Therefore, middle school students learn to write epigrams, which can also make the language shine.
The following three articles are all about failures and setbacks. You may wish to compare them.
Example 1 face failed.
In one's life, no one can escape setbacks and failures. Because of failure, some people may be devastated, sigh all day long, frown, tasteless tea and rice, and finally be destroyed by failure; Some people may blame others. Blame failure on fate or society; Some people will calm down and ask themselves to find out the key to their failure, and then accept failure frankly and turn it into a driving force for progress.
There is a proverb to the effect that if you are not afraid of falling, you are afraid that you will not stand up if you fall. Many of us can understand this proverb, but how many of us can do it? Failure is actually a mirror to test our strength and fragility, and a catalyst to make us mature. It is a cloud in our life and a stone to temper our strong will.
Facing failure means facing your own ideas, and keeping a clear head in the face of sudden failure. We must not be knocked down by failure, lose morale and give up on ourselves.
Facing failure directly means that we cover up our inner wounds with a smile. We smile because our fighting spirit is immortal; We smile because our youth is full of enthusiasm; We smile because we know that there are not only flowers and applause, but also swamps and traps on the road of life.
Facing failure, you will stop at the brink, change the wrong choice, re-select the goal, re-adjust the positioning, and make another struggle with our strength and perseverance and the future.
Face up to failure, drive away the clouds that pervade our hearts, erase the sadness we wrote on our faces, and then sing Zheng Zhihua's song: He said that in the wind and rain/this pain is nothing/don't be afraid to dry your tears/at least we still have dreams and continue to drive our way.
Let's face failure, face ups and downs, and despise the stumbling block in this life!
Example 2 Fault
(1) Chu and Han fought and won every battle, and Liu Bang was defeated repeatedly, so that he rode alone in times of crisis. In the end, however, Liu Bang forced Xiang Yu to commit suicide in Wujiang River. Although later generations have a lot of complaints about this emperor, I think he can learn from repeated failures, become more and more brave, and eventually become the cause of the emperor. This is a great man of a generation. -failure is a kind of growth.
(2) "Hard-working people, everything pays off, go forward bravely, and more than 3,000 armor can swallow Wu." To what extent did Gou Jian, the King of Yue, lose? Drive for Fucha, drive for the groom! However, he can bear the burden of humiliation. After returning home, he asked people to sing outside the palace gate: "Gou Jian! Have you forgotten your shame? "
It is this determination that enabled him to defeat Wu and dominate the party. -failure is a kind of rejection.
(3) There was an old man, aged 53. The government already thought he was old, so it paid the alimony early. His business failed, he was down and out, and his wife was divorced and miserable. However, instead of putting down his hands, he clenched his fist, raised his hand and said in a tough stance, "I don't want to!" " "Then he used his pension to open a fast food restaurant, which is the founder of the world-famous KFC chain store today. -failure is the declaration of entrepreneurship.
(4) Sun Shan, lonely boatman. The cold window remembered the hardships of many years and finally returned home lonely. Go to Gusu, come to Hanshan Temple, realize life, put down the shadow, but rise a vigorous poetry-speaking of which, you already know, I'm talking about Zhang Jihe's One Night in the Maple Grove. -Failure is the eternal swan song.
(5) I think of Su Dongpo, a famous person who once made a splash. He is brilliant and praised by others.
When he fell from the peak of "success" to the red cliff in Huangzhou, he made a slight adjustment and announced the success of his "cultural breakthrough" to the world with "Nian Nujiao Red Cliff Nostalgia" and "Red Cliff Fu"! -Failure is the only way from superficial success to substantial success.
(6) The majestic Everest is majestic because it has buried the bones of countless admirers; Armstrong's small step is significant because of the fall of Challenger. The passage across the Pacific Ocean is magnificent, because it drowns countless explorers who have crossed the ocean. -failure is the foil of success.
(7) Ruins are also a kind of beauty-a kind of incomplete beauty, which indicates failure and inspires success.
Therefore, Yuanmingyuan inspires the struggle of the Chinese nation; The "wailing wall" in Jerusalem inspired the struggle of the Jewish nation. -failure is a spur.
