12 common rhetorical devices in ancient poetry

12 figures of speech: metaphor, personification, exaggeration, duality, metonymy, allusion, pun, contrast, symmetry, metaphor, repetition and synaesthesia.

1. Metaphor: Use concrete things or situations to compare abstract things or situations to make the expression more vivid.

2. personification: endowing non-human things with human character, emotion or behavior, making the expression more vivid and interesting.

3. Exaggeration: Overdescribing or exaggerating things or situations to highlight their characteristics or emotions.

4. Duality: Use two sentences or phrases with the same structure, the same number of words and related meanings to express two relative or similar meanings.

5. Metonymy: Substituting one thing or situation for another to make the expression more subtle or vivid.

6. Citation: Cite ancient documents, stories, idioms, etc. To support their own expression or enhance the rhetorical effect.

7. Pun: Use homophones or polysemous words in language to make a word or phrase have two or more different meanings or usages.

8. Contrast: Compare or contrast two relative things or situations together to highlight their differences or contradictions.

9. Symmetry: Use two sentences or phrases with the same structure, the same number of words and related meanings to express two relative or similar meanings.

10, Bi Xing: By describing things or situations, the expressed feelings or thoughts are elicited.

1 1. repetition: to use the same word or sentence repeatedly in order to emphasize some emotion or meaning.

12, Synaesthesia: Use the same word or sentence to express different sensory feelings to enhance the rhetorical effect.

The role of figures of speech in ancient poetry mainly includes the following aspects:

1, enhance the expression effect: Rhetoric can make the expression of poetry more vivid and enhance the reader's sensibility.

2. Enriching language forms: Rhetoric can enrich the language forms of poetry and make poetry more beautiful and rhythmic.

3. Highlight the theme: Rhetoric can highlight the theme of poetry and make it more vivid and profound.

4. Arouse readers' thinking: Rhetoric can arouse readers' thinking and association, and make poetry more enlightening and ideological.

5. Enhance the cultural connotation: Rhetoric can enhance the cultural connotation of poetry and make poetry more cultural and historic.