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- Glossary of Rhetorical Terms homoioiteleuton to oxymoron homoioiteleuton[homoeuteleuton]
exergasia Elaboration of a single idea in a series of figures of speech. [Gk. "working out"] -"I take thy hand--this hand, As soft as dove's down and as white as it, Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd snow that's bolted By the northern blasts twice o'er." (Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale IV. iv) -"A child said to me WHAT IS THE GRASS? fetching it to me with full hands; . . . I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord, A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt, Bearing the owner's name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say WHOSE? Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation. Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white, Kanuck, Tuckahoe, Congressman, Cuff, I give them the same, I receive them the same. And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves." (Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself") -"I don't want loyalty. I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket." (Lyndon Baines Johnson) exuscitatio 
Emotional utterance that seeks to move hearers to a like feeling. [L. "awakening, arousing"] -"He that outlives this day and comes safe home, Will stand a tiptoe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian, He that shall live this day and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say, 'Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.' Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say, 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.' Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, Harry the King, Belford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whilst any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispian's day. (William Shakespeare, Henry V, IV.3) fable Fictional story meant to teach a moral lesson. (See FABLES at PROGYMNASMATA.) -"A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: 'The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.'" (The Fox and the Grapes, from Aesop's Fables) -"A FOX, seeing some sour grapes hanging within an inch of his nose, and being unwilling to admit that there was anything he would not eat, solemnly declared that they were out of his reach." ("The Fox and the Grapes," by Ambrose Bierce) figures of speech Traditionally defined as the various uses of language that depart from customary construction, order, or significance. Quintilian (anticipating a tenet of poststructuralism) concluded that all language must be figurative, for rhetoric is the shape (form), or figure, of the linguistic expression, and all thoughts must take on some particular form in order to be uttered" (Institutio Oratoria). "[The] lack of a settled terminology, and in short, the endless variations in enumerating and defining the figures, are to be explained historically by contacts between various schools [i.e., Greek, Roman, Renaissance]" (Curits, European Literature of the Latin Middle Ages). "The vast pool of terms for verbal ornamentation has acted like a gene pool for the rhetorical imagination, stimulating us to look at language in another way. Doesn't rhetorical terminology work in much this way, testifying to a kind of verbal attention which looks at the verbal surface rather than through it? The figures have worked historically to teach a way of seeing . . .." (Richard Lanham, A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms). -"'The first lady [of Maryland, Kendel Ehrlich] is a working mother raising a young son. She made an inadvertent figure of speech expressing her concerns about the influence of pop culture on children,' Mrs. Ehrlich's spokeswoman, Meghann Siwinski, said Tuesday." This was the "figure of speech" that Mrs. Ehrlich offered at a domestic violence prevention conference in October 2003: "You know, really, if I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears, I think I would." -"Because of the Anagrams dispute it has been decided to devote the rest of this space to a page specially written for people who like figures of speech, for the not a few fans of litotes, and those with no small interest in meiosis, for the infinite millions of hyperbole-lovers, for those fond of hypallage, and the epithet's golden transfer, for those who fall willingly into the arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost, bury their heads in the sand and ride roughshod over the mixed metaphor, and even those of hyperbaton the friends. It will be too, for those who reprehend the malapropism; who love the wealth of metonymy; for all friends of rhetoric and syllepsis; and zeugmatists with smiling eyes and hearts. It will bring a large absence of unsatisfactory malevolence to periphrastic fans; a wig harm bello to spoonerists; and in no small measure a not less than splendid greeting to you circumlocutors. The World adores prosopopeiasts, and the friendly faces of synechdotists, and can one not make those amorous of anacoluthon understand that if they are not satisfied by this, what is to happen to them? It will attempt to really welcome all splitters of infinitives, all who are Romeo and Juliet to antonomasia, those who drink up similes like sparkling champagne, who lose nothing compared with comparison heads, self-evident axiomists, all pithy aphorists, apothegemists, maximiles, theorists, epigrammatists and even gnomists. And as for the