This article, also an interview, adopts a large number of colloquial expressions and mainly consists of short sentences, making the language concise and easy to understand. Meanwhile, in terms of writing techniques, the author employs several figures of speech. Please list at least one figure of speech used in the text and provide similar examples to explain the benefits of using these figures of speech.
The article uses a number of similes, such as the farmer's wife, thinking of her child's possible difficulties, saying: "it is like a knife percing my heart." This highlights her heartbreak and concern for the child, as in: The wind is like a skate blade across my cheek. It also shows how cold the wind is.
For example,paragraph 2,line 4,it is like a knife piercing my heart.It’s a vivid expression of a parent’s unwillingness to accept their daughter being bullied.The author wants her daughters to be healthy and happy.It expresses the author’s deep love for his daughters.
The first figure of speech is simile,for example the author thinks their soil is similar with themselves who are getting old and exhausted.It makes us easier to understand the meaning the author want to convey to us.
The second one is metaphor.In the 7th paragraph says,“this bag of bones dressed in rags”. It's obvious these are not true bones.From my point of view,it just means the author is bony and don't care about what she wears.Through this figure of speech,the author's image can be portrayed better.
Such as the last paragraph,the wife said:"Oid man, if i die first, i shall become a cioud to protect you from the sun." This sentence expresses the love between the farmer and his wife. It makes me feel moved deeply.The author also wants to show his feelings better.
One of the most important characters in the article is the wife of the farmer. Through question with this character and her experience of living in the countryside since childhood, it reflects the changes in the village this year, such as the emergence of a store from bartering.When it comes to young people no longer willing to live in the countryside, but rather willing to suffer in big cities, even if insulted, it once again reveals their comparison with farmers, showing the powerlessness of small figures in the old society in the big era and the changes of the era, which is a biggest pity!
This article adopts personification ,such as "Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted." This sentence reflects the mood of the famer's wife.Take another example :The grass dances in the wind.From this,it can be seen that personification can vividly describe the movements and thoughts of something,making it easier for readers to imagine and feel.Make the article more vivid.
This article adopts simile.In the paragraph 3 ,the article said“Our piece of land bleeding year after year like us.”A couple compare themselves to the land,the simile shows that the land is getting more and more barren,and the couple is getting older and older.At the same time, it also paves the way for the changes of the times written in the later article.
In the seventh paragraph, the farmer's wife compares her body to a bag of bones, using a metaphor.This metaphor embodies the farmer's wife has been accustomed to hard work life, and is the microcosm of the majority of rural women. Because of the long work, they no longer care about their clothes, and only want to work the land.
The author is good at using personification.For example, “Our piece of land is small, and it no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and,like us getting old and exhausted.”,The land doesn't bleed, get old or feel exhausted. It is indicates the push factor that young people why flock to big cities.
"The sun in the sky up, flowers for me laugh" this sentence also uses personification.For flowers can't smlie at people. This suggests the author's good mood.
The article adopts personification in the third paragraph"Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and ."This figures of speech give life to the land. In this way ,readers can have a clearer feeling of the wife's helpless. At the same time,it can make the article more vivid ,and impress the readers deeply .
"and it is like a knife piercing my heart"uses simile.These words vividly express the grief in the mother's heart."they are off like birds on the wing"also uses the figure of speech."The tears on his face fell like rain"The sentence means he is crying sadly and grieving. Simile can make the sentence more vivid and better understand the writer's psychology.The figure of speech makes it easier for readers to understand.
The answer of the farmer´s wife is impressed with me.In the article,according to a spoken response of this wife,many changes have taken place,such as"villagers could barter for things,but now it's all crash".Additionally,"The young people go away to towns leaving old people to work on the land".From her description ,these changes bother her,we can think over the reasons and understand the author'sinvention.Meanwhile,we also can understand some social problems and face optimistically.
I think in this ariticle there are many rhetorical devices such as the last paragraph, the wife said:"Old man,if I die first,I shall become a cloud to protect you from the sun ." I think this sentence use a metaphor technique. In this sentence,through this woman comparing herself to a cloud,I sensed the deep love between this couple.So I think the way the author uses this metaphor here is really wonderful. For example,I like a sentence very much is "Love is like planting flowers, the best gardener is youself. In this sentence I can clear understand if you want to become better you should love youself first.I think metaphor is a rhetorical device that can express emotions very clearly.By comparing one thing to another , we can more clearly understand the emotion the author is trying to express, and we can better empathize with it. therefore, in the future study, I will also learn more metaphors and use more metaphors
Well said! I like your example "Love is like planting flowers, the best gardener is yourself." Actually, there are two figures of speech in this sentence, simile and metaphor. From the sentence, I learned that we had the power to cultivate and nurture love within ourselves. We can be the best caretakers of our own emotions.
