dual function

Function: easy to recite and remember; Used in poetry, with musical beauty; Concise and expressive, lyrical.

Duality is a rhetorical way to express two opposite or similar meanings with a pair of phrases or sentences with the same number of words, the same structure and symmetrical meaning. Of course, both sides should be symmetrical, and the number of words should not be too much or too little.

The sentences are neat, symmetrical, with distinct rhythm and harmonious tone, which is easy to remember and recite; The antithetical sentences echo back and forth, set off each other, contrast sharply, and the language is concise, which can enhance the expressive force of the language and leave a deep impression on the readers.

Extended data:

Generally speaking, writing only requires equal words, the same structure and relevant meanings. There is no need to pay attention to flatness. This is called tolerance. Dual rhetoric is the most common in poetry couplets. Duality, also known as duality, commonly known as pairing, means that two sentences or phrases are symmetrical and balanced in form and interrelated in meaning.

People's familiar couplets are a set of antitheses. According to different meanings, duality can be divided into three types: positive pair, negative pair, series pair/flow pair. For example:

1 The water is bright and sunny, and the mountain Kong Yu is strange (just right-the meaning is similar, bringing out the best in each other. Su Shi's first look at the lake after drinking rain)

2 full of losses, modest benefits. (Objection-opposite meaning, reflecting each other. "Shangshu Dayu Mo")

Wildfire never completely devoured them, and they grew taller again in the spring breeze. (string pair-the same meaning, indicating coherence, progression, causality and other relations. (Bai Juyi's Farewell to Ancient Grass)

Duality can be roughly divided into three types:

1. Right: Two angles and two sides of things explain the same thing, which are complementary in content. The dual meaning of the previous sentence and the next sentence is similar, similar, complementary or contrasting.

2. Objection: The antithesis is called objection.

3. Double pair: also called even pair and running pair. There is a relationship of coherence, cause and effect, condition and turning point in the meaning of the first and second sentences. This kind of antithesis sentence is called a string pair.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-antithetical sentences