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Wang Litang's performance script of Yangzhou pinghua of Faction Wang's Water Margin? Wu Song is not only a succession and development of Yangzhou pinghua of Faction Wang's Water Margin, but also a promoting of non-material cultural heritage of our nation, which contains a large number of unique rhetorical phenomenon. For a long time, most scholars have been devoting to studying the literary and social phenomenon it demonstrates, however, the systematic study of its rhetoric is rare. In this paper, I mainly study all the analogy in Wang Litang's performance script of Yangzhou pinghua of Faction Wang's Water Margin? Wu Song. This article is divided into four chapters except the introduction:Part one: description and analysis of analogy in"WuSong". There are three basic types of analogy: simile, metaphor, and metonymy. I analyze the three types of analogy one by one to illustrate the characteristic of tenor and the looming vehicle. In addition to the three basic types, there are also many other types of analogy in"WuSong", which I describe by classified examples. The effect of combination of analogy and other figures of speech is also discussed and analyzed in the article.Part two: choosing of vehicles. I sort the vehicles of analogy in"WuSong"into three types: things of nature, social life and cultural life. Then I take further study on their characteristics, which are hypothetical, vulgar and anti-traditional.Part Three: analysis of cognitive process of analogy. First, I study the composing process of analogy in"WuSong"from the perspective of cognition, mainly focusing on how to find similarities in the composing process and on the relations between tenors and vehicles. Next, I analyze the understanding process of analogy from the point of cognition. The similarities of analogy mainly include similarities of material features and those of psychological features. Finally, I summarize the cognitive function of analogy in "WuSong", which manifests itself in three aspects: opening a new door for cognition, expanding people's horizon and facilitating a better understanding of objects.Part Four: Comparison of analogy in"WuSong". I first make a comparison of analogy between " Water Margin " and"WuSong"from the following two aspects: grammatical form of vehicles and types of writing. Then I proceed to compare the analogy between Shandong clapper "Legendary of Wu Song" and that of Yangzhou pinghua"WuSong"from two aspects: types of analogy and its local flavor.