“Things Are as Numerous as Strings of Pearls, as Numerous as the Brilliant Flowers”—Arts of Figure of Speech in Qian Zhongshu’s Novel Fortress Besieged

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10.2991/hss-26.2016.64How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Fortress besieged, Language, Arts in figure of speech.

Abstract

Fortress Besieged is a famous novel written by Zhongshu Qian. The most prominent feature in this work is its witty expressions with figure of speech used for the characterization, which is bound to do research. The paper uses comparison and induction in the research. It is concluded that the language art of the figure of speech has some characteristics: the figure of speech is used in everywhere in the novel; the figurative imagery is far from the original meaning, but suitable in the description. From the perspective of linguistics, this paper focuses on the language arts, accompanied by some figures, which is unique in the research.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jiugen Xiao
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