In the face of these failures, these regrettable huge failures, we should think calmly: can our "failure" still be called "failure"? Should it also be labeled as "dissuasion"?
Example 3 is as calm as gold
Birds' wings fly across the sky, leaving traces of peace in the sky;
The fish's tail shook into the water grass, leaving traces of peace at the bottom of the water;
Three stories came into my eyes, and traces of peace remained in my mind:
(1) Brahma offered flowers to Buddha, and the Buddha said, "Put it down." Brahma put down the flowers in his left hand. The Buddha added, "Put it down." Brahma put down the flowers in his right hand again. The Buddha still said, "Put it down." Brahma said, "The flowers in my hand have been put down. What else can I put down? " The Buddha said, "Let go of your six external dust, six internal dust and six internal knowledge, and put it down to nowhere, which is where you put down your life." This is a Zen saying. The original intention is that the calmer the mind, the simpler and more natural it is, and the easier it is to make a positive result and achieve a positive result.
I often imagine seeing the Buddha Brahma, but I hold "success" in my right hand and "failure" in my left hand. I think when I let go of success or failure, let go of six dusts from the outside, six roots from the inside and six senses from the middle, the flower of success will definitely bloom in my heart.
Gu Long said: "The more people who are afraid of death, the easier it is to die. The more people who are not afraid of death, the less likely they are to die. "The more afraid of failure and eager for success, the easier it is for people to miss success.
(2) 19 14 One day in the winter, a fire destroyed Edison's laboratory, which undoubtedly meant that many of his lifelong research achievements would be reduced to ashes in a ruthless fire. At the worst of the fire, Edison's son frantically searched for his father in the thick smoke. What did he see? Edison, 67, watched the fire calmly, letting his white hair fly in the cold wind. He said to his son very calmly, "Quick! Call your mother, I'm afraid she'll never see such a scene again. "
After reading this story, I was shocked: peace is a kind of courage.
Only with a calm heart can we have the courage to face setbacks and regard disappointment as a "condiment of life" in order to withstand the blow of life and enjoy life to the fullest.
Fan Zhongyan said: "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad for yourself." It is precisely because he has a calm heart.
The courage born in peace is so magnificent.
(3) Zhu Gekongming was chased by Sima Zhong Da, so he opened the city gate and played the piano on the city head. The counselor suggested that Zhong Da go directly to Huanglong. On Zhong Da Day, he said, "Listen to the piano of Kongming. It is as long as a mountain, and your heart is as high as a mountain. You must rely on it. Retreat! " As a result, the army came and went in a hurry, and Kong Ming fled.
"Heart is like a mountain", in other words, "Peace of mind is like water". Obviously, peace is also a kind of wisdom.
When attacking, you are calm and can seize the opportunity and hit it with one blow. "Xiao Li flying knife" is an idealized image.
When defending, the mind is calm, so that the enemy can be charmed and the fighters captured. An idealized example is the "empty plan that Kong Ming retreats from Zhong Da". In reality, behind many successful examples, there must be a calm and carefree mind and wisdom born of peace.
All three articles are argumentative, but they are written in different ways. After raising the topic of discussion, Example L began to explain how to face setbacks and failures from all angles. Or quote, or metaphor, or use causal sentences, or use parallelism sentences, from the correct methods and functions of dealing with setbacks and failures, it can be said that it is accurate and thorough everywhere.
Example 2 adopts the unique form of "footnote", and the full text consists of seven cases. Each footnote of seven cases is an epigram, which reveals the function of "failure" from different angles, either from the function of failure itself or from the relationship between failure and success. And all this is paving the way for the ending, and finally completing the argument from distribution to total. No matter from the structural form or from the writing of epigrams, it is worth learning and imitating.
Although Example 3 is also an argumentative essay, it is more of a visual narrative, which is a special writing method that replaces rational views with concrete statements and turns abstraction into images.
There are epigrams after the three stories, which are different from the first two. It is a combination of quotations and expounds the role of peace in victory and failure. The second one is vivid and concrete.
Several expressions of epigrams:
1. Comprehensive epigram
A sentence that can summarize many facts or complex truths in very concise and powerful sentences. Because of its strong generality and comprehensiveness, it can leave profound enlightenment for readers.
