In Dai Wangshu's Rain Lane, there is such a sentence: "She floats like a dream, like a dream of sadness and confusion." What rhetoric is used?

Repetitive rhetoric is used. Like a dream, sad and confused like a dream The repeated use of "Like a Dream" highlights the fact that girls like cloves appear many times in the rain lane, which is impressive. Her shadow haunted the author's mind for a long time.

Repetition is a rhetorical method that deliberately makes a sentence or word repeat according to the needs of expression. Repetition is to emphasize a certain meaning, highlight a certain emotion, and deliberately reuse certain words, sentences or paragraphs. There are also repeated rhetorical devices in Rain Lane, namely, "She silently approached, approached and took a breath" and "She silently walked away, far away, walked towards the decaying fence and walked through this rain lane". It's all rhetorical devices.