一、喻类辞格 1
1.Simile(明喻) 3
2.Metaphor(隐喻) 10
3.Sustained Metaphor(博喻) 30
4.Extended Metaphor(延伸比喻) 38
5.Dead Metaphor(死喻) 48
6.Mixed Metaphor(混喻) 56
7.Conceit(牵强比喻、妙喻) 59
8.Kenning(隐喻表达法) 63
9.Analogy(类比) 65
10.Personification(拟人) 73
11.Plantification(拟植物) 77
12.Animalification(拟动物) 84
13.Abification(拟抽象事物) 90
14.Reification(拟具体事物) 92
15.Deification(拟神) 95
16.Person-personification(以人喻人) 99
17.Synaesthesia(通感) 104
18.Hypallage(or Transferred Epithet)(修饰语移置) 112
19.Verbal Symbol(词语象征) 118
20.Phonetic Symbol(语音象征) 121
二、代类辞格 127
21.Metonymy(借代) 129
22.Synecdoche(提喻) 132
23.Antonomasia(换称) 135
24.Allusion(典故) 139
25.Euphamism(委婉语) 153
1)exagerating euphamism(夸张性委婉) 153
2)narrowing euphamism(缩小性委婉) 154
26.Periphrases(or Circumlocution)(迂回说法) 157
27.Hyperbole(夸张) 162
28.Understatement(低调陈述) 166
29.Variation(变异用词) 170
30.Nicknaming(取绰号) 176
三、反复类辞格 183
31.Alliteration(头韵) 185
32.Assonance(元韵) 189
33.Consonance(辅韵) 191
34.Homoeotoleuton(谐缀格) 195
35.Paregmenon(同源修辞格) 196
36.Hcndiadys(重言法) 201
37.Epanorthosis(or Correction)(修正法) 207
(1)immediate repetition(连接反复) 212
1)repetition in writing(行文反复) 212
38.Repetition(反复) 212
(2)intrmittent repetition(间隔反复) 213
2)repetition in dialogue(话语反复) 218
(1)repetition in monologue(独白中的反复) 218
(2)repetition in dialogue(对话中的反复) 220
39.Polysyndeton(连词叠用) 225
40.Paradiastole(neither_nor叠用) 227
41.Polypunctuation(标点叠用) 229
42.Tongue Twister(绕口令) 234
43.Pleonasm(冗言法) 238
四、节略类辞格 241
44.Ellipsis(省略) 243
45.Asyndeton(散珠) 247
46.Parataxis(省略连词) 250
47.Sentence Fragment(句段) 252
48.Apo Koinou(融合结构) 255
49.Paraleipsis(or Pretertition)(假省笔法) 256
50.Aposiopesis(跳脱) 258
51.Syllepsis(一笔双叙) 263
52.Zeugma(轭式修辞法) 269
53.Shortening and Memorandum(节缩) 272
五、对照并列类辞格 275
54.Antithesis(对照法) 277
55.Oxymoron(矛盾修辞法) 280
56.Paradox(隽语) 287
57.Epigram(机智语) 289
58.Parallelism(平行结构) 292
59.Climax(层进) 299
60.Anticlimax(渐降) 301
61.Represented Speech(描述性引语) 303
62.Periodic Sentence(掉尾句) 306
63.Ecphonesis(or Exclamation)(咏叹) 310
64.Dubication(述疑法) 315
六、双关类辞格 319
65.Pun(双关语) 321
1)homophonic pun(同音双关) 323
2)paranomasia(近音双关) 324
3)antalaclasis(同音异义双关) 325
4)sylleptic pun(一词多义双关) 325
5)asteismus(歧解双关) 326
66.Irony(反语) 330
1)antiphrases(词义反用法) 330
2)situation irony(情景式反语) 331
67.Innuendo(暗讽) 334
68.Satire(讥讽) 335
69.Rhetorical Question(修辞问句) 340
70.Allegory(讽喻) 345
1)parable(醒世寓言) 348
2)exemplem(示范故事) 351
七、颠倒变换类辞格 355
71.Inversion(or Hyperbaton)(倒装) 357
72.Anagram(字母易位) 361
73.Palindrome(回文) 369
74.Malapropism(词语的误用) 377
75.Spoonerism(首音语置) 383
76.Metathesis(字位转换) 394
77.Bull(非逻辑语) 396
78.Hysteron-proteron(倒序法) 397
79.Metastasis(时态变换) 398
80.Enallage(or Functional Shift)(文法替换) 399
八、仿拟类辞格 403
81.Parody(仿拟) 405
十、The Intermixed Usage of Figures of Speech(辞格的综合运用) 405
82.Onomatopeia(拟声) 411
83.Mimesis(模写) 425
84.Graphic(摹形) 426
85.Biblical Rhetoric(仿圣经语) 426
九、示现类辞格 429
86.Prosopop?ia(or Vision)(示现) 431
1)prophesy(预现) 431
2)flashback(追述) 432
87.Apostrophe(顿呼) 437
88.Prolepsis(预辨法) 441
附录:本词典出现的修辞术语索引 463