The Rhetorical Strategies Of Shi Zhecun's Novels

Shi Zhecun's novels attach great importance to the "unique beauty". The researchers have explained his novels in great detail from the perspectives of society, culture and history, etc. This article explores his novels from the angle of rhetoric, with an attempt to analyse his unique novels on the basis of the rhetorical strategies Shi Zhecun employed. The article consists of three parts in detail.The first part is "Characterization". Shi Zhecun depicts sexual passion and penetrates into the characters' subconsciousness. The description of his characters ranges from the sexual psychology of celebrities in history to that of common people in modern world, through which Shi Zhecun explores the human nature. His characterization is featured by the richness of the characters' inner world and the vagueness of their outer personalities.The second part is "narrative skills". There are four key points: the arrangement of point of view, there is narrative circular structure, interveined and leaping narrative space and time, the choice of narrative images.The third part is "ironic rhetoric". Shi Zhecun's novels mainly deal with situation irony and model irony. The formal can be divided into two categories, that is separate irony and genera irony. While the latter includes three types: the irony of traditional tales of mystery, the irony of traditional tales of supernatural, ghost, and the irony of traditional tales of talented scholars and lovely ladies.