本书在修辞理论和语用学理论的指导下，通过收集大量英语修辞格实例，经过分析对比、归纳总结、分类整理，探讨英语修辞格的应用，加强读者对英语修辞格的感性认识，提高其鉴赏能力，进而使其产生模仿和运用这些修辞格手段的强烈愿望并掌握英语修辞格的构成手段和方法，从而提高其英语写作水平。
本书首先梳理了国内外知名学者关于修辞格的定义，指出修辞理论和修辞格的关系、英语修辞格的使用规律，然后探讨英语修辞格的功能、作用和特点等，并从多角度探讨英语修辞格的重要性。

Part One Introduction
Chapter One Figures of Speech
Part Two Phonetic Figures of Speech
Chapter Two Alliteration
Chapter Three Assonance
Chapter Four Consonance
Chapter Five Homeoteleuton
Chapter Six Onomatopoeia
Chapter Seven Aposiopesis
Chapter Eight Apostrophe
Chapter Nine Pun
Part Three Syntactic Figures of Speech
Chapter Ten Repetition
Chapter Eleven Parallelism
Chapter Twelve Antithesis
Chapter Thirteen Chiasmus
Chapter Fourteen Climax
Chapter Fifteen Anticlimax
Chapter Sixteen Zeugma
Chapter Seventeen Syllepsis
Chapter Eighteen Palindrome
Chapter Nineteen Asyndeton
Chapter Twenty Anastrophe
Chapter Twenty-one Ellipsis
Chapter Twenty-two Apposition
Chapter Twenty-three Parenthesis
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