception of flat and flat meter. Not only is it catchy to read, but it also makes readers linger in the beautiful artistic conception. Beautiful lyric prose can absorb the advantages of the beauty of phonology and artistic conception of ancient poetry, thus increasing the artistry and ideological content of the article. In particular, the long and short sentences of Song Ci are very similar to modern poetry. If we carefully scrutinize those lyrical sentences or paragraphs and rewrite them into Song poems or modern poems, then their meanings will be emitted in the rhythm. For example, to express yearning for hometown, a common sentence is: "No matter where you go, you will be worried about your hometown." Qian Shan can't stop my yearning for my hometown. "Homesickness is integrated into the rhythm and changed to:" Homesickness is like a tough and long silk thread, which always accompanies me wherever I go. "Mountains, separated from each other; Water, constantly cutting; One is in my hometown and the other is in my heart. " After such a touch-up, the fragrant rhythm of this prose comes out.
The rhythm of narrative prose is like pop music, with short structure, popular content, rich flavor of life and sincere feelings. The biggest difference between narrative prose and novels is that the former often integrates his feelings and opinions into the narrative and directly expresses his views on people or things in the story, which requires an emotional theme. As long as you can express the main theme, you don't need to present characters, storylines and environmental descriptions. Fiction, on the other hand, is a style that uses stories to interpret the philosophy of life and show all kinds of human nature. The author's views on people and things can't be seen in his works, so he can only combine stories to make readers understand. There is no theme in the text, only scattered notes. Because of this, beautiful narrative prose is often in the echo of emotional rhythm, or narrative, or lyric, or discussion, so that readers can feel the feelings expressed by the author in the rich rhythm of life and sincere feelings. Zhu Ziqing's "Back" is based on the scene where his father sent himself to the car, focusing on describing his father's back after several twists and turns, so as to eulogize his selfless fatherly love. Xu Maorong's narrative prose "Mother" focuses on the infinite reverence and deep feelings for his mother. With simple and plain language as the notes, it plays the song of great mother's love just right, which all touches the softest and softest heartstrings of readers.
The rhythm of argumentative writing is like rock music with clear syncopation rhythm. Every syncopation is like an argument in the article. A successful argumentative essay must have three conditions: clear views, sufficient arguments and orderly argumentation. However, to achieve these three points, it is impossible to do them all without profound knowledge and perfect logical reasoning ability. Zhang Xiguo's argumentative essay "Myth" begins with the first syncopation of the full text-the first argument: "Looking through China's fairy tales, you can't find a successful' rebel'." Taking this syncopation as an opportunity, the rhythm gradually brightened up: Wukong, Nezha and Chen Xiang all resisted, but in the end they all shook hands with their opponents, and none of them was a successful "rebel".
Then, the author played the second syncopation: the heroes in western mythology are all successful people who let the opposite direction compromise themselves. Such as Prometheus, theseus and Sisyphus. , are successful rebels who let the other side yield. All arts must be grounded to attract readers' attention. If the author talks about myths and things in the sky without grounding gas, all the materials in the prose will become useless notes because of the lack of theme. At this point, the author played the third syncopation-turning to the "golden mean" of philosophy and the "orthodoxy" of philosophy, which is undoubtedly the root cause of the rebels' failure. ...
Speaking of rhythm, argumentative writing is strikingly similar to rock music: rock music is characterized by daring to express one's love and hate, while argumentative writing is daring to express one's views clearly. Syncopation of rock music is used to express the main theme, and the argument of argumentative paper is bound to be closely related to the materials presented in the paper. Only when it is used properly will readers clap their hands and applaud.
It is the characteristic of prose that the form is scattered but the spirit is not scattered, and it is also a measure to control the rhythm of prose. Rich materials, colorful rhetoric, intricate expressions and imaginative associations, just like the accompaniment melody, add charm or color to the main theme. Without these materials, rhetoric and expressions, prose can only be as boring as shouting slogans, lacking artistic charm. It can only be a song that sounds lively. The singer worked hard, but it was difficult to arouse the onlookers to sing because she deviated from the main theme. This will not only make the author futile, but also waste the reader's time, and even feel cheated.
Therefore, the rhythm of prose must be loyal to the main idea. If the main idea is at the beginning of the article, it must be dealt with at the end. For example, in Guo's My Love and the Bright Moon, the theme is sung at the beginning of the article: "After being away from home for a long time, there are inevitably piles of heavy homesickness in my heart." After the author conveyed his homesickness with touching pen and ink, he echoed at the end of the article: "May my deep homesickness be entrusted to the bright moon in the sky, and may the moonlight bring my dreamy feelings and confused feelings like clouds to the small villages on the Luxi Plain!" If the main idea is in the text, it must be indicated at the beginning and dealt with at the end. There is a sentence at the beginning of Zhu Xinghe's "Walking on a Mountain": "As soon as I get home, I always like to sit on the rattan chair in front of the window, rain or shine." This sentence is not the theme, but it paves the way for the theme-its theme is like the climax of the main theme, floating in the text: "In real life, unpleasant things often come one after another, and I will be sad and unhappy. When I am bored and agitated, the green hills outside the window are my best comfort. Looking up, I was speechless, and all kinds of worries immediately turned into a wisp of light dust, floating in the sun outside the window. " At the end of the article, once again, the lingering sound: "I hope there will always be green mountains in my heart, so that even in the days when there are no mountains, I can build green mountains in my life, let the greenery shine in front of me and plant them wholeheartedly." If the main idea is at the end of the article, be sure to indicate it at the beginning. For example, Yang's "Water Town Teahouse" has a title at the end: "The moonlight has faded, the sky is up and down, the teahouse lights are dim, the moonlight on the river is wrinkled, the water vapor is rushing, the night tide is lapping on the shore, and the small teahouse is suspected of being drunk in the hometown. Everything is integrated with the heart. " A positive attitude can brew the poetry of life. At the beginning of the article, there is only a faint sentence as the main theme: "In the water town of Guangdong, the teahouse is a major feature." ..... let the theme ripple in different parts of the article, thus constructing the rhythm of prose and making prose as wonderful and full of charm as literary works comparable to Tang poetry and Song poetry.
In short, whether it is lyric prose, discussion prose or narrative prose, we must control its rhythm when writing, so that the article will be charming and fragrant!