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摘 要
当今，广告以各种媒体如杂志、报纸、电视、广播、海报、因特网等多种形式不断地出现在我们日常生活中。广告作为现代生活的重要组成部分，以它的独特魅力，对社会经济的发展起着推动作用，在商品进出口中，充当着越来越重要的角色。广告英语中频繁使用的修辞手法有：拟人、比喻、双关、排比、押韵等。这些修辞手法的运用能使英语广告中的产品或服务生动有趣、形象传神，同时赋予广告语言美、音律美。例拟人使产品形象生动；比喻使产品特点鲜明；排比使语言增强语势；押韵使语言富有节奏感等。不管是给产品还是给语言本身，修辞手法在广告英语中合理运用都能给广告带来良好的效果，继而给读者留下深刻印象。
本篇论文主要从音韵、词义、结构三方面讨论分析广告英语中的修辞特点。
关键词：广告英语；修辞；音韵；词义；结构
Contents
Abstract I
Key Words I
摘要 II
关键词 II
Introduction 1
I. Value of Advertisements 2
II. Basic Rhetoric Tactics in Advertising English 3
A. Phonation Rhetoric. 3
1. Rhyme 3
2. Onomatopoeia 5
B. Vocabulary Rhetoric 6
1. Figure of Speech 6
2. Hyperbole 9
3. Pun 9
4. Personification 12
5. Parody 13
6. Irony 14
7. Coinage 14
8. Anticlimax 15
C. Syntax rhetoric 16
1. Parallelism 16
2. Repetition 17
3. Antithesis 18
Ш. The Comprehensively Applying Rhetoric in Advertising English 19
Conclusion 21
Acknowledgements 23
Bibliography 24
Abstract
Nowadays, we are endlessly bombarded with all kinds of advertisements through various media such as magazine, newspaper, TV, radio, poster and internet, etc. Advertisement takes an important part in modern life, with its special magic power, prompting social and economic development. In import and export business, advertisements play more and more important role. The most frequently used rhetoric devices are: personification, figures of speech, pun, parallelism, rhyming and so on. The application of these rhetoric devices can make products or services lively, interesting, visualized, and lifelike, also endow the advertising English with the beauty of rhythm and English language. Personification makes products lively and lifelike; figures of speech make products brilliant on their features; parallelism makes language tone more strong; rhyming makes language finger-popping. Rhetoric devices can bring advertising a good effect and make readers impressive on both products and language if it's used properly.
This paper mainly talks about rhetoric features of advertising English from three aspects: phonation, vocabulary and syntax.
Key Words
Advertising English; rhetoric; phonation; vocabulary; syntax.
