"The elm tree is tall, the locust tree is strong, and the buttonwood leaves are like palms."

Use figurative rhetoric to explain one thing to another. Generally, it consists of noumenon, vehicle and figurative words. Ontology is buttonwood leaf, metaphor is palm. Visualizing the leaves of plane trees can give people rich imagination.

The elm tree is tall, the locust tree is strong, and the buttonwood leaves are like palms.

Poplar is tall, banyan is strong, and buttonwood leaves are like palms.

Pine trees are tall, poplars are strong, and buttonwood leaves are like the palm of your hand.

Extended data:

1. Metaphor is a common rhetorical device. It is a figure of speech to describe or explain things A with things B similar to things A, also known as "metaphor" and "analogy", which was called "bi" or "bi" in ancient China.

2. jonathan kalle, a famous literary theorist, defined metaphor in this way: metaphor is a basic cognitive way, and we know one thing from another. That is to say, finding the * * * similarity between things A and B, we find that things A contain unknown characteristics in things B, and we have a new understanding of things A that is different from usual. According to the way of description or explanation, metaphor can be divided into simile, metaphor, metonymy, metaphor, duality, contraction, extension, metaphor, metonymy, mutual metaphor and musical metaphor.