Example of Synecdoche

In the Olympic relays, relay teams are often referred to as their country, for example: Jamaica, America, Great Britain. Same with other world competitions, such as the world cup.

Example of Antimetabole

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." -- John F. Kennedy


http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-antimetabole.htm

Example of Epizeuxis

"Oh her eyes, her eyes
Make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair
Falls perfectly without her trying

She's so beautiful
And I tell her every day

Yeah I know, I know
When I compliment her
She wont believe me
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think she don't see what I see"


Bruno Mars - "Just The Way You Are"


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

Example of Exemplum

"The Greeks and Persians of old did not need great machines but used their ingenuity. All we need is our minds and the resources around us."


http://changingminds.org/techniques/language/figures_speech/exemplum.htm

Example of Conduplicatio

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."


-Martin Luther King Jr., I have a Dream


http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm

Example of Hypophora

"Oh, you see that skin?
It's the same she's been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now she's left
Cleaning up the mess he made"

-John Mayer, "Daughters"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZLbUIa7exE

Figure of Speech Example

" Next time there won't be a next time" Phil Leotardo in The Sopranos
http://grammar.about.com/od/e/g/epanalepsisterm.htm 

Example of Anaphora

Here is an example of an Anaphora:

"Anaphora will repeat an opening phrase or word;
Anaphora will pour it into a mould (absurd)!
Anaphora will cast each subsequent opening;
Anaphora will last until it's tiring."
(John Hollander, Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse. Yale Univ. Press, 1989)

The italicized words demostrate the anaphora (also ironic).

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/anaphora.htm

Blogging Prompt #2: On Confessions

I'm a Madonna fan. 

 And this video is an example of a simile. 

No, we're not playing "Truth or Dare." For this week's blogs, I would like each of you to respond to this week's readings on doctor confessions. Both Wear and Jones's "Bless Me Reader for I have Sinned" and Atul Gawande's "The Final Cut" provide poignant examples of the ways in which confessional writing by doctors has begun to infiltrate our culture. Wear and Jones's article does a nice job of establishing the history of confession as a public act, while Gawande's own reflection on the decline in the number of autopsies performed draws heavily on his own perceived shortcomings as a doctor (one might even read his piece as as confession regarding the arrogance of the medical establishment).

For this week's blog assignment, I ask that you take some time to think about some of the issues surrounding confession (broadly defined) that we raised in class -- What is the difference between confession and apology? Why does it matter that we make such a distinction? As Wear and Jones point out, Foucault argues that "One confesses in public and in private, to one's parents, one's educators, one's doctors, to those one loves. One confesses-- or is forced to confess" (Foucault quoted in Wear and Jones 217). Are there moments when confession is appropriate? Inappropriate? Use this entry as a chance to meditate on the ways in which you believe drawing from personal experience in your writing can be helpful, as well as where you think it might get in the way. 

Note: Don't feel compelled to answer all of these questions. I just wanted to give you some food for thought. The main goal is to get you thinking about how confession and personal experience can work in writing, both academic and otherwise. We'll keep coming back to these questions over the course of the semester.

As usual, posts are due on your individual blogs by 9pm on Sunday. I'll be remixing some blog groups, so stay tuned for those assignments. 

Write on.