Contents
前言
Preface
Chapter One A Brief Introduction of English Rhetoric1
1.1What is rhetoric? 1
1.2A brief history of rhetoric1
1.3Rhetoric and English writing4
1.4The three artistic proofs in rhetoric5
1.5Rhetoric， grammar and logic in writing6
1.6Why do we need to learn English rhetoric? 7
Chapter Two Lexical Devices9
2. Lexical choices9
2.2Lexical repetition30
Chapter Three Syntactical Devices39
3.1Long and short sentences40
3.2Periodic and loose sentences45
3.3Mid-branching sentences47
3.4Parallelism48
3.5Tricolon52
3.6Antithesis53
3.7Repetition55
3.8Inversion62
3.9Chiasmus65
3.10Ellipsis66
3.11Fragmentary elliptical sentences69
3.12Polysyndeton71
3.13Asyndeton and syndeton73
3.14Aposiopesis75
3.15Epanorthosis76
3.16Epiplexis77
3.17Rhetorical question78
Chapter Four Phonetic Devices80
4.1Alliteration80
4.2Rhyming85
4.3Assonance88
4.4Consonance89
4.5Homeoteleuton90
4.6Onomatopoeia91
Chapter Five Figures of Speech99
5.1Lecture 1 Simile and Metaphor105
5.2Lecture 2 Metonymy， Synecdoche and Euphemism137
5.3Lecture 3 Analogy and Personification150
5.4Lecture 4 Paradox and Oxymoron164
5.5Lecture 5 Hyperbole and Understatement175
5.6 Lecture 6 Parody187
5.7 Lecture 7 Irony and Sarcasm195
5.8 Lecture 8 Transferred Epithet and Synaesthesia202
References210
Appendixes212
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