A Study Of Rhetoric In

The Peony Pavilion is the representative of Ming drama, which was composed by the playwrighter Tang xian zu. At the same time, the Peony Pavilion is one of the great works of Chinese Romantic Drama. As an outstanding literary works, the Peony Pavilion’s drama language is elegant and graceful, which contains the abundant rhetoric phenomenon. There have ten main use figures of speech. They are Metaphor, Personification and Plantification, Metonymy, Description, Dual, Parallelism, Repetition, Pun, Misundersand, Reference. Artful use of figures of speech created a number of wonderful characters, helped to make the counterpoint of interwoven dramatic plots, maked a vivid picture present to our eye.According to the effect, the ten kinds of main figures of speech can be divided into three categories:one is the kind of Figurative Expression, it contains Metaphor, Personification and Plantification, Metonymy, Description. The next category is Musical Beauty of the language, it contains Dual, Parallelism, Repetition. The last category is Content Beauty of the language, it contains Pun, Misundersand, Reference.Through the statistics of the Peony Pavilion rhetorical text number, it can be found:In the above three types of main rhetorical effect, The greatest number of rhetorical is the kind of Figurative Expression, then the category is Musical Beauty of the language, The number is the least category is Content Beauty of the language. This kind of rhetoric phenomenon and the artistic features of the opera (stylized, performing, popularity) has a direct relationship.Rhetoric phenomenon is not grow out of thin air, As a common language phenomenon, rhetoric have a certain Social Background, Social Ideological and Literary Appearance. Under the big background of social cultural and psychological background, we can explore much further for more knowledge about rhetoric phenomenon.Opera as a representative of the Chinese culture art form, its language has a unique charm. Drama language study can not only enrich linguistic materials, also for literature and art research provides a new way of thinking. So, the Peony Pavilion rhetoric study is very valuable.