欧·亨利(1862—1910)是美国现代短篇小说的创始人。他的短篇小说构思巧妙,以情节取胜,善于运用夸张、讽刺的手段来揭示资产阶级社会的真实现象,结局往往出人意外,形成了独具一格的“欧·亨利手法”。我们从他的几个优秀的短篇中,可以窥见他的表现手法的主要特点。合乎情理的艺术夸张夸张是文学作品中常用的手段。欧·亨利一些小说中的夸张,不只是表现在修辞上 O. Henry (1862-1910) was the founder of modern American short stories. His short stories are cleverly constructed, win the plot, and are adept at using the exaggerated and ironic means to reveal the true phenomenon of the bourgeois society. The ending is often surprising and forms the unique “European-Henry method.” We can see from his few excellent short stories the main features of his performance technique. Reasonable exaggeration of artistic exaggeration is a commonly used means in literary works. Some exaggerations in some of Henry’s novels are not just rhetorical