Several expression techniques for using famous quotes and aphorisms in compositions

1. Comprehensive aphorism

It refers to a sentence that can summarize many facts or very complex truths in a very concise and very powerful sentence. Because of its strong generality and comprehensiveness, it can leave a profound inspiration to readers.

This kind of aphorism is often used at the end of a paragraph, a layer or an article. It not only summarizes the main theme of the above, but also triggers readers' associations, deepens their thinking about the nature of things, and makes people think more deeply. Get a deeper meaning from it. "Footnote Failure" and "Calm as Gold" are all written in this way.

2. Aphorisms containing philosophical viewpoints

To make the aphorisms written profoundly and incisively, one should consciously use philosophical viewpoints to summarize what is written. Philosophical viewpoints such as phenomenon and essence, quantitative change and qualitative change, development and stasis, primary contradictions and secondary contradictions, and the unity and transformation of opposites of contradictions can all reveal the essential attributes of the development and change of things. Once the article is guided by philosophical viewpoints, it will burst out. It brings out the spark of thought and is full of speculative color, making the language full of philosophical meaning. For example:

Failure is a pity, but it can lead to success; success is gratifying, but it can easily lead to failure. There is no permanent failure in the world, and there is certainly no permanent success. Therefore, we should not lose our confidence in failure, and we should not lose our vigilance in success.

This passage uses the philosophical viewpoint of the unity and transformation of contradictory opposites, so that the relationship between success and failure is explained extremely penetratingly and dialectically, giving people profound enlightenment.

3. Aphorisms that borrow other rhetorical techniques

Rhetorical techniques such as metaphor, metonymy, exaggeration, and contrast can inspire readers' imagination, so using them to write aphorisms can trigger readers' thinking and deepen their understanding of the truth. . For example, metaphor, because there must be similarities between the ontology and the metaphor, it can trigger similar associations; and because it is expressed in a metaphorical way, it can make profound and complex truths vivid and vivid. The argument is not a rigid reasoning, so it will leave a deep impression on people; and because it can trigger the reader's association and imagination, it can inspire the reader to draw inferences from one example and draw parallels to the other, thus making the reader deeply inspired. For example:

When your heart is a lamp, the world is very big; when your heart is a sun, the world becomes smaller.

The "lamp" and "sun" here are both metaphors and contrasts. But the two different results brought about by these two different mentality can lead to various thoughts, such as when we are misunderstood and need to be tolerant to others, when we ask for and give, when the breadth of our knowledge affects our cognitive horizons When...different life experiences can trigger their own thoughts.

4. Aphorisms that seem to be contradictory but are not contradictory

Some aphorisms seem to be contradictory literally, but if you think about it carefully, not only are they not contradictory, but they also have profound meanings. These aphorisms are the most familiar to students. It should belong to "Some People" by Zang Kejia:

Some people are alive, but they are already dead; some people are dead, but they are still alive.

The living are dead, and the dead are alive. This may seem contradictory, but if you think about it carefully, those who betray the country and seek glory, those who cheat the people with meat and fish, those who are corrupt and degenerate and go against the interests of the people Although they are alive, they are walking corpses, worthless, and they are as good as dead; those who have devoted their whole lives and heroic lives for the motherland, the people, the revolution, and the cause, their achievements, causes, and spirits will last forever. Although they are dead, they are still alive in the mouths and hearts of the people.

This type of aphorism has some contradictions in its literal meaning, and readers have to think about it carefully, so it can deepen readers' thinking. Let’s take a look at a few more examples:

① A person’s greatest bankruptcy is despair, and his greatest asset is hope.

②When you were born, you were crying, and the people around you were smiling; when you passed away, you were smiling, and the people around you were crying!

③Sowing with tears People will definitely be able to reap the benefits with a smile.

④No one is so rich that he doesn’t need help from others, and no one is so poor that he can’t give it to him in some way. People help.

⑤The jade carvings on the railings should still be there, and the ancient civilization’s wall has the big Chinese character “Demolish” written in modern paint. It had a stark white color, but I saw darkness.

⑥Good people often warn others with bad results, while bad people often use good excuses to deceive others.

⑦Consciousness can turn hell into heaven, or turn heaven into hell.

The antonyms in the above sentences unite opposites and complement each other, making the meaning of the sentence more profound, thought-provoking, intriguing and philosophical. Students may wish to imitate this language form to create aphorisms. But it should be noted that such aphorisms must be "actually not contradictory", otherwise ambiguity will arise. On the contrary, painting a tiger is no longer like a dog. Such aphorisms are particularly useful when revealing the philosophy of things with a dialectical relationship of unity of opposites.