Ancient cliffhanger, which is a kind of image to describe history, annotates its historical explanation to the reality by its peculiar features. The relater tells a story with the connection of imagination and rhetoric. It is kind of integrated teleplay which is different from ancient drama, rational drama and historical drama, and it has formed its own prominent characteristics.Ancient cliffhanger is made up of the narrative and imaginary level during the narration of the story. But when the story does begin, the characteristics of“ancient”and“cliffhang”can be embodied distinctly. When the narrator is telling the story and when the listener is listening to the story, both of them are making some imagination and rhetoric construction at the same time. That is to say, imagination now becomes the concern for both of them. After the narrator and the listener sign the contract for the narration, which may strengthen the narrator’s narrating desire, the narrator would begin his story. But after a while, the narrator finds that the listener is not working according to his outline. Instead of going on with the story, the narrator would like to be a listener then, he wants to listen to the story as the former listener designs. And he tries to pry the story in the eyes of the narrator, nervously and joyously.The image text of ancient cliffhanger makes the communication between the level of narration and imagination more closely with the motivation of imaginary rhetoric, and thus the peculiar features come into being. In the aspect of narration, the confusion between the two levels can enhance the interests of the story; while in the aspect of plots, the late creation of the plots is completed with the interchange between the narrator and the listener. As for the structure of the story, there are many kinds of narrative voices which help to weave the completeness of the structure. And about the effects of the story, the intervention of imagination confuses the former rhythm, dissolves people’s memory, and forms an instant oblivion. All these factors help to assure the time and the completeness of the story.Of course, a lot of problems appeared during the applying of imaginary rhetoric in ancient cliffhanger. For instance, the imagination for imagination, the decline of imaginary rhetoric, the increase of psychological hint and so on. We should pay more attention to all these problems in our later creation.