Rhetorical devises are various, but those which operate in the increasing process are simile or metaphor, personification, metonymy, euphemism, garble and alias.

• 修辞的辞格相当多，能够在词的义项增多过程中起作用的一般是比喻、比拟、借代、移觉、委婉、断取、别解等。