There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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The poem represents a kind of as does the short poem, "A Coat" represents a kind of ascetic move, an active imaginative and rhetorical stripping-down.

和短诗一件外套一样,这首诗代表了“,一种禁欲主义，主动的想象和对华丽辞藻的摆脱。

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