For example, groundnut tells the whole process of our family celebrating the harvest festival, tasting new peanuts and talking about the benefits of peanuts; Tell people to be pragmatic and useful, not decent and bad for others. When talking about the benefits of peanuts, the article has the following paragraphs:
Father said: "Peanut has many benefits, but one thing is the most precious: its fruit is buried underground, unlike peaches, pomegranates and apples, which hang bright red and green fruits high on the branches, making people fall in love at first sight." You see it's getting shorter on the ground. When it is ripe, you can't immediately judge whether it has fruit or not. You have to dig it up to know. "
We all agreed, and mom nodded.
Father went on to say, "so you should be like a peanut." Although it is not good-looking, it is very useful, not something that looks good and has no practical use. "
I said, "well, people should be useful, not just decent, but bad for others."
The father said, "Yes. This is my hope for you. "
These paragraphs use the method of borrowing things to describe people (borrowing the characteristics of peanuts to describe how to be a man): the father leads the children to talk about peanuts in order to talk about life; He praised peanut's character and explained what kind of person a person should be. "I" learned from my father's words that "people should be useful, not only decent, but also not good to others." This understanding was affirmed by my father. This is like the finishing touch, which naturally expresses the central idea of the article.
It can be seen that, whether writing character notes or writing landscapes, the correct use of the method of metaphor can make the article more profound and the expression more subtle; It can greatly enhance the expressive force and appeal of the article.
Read the following article again and realize its features and functions in metaphor:
Old apricot trees in the mountains
Apricots are ripe, just in time for the bumper wheat harvest in rural areas. One day after the wheat harvest, I took time to carry a stick with a basket on it and climbed the South Mountain.
I met my neighbor's second aunt on the way. When my second aunt saw me picking apricots, she quickly told me, "I have searched everywhere. There is Xinger on the tree in the second ravine in the south of Shanliang, but the apricots are green and small, and they are not delicious!" Say that finish, second aunt went down the mountain.
I climbed the ridge and saw the tree in the distance. This is the only apricot tree in that valley. When I looked closer, I saw the semi-red apricots in the green leaves on the tree, which were crowded with branches in strings. With a breeze, apricot trees shook their branches and leaves as if to say hello to me.
This is an old apricot tree, which grows beside the rocks lacking soil and water at the bottom of the ditch. Its trunk is tall, curved, thick and scarred. Obviously, it has experienced many vicissitudes. I put a stick around my waist and climbed up the tree. Sitting on the thick branches, I can see more clearly: on the branches, there is a round apricot hanging on each leaf nest. Most apricots have "yin and yang faces"-one side is green and yellow, and the other side is yellow and red; He is not small, and everyone looks like a little apple. Looking at apricots with branches among these green leaves, I don't know whether they are like pearls or precious stones, or like jadeite or agate. Squeeze a look, alas, the golden pulp is soaked in the juice and put in the mouth, sour and sweet, refreshing.
Looking up, I accidentally found a stone stuck between two branches. Oh! I got it all: My second aunt said that apricots are green and small because the trees are too high. She couldn't see the knotted apricots on it, so she only picked some small ones below. She can't climb a tree, can't reach it, and can't throw stones at it. Obviously, she really wronged this old apricot tree.
Looking at the fruit within reach of the tree, and then looking down at this weather-beaten old apricot tree, a feeling of admiration arises spontaneously. Old apricot tree, old apricot tree, you are not afraid of loneliness, difficulties and hardships, and you are rooted alone in this strange mountain, old and lasting. How many apricots have you produced for people year after year? But you don't want anything from others. When you are wronged or have a cold shoulder, your heel is still so firm and your mind is still so open and selfless. What a respectable old apricot tree!
I gently removed the stone and pulled out the stick at my waist, but refused to hit it, for fear of hitting Xinger, damaging the branches and leaves of the old tree and hurting its body and mind. So, I got off the tree, with a basket on my arm, climbed up the tree, sat in the arms of the old apricot tree, picked the apricots heartily, and enjoyed the fruits of its dedication heartily.
This is a beautiful, vivid and touching article. I believe that after reading this article, every student will realize that this article is not a simple "thing"; The author eulogizes the people with the character of the old apricot tree in the mountains by metaphor, enthusiastically eulogizes the people with the character of the old apricot tree (not afraid of loneliness, hardship, rooted in the mountains, weather-beaten, old and lasting, only dedication, open-minded and selfless), and at the same time expresses his great love for the people with the character of the old apricot tree from the heart.
It should be noted that the characteristics of things described in words should be similar to people's personality; After reading the article, people can clearly understand what this article is trying to explain and what kind of people it is praising. If this is not the case, the method of "comparing people with things" will lose its meaning.