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.
“It is like a knife piercing my heart”, this sentence in the article adopts a simile to show the wife's concern about the children .The children are sensible and make her feel distressed, which is a good way to write about the degree of pain. Just like "her smile is as bright as the sun", this sentence also adopts a simile to associate a smile with a bright sunshine and express the warmth of a smile.
Smilie are used in the text.For instance,“it is like a knife piercing my heart .”She compared her daughter’s bullying to a knife piercing her heart.This vivid image shows a mother's concern for her children
Like the sentence in paragraph 3“Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer...getting old and exhausted”,it's divided into several short sentences.When I read it,I could feel the wife's mood as someone who work on the land.They love the land very much.At the same time,these short sentences make reader read it clearly and briefly
The article use many figures of speech,simile is one of them.The farmer's wife regered to their children.She said that when her children get bullied and insulted,it is like a knife piercing her heart.This figure of speech embody the farmer's wife's mental activities vividly. Let us know that how sad and distressed when her children were bullied. This figure of speech increases the vividness of the article.
"Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted ,and it is like a knife piercing my heart."This centence used metaphor,the author made the situation of heartbroken children is like a knife piercing the heart.This makes wife's feeling more concrete.In this article,"The soft cool breeze moves the sheaves,which ripple and shimmer like waves of gold. "also used metaphor.The rhetorical devices of metaphor can make the article more beautiful and give readers a more visual sense.
I find some similes in this article.For example , paragraph2 said that 'it is like a knife piercing my heart.'This is a mother's love and careful to her children.She is very worry that if her children get bullied and insult. Also,I think her children like her too.They don't want to make their parents worried.What a family full of love.For the article,the mother's love and children 's love is very moving.
For example, "Our piece of land is small ,and it is no longer fertile ,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted"uses personification.It lively tells us that the land is no longer fertile.Besides we can know that the couple are no longer young,and the village has changed.Using personification in the speech can make the speech more interesting,and people are willing to join the speech.
This article uses many figurative devices of speech,such as the farmer's wife's words,"it is like a knife percing my heart."in paragraph2.This makes the expression of emotion more accurate.
For example,The stars in the night sky blink like countless eyes.This makes the sentence more dynamic.
For example,in paragraph 2,it is like a knife piercing my heart,we can know the auther was very sad.This way can stand out the auther's emotion.In paragraph 3,our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bieeding year after year and like us,it used metaphor and personification.It makes expression more vivid.
For example, the third paragraph "it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and ,like us,getting old and exhausted." The writer used personification here to express the land was no longer fertile ,may be it was the push factor that why their children all left home to live and work in cities. And this figure can let the readers more easier to understand the passage .
"The soft cool breeze moves the sheaves,which ripple and shimmer like waves of gold."This sentence uses metaphor, Compare the fluctuation of wheat to golden waves.For exampleThe little girl's face is round like an egg.Compare the little girl's face to an egg, vividly.
There are many figures of speech.For example,"Old man,if I die first,i shall become a cloud to protect you from the sun." The wife compared herself to a cloud,keeping her husband from the sun,she is still willing to ease her husband 's pain in spite of her death.It shows the love of the wife by simile,meanwhile,it deepens affection between husband and wife touching degree.
One of the figure of speech is personification,for example,the second line of the third paragraph of the article, "Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted."It expresses the nostalgia and regret of the older generation for the land of their hometown. It reveals the severe problems in the process of national development, that is, the rural economy is impacted by modern civilization, and many fine traditional ideas are gradually forgotten and abandoned.
it is like a knife piercing my heart,This sentence uses a figurative figure of speech to vividly illustrate that the children's experiences are very distressing to the mother, and a more vivid expression of a mother's love for her children and selfless maternal love.At the same time, it shows that urbanization does not bring all benefits, but also some people who are difficult to adapt to life are hard.
