What kind of rhetoric is the reed wood stick in "The Packer"?

1. Borrowing: then, shouting as if giving an order, "'Lush wood stick', go and burn the fire! Damn it, you're still lying down, you swine!"　　　　Here the "reed wood stick" and "swine" are borrowed rhetorical device. It is an insult to the bonded laborers, showing that the capitalists don't treat the bonded laborers as human beings at all.　　　　2. Metaphor: (1) She was fifteen or sixteen years old, and few people except the boss probably knew her name. Her hands and feet are as thin as reed sticks, here "reed sticks" is a metaphor.　　　　　(2) Like a dovecote, there are eight rows on each side, with five households in each row. This is a metaphor. The pigeon cage is used to compare the crowded living conditions of the bonded laborers.　　　　　(3) Therefore, bonded laborers are a kind of "canned labor force," which can be "safely" stored and freely used, with no danger of being changed by contact with air.　　　　　The term "canned labor force" is a metaphor, meaning that the bonded laborers are put into the factory at five o'clock in the morning, and are brought back at six o'clock in the evening, and have no chance to come into contact with outsiders, just as canned food is cut off from the air, and is "safely preserved". "Safely preserved. The phrase "in contact with the air" is also a metaphor. Since the bonded laborers are completely isolated from society and never have the opportunity to accept revolutionary ideas, they can be "safely" preserved and used at will by the capitalists and will not rise up in revolt, so it is said, "There is no danger of change because of contact with the air.　　　　(4) The lid of the red-brick "can"-as soon as the iron door was pushed open, the boss of the laborers drove out a large number of unchained slaves as if they were chickens or ducks.　　　　　The lid of the "can" and the phrase "like herding chickens and ducks" are metaphors.　　　　　(5) But the "beastly" Namawin (the foreman) and the "slut" (the superior worker who is the itinerant manager) watch over you.　　　　　"The words in parentheses are an explanation of the previous word.　　　(6) Following this powerful shout, the air, which was filled with the stench of sweat, feces, and humidity, quickly became agitated like a honeycomb that had been stirred up.　　　　　This is an explicit metaphor within a metaphor, using the stirring up of the honeycomb as an analogy for the nervousness and panic of the bandwagoners when they get up.　　　　(7) They are "machines" that make money for the bonded laborers.　　　　　Here is a metaphor in the simile, also called an allusion. Compare the bonded laborers to "machines" that work twelve hours a day, with no rest time at all. But after all, people are not "machines", so add the quotation marks, into the antithesis.　　3, prose: (1) some of them in the faucet next to the water, some with broken teeth of the comb comb off tightly stuck in the hair lint, some two groups of two groups of flat stretcher to carry a flat full of toilets, yelling from the side of the people wiped through.　　　　　Here the prose is used.　　　　　(2) two porridge, one meal, twelve hours of work, labor intensification, compulsory service in the workhouse and the boss's family, pig-like life, trampled on in the mud, - a "machine" made of flesh and blood, after all, is different from the one made of iron and steel; dash preceded by six phrases in a row to summarize all the misery of the day of a bonded laborer, strengthened. All the misery of the bagman, strengthen the tone of the rhythm, enhance the emotional color. The simile of "pig" shows the poor treatment of the material life of the bonded laborers; the simile of "mud" shows the low status of the bonded laborers and the lack of personal protection; "machine" is used to refer to the bonded laborers.　　　　(3) In the middle of these ten million oppressed bonded laborers, there is no light, no heat, no warmth, no hope ...... and no humanity. What is here is twentieth-century technology, machinery, institutions, and sixteenth-century slaves of the feudal system who faithfully serve this system!　　　　　Here is the rhetorical method of prose, the use of six consecutive "no", the author of the system of bonded labor abhorrence of feelings expressed extraordinarily strong.　　4. Question: Porridge? It is impossible to have.　　　　This is the rhetorical question, it can first provoke the reader to think, arouse the reader's attention, and then make a positive answer, more prominent in the poor dietary conditions of the bonded laborers, enhance the effect of expression.　　　