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paralepsis Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. See apophasis
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paralepsis Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. See apophasis. [Gk. "disregard"] -"The music, the service at the feast, The noble gifts for the great and small, The rich adornment of Theseus's palace . . . All these things I do not mention now." (Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales) -"Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it. It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd you." (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III.ii.136-51) parallelism 
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. (When the parallel elements are similar not only in structure but in length [i.e., the same number of words, even the same number of syllables], the scheme is called isocolon. ) -"It is certain that if you were to behold the whole woman, there is that dignity in her aspect, that composure in her motion, that complacency in her manner, that if her form makes you hope, her merit makes you fear." (Richard Steele, Spectator, No. 113) -"Voltaire could both lick boots and put the boot in. He was at once opportunist and courageous, cunning and sincere. He managed, with disconcerting ease, to reconcile love of freedom with love of hours." (Dominique Edde) paranomasia 
Punning, playing with words. [Gk. "word-shunting"] -"Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight . . ." (Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night") -"Look deep into our ryes." (Wigler's Bakery products) -"All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law." (James Joyce, Finnegans Wake) parataxis
Clauses or phrases arranged independently (a coordinate, rather than a subordinate, construction). (Opposite of hypotaxis.) [Gk. "placing side by side"] -"Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better--splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foothold at street corners . . .." (Charles Dickens, Bleak House) parenthesis
Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence. -"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That--with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success--is our national disease." (William James, Letter to H. G. Wells) -"Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me)-- Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles' first LP." (Philip Larkin, "Annus Mirabilis") parison Corresponding structure in a series of clauses, either of same word to same word, or adjective to adjective, noun to noun, etc. (often found with isocolon), or equal length of clause or sentence. "I have lov'd, and got, and told, But should I love, get, tell, till I were old, I should not find that hidden mystery." (Donne, "Mummy or Love's Alchemy") "He that is to be saved will be saved, and he that is predestined to be damned will be damned." (Cooper, Last of the Mohicans) pathos 
Means of persuasion in classical rhetoric that appeals to the audience's emotions. [Gk. "to experience, suffer"] See exuscitatio for an extended example of a pathetic appeal. -"But for everyone, surely, what we have gone through in this period--I am addressing myself to the School--surely from this period of ten months, this is the lesson: Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. We stood all alone a year ago, and to many countries it seemed that our account was closed, we were finished. All this tradition of ours, our songs, our School history, this part of the history of this country, were gone and finished and liquidated. Very different is the mood today. Britain, other nations thought, had drawn a sponge across her slate. But instead our country stood in the gap. There was no flinching and no thought of giving in; and by what seemed almost a miracle to those outside these Islands, though we ourselves never doubted it, we now find ourselves in a position where I say that we can be sure that we have only to persevere to conquer." (Winston Churchill, "To the Boys of Harrow School," 29 October 1941) periodic sentence Long and frequently involved sentence in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax. Marked by suspended syntax. (Opposite of running style) -"Hereupon, not thinking it strange, if whatsoever is human should befal me, knowing how Providence overcomes grief, and discountenances crosses; and that, as we should not despair in evils which may happen to us, we should not be too confident, nor lean much to those goods we enjoy; I began to turn over in my remembrance all that could afflict miserable mortality, and to forecast everything which could beget gloomy and sad apprehensions, and with a mask of horror show itself to human eyes; till in the end, as by unities and points mathematicians are brought to great numbers and huge greatness, after many fantastical glances of the woes of mankind, and those incumbrances which follow upon life, I was brought to think, and with amazement, on the last of human terrors, or (as one termed it) the last of all dreadful and terrible evils, Death." (William Drummond) "Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed." (Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales) persona 
Voice or mask that author or speaker or performer puts on for a particular purpose. Latin term (used by Cicero) for ethos. [L. "mask"] -"Woody Allen's on-screen persona is well known: a comical and brainy New Yorker in nebbishy black glasses, nervous about sex, death and modern times." -"According to those who knew him well, Hemingway was a sensitive, often shy man whose enthusiasm for life was balanced by his ability to listen intently, quietly making mental notes. That was not the Hemingway of the news stories. The media wanted and encouraged a brawnier Hemingway, a two-fisted man whose life was fraught with dangers. The author, a newspaper man by training, was complicit in this creation of a public persona, a Hemingway that was not without factual basis, but also not the whole man. Critics, especially, but the public as well, Hemingway hinted in his 1933 letter to Perkins, were eager 'automatically' to 'label' Hemingway's characters as himself, which helped establish the Hemingway persona, a media-created Hemingway that would shadow -- and overshadow -- the man and writer." (Michael Reynolds, "Hemingway in Our Times" New York Times, 11 July 1999) personification
Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities. Also known as prosopopoeia. "Because I could not stop for Death-- He kindly stopped for me-- The Carriage held but just Ourselves-- And Immortality." (Emily Dickinson, "Because I could not stop for death") "And indeed there will be time For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, Rubbing its back upon the window panes." (T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") phatic communion 
Nonreferential use of language for the purpose of contact; ritualized formulas that prolong communication, attract the attention of the listener, or sustain his or her attention. "Phatic communication refers also to trivial and obvious exchanges about the weather and time, made up of readymade sentences or foreseeable statements. These are redundant phrases which, as it happens in the mythic narration, must not persuade with a logic argumentation but only emphatically seduce the actors. Michel Maffesoli (1993) underlines the tactile function of communication (tactile, to touch) to focus on the fact that during a social interaction we can have moments in which what is important is to metaphorically “touch” the other rather than transmitting or exchanging information. Therefore this is a type of communication that establishes a contact without transmitting a precise content, where the container is more important then the content." (Federico Casalegno and Irene McAra McWilliam, "Communication Dynamics in Technological Mediated Learning Environments." International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, Nov. 2004) -"How ya doin'?" "Have a nice day!" "What's your sign?" -"i have torn my heart out of my own body and held it beating in my hands to study it, to understand why yet it will reveal nothing and just keeps on beating stubbornly even after being poked and squeezed rudely even after i stomp on it. my body seems to be more cooperative lending me a sense of rhythm, of everyday life when my mind acts like a scratched record. i hide my blood wet hands when you call and we talk about the weather." (Laura Hartman, "talk about the weather" the 2river view, Fall 2001) 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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