Chapters and sentences are symbols the reader depends upon to divide the text, the stylistic rules the scholars made exegesis of texts and hierarchical units of language, which are what the Chapters and sentences in The WEN XIN DIAO LONG discussed.

• 章句既是阅读古书时、离章断句的符号，又是汉代学者注释文本的一种体例，也是作为语言单位的章句，《文心雕龙?章句》中的章句乃语言单位。