The artical usees a lot of similes,like it is like a knife percing my heart.It reflects the parents' care and love for their chidren,at the same time,it reflects the hardships of the old people's life and the hardships of life in the countrside.Make it more vivid than a knife to show parents' concern for their children.
it's like a knife piercing my heart.It uses a figurative figure of speech, which makes the reader more able to feel the mother's pain, and makes the mother's narrative more vivid and easier to understand
Just like paragraph 2,wife said ,"they get bullied and insulted ,and it is like a knife piercing my heart."This sentence used simile,"like" is the obvious sign.the author vividly writed about the worries and concerns of mothers for their children.It's like comparing the little girl's face to a red apple."simile"can express feelings directly, making it easier for readers.
As a good case in point,the sentence'Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted,and it is like a knife piercing my heart.',obviously uese the skill of simile.It vividly shows the readers how sad and sorrowful the mother feels when her children get hurt in the outside world,and it also makes the article more beautiful and expressive.
Just like the sentence "Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted ,and it is like a knife piercing my heart."The simile was been uesd in it.The author compared the bullying inflicted on her daughter to a piercing knife.This reflects the great maternal love.Many similar metaphors in the artical,they all make the text vived and touching.
For example,in paragraph 3,line 2 says:"Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted."It includes personification and simile.It shows the land is getting poorer with each passing year,after long periods of use.It also vividly depicts the characteristics of the land.The sentence as follows:"My bed is my most comfortable cloud.Every night he holds me gently."It's a sign that my bed provides me with security and peace.It also fully illustrates the ease with which the author lies in bed.
For example,In the paragraph 2," Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted, and it is like a knife piercing my heart."This sentence uses a simile. The insults they endured was compared to a sharp knife. It vividly shows the mother's pain for the children to suffer alone.In the paragraph 7," Yes, this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk."This sentence uses metaphor. The bag of bones dressed in rags was compared to the wife's body. It vivdly shows Wife's toil. So, the benefitof these figures is to make the sentence more vivid and understand the deeper meaning that the sentence wants to express.
In the first and second lines of page 24, there is one sentence that impressed me the most:Life simply goes on.Yes,this bag of bones dressed in rags can still have always plant and reap rice from morning till dusk.Metaphor is used here. From which we can know that the heroine is old, this sentence is her own self-mockery and helplessness against the old. It's very poignant, but it's easy to see, She still has a positive attitude towards life and loves her husband, children, the land and the country life.
There is a sentence in the fourth line of the third paragraph,'Sometimes,they get bullied and insulted, and it is like a knife piercing my heart.' This sentence uses a simile of speech .It vividly expresses a mother's worry and love for her children.'Our piece of land is small ,and it is no longer fertile ,bleeding year after year and ,like us , getting old and exhausted .'It's in the second line of the third paragraph.This sentence is also a simile.In this article , the author uses many similes to make the language vivid.
Here's my example ,When he said these words , fear engulfed me like a tidal wave.
This article uses personification, such as “Our piece of land is small, and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year, getting old and exhausted.” It personifies the land and depict that the land is no longer fertile vividly.And using personification can makes language more vivid and emotional expression more delicate.
One of them is personification, which can make the description of things more vivid, make the sentence more beautiful, and give things human characteristics. Better deepen the reader's feelings. For example, the birds in the trees chattered as if they were having a meeting.
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.
This article uses personification of rhetoric , 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 vividly express the female master's feelings. Take an example,“The star is winking at us.”
This article uses many rhetorical techniques of similes. For example,the last sentence of the 10th paragraph,“When each of them has a pair of jeans,they are off like birds on the wing.” This reflects the gap between rural areas and cities. It also shows the parents' love for their children and the desire for the company. For example,“The cream on her face made her look like a little flower cat.” It shows the little girl's loveliness from the side. Therefore,the method of simile can more visually reflect the characteristics of things.
“It is like a knife piercing my heart”,This sentence uses a simile of speech. It vividly expresses my concern and love for the children in the article. For example,“Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass”
In the 3th paragraph,"Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,llike us, getting old and exhausted.This sentence uses personification to give the land human characteristics.Using this figure of speech, the reader can better understand the pain and helplessness of the husband and wife for the increasingly barren land in their hometown.In addition,like“The wind stood up and gave a shout“,also used personification, better performance of the large of the wind.