"A red, red rose is like a little girl with a light coat of rouge." It is the rhetorical device of simile.
Common rhetorical devices include: simile, hyperbole, prose, personification, repetition, couplet, question, rhetorical question, and so on.
1, simile
Simile sentence means to make an analogy, with shallow, concrete, vivid things to replace the abstract, difficult to understand things. The basic structure of a simile is divided into three parts: the body (the thing to be compared), the anaphora (the word that expresses the relationship of simile) and the metaphor (the thing to be compared).
A simile generally consists of three parts: the ontology (the thing or situation being compared), the metaphor, and the simile (the word that signifies the metaphorical relationship). The classification is based on the similarities and differences and the implicit characteristics of the three parts of the metaphorical structure, which can be divided into four types:Explicit Metaphors. The body, the metaphor are present, the middle of the metaphor word "like, like, if, as if, as if, like, like, like ...... like, as if ...... like, just like" and so on. The common form is "a like b". For example, the leaves are very high out of the water, like the skirt of a dancer in the pavilion.
2, hyperbole
Exaggeration is in order to express strong ideological feelings, highlighting the essential characteristics of something, the use of rich imagination, some aspects of things deliberately exaggerated or reduced, for artistic rendering.
3, questioning
Questioning is a common rhetorical device, often used to emphasize the role. In order to emphasize a certain part of the content, deliberately ask questions first, knowingly, self-questioning.
4, anthropomorphism
An anthropomorphic rhetorical method is to personify things, the original does not have the human action and feelings of things into the same as the human with the same action and feelings.
5, rhetorical
Rhetorical question is the use of questioning sentences, to express the affirmative point of view. A rhetorical question appears to be in the form of a question, but actually expresses an affirmative meaning, and the answer is in the question.