What is a metaphor? Examples of rhetorical techniques are as follows:
1. What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is to describe and explain one thing as another thing. The rhetoric of analogy is to compare people to things, to compare things to people, or to turn one thing into another thing. The use of this kind of rhetoric can achieve unique rhetorical effects: it can add a unique flavor, or it can make things vivid and lifelike, and express clear feelings of love and hate. Poems, novels, essays, fables, fairy tales, etc. often use metaphorical rhetoric.
2. Basic types of comparison
Simulation can be divided into two categories: personification and objectification.
Personification
Write things as if they were people and endow them with human words, deeds, thoughts and feelings.
Example sentences
1. The grass pokes its head out from the ground. Are those the eyebrows of spring? (via Shaozhen's "Looking for Spring")
2. When I walked out of the door, I was hit by the breeze, which contained the smell of dew and gardenia. (Li Hanrong's "Visiting Friends in the Mountains")
Object imitation
Write people as objects, so that people have the mood or action of objects, or write object A as object B.
Example sentences
1. Not far away, they saw a person’s face under the fat lotus leaves, and the lower half of his body was in the water. (Sun Li's "Lotus Lake")
2. The temporary kitchen is set up on the grass. Several military pots are arranged in a "one" shape. The blue flames lick the bottom of the pot, and the pot is steaming... (Liu Jian's "Dinner on the Grass")
3. The role of comparison
1. Allow readers to spread the wings of their imagination, capture the artistic conception of the things expressed, and appreciate its profound meaning.
Example: Please close your eyes and think: an old city, with mountains and rivers, all sleeping warmly and comfortably under the blue sky, just waiting for the spring breeze to wake them up, is this an ideal state? ? (Lao She's "Winter in Jinan")
2. Make readers have a vivid impression of the things expressed and feel the author's strong feelings about the things, thus arousing excitement.
Example: Peach trees, apricot trees, and pear trees, if you don’t let me, I won’t let you, they are all full of flowers.
(Zhu Ziqing's "Spring")
The difference between comparison and metaphor
In comparison, the thing being described (noumenon) and the thing being simulated (subject) ) blend with each other and become one, the entity must appear, and the metaphor generally does not appear; the ontology and metaphor of metaphor are masters and slaves, the entity may appear or not, but the metaphor must appear.
Example:
1. The dawn is like a piece of emerald blue water flowing at the end of the wilderness.
2. Dawn flows at the end of the wilderness.