Duplicate words, also known as tautology, are a type of compound words, which are rhetorical techniques that make use of analogy. Duizi is a word formed by overlapping two or more Chinese characters with the same shape and meaning. Most onomatopoeias are composed of repeated words. May appear in written or spoken language.
1. Duplicate nouns. Example: Snowflakes
2. Duplicate verbs. Examples: write calligraphy, draw pictures, take a rest
3. Overlapping adjectives. Examples: wet, red, white snow, slightly understood, slightly understood
4. Adverbs with overlapping words. Example: Melancholy
Famous overlapping works
1. Nineteen ancient poems: Green grass by the river, lush willows in the garden. Yingying, the girl upstairs, is shining brightly through the window. E'e wears red makeup and has slender hands.
2. Slow voice (Li Qingzhao): Searching and searching, deserted and miserable.
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The role of repeated words in poetry
1. Imagery. The appropriate use of overlapping characters in the poem can make the natural scenery or characters described more vivid. The first six sentences of "Green Grass by the River" in "Nineteen Ancient Poems" use six sets of repeated words: "Green grass by the river, lush willows in the garden. The girl upstairs is full of beauty, shining brightly at the window. E'e's makeup is red and pink, and her slender hands are bare. "
The first two sentences describe the scenery, using "green" and "luxury" to depict the dense vitality of spring vegetation; the last four sentences describe people, and the four groups of overlapping words describe the missing woman's posture, appearance, dress, etc. The writing is so realistic that you can almost imagine it.
2. Accuracy. Duplicate characters can imitate sounds as well as colors, achieving the rhetorical effect of imitating shapes and making the images expressed more precise. For example, in "An Ancient Poetry Composed by Jiao Zhongqing's Wife", "The officials and horses are in front, and the bride's carriage is behind, and they are faintly dimpled, and they all meet at the entrance of the main road." The words "faint" and "diandian" are used to imitate the sound of carriages and horses, which is very accurate and exaggerated. It captures the sad atmosphere when Lanzhi was sent home, giving people a heavy feeling.
3. Musicality. Overlapping words can make the poem's rhythm harmonious, making it catchy when read and pleasant to listen to. For example, Li Bai's "Ten of Seventeen Songs of Qiupu": "Thousands of heather trees, tens of thousands of privet forests. The mountains are full of egrets, and the white apes sing in the streams. Don't go to Qiupu, the sound of the apes will break the hearts of the guests." The first four sentences of the poem are each led by overlapping words, with a lively rhythm and full of musical beauty.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Duplicate