ZWWX@overseaen.com ISSN 1 009-5039 http://www.ovel‘seaen.tom Overseas English海外英语 Tel:+86—55l一65690811 Stylistic Features of Love/s a 65690812 Fallacy 宋毅 (昆明学院外国语学院,云南昆明,650214) Abstract:Stylistic features help better express the meaning between lines.Love Is can novel.This paper will andyze how such stylistic features as a cal sentences,inverted sentences,tag questions and loaded questions applied in the novel and their psychology and the writer’s attitude Fallacy by Max Shulman is sati a ring sentences,fragments,elliptical sentences,end—focus,periodi— ixln—on to help describe heroes’characteristic them. to Key words:stylistic features;suggestion;characteristic;psychology;attitude 中图分类号:1106 文献标识码:A 文章编号:1009—5039(2013)23—0230—02 Stylistic features used in the story Love Is Max Shulman help the description a Fallacy written by of heroes’characteristic,de— just because everybody else is doing it—this mindlessness.”to emphasize Peter‘s acme to of me,is the acme of mindlessness.The scription of heroes’psychology and suggestion of the author’s atti— function of periodic sentence is to stress the important pad.4 The tude. reason Love Is a Fallacy is short story which satirizes three heroes a and their attitudes to love.The narrator,a law school student,is and self-conceited person who smug needs just a him.and he doesn’t really 10ve Polly.Petey Butch is narrator’s who always imitates other persons and is vainglorious. roommate He can even trade his girl friend for a raccoon The last hero is the girl—Polly who is chooses coat iust for fashion. mindless girl and she a boyfriend by surface appearance.Max Shulman applies a such stylistic features like run—on Petey is a wife matching sentences,fragments,elliptical The narrator is a money 如ot stylistic features like inverted on books and he l spent all my coat”.5“Like them. a contrast and his goal is just to show his fashion lose anything to acquire his shining ap— sentences whose function is to emphasize a can’t moneyfor afford a raccoon(:oat,he says‘‘Like textbook,and now l can"t get a a raccoon fool”is the emphasized part which shows his re— and remorse.After readers learn that his remorse is just be- he hasn’t enough money to buy calls himself and self_conceited person.Max vain provide to the inverted part.For example,when he regrets spending too much cause and their psychology and his attitude can characteristic is inverted grets to weakness is pearance.In the text the most obvious stylistic feature to reveal his questions and loaded questions describe heroes’characteristic peter’s vain person a like other people;he sentences,end—focus,periodical sentences,inverted sentences,tag to he emphasizes with his advantages. Polly is uses a raccoon coat and he even a fool,his characteristic—vanity is apparent. a mindless girl from her responses to narrator’s invita— emphasize his conceit. tions The function of rhetorical inversion is to emphasis.For example,in Petey the first paragraph.he introduces himself like“Cool was,and logi— that the stylistic feature used to suggest her characteristic is invert— cal.Keen,calculating,perspicacious,acute一,was ed sentences.The narrator describes Polly with sentences“Beauti— which is a sentences to purpose—oriented inversion to all of these”,2 reveal his emphasis on his merits which is his own thought.At the same time the narrator uses elliptical introduce his roommate Petey Butch, sentences to which are“Same age.same background,but dumb enough fellow,you understand,but type.Unstable.Impressionable.Worst nothing ns an upstairs.Emotional of all,a知ddist.”3 his mocking Petey.These two stylistic features ox.A nice just that imply present two op— and questions.At the same time Polly’s decision to choose as her boyfriend shows her ignorance to love.It is like Pete)' mZ she was.Gracious she was.Intell堙ent she vetted adjectives can was not.”