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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Some of these terms that he uses are literary climax, the creation of suspense so he's tracking this as if it were the development of a narrative.

用文学语言来概括的话就是,“高潮“制造悬念,书中的陈述不断进行。

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