The second paragraph of the article uses a figure of speech, "Sometimes, they get bullied and insulted, and it is like a knife piercing my heart. " . The article compares the injuries and insults suffered by the daughters to a knife inserted into the mother's heart, which illustrates the mother's distress and helplessness about the plight of her daughters.
In paragraph 3,the author used simile."...,it is like a knife piercing my heart."The figure of speech expresses the great sadness in the author's heart in a vivid way.Also,it demonstrates the unfairness of the big society.In paragraph 10,the author used simile as well."...,they are off like birds on the wing.”The author used metaphor in paragraph 8."This bags of bones dressed in rags can still..."In this sentence,"this bags of bones"refers to the wife's very thin body ,which shows the condition of the family.The sentence shows the woman's diasapproval of changes in the village too.
The author employs figures of speech such as personification. In the third paragraph of the article it says "Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted.". In this sentence, Land is given human characteristics. It is clearly to write the mother's understanding of the reasons for the children to go far away. Like"The tree bent over with laughter.", when using personification, language is more vivid and can better express emotions.
Though learing this article ,We knew The article uses simile.Such as the wife s saying: "it is like a knife percing my heart."It expresses her love as a mother for her child.Through the use of simile, we can better understand the mother's mood.Make the expression of the article more vivid image.More conducive to our study,we can learing more,writing techniques from it.
The article uses many figurative sentences.For example,"It is like a knife piercing my heart."The wife compares the insult and bullying of the child to a knife,which deeply hurts her heart,showing the pain of the wife's child being bullied and insulted outside.The use of figurative rhetoric is conductive to more intuitive expression of the wife's deep love for the child.Vivid image,easy for readers to understang.
Similes are used in the second paragraph of the article, "it is like a knife piercing my heart."And the third paragraph "it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and , like us, getting old and exhausted. " The former indicates that when a mother knows that her daughter is not living well, she feels particularly uncomfortable, like a knife piercing her heart, expressing the mother's love and worry for her daughter. The latter indicates that the condition of both the land and the couple is not as before.
In the article, it is like a knife piercing my heart, using the simile rhetorical device to vividly write a mother's heart sad when she knows that her children report good news but not bad news, expressing the mother's love for her children. Her waist, for example, is as thin as a wicker. The use of similes can make language more vivid and easy to understand.
In the second paragraph,the author used simile."sometimes,they get bullied and insulted,and it is like a knife piercing my heart."This sentence expresses the mother's love and pity for her children.Sentence patterns like this,such as"Her smile was as bright as the morning sun."
In the article, the author wrote,“Yes,this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk."This sentence uses metaphorical technique to vividly depict the image of a man's wife who is very thin.Moreover,the sentence"Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted,and it is like a knife piercing my heart."uses the technique of simile to express the heartache and affection of a mother for her child's unfortunate situation and experiences.
The author is good at using personification,for example,in the paragraph 3,“Our piece of land is small, and it no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and,like us getting old and exhausted.”Personify the land, use the land to express the old us, vividly depict that the land is no longer fertile, and inspire the reader's thinking.
The sentence“Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted,and it is like knife piercing my heart.”It is simmile.It can make the sentence more lively .More can reflect the mother’s love for her children.For example,“The little girl’s face is like a red apple.”It can reflect that the girl is lovely.
The second paragraph, the mother said:“it is likea knife piercing my heart.”This sentence uses metaphorical rhetorical devices.Similar sentences like this:“She has a heart of stone.”This rhetorical device makes sentences more vivid and visually appealing.
For example, the fourth line of the second paragraph states "sometimes, they get bullied and insulted, and it is like a knife piercing my heart " This uses a simile to compare they get bullied and insulted to a knife. This can better express the wife's pain caused by the unfair treatment of their children working outside the home.
For example"When each of them has a pair of jeans,they are off like bird on the wing."It use a simile to compare they wearing jeans are off like birds with the wings.This can well express chirden want to go out with themselves enjoying freedom and their fashion that is not similarity of their parents.
Personification is used in this artical,such as"Our piece of land is small,and it is ni longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted.This sentence vividly depicts the hard work and exhaustion of patents,showing the misery of their lives.
For instance,,paragraph 2,line 4,it is like a knife piercing my heart,this is a quite straight expression ,we can understand what the author want to express.And this also make the sentence much more vivid.
In the 7th paragraph says,“this bag of bones dressed in rags”. It's obvious these are not true bones.From my point of view,it just means the author is bony and don't care about what she wears.Through this figure of speech,the author's image can be portrayed better.(metaphor)
The fourth line of the second paragraph states "sometimes, they get bullied and insulted, and it is like a knife piercing my heart " (simile)