Discuss what rhetorical devices are used in the following sentences. And try to imitate a sentence.

1. The swallows have gone, but they will come again: the willows will wither, but they will still be green; the peach blossoms will wither, but they will bloom again. (parallelism)

Imitation sentence: When the white clouds disperse, there is a time when they gather again; when the breeze dies, there is a time when it rises again; when the sunset sets, there is a time when it rises again.

2. In the rush of more than eight thousand days, apart from wandering, what else is left? (Rhetorical question)

Imitation sentence: In the long twenty years, what is left after melancholy?

3. The past days are like light smoke, blown away by the breeze, like mist, evaporated by the early sun. (Metaphor)

Imitation sentence: The past time is like flowers, buried by wind and snow, like grass, destroyed by the scorching sun.