To explain a point of view in an argumentative essay, it is inseparable from reasoning and argumentative language, but argumentative language is not empty reasoning with a straight face, nor is it dry language. Please look at the following two argumentative essay paragraphs on the topic of "time".
Paragraph 1: Time is fair. If you make full use of your time, you will gain something; if you waste your time, you will be empty-handed and regret your whole life.
Paragraph 2: Time is a double-edged sword that rewards the diligent and punishes the lazy. Time is both an angel and a devil. It leaves harvest fields for cultivators and barren Gobi deserts for lazy people. It gives trekkers the intoxicating fragrance of flowers, and it also leads speculators into the swamp of despair.
Comparing the two, you will find that: the principle of paragraph 1 is clearly explained, but it is like a dried tangerine, dry and tasteless, the content is empty, and it lacks persuasiveness and appeal. Paragraph 2, through rich association and imagination, turns the abstract "time" into something concrete and tangible. The reasoning is incisive and thorough, and the language is also very literary. It can be seen that argumentative language also needs to be vivid, and vivid language is more conducive to reasoning. 1. Use the form of "listing concrete objects" to transform abstract concepts into tangible images.
The topic provided by many argumentative papers is an abstract concept. If you use abstraction to explain abstraction, it is not only difficult to operate, but also boring. The more you explain, the more difficult it is for people to understand the connotation of the concept. At this time, if you use the form of listing specific examples or listing specific images to explain, it will not only effectively reveal the connotation of the concept, but also make the language vivid and full of literary grace.
For example, to explain the abstract concept of "integrity", we can use the form of enumerated images to give it a vivid feeling:
Integrity is the falling snow in January and the falling snow in March. The spring breeze of May, the sea of ??flowers in May, the scorching sun in July, and the red maples in September are precious treasures given to mankind by nature, and they are also things that every rational social person should accept and cherish. We are grateful for integrity and respect integrity!
The author uses several images such as "falling snow", "spring breeze", "flower sea", "scorching sun" and "red maple", etc., and uses metaphors to reveal the purity, purity and purity of the virtue of integrity. Characteristics such as warmth, beauty, enthusiasm, and preciousness are vivid and vivid. This kind of language is used at the beginning or end of an article to make the article appear creative and add a bit of charm.
2. Enrich the specific content and make full use of the value of famous sayings.
Famous aphorisms are implicit, timeless, rich in philosophy, and often have the effect of warning people's hearts. Quoting famous aphorisms to demonstrate or summarize one's own opinions can enhance the reasoning and weight of the article. However, in the specific analysis and extension after quoting famous aphorisms, if the specific content cannot be enriched and the vivid elaboration is not made, but only rigidly and mechanically pull them towards the point of view that one wants to demonstrate, then the famous aphorisms cannot be fully utilized. The value of it will also cause the separation between famous sentences and opinions. Therefore, after quoting famous aphorisms, the argumentative language of the analysis and extension should also be enriched and concrete, so that it can more effectively serve the central point of the argument.
For example, in an essay about "self-reliance", there is this paragraph:
German Brecht once said: "No matter what kind of stilts we are walking on, without ourselves "My feet are not good." This shows that a person cannot rely on others forever. Only by relying on his own strength can he make his own way. If you rely solely on others, you will have nothing.
The quotation of famous quotes in this passage is worthy of recognition, but the extension of the famous quotes means the same thing over and over again. You might as well elaborate on the general and implicit sentences in the famous quotes, and modify the above paragraph as follows:
Germany's Brecht said: "No matter what kind of stilts we are on, we can't do it without our own feet." Maybe you have a wealthy family, maybe you have parents who are in the official career , maybe you have parents who have paved a smooth road in life for you. These "stilts" made of money, status and favor will make you stride proudly and steadily on the road of life. But once the "stilts" fall down, you will be seriously troubled. He fell to the ground, leaving nothing but a bruised nose and a swollen face - no berries picked with his own hands, no future designed with his own mind, and no road to life walked out with his own feet.
Through such modifications, the argumentative language derived from the analysis becomes vivid and vivid, the connotation of the famous sentences is revealed profoundly and richly, and the argument for the point of view is much more powerful.
