What is a comparison in Russian and literature?

Definition and ways to create comparisons in the Russian language and literature: in detail with examples.

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In this article we will talk about what a comparison is in Russian and literature and how to use it with examples.

Comparison in the Russian language and literature: definition

Artistic Russian literature is a singing, beautiful and filled with tender, vivid, tenacious comparisons, which gives the text of liveliness, interest and helps the reader “see” read.

Comparison in the Russian language and literature is a clever artistic visual technique, with the help of which the description of one object uses not only the characteristics of the subject, but also its comparison with other objects. It is easier to say this technique that is used to compare two objects in their direct meaning. For example, a comparison of the girl’s flexibility with a swan, who so beautifully and sophisticatedly swims in a pond or the famous Russian expression “the leaves are yellow as gold”.

Examples of comparisons in Russian and literature

But do not confuse comparison with metaphors, since the metaphor bears deeper and more sacred. Let us return for, for example, about a girl and a swan. If we compare the flexibility of the stature, then this is a comparison, if we say that the girl and the guy are true to each other, like a couple of swans, then this is a metaphor.

Comparison in the Russian language and literature: Ways to create

We examined what a comparison in the Russian language and literature and, in order to find it in the literature, and even more so to use this artistic technique in the Russian language, we offer to get acquainted with the methods of creating comparisons.

So, there are only four ways to create comparison in the Russian language and literature:

When adding unions suitable for these purposes: what, as if, as if, for sure than. For clarity, we immediately give vivid examples. In the collected works of Pushkin, in the songs of the Western Slavs, Alexander Sergeyevich writes "He fled faster than a horse, with stirrups with sharp sloomy." That is, Alexander Sergeyevich compares the speed of a person’s running, with the speed of a horse. Another vivid example of “her eyes were blue, like a sky, and his eyes were black as a haze”;
When adding words in the form of a creative case. Thanks to this technique, we received a lot of bright descriptions that create instant images of the heroes of the works. A striking example was the work “Sasha” Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov in which he wrote “from a harassed old birch in a hail of farewell tears”. We immediately clearly see the very shaken birch with a cut trunk, from which the juice flows, compared with human tears;
When adding an adjective or dialect in a comparative form. This form is used in order to enhance the comparison effect as possible. Ivan Andreevich Krylov in fables actively used this technique, and as a result we read out funny, bright and interesting fables that both children and adults like. For example, “there is no more cat’s cat”;
The most common technique used by schoolchildren in their writings, as it is one of the simplest - when adding words, similar, similar, similar. This method is called lexical. The simplest and most affordable example is the quote from Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, "He was like a clear evening."

As you can see, the reception of comparison is quite simple, and earlier you not only have encountered it thousands of times, but you yourself used it yourself. And in conclusion, we propose to get acquainted with the video lesson on this topic.