Metaphor is a rhetorical device that concretizes abstract things and simplifies abstruse truth according to the similarity between things.
Suddenly, like a night wind blowing, like a pear tree in blossom.
-Cen Can's Song of Snow White sent Tian Shuji Wu home.
The desert sand is like snow, and the Yanshan moon is like a hook.
-Li He's "Ma Shi"
embodiment
Personification is a rhetorical device, which personifies things and changes things without human actions and feelings into things with human actions and feelings.
Jasper dressed as a tree, hanging down ten thousand green silk tapestries.
I don't know who cut the thin leaves, but the spring breeze in February is like scissors.
-He Zhangzhi's Singing Willow
Why use the elegy of willow to complain about the delay of spring, old Yumenguan, a spring breeze is not blowing!
-Wang Zhihuan's "Liangzhou Ci"
In the end, everything is a dream. Have a rest.
Huang Die is also worried tomorrow.
-Su Shi's Nanxiangzi
Metonymy and other rhetorical devices
Metonymy is a rhetorical method of borrowing people or things that are closely related to it when speaking or writing articles, rather than directly saying what you want to express. What is replaced is called "ontology" and what is replaced is called "borrowing". When "ontology" does not appear, it is replaced by "borrowing body".
The use of metonymy makes the language concise and implicit.
The wine and meat in Zhumen stink, and the road has frozen bones.
-Du Fu's "Singing 500 Words from Beijing to Fengxian"
"Zhumen" refers to wealthy families.
I, the host, have dismounted, my guest has boarded his boat, and we raise our cups, hoping to drink-but, alas, there is no music.
-Bai Juyi's Pipa Trip
"Orchestral music" refers to music.
exaggerate
Exaggeration is a rhetorical device based on objective reality, which uses rich imagination to enlarge or narrow the image characteristics of things purposefully to enhance the expression effect. Also called exaggeration or extravagance.
Put pen to paper shocks the wind and rain, and poetry becomes tears.
-Du Fu's "Send Li Twelve White and Twenty Rhymes"
On the high cliff, it seems to be thousands of feet high, which makes people think that the Milky Way has fallen from heaven to earth.
-Li Bai's Looking at Lushan Waterfall
parallel
Parallelism is a rhetorical method of arranging words or sentences with the same or similar structure, closely related meanings and consistent tone into strings.
Chrysanthemum, the hermit in the flower;
Peony, blooming with wealth;
Lotus, the gentleman of flowers.
-Zhou Dunyi's Love Lotus
My heart is full of stones, but I can't turn it around.
I'm full of bandits. I can't get involved.
-"The Book of Songs White Boat"
Repeatedly
Repetition is a rhetorical device, in order to emphasize a certain meaning and highlight a certain emotion, deliberately repeating certain words, sentences or paragraphs.
Teenagers don't know the taste of sorrow and fall in love with the floor.
Fall in love with the floor and worry about adding new words.
Now that I know what it's like to worry, I want to talk about it.
I want to say I'd better have a rest, but I said it's cold and autumn.
-Xin Qiji's Ugly Slave, Shuboshan Road in the Wall
paired
Duality means using a pair of phrases or sentences with the same number of words, the same structure and symmetrical meaning to express two corresponding or similar figures of speech.
The antithetical sentences are concise in language, neat in sentence structure, harmonious in phonology, full of rhythm and musical beauty, which enhances the touching effect of the language.
Sunset and lonely Qi Fei, autumn waters and sky are the same color.
-Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Tengting
Come back from this mountain, pass another mountain, go up from the south and then go north-to my own town! .
-Du Fu's "The banks of the Yellow River were recovered by the imperial army"
By going up one flight of stairs, look further.
-Wang Zhihuan is at the Heron Hotel.
ask a question in reply
In order to emphasize a certain part of the content, deliberately ask questions first, know perfectly well past ask, ask yourself and answer yourself. This rhetorical device is called rhetorical question, which is often used to express emphasis.
Correct use of questions can attract attention and inspire thinking; Contribute to clear hierarchy and compact structure; Can better describe the ideological activities of the characters; Highlighting certain contents makes the article make waves and change a lot.
Excuse me, who looks like Han Palace? The poor swallow leans against her new makeup.
-Li Bai's "Qingpingdiao"
Why is the water in the pond so clear? Because there is inexhaustible living water for it.
-Zhu's reading thought
Ask a question as an answer
Rhetorical question is a rhetorical way to convey clear information with the help of interrogative sentences to strengthen positive or negative tone.
Do you know that?/You know what? Do you know that?/You know what? It should be green, fat, red and thin.
-Li Qingzhao's "Dream"