This kind of epigram is often used at the end of a paragraph, a story or an article. It is not only a summary of the above topics, but also can arouse readers' association, deepen their thinking on the essence of things and make people realize more profound significance. The footnote "Failure and Calm" is written like this.
2. aphorisms with philosophical views
To make epigrams profound and incisive, we should consciously summarize what we have written from a philosophical point of view. Philosophical viewpoints such as phenomenon and essence, quantitative change and qualitative change, development and stillness, principal contradiction and secondary contradiction, and the unity and transformation of opposites can reveal the essential attributes of things' development and change. Once the article takes the philosophical point of view as the commander-in-chief, it will spark ideas, be full of speculative colors and make the language full of philosophical significance. For example:
Unfortunately, failure can lead to success; Although success is gratifying, it is also easy to become failure. Without eternal failure, there must be no eternal success. Therefore, we should not lose our upward confidence in failure or lose our vigilance in success.
This passage makes the relationship between success and failure extremely incisive and dialectical with the philosophical point of view of unity of opposites and transformation, which gives people profound enlightenment.
3. Borrow epigrams from other rhetorical devices
Rhetorical devices such as metaphor, metonymy, exaggeration and contrast can stimulate readers' imagination, so using them to write epigrams can arouse readers' thinking and deepen their understanding of things. Metaphor, for example, can produce similar associations because there must be similarities between ontology and vehicle; Because by analogy, profound and complicated truths can be made vivid. Since it is a vivid statement, it will leave a deep impression on people. Because it can arouse readers' association and imagination, it can inspire readers to think by analogy and make readers deeply inspired. For example:
When your heart is a lamp, the world is big; When your heart is the sun, the world becomes smaller.
The "light" and "sun" here are metaphors and comparisons. But the two different results brought by these two different mentalities will lead to all kinds of thinking, such as when we are misunderstood and need to tolerate others, when we ask for and give, and when the breadth of our knowledge affects our cognitive vision ... Different life experiences can lead to our own ideas.
4. Seemingly contradictory but not contradictory epigrams
Some aphorisms, literally, seem to be self-contradictory, but when you think about it carefully, they are not contradictory, but they are also very meaningful. This kind of epigram that students are most familiar with belongs to some people in Cang Kejia:
Some people are alive and he is dead; Some people died, and he is still alive.
It seems contradictory that the living are dead and the dead are still alive, but when you think about it carefully, those who betray the country for glory, those who bully the people with fish, those who are corrupt and violate the interests of the people, although alive, are walking dead and worthless, which means they are dead; Those who have devoted their whole lives to the motherland, the people, the revolution and the cause, their achievements will last forever, their career will last forever and their spirit will last forever. Although they are still alive, they still live in the mouths and hearts of the people.
This kind of epigram, because of its literal contradiction, readers have to think hard, so it can deepen readers' thinking. Let's look at a few more examples:
A person's bankruptcy is despair, and his assets are hope.
(2) When you were born, you were crying and people around you were laughing; When you died, you were laughing and everyone around you was crying!
Those who sow with tears will surely reap with a smile.
No one is rich enough to need help from others, and no one is poor enough to help him to some extent.
⑤ Carved fences and jade bricks should still be there. On the wall of ancient civilization, the word "demolition" is written in modern paint. It has bright white, but I see darkness.
Good people often warn others with bad results, and bad people often cheat others with good excuses.
7 consciousness can turn hell into heaven and heaven into hell.
The antonyms in the above sentences are unity of opposites and complement each other, which makes the meaning of the sentence more profound, thought-provoking and philosophical. Students might as well imitate this language form to write epigrams. However, it should be noted that this kind of epigram must be "true and not contradictory", otherwise it will lead to ambiguity. On the contrary, painting a tiger will not be anti-dog. This kind of epigram is especially practical in revealing the philosophy of things with the dialectical relationship of unity of opposites.
