英语修辞讲义美学修辞Aesthetic Rhetoric.pptVIP

Chapter 9 Syntactic Figures of Speech (Ⅱ) 9.1 Climax 9.2 Anticlimax 9.3 Syllepsis 9.4 Zeugma 9.5 Chiasmus 9.6 Asyndeton 9.7 Polysyndeton 9.8 Rhetorical question 9.1 Climax Climax (层进法): is the arrangement of words, phrases, clauses or sentences in ascending order of importance, force and intensity, from light to weighty. Ideas arranged in such a way develop gradually, like climbing a ladder, each idea outweighing the preceding one until reaching the summit. For example: 1. What light is to the eyes, what air is to the lungs, what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. (R.G.Inge