"Literary talent" means "gorgeous colors", but "literary talent" cannot simply be equated with gorgeousness, it requires ideological support. In summary, "literary talent" should have the following characteristics: (1) Rich in philosophy and thought-provoking. (2) Full of changes and well-proportioned. (3) It has a strong sense of rhythm and is catchy. To make your language have the above characteristics, you need to master the most basic methods:

1. Use rhetoric skillfully

The function of rhetoric is to make the language vivid and vivid. Appropriate rhetoric will make the language vivid and vivid. Your language is brilliant.

1. Clever use of parallelism

Parallel is to use a group of sentences or words with the same or similar structure, related meaning, and consistent tone to be arranged together in a series to enhance the momentum. , express feelings and give people beauty. Such as:

(1) "Filial piety" is fleeting attachment, "filial piety" is happiness that cannot be reproduced, "filial piety" is the past that makes one mistake lead to eternal hatred, "filial piety" is life The chain at the junction of life, once broken, will never be connected. ("Filial Piety is Priceless")

(2) Thought is a state of life. An impetuous life cannot accommodate vast thoughts, a shallow life cannot accommodate broad thoughts, a vulgar life cannot understand lofty thoughts, and a small life looks up to great thoughts. Ideas are formed by removing the dross and extracting the essence after reading a lot of books; they are formed by summarizing experience after going through hardships and finding new ways. ("Thoughts are the signposts of wisdom")

These two paragraphs use parallelism. Paragraph (1) explains what "filial piety" is from different angles, telling readers to quickly fulfill their filial piety for your parents. , because "filial piety" cannot be compensated. (2) Parallelism is used in the paragraph to make the whole paragraph catchy and philosophical.

2. Use metaphors skillfully

A metaphor is to use concrete, superficial, familiar things or principles as metaphors to explain or describe abstract, profound, unfamiliar things or reason. Metaphors can make language vivid and vivid, and appropriate metaphors can make your language elegant. Such as:

(3) Mother is a cup of Longjing when you are tired. When you are weak, just a few sips will refresh you; mother is a guzheng in trouble, when you are lazy. When you are depressed, as soon as the elegant melody floats, your eyes will immediately become green; a mother is a quilt on a winter night. When you are shivering, her caring care and warmth will make you sleep peacefully; a mother is a breeze in frustration, when you When you are panicked, I will wipe away your anxious sweat and sort out your messy thoughts; your mother is a flower in the desolation. When you are lonely and melancholy, a look at it will fill your eyes with brilliance, and a smell will refresh your heart; your mother is a flower in the night. Star, when you can't tell the direction, a soft light guides you to take firm steps... ("Mother")

(4) My life is a boat, my mother is the sky, My father is the sea, my teacher is my sail, and my friends are my harbor. So I felt infinitely moved and infinitely happy. Years are like songs, with lingering sounds; friends are like poems, with melodious sentences. ("Thanks for Life")

The two paragraphs combine metaphors and parallelism to make abstract things concrete and profound, making readers understand and have endless aftertaste.

3. Skillful use of personification

Personification can make boring things lively and interesting, thus increasing the aesthetic effect of language. Such as:

(5) In the wilderness, the woods are busy making illustrations, wildflowers are rushing to embroider colorful pictures, spring grass is spreading, and they can go further. No one can hinder her walking feet. The bird in the air is accompanied by its voice-over, explaining to the hurriedly walking clouds. ("Spring Grass Chapter")

(6) Spring must be like this. From the introverted green mountain top, a handful of snow could no longer hold on. With a puff, the cold face turned into a smile, and a melodious song was sung from the clouds to the foothills, and from the foothills to the low deserted village. , singing into the fence, singing into the yellow webs of a duckling, singing into the soft spring mud, spring mud as soft as a newly turned quilt. ("Nostalgia of Spring")

In the above two paragraphs, the author uses personification to make the arrival of spring tangible and vivid. In the author's writing, spring can laugh, sing and walk, showing a vitality in front of the readers. A picture of lush spring.

4. Use antitheses skillfully

When middle school students write articles, they should of course focus on prose, but using all prose will inevitably be monotonous, loose, and lack literary talent. "Things are mixed together, so they are called essays" ("Book of Changes·Xici"), so prose sentences should be mixed with dual sentences, antithetical sentences, etc. These whole sentences are solemn, powerful, well-proportioned and harmonious, which can enhance literary talent. For example:

(7) History is a long distance with a beginning and an end. It runs through the blood of mankind and deposits the inspiration written by the ancestors to future generations with their lives. Hundreds of years of ups and downs have already washed away the remaining blood on Fengbo Pavilion; hundreds of years of ebb and flow have long drowned the sighs in the lonely ocean. However, Yue Wumu's passion and Wen Tianxiang's loyalty have long been deeply imprinted on the pages of history and turned into the soul of the nation. As the sun and the moon change, people can deeply appreciate its eternity. ("Distance produces beauty")

The above paragraph uses couplets. The whole paragraph is integrated and scattered, with both smooth melody and sonorous rhythm.