Wonderful passage of college entrance examination composition:
1. If farmers miss their land for a period of time, they miss a year. People who don't believe for a moment don't believe for a lifetime. (200 1 National Excellent Integrity Walk)
2. If you abandon the letter, you will get nothing, and if you are dishonest, you will lose. (200 1 National Excellent Integrity Connotation)
3. Honesty is the fulcrum of life, and it is also the criterion of my life. The so-called excellent life means being honest and trustworthy and loving life. (200 1 National Excellence defines excellent life)
4. Choose a song, compose sincerely and sing with love! (National Excellent Choice in 2002)
The eternity of a meteor comes from the brilliance of life, the eternity of a moth comes from the light and heat pursued by life, and the eternity of human beings comes from repeated choices. (2002 National Excellent "Choose Eternity")
6. Give rational spirituality with sensibility and cast emotional bones with rationality. (National Excellent Tiger Rose in 2003)
7. Emotion and reason go hand in hand and are two poles. Reason needs emotional nourishment, and life is smart; Emotion needs rational support, and life shows wisdom. May everyone water the flower of reason with the rain of emotion. (National Excellent Emotion and Reason in 2003)
The fish said to the water, you can't see my tears because I am in the water. Water says I can feel your tears because you are in my heart. (In 2004, the national perfect score was "My heart is still the same")
9. Forgetting makes us understand tolerance, remembering makes us learn to be grateful, and there is happiness and truth between forgetting and remembering. Reread your memory often. In the sunshine, you will find that history is a profound confession and life is a clear interpretation. (National Excellent "Remembering and Forgetting" in 2005)
10. The father left with deep concern for his son; The father left, leaving his son with the feeling that he would never return. There are some things that we can't understand when we are young; When we understand, we are no longer young. This is fleeting attachment, this is unrepeatable happiness, and this is the past that generations hate. Children of the world, we must hurry. (Zhejiang Excellent Interpretation of "One Branch, One Leaf, One World" in 2005)
1 1. All people are ordinary but not mediocre; Students, ordinary but extraordinary. (2006 Anhui full mark "Reading Dong Qiao")
Excerpts from famous sayings:
1. The longest and shortest, fastest and slowest, most common and most precious, most easily overlooked and most regrettable thing in the world is time. (Gorky)
2. wasting other people's time is murder for money; Wasting time is chronic suicide. (Lenin)
3. If we can control our wealth, we will be rich and free; If our wealth dominates us, we are really poor. (Adam Smith)
God gave birth to us to use us as a torch, not to illuminate ourselves, but to illuminate the world. (Shakespeare)
The flower of success, now people are amazed at her brilliance, but at the beginning, her bud was soaked with tears of struggle and full of blood and rain of sacrifice. (Bing Xin)
We should treat knowledge as food. We don't live for knowledge any more than we live for food. (Ruskin)
7. Life is like a book. Fools turn it over and wise men look carefully. (Paul)
8. Chu Lansheng is a forest, not without people; Xiu De, a gentleman, does not defect because of poverty. (Luz)
9. Money is a fool's curtain, which can cover up his shortcomings. (Feilden)
10. If you are not born in the future today, you will live in the past tomorrow. (Peter Eliad)
Wonderful passages in excellent works of American literature;
1. It is a human tragedy to be born in mediocrity and die in mediocrity. We need to say "no" to mediocrity. The laurel of success has always belonged to those brave people who are uneasy about mediocrity and break through the shackles.
I finally understand the significance of the myth that Kuafu died of thirst day by day created by the ancients. No one has ever thought of going there to pick up the elusive sun with endless light and heat, and Kuafu is just a person who is uneasy about mediocrity. Although he is chasing the sun, who can say that he is not successful? The crutch he threw out when he died turned into Deng Lin, which provided shade for later sun chasers and made a great myth. If it is dirt, why can't it be a hill?
If it is water, why can't it be the ocean? If it is a forest, why can't it be a poplar? If it's scenery, why can't we dim all the scenery?
Accommodating mediocrity may keep you away from dangerous rapids, but at the same time it will also be more inert, less motivated and less hopeful of success.
The world is not perfect, which is why countless ancestors pursue perfection and escape mediocrity.
Everyone has dirt under his feet, but not everyone has a road.
