The second chapter is a rhetorical example of Fortress Besieged.

1. It is said that "girlfriend" is the scientific name of "lover", which is more solemn, just like the rose is biologically called "woody compound leaf plant of Rosaceae", or the legal term for divorcing his wife is "divorce by agreement".

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: "girlfriend" is the scientific name of "lover"

Object: The biological name of rose is "Rosaceae woody compound leaf plant", and the legal term of divorce is "divorce by agreement".

Although they are very close, Fang Hung-chien is confident that his friendship with her will stop here, just like two parallel straight lines. No matter how close they are, no matter how long they are drawn, they will not come together.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Fang Hung-chien's feelings for Miss Su.

Object: two parallel straight lines that will never get close.

He found Miss Su very childish. She will be naughty, simple and naive, which he never expected. But somehow, he always felt that such girlish spirit was not worthy of Miss Su. Not because she is old; She is not much older than Miss Bao. In front of the man she loves, every woman has the stunt of rejuvenation. Can only say that personality is not suitable; For example, a kitten chasing its tail in circles makes us look funny, while a dog chasing it turns around and follows its short tail, which is not so interesting.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Miss Su's small temper doesn't suit her character.

Object: The kitten chases its tail in circles, which makes us feel funny. The puppy chases it and runs around with its short tail, but it's not so funny.

4. Her plainness made Hung-chien even more suspicious. He thought it was the warm stability of love, as if the ocean was calm after the hurricane, and there were surging forces lurking under it at any time.

Rhetoric: analogy

Text: Her dullness made Hung-chien more suspicious, and he thought it was the stability of love.

Object: After the hurricane, the ocean is calm, and surging forces lurk under it at any time.

If the engagement ring is a symbol of falling into a trap, the button is also a symbol of being buckled.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Symbol of premeditated engagement ring.

Object: The omen of button being buckled.

6. He knows that Miss Su's service is not easy to appreciate; Every time she nails a button or fills a hole, her conscience adds another responsibility to propose to her.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Miss Su's service is not easy to enjoy casually.

Object: Every time she nails a button or fills a hole, her conscience will increase her responsibility to propose to her.

7. Put two photos on the dresser: one is the body of Shu Ying and the other is the photo of her doctor. Fang Hung-chien looked in a daze and felt that Shu-ying was both dead, depressed and sad, and there was a loss behind him.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: There are two photos on the dresser: one is the body of Shu Ying, and the other is the feeling that her doctor took pictures of her.

Object: The feeling of depression and gloom when Shu Ying and I both died, and I couldn't bear to leave my home behind.

8. That was the Shanghai Daily in early July. Two small photos were printed in the educational news column. The copper plate is vague, much like a ghost photo taken on the altar.

Rhetoric: metaphor

Ontology: In the education news column of Shanghai Daily in early July, two small photos were printed, which had a vague sense of copperplate.

Metaphor: ghost photos taken on the altar.

Metaphor: very similar

9. No wonder Miss Su's brother wants to say "I've heard so much about you" when they meet. No wonder Peng Tu knew that she was a doctor studying abroad when she heard her surname Su. I laughed at her platitudes at that time! This news, like me, is so vulgar that readers will hold their noses and watch it.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: The news that Hung-chien was published in the newspaper by his father-in-law gave him an extremely vulgar and grandiose feeling.

Object: Smokers need to suppress the smell of their noses.

10. The ideal of studying abroad and returning to China is like water on the ground, which turns into gas and rises to the sky, and then turns into rain and returns to the ground. People all over the world are watching and talking.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: the ideal expectation of returning from studying abroad.

Object: The process that water on the ground becomes steam and then returns to the ground in the form of rain.

1 1. Now that Wan Li has returned to his hometown, there is no bubble in the sea of people in the motherland.

Rhetoric: metaphor

Ontology: people in the motherland

Metaphor: the sea

Metaphor: a sea of people

Ontology: Hung-chien returned to Wan Li.

Metaphor: bubble

Metaphor: Qi

12. Director Wang Kua boasted that he was blown into a big soap bubble, which was full of color before it broke, but it disappeared when he couldn't stand it.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Director Wang boasted about Hung-chien's feelings for him.

Object: blown into unbroken colored soap bubbles, I can't stand the feeling that people just disappear.

13. The stars in the sky are dense and busy. They are silent, but it seems that they only feel the excitement in the sky.

Rhetoric: personification

Ontology: all over the sky

Metaphor: people

Metaphor: Busy, quiet and lively.

14. A comb like the moon depicts a young girl, but people are not shy, and the light and outline are fresh and carved, which can gradually set off the night scene.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: The bright change of night scene under the moon.

Object: Immature girls are not shy when they meet people, with fresh and engraved contours.

15. The bugs on the grass in the small garden talk at night. I don't know where the frog, Qi Xin and Qi Xin worked together to blow the bugle, like the sound of a boiling fire.

Rhetoric: personification

Ontology: the trivial sound of insects on the grass in a small garden

Metaphor: the voice of human dialogue

Metaphor: talking about

Rhetoric: metaphor

Ontology: Qi Xin's howl, a group of frogs.