5, rhetorical: (1) there are a few "kind" boss to the vegetable market to collect some leaves, with a dip in salt, which is their rare delicacies.　　　　　"Kindness" and "delicacies" here are antithesis, is to bring the boss in the food and drink abuse of the bodyguard workers in the bitter irony and profound revelation.　　　　　(2) This "civilized punishment" is sometimes told to continue for more than two hours.　　　　　"Civilized punishment" is the opposite of "barbaric".　　6. Repeatedly: work, work, too weak to walk or work, arms and legs as thin as sticks, body as bent as a bow, face as miserable as a dead man, coughing, wheezing, dripping with cold sweat, still being pressed to do the work.　　　　Here the rhetorical method of repetition is used to express the author's deep sympathy for the miserable fate of the bonded laborers. Metaphors such as "reed stick" and "bow" visualize the miserable image of the bonded laborers. Work, work, or work, coughing, wheezing, dripping cold sweat, this repeated chorus expresses the author's deep sympathy for the bonded laborers and the feelings of strong hatred for the bosses with labor.　　　　7, analogy: looking at this system of raising little girls for profit, I can not help but think of the child when I saw the boat family to raise ink duck fishing. And crows are very similar to the kind of strange-looking ducks, whole rows on the boat, their feet are hanging with a rope, into the water to catch fish, when the water boatmen in its neck gently squeezed, spit and then catch, catch and then spit, ducks all day long to catch fish, sell the money is to raise ink ducks of the boatmen. However, from the eyes of our children, it seems that the boatman did not mistreat the duck in any way, but now, when the relationship is transferred to human beings, even the warmth of giving no longer exists!　　　　This is a rhetorical analogy. The original meaning of "feed" is to feed animals, which is used here to show that the capitalists do not treat the workers as human beings at all, and feed the little girls like animals, and enslave them in order to strive for exorbitant profits. Therefore, the author can't help but think of the incident of "boatmen raising ducks to catch fish". Here expresses the author of the capitalists rely on the cruel exploitation of workers to obtain profiteering behavior of the extremely angry thoughts and feelings.　　　　8, pun: dark night, silent as dead dark night! But the dawn, after all, is irresistible. Solow warned the Americans to beware of the corpses under the sleepers, and I would like to warn a certain number of people to beware of the moaning souls of those ingots of iniquity!　　　　This cautionary tale, "night" and "dawn" are double meaning, it expresses the author of the curse of the exploitative system, full of confidence in the bright future, play a role in calling people to rise up against.　　9. Irony: (1) They used a lot of these "bonded laborers", who had no "bonding power", to replace the ordinary free laborers. It is said that this is a method that is very much in line with economic principles and business principles.　　　　　The words "it is said" are followed by a quote from a Japanese manufacturer. This is the robber baron logic of the bourgeoisie in exploiting workers, and the author is denouncing this view. The word "it is said" expresses negation, contempt and criticism, and further expresses the author's indignation against the exploiters.　　　　　(2) It is said that it was because the protruding leg bone of the "reed stick" hurt his toes.　　　　　The word "said" here also means negative.　　　　　(3) All the bonded laborers are new from the countryside, and most of them are the boss's neighbors, which is a very favorable condition in terms of "management".　　　　　The word "management" in quotation marks is a satire and criticism of the mistreatment of the body-builders by the bosses.　　　　(4) "I'll beat you up! Why don't you get up? Lazy bastard! Waiting for the sun to go up?"　　　　　A few "lazybones" who had not yet woken up rushed down from upstairs.　　　　　"Sloths" is in quotation marks. There are no quotation marks in the previous sentence because in the eyes of the capitalists, bonded laborers are not human beings. The capitalists are not satisfied with the twelve-hour labor of the bonded laborers. The second sentence is the author's eyes of the bonded laborers, "lazybones" in quotation marks to indicate the negation of the original meaning.

(5) The place where they lie down, at a certain time, is not to be let out as a place to eat porridge.　　　　　This is the use of double negative sentences to express a very definite meaning, which powerfully expresses the poor accommodation conditions of the bonded laborers.