Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Diction措词 5
1．Diction and Vocabulary措词和词汇 5
2．Concrete Words and Abstract Words具体名词和抽象名词 6
3．Synonyms同义词 7
4．Standard English and Informal English标准英语和非正式英浯 8
5．Slang俚语 9
6．Trite Expressions陈腐表达 10
7．Jargon行话 11
8．Correct Idioms and Collocations准确习语和搭配 12
9．Chinglish中国式英语 13
10．Improprieties用词不当 13
11．Wordiness用词罗嗦 14
Chapter 2 Figures of Similarity相似修辞格 17
Section One Simile明喻and Analogy类比 17
Section Two Metaphor暗喻 25
Section Three Reification具体修辞法 39
Section Four Allegory讽喻，Fable动物寓言and Parable伦理寓言 43
Section Five Allusion引喻 49
Chapter 3 Figures of Association关联修辞格 54
Section One Metonymy转喻 54
Section Two Synecdoche提喻 68
Chapter 4 Figures of Imagination想象修辞格 71
Section one Personification拟人法 71
Section Two Apostrophe顿呼 81
Section Three Transferred Epithet移位修辞语 82
Section Four Hyperbole夸张 85
Chapter 5 Figures of Sound 声音修辞格 94
Section One Onomatopoeia拟声法 94
Section Three Alliteration头韵 105
Section Four Rhyme韵,Assonance尾韵 and Consonance辅韵，Half(of Approximate)Rhyme半韵 107
Chapter 6 Figures of Contrast对照修辞格 113
Section One Irony反语法 113
Section Two Antithesis对照 116
Section Three Paradox隽语 117
Section Four Oxymoron矛盾修辞法 120
Section Five Rhetorical Question修辞疑问句 123
Section Six Zeugma轭式搭配法 125
Section One Exclamation感叹 131
Chapter 7 Figures of Emphasis强调修辞法 131
Section Two Epigram警句 133
Section Three Repetition重复 137
Section Four Parallelism对句法 151
Section Five Climax渐增 152
Chapter 8 figures of Softening柔和修辞格 153
Section One Anticlimax(Bathos)突降 153
Section Two Understatement克制低调陈述 156
Section Three Litotes间接肯定法 158
Section Four Euphemism委婉修辞法 164
Section Five Circumlocution迂回修辞法 172
Chapter 9 Imagery and Tone意象和语气 175
Section One Imagery意象 175
Section Two Tone语气 177