Metaphor: the sound of boiling fire.

Metaphor: like

16. Several fireflies swam around, not like flying, but like floating in thick air. In the darkness beyond the reach of moonlight, a small firefly flashed, like a small green eye on a summer night.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Several fireflies swam around, not like flying, but like floating in thick air, in a dark place where the moonlight came out.

Object: A little firefly flickers on and off, like a little green eye on a summer night.

17. Hung-chien used to watch this kind of scenery before going abroad. When he saw it, his heart suddenly squeezed and his eyes were so sore that he wanted to cry.

Rhetoric: personification

Ontology: heart

Metaphor: people

Metaphor: squeeze

18. Only then can I realize the beauty of life and the happiness of going home. The news of Shanghai Daily is as indifferent as mosquitoes buzzing outside the screen window.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: The influence of Shanghai Daily news.

Object: The influence of mosquitoes buzzing outside the screen window.

19. She can hide in her heart alone, dragging her father, uncle, brother and so on. This girl is not smart and free and easy, so it is not convenient to hide her in her heart. Cuteness is mixed with dross.

Rhetoric: metaphor

Ontology: heart

Carrier: space where characters can be placed.

Metaphor: hiding, harboring

20. Many people talk about marriage in the tone of same-sex love, not because of the girl herself, but because they envy her father or brother.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: Many people talk about the tone of marriage.

Object: gay love

2 1. My father said, "I am not only studying abroad, but also a doctor. So I'm afraid Hung-chien can't stand her. " It seems that Miss Su is a hard stone, which can't be digested by an ostrich or a turkey.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Hung-chien's father said that Hung-chien could not stand Miss Su's attitude.

Objects: Hard things like bricks and stones can only be digested by the stomach of an ostrich or turkey.

22. The modern girl who hates small cities most in her life is fashionable, rustic and urbanized, just like the first tailor-made suit in China. She patched foreigners' old clothes and put them on sleeves and trousers.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: Modern girls in small cities, outdated fashion and rural urbanization.

Object: The first tailor-made suit in China patched the old clothes of foreigners and put them on sleeves and trousers.

23. Hung-chien suddenly felt that in this family atmosphere, war was inconceivable, just as no one thought of ghosts in broad daylight.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Incredible things in war.

Object: No one thought there was a ghost in broad daylight.

24. The hand holding his right arm with blue glasses was obviously taken in, and with the surprised look on his side face, it was like a thief caught in photography.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: The surprised expression on his side face.

Object: the photographic effect of catching thieves.

25. He silently shared his cheeks and said, "Don't burn the food! Don't blush! " I regret taking off my sunglasses when I came in. The two pieces of black glass in front of me seem to be hidden in the dark, and I am not shy.

Rhetoric: personification

Body: cheek

Metaphor: people

Metaphor: Pay separately.

Rhetoric: personification

Ontology: Hung-chien's Psychological Activities

Metaphor: People hide in the shade.

Metaphor: as if

26. I forgot everything except the first few words. Trying to remember is like putting a sieve filled with water.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: the psychological activity of desperately remembering.

Object: the result of holding water in a sieve.

27. When you are in a hurry, you can't concentrate, and the clues of your thoughts will be bound and loosened.

Rhetoric: analogy

Ontology: the process of inattention and the clue of thought.

Object: The process of knotting and loosening.

28. The shadow of the fact still exists, but it is like waiting for someone in a busy place. It looked like him in the crowd, went up to look for it and disappeared again.

Rhetoric: analogy

Ontology: There are still some facts.

Object: waiting for someone in a busy place, looking like him in the crowd, going up to look for it, but missing.

29. You should listen to the speech first, and then clap your hands at will to make me have the face to step down. Applause first. Now my speech can't bear such warm applause, but I have a fear of not paying money. "

Rhetoric: analogy

Ontology: Before I start my speech, I am afraid of such warm applause.

Object: the fear of not paying.

30. Most of the audience laughed and a few people opened their mouths in surprise. Several teachers frowned, and the recorded girl blushed and stopped writing, as if after listening to Hung-chien's last sentence, the virgin lost her virginity in public; President Lu coughed behind Hung-chien's back as a warning.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: most of the audience laughed, and a few people opened their mouths in horror; Several teachers frowned, and the recorded girl blushed and stopped writing.

Object: The virgin's ears have been lost in public.

3 1. At that time, Fang Hung-chien was like a person who got up in the dead of winter morning. He jumped out of bed as hard as he could. He must get up in cold clothes and never flinch.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Try your best, it's easy to jump out of bed. Only when you get up in cold clothes can you never flinch.

Target: people who get up in the dead of winter morning.

32. Fang Hung-chien lived in his home for a week, and felt that four years abroad was like water splashing on a lotus leaf, leaving no trace of his hometown. When I came back, I met those people who were four years ago. Those people still do what they did four years ago and say what they said four years ago.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: The influence of Hung-chien's four years abroad on his hometown.

