Chapter 102 Rhetorical Analysis of Beauty of Famous English Sayings

摘要

Famous English sayings have rich ideological content and beautiful language. Due to the use of various rhetorical devices at phonological, semantic, syntactic levels and figures of speeches, the English sayings have developed a unique style. Their beauty is generated by phonological repetition, semantic antithesis, syntactic parallelism, and the use the various figures of speeches such as simile, metaphor and paradox.