A Comparative Study of Metonymy and Synecdoche

Among the modern rhetorical devices,metonymy and synecdoche are two important figures of speech,which are analogous to each other for both use the name of one thing for that of something else.That is to say,both of the rhetorical devices involve substitution.Thus the two concepts are confusing.Metonymy emphasizes on using the name of one thing for that of something else with which it is associated.Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole,an individual for a class,a material for a thing,or the reverse of any of these.By making a comparative study of these two through the connotation and category,the author summarizes that:they are two independent figures of speech.     

The Analysis of The Happy Prince Based on Corpus

As a new and rising discipline, Corpus Linguistics can be applied in the field of literary criticism to analyze literary text.Analyzing“The Happy Prince”written by the famous British writer Oscar Wilde with corpus can help reveal how the plot, portraits of people and the rhetorical devices express the theme of the story.     

Argumentation Analysis——A discourse Approach

Argumentation is a special kind of discourse.It had its own special type of structure、reasoning mode、cohesion and coherence、rhetorical devices.In this dissertation,the writer tries to discuss how to analyze an argumentation from a discoursal view.Also an example is given to support her idea.     

Complexity Behind Simplicity——An analysis of Langston Hughes’ Art of Writing in "Early Autumn"

Love is an eternal subject with many references in many novels,but Langston Hughes approaches it in a most simplified manner to portray the complex feeling of the protagonists.He achieves this inward complexity through carefully-treated outward simplicity.The paper discusses this art of writing in Early Autumn from such aspects as the dramatic point of view,well-designed setting,careful presentation and effective rhetorical devices.     

静由心生(英文)

There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace.Many artists tried.The King looked at all the pictures,but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.     

The Distinctive Feature of Nashe＇s Poetry Spring——A Study of Spring

Thomas Nashe‘s Spring is a lyric poem extracted from his comedy “Will Summer‘s Testament”. It is a poem of iambic pentameter. The whole poem is made up of three stanzas. Simple and plain as its language is , it is the language of common speech of his own time, ingeniously chosen, refined, modified and heightened. The author‘s use of a combination of alliteration, mediate and end rhyme in its rhyme scheme makes the poem read as smoothly and briskly as singing a song. His arrangement of four rhythm or beating schemes in a single poem makes the poem confirm to no conventional pattern. His employment of many rhetorical devices makes the poem vivid, imaginative and peffecdve.     

The Language Features of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

As a unique feature of literature, poem brings readers music beauty, image beauty, visual beauty as well as symbolic beauty. Robert Frost is an American contemporary poet who is good at stylistic feature of poems, especially in macroscopic organization, rhetorical methods, grammatical metaphor, vocabulary, rhythmic feature, and semantic relations. Generally, sound is related to phonetics and phonology. Patterns of sound can create melodious effect in poetry, and sometimes a single vowel or consonant will make the verse or even the particular poem significant. Sometimes musical or incantatory effects are achieved through devices such as onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance and rhythm. A stylistic analysis of Robert Frost’s famous poem"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"is given, which mainly focused on its language features. Through the excellent choice of words and organization of sound, Frost makes the simplest pieces into meaningful poems with beautiful melody and brings readers refreshing sense, flatus of life, tranquility and geniality.     

Unit 14 Freedom fighters

一、课文导读 I. Read the text, and finish the following cloze. When Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous __, it was a hundred years after President Lincoln __ the paper that gave hope to millions of Negro slaves in 1863. But one hundred years later, __ Dr King said, we still had to face the fact that the Negro was not free.     

Exploration on Rhetorical Devices in “The Story of an Hour”

This paper analyzes some main rhetorical devices in Kate Chopin's short novel "The Story of An Hour" including symbolism,contrast and irony,which are benefit to promote the theme.     

An Hour's Freedom, Timeless Feminism: On Irony and Imagery in Kate Chopin's The Story of an Hour

By the brief introduction of Kate Chopin and her achievement, this paper elaborates the awakening of consciousness of the feminism of the protagonist in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour. In the short story, the author uses many literary elements to describe the characters, especially the irony and imagery. This thesis uses those rhetorical devices to vividly describe the characters and to criticize the inequality between men and women in the late 19th century.[1]     

Analysis of Melancholy in Alfred Tennyson’s “Break,Break,Break”

As a "Poet Laureate",Alfred Lord Tennyson has been loved and respected by critics and readers.He is famous not only for his unsurpassed virtuosity,but also the melancholy feeling in his poetry.He excels at penning short lyrics,among which "Break,Break,Break" is one of the representatives.This paper analyzes the melancholy in the poem from different perspectives,the rhetorical device of repetend,the diction and the sound.     

