What are the main means of expression of literature?

The main means of expression in literary works refers to the use of person, expression, expression and language features.

1. Personal use:

First person: enhance the sense of reality of the article, describe it kindly and naturally, and facilitate the author to express his feelings.

The second person said: create an atmosphere of face-to-face communication between the author and the reader, and enhance the lyricism and intimacy of the article.

The third person: can directly and objectively show colorful life, not limited by time and space, and flexibly and freely reflect reality.

2. Expression mode

(1) Narrative Skills

Sequential narration: To narrate clearly according to time or spatial order.

Flashback: Write from the end or a paragraph in the plot, which causes suspense and fascination.

Interpolation: Make necessary preparations and supplementary explanations for the main plot or central event to make the plot more complete, the structure more rigorous and the content more substantial.

Supplementary narrative: explain the above contents and make some explanations for the following. It can supplement, enrich and deepen the original narrative.

Plain narration: also known as "separate narration", commonly known as "two flowers bloom, each showing a flower", refers to the parallel narration of two or more things that happen at the same time, so that the clues are clear and the care is appropriate.

(2) Description skills

Character description: portrait description, action description (action description), expression description, language description and psychological description.

Function: Depicting characters, showing their personality characteristics and showing (revealing) their inner world.

Description of scenery: Describe the natural scenery in detail, vividly reproduce the characteristics of the scenery, create an atmosphere, create an immersive feeling, set off the feelings and thoughts of the characters, and pave the way for the following discussion and lyricism.

Description of environment and scene:

Detail description: a close-up description of the characteristics, appearance, movements, manners and other details of a character. Delicate, accurate, vivid and lifelike portrayal of the characters, showing the characters' personality and revealing their psychology.

Characters reflect their psychological activities and promote the development of the story.

Meticulous description: finely carved, vivid and subtle;

Sketch: Sketch the outline with a simple pen, which is concise and vivid, and contains deep affection with simple language.

Positive description: also known as direct description, through the author's perspective, directly express people and things from the front.

Profile description: also known as indirect description, it shows people and things from the perspective of a third party, or highlights the main people and things from the side by describing other people and things.

Point-to-surface combination: meticulous and appropriate, focused, can reflect the image state of personnel scenery in depth and breadth, and fully express thoughts and feelings.

Description angles: movement, distance, ancient and modern, inside and outside, overlooking, looking up, looking up, whole and part, vision, hearing, taste and touch.

(3) Lyrics can be divided into direct lyricism and indirect lyricism. Direct lyric is also called direct expression.

Express one's mind directly: express one's mind directly, which can vividly express the emotion of "life is a hero, death is a hero", express the passionate life ideal of female poets, and implicitly criticize the cowardly behavior of the Southern Song Dynasty court. "Since ancient times, no one has died in life, so we should cherish our history", which expresses Wen Tianxiang's heroic spirit of loyalty to the country and dedication to death.

Indirect lyricism: Indirect lyricism is common in expressing ambition by objects, expressing emotion by scenery and expressing emotion by scenery. Lyrics are implicit (emotions can be expressed tactfully and implicitly).

Writing music Write a sad love with a happy scene and a sad love with a sad scene (contrast).

3. Expression skills

Symbol: To express abstract concepts, thoughts or emotions with the help of concrete things, which is characterized by using some similarities between symbols and symbolized objects to make some thoughts and emotions implicitly and vividly expressed, and to enhance the image and expressiveness of articles. Symbols are concrete to some extent, but they are deeper and more general than general metaphors. For example, plum blossoms symbolize loyalty, orchids symbolize nobility, peonies symbolize wealth, bamboo symbolizes integrity, red beans symbolize acacia, floating clouds symbolize wanderers, autumn fans symbolize abandonment, and Zigui symbolizes sadness.

Contrast: Compare one thing with another relative thing, so as to clearly and vividly highlight a certain feature of the thing and highlight the author's feelings about it.