Shenmu: Rhetorical Elements And Text Interpretation

This paper selects four groups of rhetorical elements in novel "shenmu"-a title symbol, character symbols, space symbols and presence of coding, as a study.Rhetorical elements of the four groups each have their own rhetorical connotations:the title symbol "shenmu" is a rhetorical prototype; the character symbols show a rhetorical layout of "pseudonym-real name-the pseudonym", which divided the Group of pseudonyms and the blood of symbols; "coal mines" as a spatial symbol one after another appear rhetorical illusion of a "death kiln" and a "Immortal kiln", which constitute a mirror rhetorical relations with another spatial symbol "home". The presence of coding has metaphor of good and evil sides of human nature.Taken together, on the one hand, the title symbol "shenmu" represent the abstract "divine nature" and become a floating symbol of aesthetic language, on the other hand,the title symbol and the character symbol, the space symbol, the presence of coding concrete "human nature" in the text, which shows a rhetorical layout of "evil human nature-good human nature-beautiful human nature".This text as a whole formed a kind of three-dimensional aesthetic relationship.