1. Writing skills: 1) language usage; 2) sentence structure usage

2. Rhetorical devices: 1) oxymoron; 2）synecdoche; 3) hyperbole; 4) transferred epithet; 5) antithesis; 6) metaphor; 7) ridicule: 8) repetition 9) pun 10) irony 11) sarcasm

3. Stylistic features: narration

Identify the rhetorical devices in the following sentences.

1. One cannot make the words strong enough. His reputation as an authority on Scripture is recognized throughout the world. ( )

2. Darrow had whisper throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder. ( )

3. Darwin is right --- inside .( )

Key:

1. hyperbole;

2.transferred epithet;

3. pun

Read the following passage, and tell what the characteristics of narration are.

Walt Disney was born in 1901. As a child, Walt liked watching movies and wanted to make his own ones some day. At the age of 26, he made his first cartoon movie with a rabbit as the main character. However, it was a failure. Walt did not give up. The next year he introduced Mickey House to the audience. Soon，this “mouse” with large ears and feet became popular. Walt Disney became famous too. In the 1930s and 40s, he made other cartoon movies such as Snow White and Pinocchio. Later, he dreamed up Disneyland where people could meet and play with his cartoon characters. Walt died in 1966, but his name will always be remembered.

Key:

Narration is the kind of discourse concerned with action, with events in time, with life in motion. It answers the question “What happened?” It doesn’t tell about a story. It tells a story. It aims to give us immediacy, a sense of the event before our eyes, involving us, our interest, and perhaps our sympathy. Description, too, aims to give immediacy, but its purpose is to give the quality of an action, not the movement of the action itself.

论文题目：关于英语修辞学的应用和研究

作者：黄任

摘要：提出了英语修辞活动的3个层次，即词语选择、句式变化（包括辞格运用）、段落与篇章写作，比较全面地论述了英语修辞的各个环节，有助于学生全面地了解和掌握修辞这样一个系统的过程。最后两章讨论论文写作和应用文写作，旨在引导学生结合实践运用修辞技巧。