lovers of aposiopesis -- ! It will wish bienvenu to all classical adherents of euphuism, all metathesistic birds, golden paranomasiasts covered in guilt, fallacious paralogists, trophists, anagogists, and anaphorists; to greet, welcome, embrace asyndeton buffs, while the lovers of ellipsis will be well-met and its followers embraced, as will be chronic worshippers of catachresis and supporters of anastrophe the world over." (Monty Python, "The Announcement for People Who Like Figures of Speech") gradatio The last word(s) of one clause becomes the first of the next, through three or more clauses (an extended form of anadiplosis). (See climax.) -"We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." (St. Paul, Romans 5:3) -"All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God." (T. S. Eliot, Choruses from "The Rock")  |  | 
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Glossary of Rhetorical Terms homoioiteleuton to oxymoron homoioiteleuton[homoeuteleuton] Similar sound pattern at ends of words. (Pronunciation: "home ee o TEL you ton") [Gk. "like ending"] -"My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands." (Shakespeare, The Two Gentleman of Verona) hyperbaton Altering word order for emphasis; also, a figure in which language takes a sudden turn--usually an interruption. (Pronunciation: "high PER ba tun") [Gk. "transposed"] -"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure II.i) -"And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:" (W. B. Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree") -"Sorry I be but go you must." (Yoda in Star Wars) hyperbole 
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. [Gk. "excess"] -"I would/Love you ten years before the Flood" (Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress") -"The bitter, of course, goes with the sweet. To be an American is, unquestionably, to be the noblest, the grandest, the proudest mammal that ever hoofed the verdure of God's green footstool. Often, in the black abysm of the night, the thought that I am one awakens me with a blast of trumpets, and I am thrown into a cold sweat by contemplation of the fact. I shall cherish it on the scaffold; it will console me in hell. But there is no perfection under Heaven, so even an American has his small blemishes, his scarcely discernible weaknesses, his minute traces of vice and depravity. " (H. L. Mencken, "The Man Within") -"I held the mescal up to the light and watched the worm slide across the bottom of the bottle. A gift from a friend just back from Mexico. The worm was fat and white and somewhat dangerous looking with great hallucinogenic properties attributed to it. You were supposed to eat it and it was supposed to make you so high you would need a stepladder to scratch your ass. We'd see." (Kinky Friedman, Greenwich Killing Time) hypocrisis 
Exaggerating an opponent's gestures or speech habits in order to mock him. A form of parody. [Gk. "reply; (orator's) delivery"] -"Blindly Chastity rushed deeper into the garden, her pulse beating madly. It had been utter foolishness to follow such an ill-reputed gentleman from the ballroom, but the naughty promises he had made had melted her coy resistance. Yet, she had not consented to being mauled and pawed, her bodice ripped, her skirts shredded until her ivory thighs were bared. Being a feisty and independent young woman, she had elbowed the cad in an impolite place and made her escape. But the inquisitive need he had aroused still burned in her blood. She had escaped the foul desires of that man, but she could not escape herself." (Katarina Wikholm, "The Garden of Earthly Delight") -"Although the bulls have long cleared the streets, the young men were still sweating and leaping for the amusement of the beautiful Spanish women. He walked among them lamenting his own lost youth. The evening quickly fell into clear night and all around the sounds of intoxicated voices wove around him like a school of minnows caught in a strong undertow. He pushed open the door to the closest watering hole and stood at the door for a moment before going in. His name was Fred." (badhemingway.com) hypophora 
Raising questions and answering them. (Also known as anthypophora.) -"What is honor? A word. What is in that word honor? What is that honor? Air--a trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died a Wednesday. Did he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon--and so ends my catechism." ( Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One V.i) - "What makes a King out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the Sphinx the Seventh Wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the ape in ape-ricot? What have they got that I ain't got?" (The Cowardly Lion in 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz) -"You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalog of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." (Winston Churchill, 13 May 1940) - "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly." (Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949) hypotaxis
An arrangement of clauses or phrases in a dependent or subordinate relationship. (Opposite of parataxis) [Gk. "subjection"] -"Let the reader be introduced to Joan Didion, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing table in her own room in her own house on Welbeck Street." (Joan Didion, Democracy) 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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