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PAGE PAGE 15 英语本科开设课程：高级英语、英美文学选读、英语经贸知识。。 Rhetorical Analysis Introduction Vivid language can arouse the audience’s interest, hold their attention and enhance their comprehension with imaginary and leave the audience with a fresh impression. To increase the impact of language, figures of speech are employed in both literary and non-literary, both written and spoken forms. They are used to embellish, emphasize or clarify expressions, to make language more colorful, more forceful, or more explicit, and thus making communications more efficient and effective ( Zhang 88). There are various figures of speech in Washington Irving’s novel “the Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. It is of great help to understand Washington Irving’s writing style and the theme of the novel by studying the figures of speech combined with psychological mechanism of rhetorical text structure. Washington Irving and his work the legend of sleepy hollow (1)A Brief Introduction of Washington Irving Washington Irving is one of the earliest romantic writers in America. Known for his sketches, short stories and biographies, Irving was the first American writer who has attained international reputation (Gao, 2006: 15). Absorbing the cream of European culture and literature, Irving created his unique style that is fresh, natural, humorous and musical. With his short stories and success in many other fields, Irving has made great contributions to the development of independent American literature. According to Zhu Xiaoning, “It is Irving who activated the potential of American literature and laid solid foundations for its future development. the sustained and more mature satire, are undoubtedly the most striking ones. Besides, Irving’s style can be described as beautiful. He was writing always for pleasure, and to produce pleasure It is imitative, it is true, he wrote to amuse and entertain, and he is good at enveloping his stories in an atmosphere, the richness of which is often more than compensatio