Diacope Example

"Scott Farkus staring out at us with his yellow eyes. He had yellow eyes! So help me, God! Yellow eyes!"

Ralphie Parker, A Christmas Story, 1983

http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/diacopeterm.htm

Epitheton Example

Here is another (very simple) example of an epitheton:

"Swift-footed Achilles"

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/E/epitheton.htm

Notice that the epitheton is swift-footed because it is an adjective to describe Achilles.

*Note: Epitheton are ubiquitous in The Illiad and The Odyssey.  Basically, you can easily find them in Ancient Greek literature because of how the people described Gods.

p.s. Sorry I am a little late posting this!

NYTimes Article on the Future of Psychiatry

I have yet to read this, but a Professor I was telling about our class suggested I read this NY Times article about psychiatrists who are being discouraged from including talk-therapy in their practice; instead, they are being encouraged to focus on prescribing medication, and referring their patients to other therapists for the talking portion.

Check it out:


Harris, Gardiner. "Talk Doesn't Pay, so Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy."

Epistrophe Example

"Thou Shalt Always Kill (ft. Scrooius P)" - Dan Le Sac

lyrics

Within the lyrics there is a part where the words "Just a band." are repeated at the end of each statement.

Parallelism Example

"Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun."
- a slogan from Kentucky Fried Chicken

Anesis Example

She had set more track records than any woman in the country. She had more stamina, skill, and perseverance than many of the best, but she had broken her leg and would not be competing this year.

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/figures/A/anesis.htm

Antithesis #2

Relating to a sweepstakes or a competition:

"Many will enter, few will win."

Example of Enumeratio

Instead of saying, "I will go to town now," one may use enumeratio to expand the sentence and break it down into detail:

"I am going down to the station to catch the train to town where I shall go to the bank, visit the hairdresser, buy some flowers, then catch the train back so I can be here for five o'clock, just before Richard and Jane come."

Citation: Changing Minds

Scesis Onomaton Example

"We succeeded, we were victorious, we accomplished the feat!" -Isaiah 1:4 
http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=t&a=d&ID=313


"It's tough, difficult, not easy."

Alliteration example

Metaphor Example

On House, Dr. Gregory House uses metaphors as a means to help people understand complex conditions or situations. As he explains, 

"Have you guys heard any of my metaphors yet? Well come on, sit on grandpa's lap as I tell you how infections are criminals; immune system's the police. Seriously, Grumpy, get up here: it'll make us both happy." (Episode: Mirror, Mirror)

Another example:

Dr. House: As far as you're concerned, the patient is Osama bin Laden, and everyone not in this room is Delta Force. Any questions?
Applicant #11: We're protecting Osama bin Laden?
Dr. House: It's a metaphor. Get used to it.

(Episode: The Right Stuff)

Diacope Example

 "I'm gonna cut out now with this unusual song I'm dedicating to an unusual person who makes me feel kind of unusual."
(Christian Slater as Mark Hunter in Pump Up the Volume, 1990)

Assonance example

example-

"I just don't know what's going on

Or why it has to be.

But every day it's something worse

What's happening to me?

I think it was three days ago

I first became aware--

That in my comb were caught a couple

Pieces of my hair.

I stared at them, amazed, and more

Than just a bit appalled

To think that I was only five

And starting to go bald!"

-Tedd Arnold


http://www.sterlingschools.org/shs/stf/jbarnh/poetry/eop14.htm

Climax Example #1

"There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, 'When will you be satisfied?' We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating 'For Whites Only.' We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."


- Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream." August 28,1963

Epitheton Example

An example of epitheton is as follows:

"I accept this award on behalf of a civil rights movement which is moving with determination and a majestic scorn for risk and danger to establish a reign of freedom and a rule of justice."

Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance


Notice that in this example, the adjective majestic is used to characterize the scorn.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/epitheton.htm

Figure of Speech Example

"When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it." Bill Clinton
Source:  http://www.websters-online-dictionary.net/definitions/Symploce?cx=partner-pub-0939450753529744%3Av0qd01-tdlq&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8&q=Symploce&sa=Search#922

Allusion Example

"I see you Mary in the garden
In the garden of a thousand sighs
There's holy pictures of our children
Dancin' in a sky filled with light"

This is a section of the song The Rising by Bruce Springsteen. In this specific part, he is making an allusion to the Virgin Mary, but in general, this whole song is alluding to 9/11.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnB4dkVRJI

Polysyndeton Example #1

"And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands". 

-Haggai 1:11 (KJV) 

Oxymoron Example!

The deafening silence was too much for her to take.

Last night, she broke out into cold sweats because of her fever.

Almost everyone will be there.

New Yorker Article on Writing and Mourning

I actually haven't read this yet, but a friend shared it on Facebook and I know I'll want to read it soon.

The author writes about her mother's death and the way her mother instilled in her the idea of writing as a form of better understanding the world.

Check it out:

O'Rourke, Meghan. "Story's End." The New Yorker. 7 March 2011. Web. 7 March 2011.

Metaphor--New Figure of Speech

A metaphor is a phrase or term that is applied to something that it is not really applicable to or meant to be taken literal.

John Donne uses a metaphor throughout his poem (which is my FAV poem) "The Flea" in which he uses  a flea to convince to a girl to get with him premaritally. He's obviously not literally referring to the flea as them, but rather using it as means to convince her that it is not sinful and is good! Donne is so sly...

Mark but this flea, and mark in this,   

How little that which thou deniest me is;   

Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee,

And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;   

Thou know’st that this cannot be said

A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead,

    Yet this enjoys before it woo,

    And pampered swells with one blood made of two,

    And this, alas, is more than we would do.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,

Where we almost, nay more than married are.   

This flea is you and I, and this

Our mariage bed and mariage temple is;   

Though parents grudge, and you, we are met,   

And cloisterd in these living walls of jet.

    Though use make you apt to kill me,

    Let not to that, self-murder added be,

    And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since

Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?   

Wherein could this flea guilty be,

Except in that drop which it sucked from thee?   

Yet thou triumph’st, and say'st that thou   

Find’st not thy self, nor me the weaker now;

    ’Tis true; then learn how false, fears be:

    Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me,

    Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.

Parallelism

Parallelism - similarity of grammatical structure in a set of words in phrases, clauses, or sentences

Example:
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address


http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/parallelism.htm

Anesis

Anesis: A clause or statement that concludes a passage in order to intentionally cheapen the previous phrases.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/anesis.htm

Antithesis

Antithesis: A phrase that uses parallel clauses to show contrasting ideas.

Example:

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar-

Brutus: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

(From http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html#7)

Scesis Onomaton Definition

To express an idea in a string of synonymous phrases or statements. Repeating the same general idea with phrases and words that have (almost have) the same meaning. 




http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/scesisonomaton.htm

Alliteration

The repetition initial consonant letters or sounds that occur in many words in a sentence.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/alliteration.htm



awkward video, but it explains it

Polysyndeton Definition

Polysyndeton: a Figure of Speech which emphasizes the usage of conjunctions that is not very common in phrases or clauses


http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/polysyndeton.htm

Diacope

Diacope is a rhetorical term for a word or group of words that are repeated more than once in sentence separated by anything from one to a few words.

Example: "Put out the light, and then put out the light." (Othello in William Shakespeare's Othello, the Moor of Venice V.ii)


http://grammar.about.com/od/d/g/diacopeterm.htm

Aposiopesis

When a sentence is an unfinished thought or broken purposefully to give the impression of unwillingness or inability to continue

Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which two seemingly contradictory words are used together for emphasis.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oxymoron

Allusion

An allusion is when you reference a known historical or literary "thing" (event, person, book...etc.). This help the reader understand your argument/what you're talking about better.

http://www.speechclub.com/content/communication-skills/verbal-communication/rhetorical-devices

Climax

Climax - the grouping of words, clauses, and phrases in which they are in escalating intensity, often in parallel construction.