Stop accommodating, move towards success, and start by rejecting mediocrity! ("To accommodate mediocrity is to destroy success")
Thinkers say that silence is a virtue.
Educators say: Silence is a kind of wisdom.
Yes, silence and thinking are twins. It makes profound and profound people more mature.
Yes, silence is power. It makes people full, and a full life is always young.
Some people think that numbness is silence; Contempt is silence; Sleepiness is silence.
No, none of this is silence. Silence is the fetal movement in the mother's belly before labor; Silence is the new green budding in the cold spring; Silence is the magma flowing underground before the volcanic eruption.
My friend, our generation just needs to be quiet. Because: silence is a kind of temperament, a kind of demeanor, a kind of character. Without silence, there is no brewing, no shock, no breakthrough.
The sun is silent, it is a kind of brilliance; The mountain is silent and majestic; The blue sky is silent, which is a kind of lofty; The silence of the earth is broad.
My friend, in this bumpy, tortuous, thorny and turbulent life, setbacks are inevitable, and the key is the attitude after setbacks. At this time, you should learn to be silent, calm in silence, reflect in silence, be strong in silence, and collide with new sparks in silence.
My friend, when you succeed, don't be proud. At this time, we should be silent, calm in silence, review in silence, find a new starting point in silence and establish new goals.
Some people think eloquence and eloquence are more attractive than silence, but they are not. Have you ever heard people say that language is silver and silence is golden? Language is temporary, silence is permanent. In fact, compared with language and silence, silence and language are harmonious and complementary. If language is a flower, silence is its seed; If language is a tree, silence is its root.
Just as fortitude is often contained in a ruthless expression, tenacity is often hidden in hopeless hope, and dignity is always in deep silence.
After a winter silence, moths finally turned their dream of flying into reality; After a silence, the sea finally pushed the spectacular waves out of the horizon. Young friends, after silence, can we not hold up the sun of the motherland tomorrow? (Peng Yusen's silence)
3. Proverbs of losers
In this magnificent symphony of life, failure is often written as the first movement. If you want to avoid failure and challenge, you can only go further from the door of success.
Ambitious people regard failure as wealth, and at the same time accept failure, they also complete the expansion and sublimation of their souls; Weak-willed people regard failure as a kind of fear, and often refuse to succeed when they fail.
Failure, no matter how big it is, is only an experience of life. Therefore, don't show off too much when you succeed, and don't be too pessimistic when you fail. Life is long!
(4) Failure is not success, but it is also a great success to learn from failure and start investing again with confidence.
Everyone has failed, but the difference is that the value of the strong lies in the rise after failure, and the sorrow of the coward lies in the decadence after failure.
6 failure, I have tasted its bitterness, and even tasted its sweetness. It brings trauma to the soul, but it also spreads the fire of hope to faith.
On the road of life, if you have never tasted the joy of success or the distress of failure, then your life may be spent in inaction.
Failure is not a sieve, but it can filter out your naive and unrealistic assumptions and make you less simple, more mature, less fragile and stronger.
Being eager for success but unwilling to fight against failure is just like being a good swimmer and paddling on the shore all day.
It is wishful thinking to hope that the road to success will not fail. In the eyes of the strong, failure is not an obstacle to progress, but a ladder to help them climb.
1 1 success is like water, it is to moisten cultivated land instead of permanent harvesting; Failure, like the wind, is a test of ideal wings, not a bottomless abyss.
12 A failure can only make the possibility of success once lost, but the courage to dare to fail contained in it can create the possibility of success a hundred times.
The failure of 14 may be unbearable. But whoever can stand it has hope of success. Those who can only look forward to beautiful success but can't stand the test of failure will never achieve anything.
What is really sad is not those who always fail, but those who don't even have a chance to fail.
15 struggle may fail, but if you don't want to struggle, you will definitely fail.
16 Success without effort, even once. This is worse than a hundred failures.
17 When you lose the courage to pursue because you are afraid of failure, you have failed once.
The hall of success is paved with countless failures. Fail once, try once, and when you look back, you will find yourself one step closer to the goal of success.
Success is a gift to the persevering; Failure is a test for pursuers.
If you can give some flowers to winners and losers, the world will have more success.