Lu Xun’s novels play an immortal academic role in Chinese contemporary literature. Nevertheless, the current research on the rhetoric laws of Lu Xun’s novels is restricted to the angle of text exploration. This study is based on the corpora of text and image from the book named Lu Xun’s Novel Series Illustrated by Fan Zeng (abbreviated as “illustation”) to explore the rhetoric features of Lu Xun’s novels from multimodal translation perspective. It is argued that: first, the rhetoric of metonymy is produced in the process where image copies text’s information; second, the rhetoric of metaphor is yielded during the process where text stresses image’s information; third, the elements of sponsorship are closely attached to the process where image adapts to culture; last, the multimodal translation rhetoric features in Lu Xun’s novels significantly represent Lu Xun’s enlightenment thought such as enlightening woman, enlightening children and enlightening intellectuals.