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- antimetabole See chiasmus . antirrhesis
anaphora  
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. [Gk. "carrying up or back"] -"I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." (Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, part 32) -“The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s voice, which was inflexible, dry, and dictatorial. The emphasis was helped by the speaker’s hair, which bristled on the skirts of his bald head, a plantation of firs to keep the wind from its shining surface, all covered with knobs, like the crust of a plum pie, as if the head had scarcely warehouse-room for the hard facts stored inside.” (Charles Dickens, Hard Times ) -"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island . . . we shall never surrender." (Winston Churchill) -"He taught me how to clean out hog waste with a shovel and a hose. He taught me how to clear land with a double-bladed ax. He taught me how to plow a steep hillside with a team of mules. He taught me how to take up hay all day long in the hot sun." (Al Gore Jr., on his life experiences growing up as the son of Senator Al Gore Sr.) -"I'm not afraid to die. . . . I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes." (Kinky Friedman, When the Cat's Away) anticipation General name for figures wherein a rhetor foresees and replies to objections. Similar to refutation. -"On the morning of his execution, King Charles the First put on two shirts. 'If I tremble with the cold," he said, 'my enemies will say it was from fear. I will not expose myself to such reproaches.'" (qtd. in Sleuth) -"Of course, my critics will say: 'What is the point of a Modern Pod For Sitting In? The user may just as well smoke his cigarettes and converse with others at a café, without the inconvenience of being cocooned inside a ludicrous pod!' How exasperating critics can be. The 'point' of my Modern Pod is that it uses a new material, Perplex. Is innovation no longer enough for these . . . these jaded nincompoops?" (French architect and designer L'Obscurier, Diaries) anticlimax A bathetic declension from a noble tone to a less exalted one--often for comic effect. -"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends." (Woody Allen) antimetabole See chiasmus. antirrhesis Rejecting an argument because of its insignificance, error, or wickedness. [Gk. "refutation, counterstatement"] -"I have been mocked and censured as a scare-monger and even as a war-monger, by those whose complacency and inertia have brought us all nearer to war and war nearer to us all." (Winston Churchill) -“In his remarkable apology for lynching, Bishop Haygood, of Georgia, says: ‘No race, not the most savage, tolerates the rape of woman, but it may be said without reflection upon any other people that the Southern people are now and always have been most sensitive concerning the honor of their women—their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters.’ It is not the purpose of this defense to say one word against the white women of the South. Such need not be said, but it is their misfortune that the chivalrous white men of that section, in order to escape the deserved execration of the civilized world, should shield themselves by their cowardly and infamously false excuse, and call into question that very honor about which their distinguished priestly apologist claims they are most sensitive. To justify their own barbarism they assume a chivalry which they do not possess. True chivalry respects all womanhood, and no one who reads the record, as it is written in the faces of the million mulattoes in the South, will for a minute conceive that the southern white man had a very chivalrous regard for the honor due the women of his own race or respect for the womanhood which circumstances placed in his power. That chivalry which is ‘most sensitive concerning the honor of women’ can hope for but little respect from the civilized world, when it confines itself entirely to the women who happen to be white. Virtue knows no color line, and the chivalry which depends upon complexion of skin and texture of hair can command no honest respect.” (Ida B. Wells-Barnett, A Red Record) antithesis
Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. [Gk. "opposition"] -"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." (Goethe) -"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) -"Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." (E. M. Forster, Howard's End) -"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." (Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964) -"We think in generalities, but we live in details." (Alfred North Whitehead) -"The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression." (Harold Pinter) antonomasia 
Substitution of a title, epithet, or descriptive phrase for a proper name (or of a personal name for a common name) to designate a member of a group or class. (Pronunciation: "an toe no MAS ya") [Gk. "naming instead"] -Calling a lover "Casanova," a man in love "Romeo," an office worker "Dilbert," Elvis Presley "the King," Bill Clinton "the Comeback Kid," or Horace Rumpole's wife "She Who Must Be Obeyed." -"If the waiter has a mortal enemy, it is the Primper. I hate the Primper. HATE THE PRIMPER! If there's a horrifying sound a waiter never wants to hear, it's the THUMP of a purse on the counter. Then the digging sound of the Primper's claws trying to find makeup, hairbrushes, and perfume. You see, I feel that if you cannot complete your prep work by the time you leave your house in the morning, you have completely forfeited your right to do so at any other point in the day. Your opportunity is over and you have lost your chance. Once, I was stuck in a bathroom waiting for a Primper to leave while my intestines threatened to shoot out of my belly button for hours. By the time the ordeal was over, it was dark outside, and everyone in my office thought I had gone home." (Laurie Notaro, The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club) apophasis
The mention of something in disclaiming intention of mentioning it--or pretending to deny what is really affirmed. [Gk. "denial"] (See paralepsis.) -"Mary Matlin, the Bush campaign's political director, made the point with ruthless venom at a press briefing in Washington, saying, 'The larger issue is that Clinton is evasive and slick. We have never said to the press that he is a philandering, pot-smoking, draft-dodger. There's nothing nefarious or subliminal going on.'" (reported in Manchester Guardian, 1992) -“Our country puts $1 billion a year up to help feed the hungry. And we're by far the most generous nation in the word when it comes to that, and I'm proud to report that. This isn't a contest of who's the most generous. I'm just telling you as an aside. We're generous. We shouldn't be bragging about it. But we are. We're very generous.” (President George W. Bush, 9 August 2004) -"It's not my habit to comment on books thatdon't interest me or, for various reasons, I don't like." (Mayor MassimoCacciari of Venice, on John Berendt's 2006 novelThe City of FallingAngels) aporia 
The expression of real or simulated doubt or perplexity. In classical rhetoric, aporia means placing a claim in doubt by developing arguments on both sides of an issue. In the terminology of deconstruction, aporia is a final impasse or paradox--the site at which the text most obviously undermines its own rhetorical structure, dismantles, or deconstructs itself. [Gk. "without passage"] -"A virginal air, large blue eyes very soulful and appealing, a dazzling fair skin, a supple and resilient body, a touching voice, teeth of ivory and the loveliest blond hair--there you have a sketch of this charming creature whose naive graces and delicate traits are beyond our power to describe." (Marquis De Sade) -"Uh, how do I say this without being offensive? Marge, there ain't enough booze in this place to make you look good." (Moe in The Simpsons) aposiopesis
An unfinished thought or broken sentence. [Gk. "maintaining silence"] -"I will have such revenges on you both That all the world shall--I will do things-- What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be The terrors of the earth!" (Shakespeare, King Lear) -“Secondly, the tactics of our--as you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean that's -- ever since the late 70's, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions -- you can't -- we're out of sanctions.” (President George W. Bush, 16 July 2003 ) apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent character. [Gk. "turning away"] -"Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee . . .." (William Wordsworth, "London, 1802") -"Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art" (John Keats) -"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. . . . Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead." (James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) Directory: cms -> lib -> GA01000314 -> Centricity -> Domain lib -> 1. naclo 2017 – North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad lib -> Chem I honors Unit 2 Notes: Numbers in Chemistry Measurement lib -> Sanderson High School ap human Geography Summer Assignment 2016 lib -> Find fantastic ousd elementary music programs lib -> American Studies Pacing Calendar 2014-2015 lib -> The ap history Timeline 8000bce-the Present lib -> Absolutism in Europe Domain -> Welcome to Europe!! Europe Geography Domain -> Arctic Ocean ocean directly to the north of Canada Download 0.84 Mb. Share with your friends:
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