短篇小说(6/7)

To conclude the art of the short story, we must pay due attention to rhetorical devices. Writers employ a wide range of rhetorical devices for contrast and emphasis, including paradox, metaphor, patterns of imagery, repeated motifs, symbolism, and irony. The power of Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas derives in part from her overt use of symbolism. Irony provides the reader with a contrast between reality and the fallibility of human perception, which is at the heart of most modern fiction.

总之，对于短篇小说的艺术,我们必须给予修辞手段应有的重视。许多作家采用各种修辞手段起到对比和强调的效果，包括悖论、隐喻、图像组成,重复主题,象征和讽刺等等。凯瑟琳•安•波特的《开花的紫荆树》的动力部分源自是由于她对象征意义的公开使用。讽刺让读者们感受到现实和人类认识的不可靠性间的对比。它是大多数现代小说的核心。