Object: The water spilled on the lotus leaf can't leave traces.

On the sixth day after the war, Japanese planes dropped bombs for the first time and the railway station collapsed. Only then did people realize that the war had really hit the door and people had moved to the countryside to take refuge. In the future, planes will visit one after another, and there will be a peerless beauty who cares about the whole city and then the country.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: The influence of enemy planes' continuous patronage.

Object: peerless beauty cares about the whole city first and then the whole country.

34. In the next four months, when we retreat from Shanghai to the fall of Nanjing, history should be like what Father Feng Luogao said: grind the bayonet like a pen, dip the blood like ink, and write it on the enemy's skin like paper.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: the history of retreating from Shanghai to the fall of Nanjing for four months

Object: Luo Gao said: "sharpen the bayonet as a pen, dip it in blood as ink, and write it on the enemy's skin as paper."

35. Fang Hung-chien lost his mind. He reads more than a dozen newspapers and listens to more than a dozen radio reports a day. He is so tired that he hopes to find a place to rest in the news.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Fang Hung-chien's absent-minded and depressed anxiety behavior, reading more than a dozen newspapers and listening to more than a dozen radio reports a day.

Object: Tired and hopeless, I want to find a place to rest in the news.

36. Because Mr. Fang refused the temptation of traitors in this county, it was difficult to return to China, but the government did not correct his name. He feels patriotic, the country doesn't love him, and many young chaste widows don't like Weng Gu's resentment.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Mr. Fang Lao refused the temptation of traitors in this county and it was difficult to return home. But the government did not give him any name, thinking that he was patriotic and the country did not love him.

Object: Many young chaste widows are not spoiled by Weng Gu's resentment.

37. However, Mr. and Mrs. Zhang retain the traditional idea in their hometown that girls are old at the age of 20, and they don't get married until they are over 20, so they can only go to antique exhibitions for people to mourn.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Twenty-year-old unmarried girl.

Object: Antiquities that enter the Antiquities Exhibition Hall for people to mourn.

38. He has nothing new that is difficult to touch in Chinese. He needs to speak in English. Therefore, the English words embedded in his speech are not as good as the gold teeth embedded in his mouth, because gold teeth are not only used for beauty, but also can be used, so they are better than the meat scraps embedded in his teeth, indicating that the food is delicious and useless.

Rhetoric: analogy

Topic: The English words embedded in his speech are not as good as the gold teeth embedded in his mouth.

Objective: Gold teeth are not only decorative, but also practical. They have to be compared with the meat scraps embedded in the teeth, which shows that they eat well, and besides, they are useless.

39. He imitates American pronunciation perfectly. Maybe he has gone too far in nasal learning. Unlike Americans, he is like an China with a cold and a stuffy nose. He said "fine" and sounded like a mongrel dog-"Vurry Wulong".

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: He imitates American pronunciation.

Object: Like a China person with a cold and a stuffy nose.

Subject: His voice says "fine"

Object: foreign puppies are purring-"Vurry Wulong".

40. Miss Zhang is an eighteen-year-old tall girl with bright colors and tight clothes, and her figure will be as strong as that of her old man.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: Miss Zhang's future image.

Object: Grandpa's capital-rich foreign firm.

4 1. Mrs. Zhang speaks Shanghai dialect better than her husband, but she always reveals her hometown dialect, as if the gown is too small to cover the robe inside.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Mrs. Zhang speaks Shanghai dialect better than her husband, but she always reveals her local accent.

Object: The jacket is too small to cover the robe inside.

42. Hung-chien couldn't help pulling out a page and saw a paragraph: "You have to be gentle and sweet with a man to leave a good impression in his heart. Girls, don't forget to always have a bright smile on your face. " Seeing this, the smile moved from the book to Hung-chien's face.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: "You always have a bright smile on your face" in the book.

Object: Look at the smile on Hung-chien's face.

43. Husband is a woman's occupation. No husband means unemployment, so hold on to this job.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Husband is a woman's professional husband.

Object: No husband means unemployment, so keep this job.

44. Hum! I don't want women to read that book when I am a rice bowl. I'd rather they looked down on me and scolded me for nothing.

Rhetoric: analogy

Subject: Hung-chien

Object: rice bowl, useless

45. Thinking of this, Hung-chien stamped his feet with laughter, took the moon in the sky as Miss Zhang and waved goodbye.

Rhetoric: personification

Ontology: the moon in the sky

Metaphor: Miss Zhang

Metaphor: wave goodbye to ... as if.

The joy of exchanging Hung-chien's due money for a new leather coat overflows in the article, and even the moon in the sky is Miss Zhang.

46. He remembers the famous saying in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "A wife is like clothes", and clothes are of course equal to a wife; He has added a new fur coat now, so he doesn't care about losing his wife.

Rhetoric: analogy

Theme: wife

Object: clothes

Hung-chien compared the joy of winning Qian Xin's fur coat with the good feeling of losing the blind date, indicating that whether the blind date likes it or not has little influence on him, and the money he won can buy a new fur coat, which makes him happier and more realistic!