The Study Of The Rhetoric On The Iyrics Of Cantonese Opera

The CantOnese Opera is a tyPiGal drama of thc south pat of China. It hasbeen widely spread thrOughout Guangdong, Guangh, Hong Kong, Macao andsome areas of the East Asia where thc Chinese overseas live. There are a lot ofbooks written about the Cantonese OPeF4 but Ouly-lhoited to the study on the toneand sldll of singing, they seldom involve the value of arts of the lghcs. Seeingthat, thes essay is trying to investigae and analyse from the point of rhetoric the inof rhetoric on the bocs of Canonese OPera. It awhs to redress the lack of studyon this subject in the past as well as to provide a reference for futUre whting,creating and enjoying of the Cantonese OPera.This essay claims to investigae from the substantive means of rhetoric ----including sounds. words, selltence pallems and figures of sPeech and to analysethe art of rhetoric on the lyrics of Cantonese Opera fl. Regarding the aspect of sotmds, this essay strCsses on the tfaits of theCantonese rhythIn and the co-ordinate regulahons of the melody It also stresseson the usage of thpoes. accents, duPlicates on consonants, overlaPs on vowels andsounds in order to analyse the rhetoric effects of the Cantonese lghcs.2. As for the aspect of words, this essay describes the traits of the usage ofwords and analyses the rhetoric expressions from tlle emotive words, imaginedwords. written words, spoken words and archaic words.3. On the aspect of sentence pattems, this essay studies the traits of rhetoricof the sentence pattems from the regular sentences of the "Bang Huang" systeInand the lrregular sel1tences of the short songs.4. On the aspect of figures of speech, this essay gives examples and aWer analysis of some common figures appeared ln the Cantonese ly1 ics.