What is the definition of rhetoric?

Rhetoric is the study of rhetoric and the category of linguistics. Rhetoric is an artistic skill to enhance the effect of words or sentences. Since the appearance of language, human beings have had the need of rhetoric. Sweet words can make people:

Modify your own articles and language, attract others' attention, deepen others' impression and lyric effect.

Know what others mean more clearly and will not be misunderstood by rhetorical devices.

It is convenient to analyze and appreciate literary works.

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Etymology of 1

2 history

2. 1 China

2.2 West

Three types of Chinese rhetoric

4 See also

5 reference

6 External links

Etymology [editing]

The earliest rhetorical word in Chinese appeared in the Book of Changes: "Ci Cheng". It means to modify the language.

Rhetorical "word" can be divided into words (for writing articles) and words (or words, for oral use). It turns out that rhetoric, like language, focuses on speech; Even the word "word" originally refers to a word, not a combination of words-explain the word in words: "litigation words also." Later, the focus developed to literary expression.

[Edit] History

[Editor] China

As for rhetoric, there were sporadic remarks in the pre-Qin period. For example, Zhuangzi attaches great importance to the effect of fables; Hui Shi attached great importance to metaphor.

Scholars in the Han Dynasty had a heated discussion on the basic rhetorical devices in The Book of Songs: Fu (direct narration), Bi (metaphor) and Xing (association).

Many literary criticism works after Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, such as various poems and songs, all talked about rhetoric, but few works devoted to rhetoric. For example, Liu Xie's Wen Xin Diao Long is the first work with the same meaning as the word "rhetoric" in modern understanding, and many rhetorical devices are also discussed in the book.

Chen Xun's Wen Ze in Song Dynasty can be said to be the first rhetoric monograph in China.

After the May 4th Movement in Beijing in the eighth year of the Republic of China (19 19), rhetoric broke away from the category of literary criticism and became an independent discipline. At that time, there were two main trends in rhetoric research:

Imitate western rhetorical works.

Compile the ancient sayings of China.

In the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), The Origin of Rhetoric by Chen Wangdao was published.

Nowadays, writing teaching in middle school education must use various rhetorical methods.

[Editor] West

Plato talked about the difference between correct rhetoric and wrong rhetoric.

Western rhetoric was developed by Plato's student Aristotle. Rhetoric here is more suitable to be called rhetoric or eloquence, and also refers to the technology of speech. In the first sentence of Aristotle's work The Art of Rhetoric, rhetoric is described as the relative object of dialectics, that is, dialectical method is the element of discovering truth, and rhetorical method is used to communicate truth.

[Editor] Rhetoric Types in Chinese

Metaphor (simile)-simile, metaphor, ellipsis and metaphor

parallel

contrast

Exaggeration-(time, space, images, human feelings, quantity)

laugh

Transformation-personification, imitation and visualization

slogan

Settings-Positive Contrast and Negative Contrast

Metonymy and other rhetorical devices

Ask questions-questions, questions, questions.

signature analysis

insertion

Intertextuality

Duality-single sentence pair, middle sentence pair, clause pair and three sentence pair

Play word games

Hierarchical delivery

Category Overlap-Overlap and Category Overlap

serious

Hui language

place upside down

complicated

copy

show one's face

practised

Citation-explicit citation and implicit citation

Transfer goods

sign

place upside down

Tibetan words-xiehouyu

sigh with emotion

make a telephone call

imitate

Redundancy/tautology due to typographical errors or misreading

Telemetry of mind

Jump

Analytical lattice

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Stylistic theory

Language style

[edit] reference

Huang qingxuan's rhetoric, sanmin bookstore.

Brief introduction of rhetorical skills