Simile (metaphor)
Simile is the simplest and most common rhetorical method. It compares two things or phenomena with the same characteristics, indicating that the relationship between ontology and vehicle appears in comparison. Its basic format is "A is like B", and the commonly used figurative word is as.
Like, like, like waiting. For example:
He jumped back as if he had been stung and blood poured into his throat.
Full of wrinkles. He jumped back as if he had been stung by something, and his wrinkled face turned red at once. )
In The Taster, the old man's generous response to "mine" is like being stung by a bee, which vividly depicts the image of a poor old man who is desolate but extremely sensitive.
The check fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing.
The check fell to the ground like a bird with a broken wing. )
In the article "Gift", the old lady celebrated her eightieth birthday, but the eldest daughter didn't come to celebrate, only sent a check. The author compares this check to a bird with a broken wing, which vividly expresses the disillusionment and extreme sadness of the old lady at the moment.
Metaphor (metaphor)
Metaphor is also a metaphor, but there is no metaphor, so it is called a compressed simile.
Simile). It directly applies the name of one thing to another, thus explaining things more vividly and profoundly and enhancing the expressive force of language. For example:
● What will parents do without an electronic nanny?
What would parents do without this electronic nanny? ) vividly illustrates the nanny function of TV.
● ... when most of us can't wait to impose a cold wind on others
For criticism, we don't know why we don't want to give our companions warmth.
Sunshine
Great. (... but many of us are too easy to blow the cold wind of criticism to others and are unwilling to give the sunshine of praise to our peers. ) The author compares criticism to a cold wind and praise to warm sunshine, which is vivid and meaningful.
Metonymy (metonymy)
Metonymy (metonymy) is the substitution of metonymy for ontology through similar association. For example:
My 15 students read Emerson, Thoreau, and.
All my fifteen students have read Emerson, Thoreau and Huxley. This is a typical metonymy, and the work borrows people's names.
● In the face of the elliptical man of the earth, the first card I can play is
The sun and the moon.
In the face of "Earth Ellipsis Theory", the first card I can play is the similarity between the sun and the moon. The author uses the concrete first card and borrows the abstract "first argument", which is more vivid and easy to understand.
It also makes the language fresh, lively and expressive.
Personification (personification)
Personification is a figure of speech that personifies human characteristics and characteristics, and it is to add human characteristics and characteristics to external things. For example:
... four evergreen shrubs stood in every corner, and they worked hard.
Survive the smoke of busy trunk lines.
Road. (... four evergreen shrubs are distributed in every corner. They endure the dust and smoke from busy streets and struggle to survive. ) "Struggle" is the action of life, and the author gives life to natural flowers and makes them personalized.
But the house is cold and closed.
Not friendly. But those houses are cold and heartless, with closed doors and windows, and they are not friendly at all. ) The house was originally emotionless, and the author showed the indifference of the people in the house through personification.
hyperbole
Exaggeration is a rhetorical way that deliberately exaggerates, or exaggerates or narrows the image of things, so as to highlight certain characteristics or characters of things and clearly express thoughts and feelings. Used to describe can make the image more vivid and prominent, render the atmosphere, contrast the artistic conception, and leave a deep and distinct impression on readers. For example:
Vingo sat dumbfounded, looking at the oak tree. It is covered with yellow.
Handkerchiefs, 20 bucks, maybe 30 bucks.
Vingo sits there and looks at the oak tree in shock. The tree is covered with yellow handkerchiefs-twenty, thirty, maybe hundreds. ) 20, 30 in this sentence
They, May Dreams, only used exaggerated methods to subjectively render the atmosphere.
She gave me the impression that she had more teeth, white and big.
Even more than any practical necessity.
She gave me the impression that she has a big white tooth, which is more than any actual need. Here, the author makes the image of a greedy and delicious woman jump from the paper through exaggerated description.