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Arguments and Figures of Speech for the Analysis of Literary Texts

  If the primary function of rhetoric is to produce texts, then its secondary function is to analyse them, because rhetorical rules are common to both of the functions. Rhetoric is not only a model for the text-production, but also a method for the text-analysis, that is, an actual understanding of rhetoric in which arguments push the figures of speech in the background. The characteristic of this phenomenon is generally referred to as the decline of Style and the emergence of Invention. In this article, I will try to show the applicability of the arguments to the analysis of literary texts in order to find out the formal legality of a persuasive strategy. Given that rhetorical instruments are constructive for the literacy, the main object of the literary rhetoric, I then endeavor to illustrate their usefulness in order to revitalize the figures of speech in accordance with a semiosyntactic model of rhetorical figures of H. F. Plett.