.These in. be eye—catching,which emphasize her beau— the narrator’s invitation of ty,grace without intelligence.After dinner,Polly’s responses “’Gee,that was saysh a are inverted in front of the detish dinner’,she sentences said.”,…Gee,I time.’she said.’~which stress her responses at kind of response directly reflects her politeness as posite sides—exaggeration of himself and looking down upon the her thanks by other.This opposite shows his characteristic—conceit lacies with her,her answers almost with simple words ganee.In the meantime,he z甲in every new craze uses a and alTO— periodic sentence“To be swept that comes along,to surrender oneselfto idiocy 收稿El期:2013一()9—10 an had a a like sen— first.This she expresses ordinary way.And when the narrator discusses fal— like…Wow一 删。埘j’she cried.”…Really?’said Polly”.which directlv indieate her ignorance.This kind of emphasis on her answers suggests her 修回日期:2013一()9—25 作者简介:宋毅,女,硕士。 本栏日责任编辑:杨菲菲 万方数据 2013年12月 Ove俺easEnglish诲外乒语 mindlessness.The narralor is discussing serious topir wilh her,but her answers iust()ne are woHls 1ike“wow,reallv”whi【,h two or and psychology. sh(Jws her ignorance of fallacies and her lack of some knowledge. In thP stoI.)r stylisIi(・features he】p reveal heroes’psycholo— to Petey’s eagemess sentence F0l’exam},je,“%e)’s胁rf.豫町姗eff 6“d.豫呵加e培^£oo删∽^. ra(:coon coat.An(i are nrst“)ur“they”s suggesl the defini£e;dea fo lo s^ed,sme盯6口d,似e瞻^£oo mMc厶and¨ns罾^£陟reveal disljke for a coat.Then the last“they”is raccoon short a the narrator’s f●agment to sug— a(玎ectiVes gesI his incomplete description of ra(:coon.The nega(jVe of the incomplete【1escription short sentences and tures change cus ra(,coon sentence is with use(i to £^n£,)rec厶ion f}agment.Therefbre his a(:tion to can a create that Petey will exchange ex— be understoo(1.Then end—fb- sense raccoon a the f0110wing as of suspense when he hears with anything.“』Wy 6r’ni凡, coat in£o^igh I尹o r.”81t makes readers ins£ru,nen£,5fiPped think what he is thinking about and shows his mind’s nlnning. At are used to expI.ess reveals Petey’s psychology fbr eagerly needing tag ques【ion is used to ask a a certain kind of f●om his father and】end some money to him,he cion…Ⅱ¨^en叫^i如)-0u’_e^ome,yo“coMf西z uses the tag ques— 2 g引so,,ze money加m ofd mon,cDufd),0M”which shows that he wants to make your whether the a coa“s suggested. raccoon Polly’s psychology is shown from his responses to the tI)r.Almost her answers use are just some on general 1ike“触,£^口£t妒(醅Ⅱ(拓Z蠡矗(矗昆托er’i‘6酱e,,^Ⅱd口sen— sn"^£ime。:Ⅱ饧叫~埘。州,’ReⅡf“?”.Then she refuses the £o narra— inverted sentences to give emphasis her words.Hel’first answers to the narrator sentences sure couId do.From these two sentences Petey’s narrator for eagerness love a re— of sureness.TheItfore when Petey asks the narrator to hring sp()nse is conveyed hy stylistic fba— rac【:oon a girl frien(1 a be concluded can words.His de“nite dislike for senten(1一 J.accoon.And these words】ike ellipti(’al an li{宅,ri(・h emotion,and quick successi()n of thoughts.1 There— fbre this es senlences verbosity.Elliplical The Hh()rt sentences(-an he used“)express force anI{(1efinition.7 7碥e),'℃M,u培南£b.丁hq:..’’The is shown by go£foj…The second“,’"e go££o’is t()suggest emergen一 fense js sh()n and simple sentences. coat 饥‘,’Fe the racco()n ra(:coon like…,’可e{rot to^Ⅱ口e o,uccoo凡con£,’^e s。idp。s5iDnn把一 (’y and avoj(1 attitude【o a sentence gy an(j some attifudes.The 6rst slyl isli(1 featul-e use‘j t(';ndieate nan’ator’s to narrator’s w;th“”舶sty&nernf妇£ion;聊o£^船妇co凡£rov fo凡c£i Dic一 Simp如西汹”.This change from general words t0 professional that tinle he is thinking about Peter’s gi r1 fIjend—Polly.What’s words fhe impressi。