On the Rhetorical Charm in Walden

Thoreau expresses his love for nature and criticism of materialism in Walden,emphasizing the harmonious relationship between nature and human beings.Besides this significance,rhetorical devices like simile,metaphor,personification,parallelism,overstatement,irony and pun contribute to unique charm of this masterpiece’s language and thoughts.     

Meanings in Sonnet 60 by Shakespeare——by Analyzing Rhetorical Devices and Sounds

The theme about the cruelty of time frequently appears in Shakespeare’s sonnets including the 60 th one. In this sonnet,rhetorical devices contribute to vividly express the meanings of the poem. That is time is cruel and ravaging and it destroys everything, but this poem will enable the young man’s worth or beauty to be free from the mighty power of the“bloody tyrant”time and to live forever. In addition, these meanings are reinforced by the sounds and rhythms.     

Dolores Claiborne:Domestic Abuse is the Result of a Patriarchal Society

Dolores Claiborne is one of Stephen King’s finest works.It gives a comprehensive and stunning view at the judiciary and social corruption on domestic violence issues.And it has been made into a movie.The movie precisely describes the life of an abused woman.Dolores,the main character,covers all the characteristics of a typical abused housewife.Even the child molesta tion and the domestic cold violence typical in a domestic abuse family are presented in the movie.This movie pays much atten tion to the reality and is from the perspectives of females tells people the misery of women in the man’s world and tells people that the domestic abuses are the result of a patriarchal society.     

Efficacy of Peer Revision in Process-oriented Writing

Peer revision is a collaborative activity during which student writers can exchange drafts and make suggestions for improvement. It has been widely used at present in process-oriented writing instruction. In this paper, the researcher carried out an empirical study about the effects and efficacy of peer revision on a group of Chinese Juniors majoring in English. It was found that student writers focused specially on grammar and vocabulary in PE session and organization was the least attended to. PE was quite effective in improving the overall writing quality, as the participants did incorporate most of the revisions suggested by their peers. However, the influences of students’writing proficiencies and of the rhetorical modes of the writing tasks on the effects of PE were proved to be not very significant.     

English Metaphysical Ideas Reflected in Anne Bradstreet’s poetry

The paper is to explore the English Metaphysical ideas reflected in Anne bradstreet’s first poetry The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. The whole paper is devided into three parts , the first part is to introduce English Metaphysical ideas and Anne’s first and only published poetry before death,The second one is to analyze the reflection of the English Metaphysical ideas in Anne’s first poetry in terms of the themes, the images and the rhetorical devices of the poetry. the last one is the conclusion of the essay .     

Who Stole Your Pig?

Mr King had a small piece of farm at the foot of the hill. He worked hard but the weather was sometimes wet andsometimes dry. And he was often worried about food and clothes. So he built a pigsty.behind his house. When he cameback from his field,he looked after his pigs. Christmas was coming. Mr King hadn't enough money to buy some presents for his children. He had to kill a fatpig and hung it up for the night. The next morning, when he was going to take it to the market, he couldn't find it. He     

The Rhetoric of Performance in India: The Confluence of Nyaya Vada(logic) and Sadharanikaran(performance) in Past and Present Discourses

Though "Comparative" rhetoricians Oliver and Kennedy placed Indian rhetoric on the rhetorical map, much remains undiscovered concerning their specific indigenous communicative practices. This essay introduces two such Indian traditions-- Nyāya, a philosophically based approach to persuasion codified by Hindus, and Sadharanikaran, interpreted by many as a Hindu model of communication. Nyāya, gradually developed a five-part "method"(Matilal) that defines arguments in terms of claims, reasons, and analogies. In a parallel dramatic tradition from Bharat Muni called Sadharanikaran, the receiver "not only accepts the message willingly but in the process derives genuine satisfaction and pleasure or Ananda". This essay contrasts the two approaches with Aristotle's more familiar ideas, and then offers some historical and current Indian arguments to illustrate rhetorical delivery shaped by Nyāya and Sadharanikaran, a glimpse into rhetorical performance within a rich non-Western tradition.     

四月我们看什么

Anna and the King In 1862,an English school teacher Anna arrives in Bangkok toteach the fifty-eight children of King Mongkut,the ruler of Siam.Mongkut wished to turn the country into a major power while stillretaining its traditions and culture. Anna storms in to see the King,breaking all protocol and     

On the Application of Booth’s Rhetorical Theory in A Good Man Is Hard to Find

A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a famous fiction which attracts many scholars to analyze the characters of the protagonists. According to Booth’s rhetorical theory, it tries to analyze how the rhetorical skills influence the readers’interpretation to the work by analyzing the application of narrative visual conversion, irony and foreshadowing. It will help readers understand the full fiction better.