Spring 2000
ENGLISH 5730 U/G
Dr. Richard Nordquist
Tues./Thurs. 6:00-7:15 p.m.



rhetoric

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This course is scheduled to be offered again in Spring 2001.

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news
updated 5 June 2000


The Rhetorical Terms pages have been updated and expanded. (6/2000)


OLD NEWS
(spring 2000)

     Quick answers to final exam questions

Check out this online critique of two paragraphs analyzing Walker's "Am I Blue?"

For those of you trying to work out the enthymemes in the text you're analyzing for the final paper, visit the new ENTHYMEMES page: after spending a few minutes checking out the links to brief explanations and examples of
enthymemes, read the online analyses of John Donne's "Death, be not proud" and of passages from Luke's gospel.

A copy of the grade sheet that I'll be using when I evaluate your essays. 

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"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain
wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands."
--Zora Neale Hurston


Comments on answers to Part Two of the midterm are posted here.

Chiasmus of the week:

"Don't sweat the petty things
. . . and don't pet the sweaty things."
Runner-up:
"Is this not the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?"
(Thomas Wolfe)

Some quick answers to (and comments on) the questions on Part One of the Midterm have been posted to the Midterm Exam page.  

Chiasmus of the week:
"Never let a fool kiss you--or a kiss fool you." 
Runner-up:
"Love makes time pass, time makes love pass."
-- Italian Proverb


Postscript to class on March 9 is posted at NOTES.  Assignment for spring break is posted at ASSIGNMENTS.

A sample rhetorical analysis of E. B. White's essay "The Ring of Time" has also been posted.

Students' answers to the terms quiz are now posted.


QUIZ ON RHETORICAL TERMS
(with examples provided by students enrolled in ENGL 5730 in Spring 1999)

Be sure to check the Notes page regularly for previews (guides to reading assignments and upcoming classes) and postscripts (notes on class lectures and discussions). 

                                                


                       English 5730 is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist.
                                Armstrong Atlantic State University
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                                Savannah, Georgia 31419
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