English rhetoric, mainly refers to those rhetorical writing techniques that do not have a relatively fixed format. It has a close relationship with grammar, language structure, and vocabulary. It only makes some adjustments to rhetoric and novelty. For example: In order to increase literary talent and strengthen the expressiveness of the article, it is often avoided to use the same vocabulary repeatedly, and to choose another word. The rhetoric in English has infiltrated various genres and styles.

The popularity of Importance of the Living in the United States has changed the way the Americans originally thought of the Chinese and played an important role in spreading the Chinese culture to the world. However, foreign research on the book is mainly limited to book reviews, focusing on its positive assessment of the spread of Chinese culture to the West and its impact on becoming a bestseller in the United States.Therefore, there is less research on rhetoric in this book.

On the contrary, domestically, there are many Chinese researchers casting their eyes on the rhetoric research on this book. Ding Qun(2015), from the Shandong Agricultural University, Based on the Wmatrix corpus tool, Steen's five-step metaphorical analysis and conceptual metaphor theory, explore the concept of life-related conceptual metaphors in the Importance of the Living . In this paper, the author put forward three research questions: 1) What is the distribution of conceptual metaphors about life in the Importance of the Living ? 2) According to Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory, what are the classifications of these conceptual metaphors? 3) What are the functions of these metaphors? Qi Zhendong(2009), focus his attention on the western rhetoric in the Importance of Living

, he carries out his research in three aspects:1）

Western Rhetoric and Symbolic Power:Theoretical Underpinnings. 2)A Rhetorical Perspective on The Importance of Living. 3)What Lin's Rhetorical Way of Interpreting China to the

West Means for Us Today. His research provides us a new perspective of western rhetoric devices in the Importance of the Living .

Through these scholars' research on this book's rhetorical method, more and more people have begun to pay attention to the rhetoric method and significance of the book from the linguistic level, not just from the perspective of translation studies. As an English major student, I had the privilege of reading this book and was deeply attracted by the rich rhetorical methods. Therefore, I decide to explore the use of rhetorical methods in this book. How did Mr. Lin Yutang adopt these rhetorical methods to make the whole book language easier to understand and more appealing to readers.