"Fire", as one of the Chinese basic vocabulary, has expanded its cultural connotation after long-term used.This paper, analyzes the morpheme "Fire",whose semantic analysis and rhetoric generated ways, from the two aspects of semantics and rhetoric. The paper also explores how the morpheme "Fire" constructs the rhetorical meaning of the novel "journey to the west". Firstly, through semantic analyses, the author demonstrates the meaning of the morpheme and phase of "Fire" reflect its feature "the double side of the fire".Secondly, through rhetorical analysis, the author demonstrates that the meaning of the morpheme and phase of "Fire" and their formation routes are the expression of the concept of cognitive rhetoric cognitive. Finally, the meaning of "Fire" in the" journey to the west" participates in the environment, plots and characters in the novels and then constitute the whole novel magic style. |