8 Syntactic Figures of Speech (I)句法修辞.ppt

Lecture Eight;Repetition Parallelism Antithesis Anticlimax ;Repetition;Functions of Repetition;Classification of Repetition;Immediate repetition;Intermittent repetition; Anaphora ;I want to know how long shes been there, I want to know what shes there at all for. (W. Howells) You have all my secrets, she leered. Tears slid; tears fell; tears like diamonds, collecting powder in the ruts of her cherry blossom cheeks. (V. Woolf: The Duchess and the Jeweler);Epiphora;That government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Francis Bacon: Of Studies) If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. Sow nothing, reap nothing.;Parallelism;Parallelism is often used in persuasive speech. It is either within a sentence or across sentences, within a paragraph or across paragraphs. Parallelism is deeply rooted in our mind. Some people even argue that parallelism should be grouped into grammar because on so many occasions parallelism is a rule and a must. Parallelism is often used together with repetition, either verbally or syntactically. They make a very formidable pair in forceful writing of any kind. They help drive home a point.;Oregons bottle law has saved taxpayers money, conserved energy, and created jobs. Oregons bottle law has saved taxpayers money, conserves energy, and creates jobs. I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American. I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. And I am also addressing you as an American.;Antithesis;Ways of creating antithesis;The world will little note nor long remember what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. (Abraham Lincoln) It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief; it was the epoch of incredulity. It was the se