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Comparing The Great King Guan And The Single Sword Meeting

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In the story “The Great King Guan and the Single Sword Meeting” by Guan Hanqing uses different literary devices to portray Guan Yu as a great hero and I will mainly focus on the song lyrics. The playwright uses many different song lyrics throughout the story to describe Guan Yu’s characteristics. For example, in Act 1, when Lu Su asks Qiao Guolao to describe the kind of person Guan Yu is. The song lyric states, “when he goes into battle, his three-braid beautiful bear whistles in the wind, his ten-foot lion-tiger body shakes mightily; and he’s just like a living god held aloft in a crowd of the six Ding spirits… You had better pull on several suits of armor and add on several layers of battle robes” (273). The song lyric describes and they
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