n of PoUy lo the narrator?11he jmpression is inlm‘ in f南n£of the sen£ences.At£he beginning she passively accepts inVersions du(:e(1 hy inverte【l senten(,es.‘rhese purp(Jse—oriented emphasize his(1irect feelings to Polly.“BeoMt斩“s^e州Ⅱs.GJⅧcioMs s^e州os.肪£effigenf s^P训ns nof.”.Later used.“乩f o眦。厂£k cDmer answer.He can’t with him.When the the arrangements fmm the narrator and Petey,and then she sentence is passiveIy acceptance to refhsal o,m)’∞℃,丘印f州Ⅱ£c^i愕心觚”is to verted a periodicaI make whether Peter will make the deal sure narrator descrihes P01ly,he uses a long sen— tence.9 The long senIence is reJativeIy(10m pIex inform,fu¨y expres- sive in capacity,and often used in fbnnal style plicated mentality various or be directly presented to I℃aders by inverted her answers kinds of to show one’s relationshjp of com— d订Iferent are sentences. Max also suggests his attitudes to hemes by some stylistic fea— tures.His main attitude to them is to criticize and satire.so he of— ten uses I.un—on sentences r11etorical f’unctions are and elliptical sentences because their criticize and mocking.For example,“£kc南 ond扣“^^;s^e。d s札7i口eZe以de5i,七z£,n戈i,z彤re50ZMfion训nni7曙.”is elliptical senIence to imply his mocking Petey’s hesitation to an make the deal with the narrator.“Buf i淞£one more”.is p^pic仃2 c^Ⅱrr,醛Ⅱnd 060In f^e zⅣⅡy s^e enfe,℃dⅡ,Do,nⅡnd f^e训Ⅱy cal sentence to mocking the narrator’s thought.He s|llP厅Ⅱn扰e矗。南n扣nnd扣唬n忍矗,妇i如d£o,n佗南eⅡn咖玎.”。 Ⅲn—on Which indicates that his thinking ah()ut Polly“)r s^oo盎,rV^n凡d,”to pers【)n thinks somel)ody()r something for it is an enjoyable long lime,he must a feel think ahout.Therefore his faVor for P01一 to period a 10ng time.If ly is obvious.While after his first(1iscussion with P011),his feel— are ings changed a little c^nnce,,如西ded.”The ment to n一£Ⅲ矿吝扣r is sentence uses to senten(’e me,n proPer^Ds£ess.如r emphasize his disappoint— as his wife as And when he felt he succee(1s and expresses his l()ve,he mn,v can’t his wife and he couldn’t list a11. in improving P011y’s intelligence a(・(・ept that PoIly陀fuses him.He do o叫e,ne so,ne£^西增, tag quesfion“7_hn£0 rig^£.So)竹u r如n t yozb my deor?’’‘‘don’£,田M”is to ask the am丌T1atiVe answer m)m P01ly.He wants to remind P011y that she surely owes him something.These styljstic f色atures suggest the narrator’s attitu(1e 本栏日责任编辑:杨菲菲 万方数据 an uses ellipti— another sentence“够er如Prom蠡e盔妒盯是e mG如8如8最够e,托 criticize the improper deal.“^,n£惦t no£6e £^o昭^££^o£,2uos zui£^ou£fo可e扣r£^厶gi“.Q¨i把£^e contrⅡM” Here is love an elliptical sentence to show his mocking the narrator’s fbr Polly.“O卵erⅡnd o秒erⅡ,耐o"er(增口in,ci£ed i,拈£Ⅱ凡ce5, p疏比d。扰∥n螂,是印£矗口mme矗增删7形倒泓oH£Ze£印”is senten(:e to suggest a run—on the author’s disagreement with the naITator’s behavior.These九ln—on sentences and elliptical sentences suggest his cdticism and satire to heroes. That f0丌n carries meaning is best used in this story.The difkr— mn珊io珊,o sHif06如 c^i厶Z胛忍”.This fragment indicates that Polly has many qualifications a “D聊,怼o,℃ fragments to list PoIIy’s quaIincations.“5^P m。£是er如r,n,,圳e皿一矗船如d uses periodical and his control of anger.But he also regards Polly match him.He 训os a by re— obviousIy presented f}om the in— things.For example“BM£f^en,go££o£,ji凡矗函增n60uz^er 06undo凡£ a can fhse the demands from the narrator.This psych0109y changes from emphasjze his obserVafion for P色ter.It shows his un(:ertainty for Pe— ter’s can ent ry styljstic features convey dif艳rent meanings to readers.This sto— succeeds in applying them to help descrip“on of heroes’charac— teristic,their psychology and suggestion the attitudes of the author |o“1em. Notes: 1.