On the technique of setting off poetry.

Setting off is a rhetorical device commonly used in poetry. But in the refinement of poetry, it is often mentioned less. What is the reason? In fact, the main reason is that people often confuse contrast and contrast.

What is a foil? "Setting off" means using similar or opposite conditions between things to set off certain things to highlight certain things. Example: Taohuatan is deeper than thousands of feet, but not as deep as Wang Lun. -From Li Bai's "To Wang Lun", here is to set off the friendship with Wang Lun with the depth of the Peach Blossom Pond. What is contrast? "Contrast" is to compare and compare two opposite characters and things or two different aspects of the same character and thing, which plays an important role. A poor man is wearing clothes, but he is worried about charcoal and hopes it is cold. -From Bai Juyi's "Selling Charcoal Weng", where thin clothes are used to set off the cold weather, which strongly shows the sufferings of the poor people.

As a front foil, it may be easy to distinguish, and as a contrast, it is easier to be confused with contrast. In contrast, we often use "dynamic" and "static", "happy" and "sad", "ancient" and "present", "virtual" and "real", "guest" and "main", "hidden" and "dew". Of course, there is also the reverse use of the above.

"Contrast" is different from "contrast". The relationship between the two things in contrast is parallel, and the result is that two sides are highlighted; Contrast, however, can clearly distinguish what is set off from what is set off, and highlight the one that is set off. For example, Zhumen stinks of wine and meat, and the road has frozen bones, which uses "contrast", while cicadas make the forest quiet and the Yingong Mountain more quiet, which uses "contrast" to highlight the tranquility of the environment.