英语修辞讲演稿.docx

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,I am XX.Today I will introduce six kinds of rhetorical devices——chiasmus,parallelism,antithesis,rhetorical question,climax and anticlimax.Chiasmus——In rhetoric,chiasmus is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.For exampleA But many that are first B shall be last; B and the last A shall be first.A Make the heart of this people fat,B and make theirearsheavy,C and shut their eyes;C lest they see with their eyes,B and hear with their ears,A and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.Function:Climax is one kind of expressive rhetorical devices． The proper use of it can not only strengthen the power of sentences， express the meaning more clearly, but also make the sentence pattern more orderly and more rhythmic, and thus it impresses the readers more deeply． The paper explores this rhetorical device by means of its character, structure,type and rhetoric effect and at the same time it poi-nts out the problems which must be paid attention to．Parallelism——Similarity of structure in a pair or series?of related words, phrases, or clauses. Also called?parallel structure.Structure of parallelism：1．syntactic structure is relatively①to be or not to be:that is the question.(Shakespeare) ②the fair breeze blew,the white foam flew 和煦之风在吹拂，白浪在翻滚（coleridgethe ancient mariner）2. temperament is relatively①I shot an arrow into the air It fell to earth, I knew not where For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight I breathed a song into the air It fell to earth I knew not where For who has sight so keen and strong That it can follow the flight of song?引弓射苍穹，箭落不知处箭飞何其速，视力岂能瞩我歌划太空，声落不知处谁具如电眸，能与声追逐3、other structure :syntactic structure and temperament is relativelyI kissed thee ere I killed thee.(Shakespeare)Effect of par