In the mountain stream, there is singing. In the bamboo forest, there is laughter. What kind of rhetoric is this?

Metaphors and figures of speech. Comparing the sounds of streams and bamboo groves to singing and laughter, I did not say that the mountain streams sing and the bamboo groves laugh.

Using something B that is similar to thing A to describe or explain thing A is one of the figures of speech in rhetoric. It is also called "metaphor" or "analogy". In ancient China, it was called "bi" or "analogy".

The famous literary theorist Jonathan Culler defined metaphor: Metaphor is the recognition of metaphor. A basic way of knowing is to understand one thing by seeing it as another thing. That is to say, find the most common points between thing A and thing B, and discover that thing A is implicit in thing B that is not well known to others. characteristics, and have a new understanding of thing A that is different from usual

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Function

1. Use metaphors to describe something. Depicting and rendering the characteristics of things can make things vivid and concrete, so as to arouse readers' association and imagination, give people a clear and profound impression, and make the language vivid and vivid. It can also express profound and abstract principles in a simple and concrete way.

2. When explaining or reasoning, it is not called "metaphors", but "similes". Describe profound truths, transform abstractions into concreteness, and simplify complexities to help people understand deeply, and make the language vivid and literary.

Be careful when using metaphors:

1. The ontology and the metaphor must be two types of things with different properties;

2. There must be similarities between the ontology and the metaphor.

In addition, the things used. The metaphor should be common and easy to understand; the metaphor should be appropriate; pay attention to thoughts and feelings.