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Showing posts with label Conduplicatio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conduplicatio. Show all posts

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Conduplicatio Example #2

To that the world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support- to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective, to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak, and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.

(JFK Inaugural Address)

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Conduplicatio

Conduplicatio: the repeating of a key word or phrase usually entered in the beginning of sentences or phrases


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