(8) Zuo Siwei wrote "Sandu Fu" behind closed doors to thank guests, and worked hard for several years. In the severe winter of March and September, I kept writing; in the scorching heat of March, my mood was still high. How many days did I forget to eat three meals a day; how many nights did I spend my time alone with a solitary lamp. The persistence of "I will never regret it as my clothes get wider" has yielded fruitful results. "Sandu Fu" caused a sensation in the whole city and made Luoyang expensive for a while. ("Devotion without Regrets")

This passage is concise and vivid, expressing Zuo Si's diligence in just a few words. The credit lies in the author's skillful use of the rhetorical device of duality.

5. Clever use of synaesthesia (transfer)

Synaesthesia is a skillful transplantation of words applicable to type A senses to type B senses, making various A figure of speech through which the senses communicate with each other. In daily life, vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste can often move or communicate with each other, and there are no boundaries between the areas of the eyes, ears, tongue, nose, and body. Colors seem to have temperature, sounds seem to have images, coldness and warmth seem to have weight, and smells seem to have edge.

(9) I will deeply appreciate the deep black sadness of this non-human world; I will show my greatest sorrow to the non-human world, so that they can enjoy my pain. ("For Forgotten Memories")

(10) Suddenly, dark gray rocks dropped straight down from the sky and dipped into the middle of the river, which reminded people of a huge exclamation point; suddenly, there were green grassy slopes, Like a piece of music full of emotion. ("Three Gorges of the Yangtze River")

These two passages use the method of "synaesthesia". "Dark" is the visual image, while "sadness" is the feeling. The author transforms feelings into visual images, allowing readers to see that the author's sadness is thick and dark, giving the sadness a sense of image. "Kusaka" is a visual image, while "music" is an auditory image. The author transforms vision into an auditory image, highlighting the beauty of "green and lush Kusaka".

(11) His energy is now only on a bag, as if he is holding a baby who has been born alone for ten generations, and other things have been ignored. He now wants to transplant the new life in this bag into his home and reap a lot of happiness. ("Medicine")

(12) My alma mater has given me too many past memories, emotions that cannot be dried, filling my damp heart, but my clumsy pen cannot describe the feeling of looking back. The years are like a silted river, and the sinking sand has raised the river bed for hundreds of years. A century of firework has been passed down from generation to generation, and the reincarnation of spring, summer, autumn and winter continues. You have written a soul-stirring epic for yourself. ("The Taste of Looking Back")

In the sentence (11), "transplanting" means to pull up the seedlings sown in the seedbed or seedling field or dig up the soil and plant them in the field; to transplant a part of the body Tissue or organ repairs a defective part of the same body or another body, causing it to gradually grow back. From this point of view, the object of transplantation should be something material that can be seen and touched. Mr. Lu Xun used this to "transplant" life vividly. It shows Lao Shuan's ignorance, piety and eagerness. In contrast to "transplantation", "harvest" is used later, and "harvest" means to obtain mature crops. "Harvest" is used as a verb, and its object is "happiness", and "happiness" is a situation and life that makes people feel comfortable. It can be felt but not visible or touched.

The author uses the word "harvest" to make abstract things concrete, allowing people to imagine the happiness of harvesting like crops in the field. In the sentence (12), "emotion" is "dried" and "emotion" falls in the heart, which is also a transfer technique.

Many times a rhetorical technique is not used alone, but a variety of rhetorical techniques are used comprehensively in a paragraph, such as:

(13) The wind is a naughty little boy, grabbing a handful of dirt Throw it into the air and take the opportunity to tangle the girl's long hair; Feng is an old painter who blindly chooses gray tones to create a dim picture; Feng is a clumsy thief who knocked on the door when he sneaked into the house and escaped when he escaped. Footprints were left on the windowsill.

This text comprehensively uses three types of rhetoric: parallelism, metaphor, and personification, making the text dynamic and swaying.