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

Epitheton

The definition is as follows:

The simple addition of a descripitive adjective to help describe a person, thing, quality, or description; can also be done through a descriptive/metaphorical apposition.

http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/E/epitheton.htm

Sample Annotated Biblio Entry (for your Research Logs)

Here's an entry I wrote last semester for an annotated bibliography. While I don't expect the exact same language, please note how I partially summarize the article I cite ("Thompson discusses"... "Thompson's aim"), relate it to another author I have read ("Similar to McKeon" -- note: this is not always possible/relevant to do), and end with how this essay is useful to me ("I am interested in exploring"). I will also not expect such a long entry this time around on your blogs, though you may do so if you like (it's helpful in the writing process!) 

Thompson, Helen. “‘An Idea, a thousand nameless Joys’: Secondary Qualities in Arnauld, Locke, and Haywood’s Lasselia.” Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 48.3 (2007): 225-243.

(note on formatting citations: after the first line of text, each line should be indented... blogger's just not letting me do it right now)

Invoking the philosophies of Arnaud and Locke, Helen Thompson discusses “the idea of a thing located only within the person who receives it” and highlights the fact that for a good portion of the Lasselia, [the character] de l’Amye exists solely as an object/idea in Lasselia’s mind. As the narrative itself implies, his physical presence is almost unnecessary; for Lasselia, merely possessing him in her imagination is nearly enough. Similar to McKeon, who works to reunite the humanistic and the scientific, Thompson’s aim is also to emphasize the union of the mind and the body; while the body is the physical perceiver of data, it is with the mind that color and pain (Locke’s preferred examples) can be understood. Therefore, while mind and body appear distinct, it is only together that the human subject can take in ideas. I am interested in exploring how Thompson’s analyses of outside/insider and mind/body apply to my analysis of sight and idea-formation. 

Please let me know if you have any questions (feel free to post a comment below).

Assonance

Assonance- use of words whose vowels sounds are parallel to each other, often seperated by varying consonants

Ex. " I hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells"
-The Bells, Edgar Allen Poe

citation: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/assonance.htm


http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/poe/bells.html

Enumeratio

Enumeratio - a figure that expands the subject of a statement by dividing it into several parts and adding details to highlight key points of the subject.

Ex. "Who's gonna turn down a Junior Mint? It's chocolate; it's peppermint; it's delicious."
-- Kramer, Seinfeld

Citation: American Rhetoric

Symploce

repetition of the first and last words in a sentence in following sentences. 

Ex. "Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it is hate, but it's the truth." - Malcolm X

Source: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/symploce.htm

Rhetorical Analysis Project Part 1 (Group 2)

Group 2 is going to compare two Neosporin commercials from 1990 and 2010.

1990

2010

We will discuss the similarities and differences between the two advertisements, compare the rhetorical strategies that each one use, and how the use of rhetorical strategies have changed/improved.

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Rhetorical Analysis Group Project Part 1: Group1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_56BQmY_e8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

The first video is an ad from the 1940s that advertises Camels cigarettes.
The second video is a truth ad that advertises against tobacco companies.

Group 4 Links to Ads

Okay so here's group four's advertisements! We're going to compare and contrast commercials that are based on the same health idea, but they're aiming for different outcomes... so one of our commercials promotes drinking almost, while the other tells people not to drink.

Above the influence commercial- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY4IFmO6oPU

 Corona Commercial- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UqZzZWZd-Y

Rhetorical Analysis Group 3

On behalf of Group 3, here are our two sources advertisements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGK3J_u5ts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv3kep8fB-0&playnext=1&list=PL14C9160D4D66B569

They are both part of the "Above The Influence" Campaign