Rhetorical Functions of Accuracy and Vagueness
...racy and sometimes it even can affect the hyperbole method. For instance, the play gThe Rising of the Moonh, written by Lady Gregory, once has a sentence: gThere isn't a weapon he doesn't know the use of, and as to strength, his muscle is as hard as that board.h Here the author used double negation to strengthen the meaning that whatever kind of weapon will be used by him, and then using intensifying to prove the man has great strength. The word gboardh is described to his muscle, which will give the readers clear and material impress about the character. Accuracy is not only used to express the exactly digital data, but also to form vivid and lively sense of object. As when we show our thankfulness to others in daily life, we would like to say gthanks a millionh, here we use the exactly number not for express the real times we want to give thanks, but for a more sincere behavior. Second, English rhetoric can be divided into two parts, passive rhetoric techniques and active rhetoric techniques. The last one has the immovable format correspondinglyC including lexical stylistic devices, syntactical stylistic devices and phonetic stylistic devices. Oxymoron is one of the reifiers of lexical stylistic devices. We can find both accuracy and vagueness in oxymoron method. It put the opposite words together to open out the inconsistent characters of objects, which arises the strong effect of language expression. For example, the famous Hollywood film gcruel kindnessh, because of the incompatible parts shaking the traditional thought of audiences, it will cause the unbelievable effect. His honors rooted in dishonors stood And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. In this sentence, the poet used dishonors to modify honors, while using unfaithful to modify faith, falsely to modify true, so as to have a series of opposability. Giving readers fuzzy logic feeling, it had the bright function of vagueness and oxymoron. Once I have read an article called gIs There Life on Ear...