Illustrate the rhetorical effect of figures of speech with examples.

The use of figures of speech means that one figure of speech contains other figures of speech, forming a large set of small inclusion relations.

Example:

You see, the strong wind tightly rolled up layers of huge waves and slammed them on the cliff, smashing these large jadeites into dust and dust. (Gorky's Haiyan)

Here is a metaphor applied to analogy. The whole sentence is analogy (personification). "These big emeralds" are compared to "layers of huge waves". Because metaphor is used in the comparison, the strong hatred is vividly displayed on the paper, and the rhetorical effect of expressing feelings with things is received.

Another example is:

Lights from one station to another, like fireflies flying away, a heavy mountain flashing, like waves rushing, ... (He Jingzhi's Window of Westbound Trains)

Here, metaphor is applied to duality and analogy is applied to metaphor. The first level is duality. The dual upper sentence and the dual lower sentence form the second level through metaphor respectively. The noumenon of metaphor, "a stop lamp came at me" and "a mountain flashed by", is the third level of metaphor. Because it is mainly the use of three figures of speech at different levels in a sentence, it gives people an endless sense of vividness in effect.