英语修辞学ENGLISH RHETORIC - isyntactic figures of speech-II.ppt

Syntactic Figures of Speech (II) Climax 层进法 Definition: Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction (see auxesis), with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of a series of events or of an experience. Etymology: From the Greek, ladder Examples: I came, I saw, I conquered. (Julius Caesar) I am the way, the truth, and the life. (St.John, The New Testament, Chapter 14, verse 4) Anticlimax突降法 Definition: An abrupt shift from a noble tone to a less exalted one--often for comic effect. Contrast with climax. Etymology: From the Greek, Down a ladder“ Example: refer to “Bright College years” Syllepsis 一语双叙法,兼用法 Definition: A kind of ellipsis in which one word (usually a verb) is understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs. See also zeugma. Etymology: From the Greek, a taking Zeugma 轭式搭配法 Definition: Use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one. Etymology: from the Greek, a yoking, a bond Edward Corbett offers this distinction between zeugma and syllepsis: in zeugma, unlike syllepsis, the single word does not fit grammatically or idiomatically with one member of the pair. Thus, in Corbetts view, the first example below would be syllepsis, the second zeugma. Syllepsis: She lost her boyfriend and her mind. Zeugma: Kill all the poys [boys] and luggage!(Fluellen in William Shakespeares Henry V)? Zeugma Lust conquered shame, boldness fear, madness reason. Zeugma (from the Greek word meaning yoke“) is a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun. A zeugma employs both ellipsis, the omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance of several words or phrases. ? The result is a series of similar phrases joined or yoked together by a common and implied noun or verb. In a modern sense, the z