2. Use imagination and association skillfully

Association and imagination are the most basic abilities of writing, and they are also the most important aspects to be tested in college entrance examination (forum) composition. The use of association and imagination can open up ideas and increase literary talent. Such as:

1 (1) On a snowy night, how many lit candles should be listening to the words floating in the sky; how many poets should be raising the flame of inspiration, surging with the passion of art, and singing " The splendor of "thousands of pear trees blooming"; how many surging piano sounds describe the arrival of spring with notes, how can the most skillful fingers play the beautiful melody of falling snow. How many wonderful winter jasmine vines should stretch out from the dreamland, and every bud that blooms is brewing the experience of spring; how many people who love snow should imagine the scene of falling snow, with joy like rain, and new green growing in their moist hearts. leaves; how many lovers should there be? With every snowflake, blessings for love and life are flying. ("Falling Snow")

The author used imagination to write this text, describing the agility and beauty of the snowy night. Without imagination, no matter whether using detailed description or white description, such a beautiful snowy night would not be displayed in front of readers.

(2) Hurry up and do your part in filial piety for your parents. Maybe it's a mansion, maybe it's a piece of bricks. Maybe it's a swan goose on the other side of the ocean, maybe it's a message close at hand. Maybe it's a pure black doctor's hat, maybe it's a red five points on the workbook. Maybe it's a table full of delicacies, maybe it's a pair of clean old shoes. Maybe it's tens of thousands of dollars, maybe it's a coin with body temperature in your mouth. ("Filial Piety is Priceless")

(3) When faced with things that have shortcomings, we must learn to tolerate them instead of seeking perfection and blaming them. If you appreciate the beautiful snow scenery in Saibei, you must tolerate its unbearable cold; if you taste the unique charm of the Jiangnan water town, you must tolerate its humid and rainy weather; in order to feel the moving full moon, you must tolerate the waning moon and dark clouds; In order to appreciate the beauty of epiphyllum, you must tolerate waiting and time. ("Don't ask for full blame")

These two paragraphs are written by association. (2) Through parallelism and positive and negative comparisons, the author tells readers to quickly perform their filial piety, no matter in what way, but it is equivalent on the scale of "filial piety"; (3) In order to discuss, we must learn to be tolerant instead of seeking to be perfect and blame, the author Widely associate, from the north of the Great Wall to the south of the Yangtze River, from heaven to the world.

3. Use verbs skillfully

To be "literary", you need to have the effect of "expressing the spirit in one word", and to receive such an effect, you need to choose, Hammer verb. Such as:

(4) "Hey! Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other!" A man covered in black stood in front of Lao Shuan, his eyes were like two knives, which made Lao Shuan shrink by half. , the man stretched out his big hand toward him; with one hand he held a bright red steamed bun, and the red was still dripping down bit by bit. Lao Shuan hurriedly took out the foreign money and wanted to hand it to him tremblingly, but he didn't dare to take it from him. The man became anxious and shouted: "What are you afraid of? Why don't you take it!" Lao Chuan was still hesitating; the black man grabbed the lantern, pulled off the paper cover, wrapped the steamed buns, and stuffed them with Lao Shuan; He grabbed the foreign money, squeezed it, and turned around. ("Medicine")

A total of 13 verbs are used to express the movements of the hands, and their accuracy and vividness are almost irreversible. The word "stall" brings to life the executioner's posture of demanding money; and "grab", "pull", "wrap" and "stuff" not only accurately and vividly express the four different objects touched by the hand, but also appropriately reflect The movement is urgent and neat.

When it comes to foreign money, just one "catch" can reveal a blackmail-style grab. In order to make the verbs used accurately and expressively, when selecting synonyms, it is necessary to strictly distinguish the subtle differences between synonyms according to the requirements of the object of expression. Another example:

(5) If we are in panic all day long and always feel that we do not have a suitable position, then everything around us will become the master, and we have to run back and forth to serve, and we have to suddenly We are flattered from left to right, we have to jump up and down to cater to them, and we have to flatter them internally and externally. ("Position")

The author uses four words to express direction: "run before and after", "left and right now", "jump up and down", "inside and outside", and "serve" and "cater". "The four words "flattery" and "compliment" that express attitude make the language well-organized, avoid repetition, and give people a sense of beauty. Another example:

(6) They have no heroic words or strong words, they just calmly sew their emotions thicker than blood into their son’s winter cotton-padded jacket and their daughter’s summer skirt. The mother is worried when her son travels thousands of miles. If you are a kite far away from your mother, then the blue sky behind you will be filled with your mother's instructions. ("Background")

The "seam" and "writing" in it are refreshing and thought-provoking.

