Writing methods

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1. What is an essay?

Essays are literary essays that directly and quickly reflect social events or trends, and are the general names of essays, short comments, miscellaneous words, gossip, rambling, satirical sketches, humorous sketches, intellectual sketches, literary and political sketches, etc. Good prose is called "dagger" or "gun throwing"

Second, the characteristics of prose

1. concise and clear

Essays generally range from 300 to 500 words to 1000 words, and the number of words is very small. There is not much pen and ink, and it is concise. Although this article is short in length, it covers a wide range. All over the world, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, news and current affairs, anecdotes, can be included in the article. Authors can comment on people, discuss, reason, record words and news.

Sharp and quick

Essays reflect life sensitively, quickly, acrimony and combativeness, can reflect the real struggle, and grasp the emerging and tendentious problems in real life, with distinct pertinence and sharpness.

Satire and humor

Satire and humor are often used in prose. That is, through relaxed and humorous language, the rhetorical devices such as innuendo, allegory, pun, exaggeration and satire are used. In a well-meaning smile or ruthless ridicule, the falsehood, evil and ugliness in life are exposed.

It should be noted that: (1) The essay of positive reasoning is mainly praise, not necessarily satire. (2) Satire cannot be abused or ignored.

4. Vivid image

The deliberation of paper reviewers should be vivid. It requires that "reason" be embedded in the image through the description of specific things, so that readers can naturally draw conclusions through artistic images. Images in prose are different from novels and plays. The vividness of novels and dramas requires a series of complete storylines, conflicts and descriptions of various characters to create a complete image, while essays only outline the image with a nose, a mouth and a hair, showing a vivid "living state".

Third, how to write prose

1. big topics and small works

It is required to grasp the most acute point that can best reflect the essence from major social problems, or to make a fuss from one side. This is a writing method of "focusing on the big picture and putting pen to paper in the small place". Specifically, a person, a story, a sentence, a poem, a novel, a proverb, an allusion, a joke, a historical legend and so on can all be used as the basis for discussion. Through comparison, association, metonymy and analogy, the significance hidden behind specific phenomena is revealed and profound themes are explored.

For example, there is an essay "Memories from a Playing Card". As we all know, the old general of the Yang family was chosen as the solution to the encirclement, and he returned to the government for help. Under the "lesson" of igniting girls' poker in Tian Bo House, he finally admitted Yang Paifeng's extraordinary talent and lived in peace, asking She Taijun to let Yang Paifeng lead the troops and help the horse, which was incisive and profound.

2. Give many examples

Essays often enhance the vividness and interest of articles through appropriate metaphors, or analogies, stories, idioms and allusions, so as to visualize abstract truth and make it easy for readers to accept.

For example, in "It's not easy to write essays", Lu Xun compared essays to a "small microscope" that "looks at dirty water and thick juice, sometimes studies gonorrhea, and sometimes dissects flies". What a profound image this metaphor is! It vividly shows the essence of the essay and the role of fighting.

3. Be good at using allusions

Making good use of allusions can greatly increase the knowledge, interest and vividness of prose.

For example, Lu Xun's essays are handy, interesting and enlightening to historical anecdotes and literati anecdotes at all times and in all countries. In his article The Boundaries of Freedom of Speech, he satirized the Crescent School with the story of Jiao drunken scolding his master in A Dream of Red Mansions: After reading A Dream of Red Mansions, he felt that Jia's family was a place where speech was not free. As a slave, Jiao Da was drunk. From the master to all the other slaves, he said that only two stone lions were clean. What was the result? As a result, the master hated it, and the slave was jealous and gave him a mouthful of dung. Three years ago, the gentlemen of Crescent Society had a similar situation with Jiao Da.

In essay writing, beginners often suffer from "miscellaneous", lack of images and no flavor of essays. The reason for this dilemma, in addition to not thinking deeply about the problems written, is also closely related to the author's poor life experience and narrow knowledge. Therefore, in peacetime, we must pay attention to the accumulation and development of life experience and knowledge, and constantly expand our horizons and knowledge.