本书简要回顾了西方修辞史，详尽阐述了英语中各类修辞格的特点和具体运用方法，对精心挑选的大量典型英语修辞格例句进行了系统分析讲解。并对容易混淆的相近辞格加以比较。便于读者赏析。

本书既可作为高等院校英语专业文体与修辞课程教材，也可供广大英语修辞爱好者参考。

本书简要回顾了西方修辞史，详尽阐述了英语中各类修辞格的特点和具体运用方法，对精心挑选的大量典型英语修辞格例句进行了系统分析讲解。并对容易混淆的相近辞格加以比较。便于读者赏析。书中既有经典例句，又有取自当代报刊杂志的例句。融知识性、经典性、时代性于一体。语言朴实，实践性强。每种辞格均附有相应的练习题。本书既可作为高等院校英语专业文体与修辞课程教材，也可供广大英语修辞爱好者参考。

Introduction

Part One Semantic Devices

1. Simile

2. Metaphor

3. Analogy

4. Personification

5. Zoosemy

6. Synaesthesia

7. Hypallage

8. Verbal Symbol

9. Metonymy

10. Synecdoche

11. Antonomasia

12. Allusion

13. Euphemism

14. Periphrasis

15. Hyperbole

16. Understatement

17. Variation

18. Nicknaming

19. Paregrnenon

20. Hendiadys

21. Epanorthosis

22. Repetition

23. Polysyndeton

24. Paradiastole

25. Polypunctuation

26. Pleonasm

27. Ellipsis

28. Asyndeton and Parataxis

  29. Sentence Fragment

30. Paraleipsis

31. Aposiopesis

32. Syllepsis

33. Zeugma

34. Antithesis

35. Oxymoron

36. Paradox

37. Epigram

38. Parallelism

39. Climax

40. Anticlimax

41. Represented Speech

42. Ecphonesis or Exclamation

43. Dubitation

44. Pun

45. Irony

46. Innuendo

47. Satire

48. Ridicule

49. Rhetorical Question

50. Allegory

51. Inversion or Hyperbaton

52. Anagram

53. Palindrome

54. Malapropism

55. Spoonerism

56. Bull

57. Hysteron-proteron

58. Metastasis

59. Enallage or Functional Shift

60. Parody

61. Mimesis

62. Graphic

63. Biblical Rhetoric

64. Prosopopoeia or Vision

65. Apostrophe

66. Prolepsis

Part Two Phonetic Devices

 1. Alliteration

2. Assonance

3. Consonance

4. Tongue Twisters

5. Onomatopoeia

6. Homeoteleuton

Part Three Syntactic Devices

1. Active and Passive Voices

2. Balanced and Parallel Structure

3. Short and Long Sentences

4. Sentence Types

5. Periodic Sentence and Loose Sentence 

6. Appositives and Parentheses

Appendix I

Appendix II

Appendix III

Bibliography