覃先美,李阳,《英语修辞学概论》,湖南:湖南大学出版社, 2006,p.89. (下转第255页) 2013年12月 Overseas tahms,”then“to lengthen itself out she went as u p’''at last“like a great main—mast to the voyaging earth.’’Cirlot argues that“in its general sense。the symbolism of the tree denotes life of the most eosmos:its consistence,growth,proliferation….It stands for inex— haustible life,and is therefore equivalent ty.”On another aspect,the tree is to symbol of immortali— a old tree depicted as“the old an still.nder the hunter’s was who was vesterday.…‘But something practical enough have loved his new dependent.”Here the pine is personi— thought“he fled old man of the spiritual redemption,representing“knowl— story an edge,reflection,insight.一and intuition other,moral qualities such cording Jung.The journey journey to Sylvia too the hand,and one the on goodwill and readiness to help,”ac— as to on of climbing the old pine is since“Now she thought of the tree a spiritual with a new excitement…”Sylvia is right because“truly it was vast an(1 awe— world,”and“here and there were church steeples,and white some villages.”She continues her off ing you journey to a“such the top of the tree is the climax of her saw the white heron once VOU will see a him should pay attention to the heron’s gender;it is one hand,the heron can giddy height.”Be— where journey,“there again.’’Here we male—heron.On a stand for Sylvia.The white color implies pure,innocent and belong to nature.The most important similarity between them is both the heron and Sylvia resist to the young man in one way suggests the or another.On the other hand,a male heron probably that what the young hunter asks eonventional role women Women should help their must or expects fulfill in masculine world. utilize other males. Moreover,love between man and woman requires women to surren— men are der their bodies physically the same young man wants to to as kill a Sylvia to do is or the white heron.What the do with the bird is to kill,to stuff and to pro— eess.And what the men want to do with women is to conquest their bodies,to profit from their child—bearings and to own them physi・ cally and spiritually.In this sense,Sylvia is the heron. On her way home,she when she told him how still wonders“what find to tn his way straight to the thP hunter and wil】offer“1e bird or herself heron’s to Shulman.Love Is a Fallacy: http://www.douban.corn/group/ 4.覃先美,李阳,《英语修辞学概论》,湖南:湖南大学出版社, a Fallaey:http://www.douban.com/group/ a Fallacy:http://www.douban.com/group/ topic/221 17309/ Shulman,Love Is 7.覃先美,李阳,《英语修辞学概论》,湖南:湖南大学出版社, 本栏日责任编辑:扬菲菲 万方数据 nlanly h,ve waits to as she hear the of the pine,the white heron,the gohten air.the sea and the nature itself give her strength to keep the secret.“When the great worhl for the first time puts natural worhl cent over natural companions to pure love out hand tn her.”Sylvia chooses the inno— a the urban tempting world.She chooses her the alluring young man.And she chooses over the heterosexual attraetion. over 3 Conclusion ‘‘A White Heron”is a gentle story telling Sylvia’s spiritual iourney of resistances.She resists to the urban civilize,】worht,to the money and the young man’s possible love she is tempted.On the masculine side,there the crowded city,the gun,the are jaeket— knife,the money,the red face and the aggressive attitude towards nature.On the contrary,there cow.the color of white an(1 thor Fen,arks at are sense the exclusive farm,the lady—like ot’heing part of nature.As the au— the end of the story“Ⅵ7ere the birds better friends than their hunter might have been.一who can tell?”the girl is(1(1n— fused and wondered.However.at that time.Sylvia resisted to a11 the allures brought with the young charming man,and nobody tell it is wrong or t‘an right. 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