Common rhetorical methods

A metaphor

1 A metaphor is an analogy, which is to use other similar things to describe things or explain problems. To compare things or principles.

The thing being compared in the metaphor is called the "noumenon" and the thing used to make the comparison is called the "metaphor". The word that connects the two is called a metaphor. For example: We are flowers, and teachers are hard-working gardeners.

2 Metaphors are divided into three categories: simile, metaphor, and metonymy. Students in primary school mainly learn similes.

The structural characteristic of simile is to use metaphorical words to connect the ontology and the metaphorical object. The general format is: A resembles B.

3 Benefits of metaphor: It can describe and render the characteristics of things, making them vivid, concrete and giving people a clear and profound impression. In addition, metaphors can use simple and common phenomena to falsely illustrate profound truths. Help people understand deeply.

4 Note:

The ontology and the metaphor must be two fundamentally different types of things, but they must have similarities.

The metaphor should be specific, simple, close, and understandable at a glance.

2 Personification

1 Personification is to write things as if they were people, and give "things" human words, deeds, thoughts and feelings, that is, use words to describe people to describe things. For example: little swallows sing songs under the eaves to tell people that spring is coming.

2 Benefits: The use of anthropomorphic writing is used to personify things that are not originally human and make the things being described come alive, which strengthens the image of the language.

3 Note: The use of personification must reveal true feelings, and the feelings must conform to the described environment and atmosphere. Only by having true feelings about the objective things being described can good results be achieved. In addition, when using personification, you should also pay attention to the similarities in personality, shape, movement, etc. between the personification and the object, so that the object can be written like a real person.

Three Parallelisms

1 Arrange sentences or sentence components that have the same or similar structure, consistent tone, and closely related meanings to enhance the momentum and deepen the emotion. For example: cars are running, drilling rigs are roaring, and people are laughing.

2 Parallel sentences contain three or more related contents, and their relationships are parallel or progressive. Under normal circumstances, different parts often use the same or similar prompts.

3 Benefits: Parallelism is an expressive rhetorical method, mostly used for reasoning or lyricism. Using parallelism to reason can make the argument more rigorous and thorough; using parallelism to express emotion can express feelings vividly.

4 Note: The meanings of a group of sentences that constitute a parallelism always have a certain internal connection. If you do not follow the internal logical order of things and go on layer by layer, it will not only mean that your thinking is confused, but also make you confused. Others have no clue. The use of parallelism must be based on the needs of the content, and the form of parallelism cannot be pieced together rigidly.

Four. Asking questions

1 Asking without doubt, asking and answering to guide readers to pay attention and think, is to ask knowingly. For example: Who created the human world? It’s us working people.

2 Benefits: Using a question as the title can attract readers, inspire readers to think, and better understand the central idea of ??the article.

Some of them can serve as a link between the past and the following. In other reasoning articles, in order to make the argument in-depth and ups and downs, asking questions and reasoning on the key content is an effective method.

Five rhetorical questions

1 Ask without doubt, ask knowingly. But it only asks, not answers, and contains the definite meaning to be expressed in the question. There are two sentence patterns for rhetorical questions: one is a negative sentence, which expresses a positive meaning. The second is an affirmative sentence, which expresses a negative meaning.

2 Benefits: Using rhetorical questions to express a strong tone increases the power of language, can stimulate readers' emotions, and leave a deep impression on readers.

3 Note: When using rhetorical questions, you must pay attention to the close connection with positive narratives and descriptions. When the question is very clear and the conclusion is very clear, then ask rhetorical questions, and the effect will be good.

6 Exaggeration

1 Exaggeration is a deliberately expanded or reduced description of the image, characteristics, degree, etc. of something.

2 Benefits: It can make people feel real and credible. The purpose is to profoundly express the author's distinct emotional attitude towards things, thereby arousing strong reactions from readers. It can also arouse people's rich imagination by rendering things vividly, which is helpful to highlight the essence and characteristics of things.

3 Category: Exaggeration, sometimes deliberately exaggerating common things.

Minify and exaggerate, sometimes deliberately making things smaller.

4 Note: Based on objective reality