爱伦·坡《红死魔的面具》的修辞手法及效果

Analysis of Figures of Speech and the Effect in Poe's The Masque of the Red Death

埃德加·爱伦·坡的短篇小说《红死魔的面具》,篇幅短小精炼,语言富有艺术特色。小说通过运用象征、对比、反复、排比等修辞手法,表达了人们对死亡的恐怖、对怪异现象的疑惧以及死亡公平的主题。小说修辞手法的恰当运用,增强了作品的整体艺术效果。

The Masque of the Red Death written by Edgar Allan Poe is a short story, but the artistic characteris- tics of its language attract wide potential readership. Figures of speech such as symbolism, antithesis, repetition, parallelism in the short story help express the motifs, i.e., people＇s fear of death, apprehensions of the grotesque, and fairness of death. The use of these figures of speech reflects the unity of effect of the whole short story.