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Mulan Poetry is an excellent poem in China's classical poetry, which has been handed down from generation to generation. This is not only because of its vivid stories and full characters, but also because it skillfully uses various rhetorical devices. This paper skillfully uses a large number of rhetorical devices such as parallelism, exaggeration and duality, and achieves good expression results.
Metaphor-"When two rabbits walk beside the ground, they can tell whether I am a male or a female". Here, the metaphor of two rabbits is used to describe the complexity of things, and it is not easy to see the details. It is humorous, showing the cordial and friendly feelings towards Mulan, and praising Mulan's prudence, alertness, decency, liveliness and rich folk life.
Exaggeration-"If Wan Li goes to Rongji, he will fly through Shan Ye". Through the exaggeration of fighting life, he wrote the distant journey and the bitterness of life, which aroused the strong voice of readers. "Twelve strategic honors, rewarding a hundred strong men" is an exaggeration of quantity and degree. The use of these exaggerations not only successfully set off the heroic image of Mulan, but also showed that the son of heaven had made many contributions and generous rewards to Mulan, and also "asked him what he wanted", which implied promotion and promotion. This effectively sets off the idea that "Mulan doesn't need to be fashionable, and she is willing to send her son back to her hometown for thousands of miles", and shows the pure character and noble quality that Mulan retired after her success, cherished the agricultural life in her hometown and didn't admire the splendor. In the structure of the article, it also paved the way for Wen Mulan to resolutely resign and return to her hometown without seeking fame and fortune.
The contrast-"A general died after hundreds of battles, but a strong man was still alive after ten years" more intensively and vividly highlighted the long time and fierce battle situation, thus showing Mulan's hard fighting career for ten years.
Duality-"The new moon breathes golden bells, and the cold light shines iron clothes", describes the night scene of the frontier fortress, and shows Mulan's hardships in guarding the frontier fortress through the contrast of harsh environment. The extensive use of antithetical sentences, such as "Twelve Turn for Glory, Reward Hundred Brave Men", "Grandfather has no eldest son, Mulan has no eldest brother", "Open my East Pavilion door and sit on my West Pavilion bed", "Take off my wartime robe and wear my old clothes", "The colorful clouds look yellow in the mirror when the window is open" and "The male rabbit is puzzled and the female rabbit's eyes are blurred", makes these.