【正文】 ng Kong called sun is stop ing out. The ‘sun’ here is a pun.”[7] p111(2). “African Statesman Still Sowing Seeds for Future”“This report is about Julius Nyerere，president of Tansonia，who is sowing seeds happily in his hometown where is far from big cities after retired. But Africa is unsteady thus many international leaders go all the way to learn from him the ways of saving a country. So he is still sowing seeds for the future of Africa. ‘Sowing seeds’ is a pun in this headline.”[8] p349 MetonymyWhen using metonymy, the person or the thing a writer want to write are not Add letters. Gooooooal! But Pity the Guy Between the PostsAdd five “O” and the picture of kicking in is here. hyphensA hyphen can divide a word into two parts, from which new sense appears.. Catastrophic Mistake over Fishy Misery of rhetoric in headlines.This kind of headlines use various rhetoric means to attract readers. Metaphor. A House in Two Parts ，in his “Journal English” he said idioms are full of headlines. They are used widely as well as changed their forms very often to give a sense of being humor and alive.(1). All Roads to Venice rout－defeat, pletely rap－accusation, charge bid－attempt enemy Against Satellites . Pentagen PlansSystem to Flight Russia Satellites(original) Weapon It’s the People That Are going Mad Jump head headlineThe headline is divided into two parts: original head and jump head. A original part is in one page, but after the body jumps pages, the original head will be changed into a jump head which uses different words from original one to express the same meaning. Expect to Go to .Castro to Free Thousands of Prisoners(1) Threat Over Headlines printed on the papers are the windows of the news and it can let readers know it is worth reading .it is essential for readers to understand headlines to decide which column should be read while which not.In this paper, features of using vocabulary , tense and voice，omission of words and using of various rhetoric of headlines from English newspapers and periodicals are approached for the purpose of giving a better understanding of the contents of news and improving English learners’ reading ability. of headlines Categories according to their forms. flush left headline In a flush left headline, every word takes up one line and begins at the very left. That is the mon form of modern English newspapers. The following example can show you what is a flush left headline.. IMFWILLHAVE SAY Banner headlineEvery headline word in it is large and bold and the whole headline often covers several columns. It is also called first large headline and often used in front page for its attraction.. House Passes Bush Plan to Cut Taxes drop form headlineIt looks like a ladder. There are several lines in it and the following line draws back several letters from the above one. Beauty and nice are its merits.. FBI Agrees to Cease Its Illegal Surveillance 新聞標(biāo)題。閱讀新聞是對(duì)了解當(dāng)今政治，經(jīng)濟(jì)，科學(xué)，文化，和社會(huì)等信息最有效的方法，而對(duì)英語(yǔ)新聞標(biāo)題的理解掌握，則使英語(yǔ)新聞的閱讀更有效率。首先，描述標(biāo)題在形式上的分類(lèi)和意義上的分類(lèi)，讓讀者對(duì)新聞標(biāo)題有一定的感性認(rèn)識(shí)；然后再進(jìn)一步說(shuō)明標(biāo)題用詞短小，喜歡用縮略詞和截短詞及典故；再對(duì)新聞標(biāo)題善用各種修辭手段：比喻，對(duì)比，押韻，雙關(guān)，借代，矛盾修辭法進(jìn)行舉例分析；又歸納了時(shí)態(tài)語(yǔ)態(tài)在新聞標(biāo)題中的變換省略和替代；最后對(duì)新聞標(biāo)題最大的特色：省略詳加敘述?！菊?要】英語(yǔ)新聞標(biāo)題在報(bào)刊英語(yǔ)中占有十分重要的地位，可謂是新聞的概要，也是新聞的窗口。 feature英語(yǔ)新聞標(biāo)題的特點(diǎn)[Abstract] Headlines are quite essential for English news. They are the windows of news. This paper describes the types of headlines and also explains the features of headlines. Firstly, introduction of classifications of headlines can give readers a perceptual knowledge. Secondly, in order to give readers some rational knowledge about headlines, this paper then explains characteristics of vocabularies in headlines, ie. short words, shortenings, quotations, proverbs, wisdoms, idioms are often used in headline. It also gives examples of rhetorical characteristics such as metaphor, contrast, rhyme, pun, metonymy and paradox and so on so forth. Finally the paper concludes tense and voice features in headlines and sums up the most important feature of headlines: omission. News media is the best channel of knowing every field including