3. Use analogies and transitive things, develop association and imagination, and use metaphors and analogies to reason.
When students write argumentative essays, they most often use examples to demonstrate and analyze extensions. This is the easiest argumentative method to use in examination essays. However, in a heavy argumentative essay, what can best demonstrate the author's logical thinking ability is profound reasoning. However, if the entire article is composed of abstract conceptual judgments and reasoning, it will feel boring and difficult to read. In order to avoid boring abstraction, we should learn to connect objects, develop associative imagination, and cultivate the ability to reason with images.
For example, in the article "Soldiers and Flies", Lu Xun wrote in response to the attack and slander of the late revolutionary Sun Yat-sen by reactionary literati:
When the soldiers died in battle, what the flies said The first thing he discovered were his shortcomings and scars. He sucked them and screamed, feeling proud and thinking he was more heroic than the dead warriors. But the warriors have died in battle and will no longer wave them away. So the flies began to chirp more and more, thinking that they were immortal sounds, because their perfection was far superior to the warriors. Indeed, no one has ever discovered the shortcomings and wounds of flies. However, a warrior with shortcomings is still a warrior, and a perfect fly is just a fly.
The profound truth is expressed in vivid and vivid language through association, which makes people have endless aftertaste.
There is a passage in Yu Qiuyu's "Walking in Taicheng":
I suddenly had a feeling: a grandmother without wrinkles is terrible, and an old man without white hair is a pity. of. The place without ruins is too crowded, and the act of covering up the ruins is too hypocritical.
What this discussion illustrates is not to cover up the ruins. The author thinks of the grandmother and the old man, and explains his thoughts by commenting on their incredible lack of wrinkles and gray hair. Because he uses images to explain his reasoning, it is natural for readers to agree with his point of view. Because although people may not know much about ruins, they know about grandmothers and old men. Although people may not have thought about the issue of rebuilding ruins, once the author used the analogy between grandmothers and old men, people quickly became aware of it. The author has a reaction, and the author's views are naturally accepted in this reaction.
4. After describing the scene, write emotional and lyrical sentences.
The materials for argumentative essays are not just celebrities. A detail in life that touches your heart, a comic that shocks you, and a public service advertisement that warms your heart can all be written into the article as a powerful inspiration. argument. It is only based on the specific description of the picture that it is inseparable from the emotional discussion and lyricism, because it reveals the connotation of the picture and is the bridge between the picture and the viewpoint.
An essay discusses the disasters brought by war to mankind:
In a photograph, a blond girl with a charming smile appears. Dancing in a dilapidated classroom, rays of sunlight shone on the pleats of her skirt through the glassless doors and windows. How beautiful and quiet, how poetic - you might think. But when you know that this classroom is an abandoned house after being bombed, and when you know what the situation is in Baghdad outside the room, will you still think so? Maybe you will lament how fragile this beauty and poetry is, a cannonball can destroy it; maybe you will sigh: How long can the charming smile on the little girl's face bloom? Can her sweet dream not be awakened by artillery fire? Can her pure heart not drift into the dark clouds of war? War destroys something so beautiful and pure! Material destruction can be rebuilt, but can spiritual wounds be healed?
The description of the photographic works in the above paragraph cleverly combines beauty and ugliness, good and evil, romantic poetry and cruel reality, forming a strong contrast and creating a soul-stirring story. strength. The lyrical text after the picture description is particularly brilliant. It cleverly uses rhetorical techniques such as parallelism, metaphor, and rhetorical questions to guide readers step by step to understand the background of the picture and to make in-depth thinking about the picture, thereby effectively It expresses the author's aversion to war and desire for peace. The emotional discussion and lyricism are so full of emotions and deeply touching people's hearts.
Making argumentative language images vivid involves the selection of examples, the association of objects and images, the ability to imagine, and the ability to expand abstract generalizations into concrete images. It also involves argumentation methods, various Comprehensive use of rhetorical techniques, etc., but as long as we are good at summarizing and practicing in many ways, we will be able to write vivid argumentative language and add color to your examination composition.