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Abstract:Rhetorical devices are kinds of literal form of expressions. Their application is to make the idea more striking and effective, for they have the strength to express and illustrate. An appropriate rhetorical device appeals to the imagination, gives us vivid pictures and makes the written English impressive and interesting. For this reason, written English often uses various rhetorical devices to improve the readability and attract readers’ attention and to arouse readers’ interest of reading their materials. This paper mainly discusses common rhetorical devices in written English so as to help readers understand the written materials better.
Key Words:rhetorical devices written English understand
1. The definition of rhetorical devices
Rhetoric is the art of using language to communicate effectively. A rhetorical device is a skill that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the aim of persuading him or her thinking a topic from a different view. Rhetorical devices may be applied to waken an emotional reply of the audience; The aim of rhetoric is to persuade towards a particular frame of view or a particular course of action, right rhetorical devices are used to build up sentences designed both to make the audience acceptable by emotional changes and to provide a reasonable argument for the frame of view or course of action.
2.The variety of rhetorical devices
2.1 Onomatopoeia
The use of the words that sounds like the thing that are describing. Onomatopoeia is the simulation of the voice of the things or the moves. The poets often use some onomatopoetic words for the sound rendering text, such as slam, mow, screech, whirr, crush, sizzle, wring, wrench, click, whimper, and, of course, snap, crackle, and pop. If properly used, they can enlarge the impression of the described scene in momentum and will also enhance the art affect. However, some onomatopoeia is ready-made but still others are temporarily created by the author.
For instance:
"Is anybody here? Ding dong! The bells are going to chime."
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is." (Slogan of Alka Seltzer, U.S.)
Here these italic words are onomatopoetic words.
2.2 Hyperbole
A way of describing something by saying it is much bigger, smaller, worse etc than it actually is "exaggeration" It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. For instance:
(1) He almost died laughing.
(2) A hundred years should get to praise thine eyes and on thine forehead gaze, two hundred to adore each breast, but thirty thousand to the rest.
2.3 Irony(反语)
It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.
For instance:
We are lucky, what you said makes me feel real good.
2.4 Simile
Key Words:rhetorical devices written English understand
1. The definition of rhetorical devices
Rhetoric is the art of using language to communicate effectively. A rhetorical device is a skill that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the aim of persuading him or her thinking a topic from a different view. Rhetorical devices may be applied to waken an emotional reply of the audience; The aim of rhetoric is to persuade towards a particular frame of view or a particular course of action, right rhetorical devices are used to build up sentences designed both to make the audience acceptable by emotional changes and to provide a reasonable argument for the frame of view or course of action.
2.The variety of rhetorical devices
2.1 Onomatopoeia
The use of the words that sounds like the thing that are describing. Onomatopoeia is the simulation of the voice of the things or the moves. The poets often use some onomatopoetic words for the sound rendering text, such as slam, mow, screech, whirr, crush, sizzle, wring, wrench, click, whimper, and, of course, snap, crackle, and pop. If properly used, they can enlarge the impression of the described scene in momentum and will also enhance the art affect. However, some onomatopoeia is ready-made but still others are temporarily created by the author.
For instance:
"Is anybody here? Ding dong! The bells are going to chime."
"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is." (Slogan of Alka Seltzer, U.S.)
Here these italic words are onomatopoetic words.
2.2 Hyperbole
A way of describing something by saying it is much bigger, smaller, worse etc than it actually is "exaggeration" It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. For instance:
(1) He almost died laughing.
(2) A hundred years should get to praise thine eyes and on thine forehead gaze, two hundred to adore each breast, but thirty thousand to the rest.
2.3 Irony(反语)
It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense.
For instance:
We are lucky, what you said makes me feel real good.
2.4 Simile