4. Skillful use of sentence patterns

Modern Chinese has a variety of sentence patterns, including affirmative sentences, negative sentences, active sentences, passive sentences, inversion sentences, and classical Chinese Sentence patterns, when writing, you should choose appropriate sentence patterns according to different needs, which can make the language accurate and concise, enhance the expression effect, and make the language elegant. For example:

(7) As the general walked, he looked around. He was moved by the scene of labor. ("Ordinary Laborers")

Three sentences, the first and second sentences are active sentences, and the third sentence is passive sentences. Only in this way can the consistency of the subjects of the three clauses be maintained, thereby highlighting the key points of the statement; otherwise, the coherence of semantics and the smoothness of tone will be affected. Another example:

(8) If they can eat people, they may not eat me. ("Diary of a Madman")

"You may not eat me" means the same thing as "You will probably eat me". Why do you say this? Because only in this way can the subtle psychological changes in the "madman's" assessment of the situation be accurately reflected. Another example:

(9) The prime minister abandoned his majesty in face, and with a tolerant mind and a magnanimous spirit, he turned the conflict into friendship and stopped the fight before it started. How could we make such a sacrifice if we didn't have the integrity that surpasses ordinary people? ("Learn to Give Up")

The phrase "stop fighting before it starts" in the above paragraph is a classical Chinese sentence pattern - adverbial postposition, used here to make the sentence neat and rhythmic.

5. Clever use of famous aphorisms

Cleverly quoting famous aphorisms can not only make the writing smooth and enhance the sense of rhythm, but also enrich the connotation of the language. Such as:

(10) That night, Hua Zi suffered from insomnia. He once again put the word teacher on the scale of his heart and weighed it hard. Li Guoqiang's words rang in his ears again, "Like you", and his face couldn't help but feel hot. Huazi got off the kang, turned on the light, and solemnly wrote in his diary: Youth is the magnificence of chasing the sun, not the boredom of watching the moon. I will always be the son of the mountain. ("Silent Promise")

This is a narrative text, with a combination of long and short sentences, alternating between slow and fast, and quotes an aphorism at the most critical place: Youth is about chasing the magnificence of the sun, not waiting for it. The boredom of the moon. It expresses Hua Zi's inner voice implicitly and profoundly, concisely and profoundly. Another example:

(11) Knowing yourself is a compulsory course for everyone, otherwise we will be like flowers growing under dark clouds and lose the world full of sunshine. Please remember: If you are a fish, don’t yearn for the sky; if you are a bird, don’t miss the ocean. ("Knowing Yourself")

The quote "If it is a fish, don't yearn for the sky; if it is a bird, don't miss the ocean" is quoted from a poem by Wang Guozhen, which is cautionary, subtle and also It has power and enhances the literary grace of the language.

6. Use repetition skillfully

When it comes to repetition, we often think of cumbersomeness and wordiness, but using repetition appropriately will often yield unexpected results.

Such as:

(12) Destiny has no rules, just like wind and rain in nature. An illness shattered her college dream. She went to an ordinary school, learned an ordinary major, entered an ordinary small factory, became an ordinary worker, and did ordinary things. ("Ordinary")

(13) If you choose mountains, you also choose roughness; if you choose tranquility, you choose loneliness; if you choose opportunities, you choose risks; if you choose exploration, you also choose Just choose suffering;... Behind almost every choice, there is a shadow accompanying it. ("Choice")

The words "ordinary" and "choice" are used many times, which obviously does not meet the requirements from the perspective of using words that are uneven, but here it just serves to emphasize, prominent role.

7. Pay attention to rhythm

The ancients’ compositions paid special attention to the musical beauty of language, which is a characteristic of Chinese literature. Although modern language writing does not have to be as strict as classical Chinese writing, as Mr. Lao She said, a good article should "make the sentences jingle when read" and "make people willing to read and listen" ("Language Issues in Literature"), so at least You also need to pay attention to some rhythm. If there is a sense of rhythm, the literary talent will be imbued with it. For example:

(14) If you yearn for the purity of mountain dwellings, you must give up the prosperity of the city; if you admire the success of strivers, you must give up a comfortable and idle life; if you wish to travel across thousands of mountains and rivers, then The warmth and softness of the local accent must be abandoned. ("Distance produces beauty")

(15) Happiness is buried in the wrinkles of troubles and hidden in the pockets of pain. It is on top of your head, at your feet, and deep in your heart. Bottom of eyes. ("Looking for Happiness")

Although the last words in these two paragraphs are not harmonious in terms of level, they read with a sense of rhythm. If you compare "thousands of mountains and rivers" and "warmth and softness" If the sentence is moved to the front and "in your deep eyes" is changed to "beside", "in my heart", etc., the effect will be lost.

Sometimes you have to be careful. The first sentence has a flat tone and the tail end, and the second sentence has a flat tone and the tail end should be flat. This can make the tone ups and downs, and the tone is ups and downs. For example:

(16) Autumn in the South certainly has its own unique features, such as the bright moon at the Twenty-Four Bridge, the autumn tide at the Qiantang River, the cool mist at Putuo Mountain, and the remaining lotuses at Lychee Bay. ("Autumn in the Old Capital")

The last word of the four parallel sentences is 廄平廄平, which sounds mellow and sonorous when read.