英语修辞欣赏及应用

前言
Preface
Chapter One  A Brief Introduction of English Rhetoric
  1.1  What is rhetoric?
  1.2  A brief history of rhetoric
  1.3  Rhetoric and English writing
  1.4  The three artistic proofs in rhetoric
  1.5  Rhetoric, grammar and logic in writing
  1.6  Why do we need to learn English rhetoric?
Chapter Two  Lexical Devices
  2.1  Lexical choices
  2.2  Lexical repetition
Chapter Three  Syntactical Devices
  3.1  Long and short sentences
  3.2  Periodic and loose sentences
  3.3  Mid-branching sentences
  3.4  Parallelism
  3.5  Tricolon
  3.6  Antithesis
  3.7  Repetition
  3.8  Inversion
  3.9  Chiasmus
  3.10  Ellipsis
  3.11  Fragmentary elliptical sentences
  3.12  Polysyndeton
  3.13  Asyndeton and syndeton
  3.14  Aposiopesis
  3.15  Epanorthosis
  3.16  Epiplexis
  3.17  Rhetorical question
Chapter Four  Phonetic Devices
  4.1  Alliteration
  4.2  Rhyming
  4.3  Assonance
  4.4  Consonance
  4.5  Homeoteleuton
  4.6  Onomatopoeia
Chapter Five  Figures of Speech
  5.1  Lecture 1  Simile and Metaphor
  5.2  Lecture 2  Metonymy, Synecdoche and Euphemism.
  5.3  Lecture 3  Analogy and Personification
  5.4  Lecture 4  Paradox and Oxymoron
  5.5  Lecture 5  Hyperbole and Understatement
  5.6  Lecture 6  Parody
  5.7  Lecture 7  Irony and Sarcasm
  5.8  Lecture 8  Transferred Epithet and Synaesthesia
References
Appendixes