1. The leaves come out of the water very high, like the skirts of a pavilion dancer.
Rhetorical device: explicit metaphor.
Analysis: The description of the lotus leaves uses the dancer's style as a metaphor. "Pavilion" describes the lotus stem as towering, and "dancer's skirt" describes the lotus leaves as a skirt unfolding in rotation.
2, layers of leaves in the middle, sporadically dotted with some white flowers, there are curly open, there are shyly dozen (anthropomorphism) as a grain of pearl, and as the stars in the blue sky (metaphor).
Rhetorical devices: personification, explicit metaphor.
Analysis: "curly" and "shy" are personification. Describing the lotus flower with "pearl", "stars" as a metaphor, more apparent under the moonlight and the silver-white shining appearance.
3, the breeze, sent a wisp of fragrance, as if the distant high building faint singing.
Rhetorical device: empathy.
Analysis: the breeze sends the fragrance of the lotus with the song as a metaphor, "wisps" to "remote", revealing the "fragrance far away and clear" mood. Especially with the sense of hearing to communicate with the sense of smell, make it more vivid. This metaphor is called "sense" or "shift".
4. At this time, the leaves and flowers also had a tremor, like lightning, and in a flash passed over the lotus pond.
Rhetorical device: explicit metaphor.
Analysis: Describing the dynamics of the leaves and flowers in the breeze, using "lightning" as a metaphor to show the interconnectedness of the leaves and flowers, and the speed of the lightening from near to far.
5, the leaves are shoulder-to-shoulder close to each other, which is like a condensed blue wave marks.
Rhetorical device: explicit metaphor.
Analysis: from near and far to show by the many lotus leaves constitute the "blue wave" in the ripples, which is really a picturesque panorama of the lotus pond.
6. Underneath the leaves is a vein of running water,
Rhetorical device: anthropomorphism.
Analysis: The word "pulsating" is used to describe the flowing water.
7. The moonlight, like running water, cascades silently over this leaf and flower.
Rhetorical device: explicit metaphor.
Analysis: Describing the moonlight, using the metaphors of "flowing water" and "cascading" to vividly show that the moonlight on the flower and leaf is dynamic but silent.
8. The leaves and flowers seem to have been washed in buttermilk; they are like lightly veiled dreams.
Rhetorical device: explicit metaphor.
Analysis: the "buttermilk" as a metaphor, very apt and very wonderful, not only to show its milky white color but also have a sense of bright color. The metaphor of "a dream covered with a light veil" is also very apt to show the haze of the moonlit night.
9, but the light and shadow have a harmonious melody, such as the famous song played on the Van Gogh.
Rhetorical device: flux.
Analysis: the harmony of light and shadow is a visual feeling, while the music for the auditory feeling, here to the empathic way of comparison, better able to express its beautiful and unique mood and interest.
10, the tree cracks also leak one or two points of street light, insipid, is the sleepy man's eyes.
Rhetorical device: allusion.
Analysis: the "sleepy man's eyes" as a metaphor for the light leaking out of the cracks in the trees, especially in the moonlight is even more realistic, not only to show the haziness of the moonlight, but also to show that the moonlight is not shining, but the beauty of the moonlight in order to make the road light "dull". This is a metaphor to "is" as a metaphor, so it is a metaphor.