How to appreciate the rhetorical devices of poetry

Rhetoric mainly refers to refined words and special expressions. Refining Chinese characters is a rhetorical device, choosing the most expressive words suitable for the context and pursuing the best expression effect. Words should be refined not only in sound, shape, but also in meaning, so as to conform to the theme, situation and meaning, and to polish ordinary words. When appreciating concise words, we should pay special attention to verbs (turning static into dynamic, vivid images), adjectives (describing scenery, turning abstract into concrete, turning intangible into tangible, so that people can see their things as they hear their voices and see their scenery as they see them), quantifiers (using imaginary numbers, using real numbers, concise and powerful, poetic and interesting) and function words (dredging the literary atmosphere). See how it makes the "meaning"-the author's subjective feelings and the life expressed in his works concrete, vivid, profound and full of beauty, analyze the concrete and vivid words with aesthetic content and enlightenment, and feel its appeal. In addition, we should pay attention to the flexible use of parts of speech to turn decay into magic; The use of reduplicated words and onomatopoeic words adds special effects. Special expression mainly refers to reversing word order and omitting components.

Common figures of speech such as metaphor, metonymy, exaggeration, analogy, duality, elaboration, comparison, contrast, repetition, repetition, pun, intertextuality, rhetorical question, etc.

Metaphor is to compare one thing or situation with another. It is different from simile, metaphor and metonymy, and plays a role in highlighting the characteristics of things and visualizing abstract things. Exaggeration is an enlarged or reduced description of the image, characteristics, function and degree of things, which has the function of expressing things more prominently and vividly. Metonymy refers to borrowing related things instead of expressing things. Parts can represent the whole, concrete instead of abstraction, and features instead of people. Its function is to make the language concise and implicit. Duality is to express two opposite or similar meanings with a pair of sentences or phrases with the same structure and the same number of words, which can make the language concise, neat and symmetrical; Make the meaning concentrated and implicit. Bixing is to describe things as adults, or people as crops, which can stimulate readers' association and make the people, things and things described more vivid and vivid. Parallelism is to say several sentences or phrases with closely related contents, the same or similar structure and the same tone one after another. Asking questions is to ask questions first, then express your own views, or introduce questions to drive the whole article; Or ask questions in the middle, connecting the preceding with the following; Or ask questions at the end to deepen the theme and make people memorable.

Rhetorical questions are used to express definite meaning in the form of questions, which are used to strengthen tone and express strong feelings. The initiation ceremony is to say something else first so that the lyrics can be sung. Contrast method is a method to write two different things or two different aspects of the same thing together and compare them with each other, so that the contradiction of opposing things is obviously prominent, thus explaining the problem more clearly. Setting off is an artistic technique, which uses similar or opposite conditions between things to set off certain things to highlight certain things. Citation is a way to express thoughts and feelings by quoting stories or words from ancient books. Repetition is also called repetition, repetition, repetition and repetition, which can strengthen a certain meaning, highlight a certain feeling, enhance the momentum of the work and deepen the reader's impression.

The appreciation of rhetorical devices should not only clearly identify and judge what devices are used and master their characteristics, but also analyze their functions in shaping images, expressing ideas and embodying themes, and compare their elegance, connotation and interest in language expression.