张宏武编著的《英语修辞欣赏及应用》系统地划 分和整理了英语在词法、句法、音韵和修辞格等方面 的表现形式，并通过精选篇章的分析，让读者欣赏、 体味英语语言“美”的一面。这种“美”体现在结构 、音韵、意义等层面，不仅具有语法层面的准确性和 规范性，而且还上升到语言的艺术性和表达效果层面 。全书共分五章，涉猎四十余种常见修辞手法。例子 皆采集于名家之作，通俗易懂，并多以语篇形式出现 ，能让读者在语境和情景中感悟修辞的魅力。 该书适合于英语专业学生、非英语专业高年级学 生、研究生及广大英语爱好者使用。

前言 Preface Chapter One A Brief Introduction of English Rhetoric 1.1 What is rhetoric? 1.2 A brief history of rhetoric 1.3 Rhetoric and English writing 1.4 The three artistic proofs in rhetoric 1.5 Rhetoric, grammar and logic in writing 1.6 Why do we need to learn English rhetoric? Chapter Two Lexical Devices 2.1 Lexical choices 2.2 Lexical repetition Chapter Three Syntactical Devices 3.1 Long and short sentences 3.2 Periodic and loose sentences 3.3 Mid-branching sentences 3.4 Parallelism 3.5 Tricolon 3.6 Antithesis 3.7 Repetition 3.8 Inversion 3.9 Chiasmus 3.10 Ellipsis 3.11 Fragmentary elliptical sentences 3.12 Polysyndeton 3.13 Asyndeton and syndeton 3.14 Aposiopesis 3.15 Epanorthosis 3.16 Epiplexis 3.17 Rhetorical question Chapter Four Phonetic Devices 4.1 Alliteration 4.2 Rhyming 4.3 Assonance 4.4 Consonance 4.5 Homeoteleuton 4.6 Onomatopoeia Chapter Five Figures of Speech 5.1 Lecture 1 Simile and Metaphor 5.2 Lecture 2 Metonymy, Synecdoche and Euphemism. 5.3 Lecture 3 Analogy and Personification 5.4 Lecture 4 Paradox and Oxymoron 5.5 Lecture 5 Hyperbole and Understatement 5.6 Lecture 6 Parody 5.7 Lecture 7 Irony and Sarcasm 5.8 Lecture 8 Transferred Epithet and Synaesthesia References Appendixes