updated 05 March 2005
RHETORICAL TERMS WITH EXAMPLES: 2005
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Kirsten Mullis
Julia Vanlerberghe
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Alicia Ferrell
Heather Glover
Chris Shirley
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Ariana Siennick
Pamela Melton
Christi Healan

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TERMS H-Z Concluded

`Ariana Siennick

174b) Invective - “And through the wiles of a woman be wooed into sorrow, For so was Adam by one, when the word began, And Solomon by many more, and Samson the mighty -- Delilah was his doom, and David thereafter Was beguiled by Bathsheba, and bore much distress;” Sir Gawain, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Unknown Author

175b).Pleonasm - “They flee from me, that sometime did me seek With naked foot stalking in my chamger. I have seen them gentle, tame and meek That now are wild and do not remember The Flee From Me - Sir Thomas Wyatt

176).Synathroesmus - “Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder! Princess Leigh, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

177).Onomatopoeia - “As he walks back to the hotel, his question has lingered in the humid air. It has whispered along the sh-sh-ing sounds of the waves, beyond the protective coral.” Excerpt from Mermaid Dream - Ariana Siennick Copyright 2004.

177).Proplesis - “Now I know what you are thinking, why is he choosing this time to remind us of these terrible things? I'm reminding you of these brutal acts, ladies and gentlemen, because we must learn to forgive our enemies. We do not forgive lightly or out of ignorance, but because we are a strong and willing nation.” Captain Gloval's speech at the wedding between an enemy alien pilot and one of his best fighter pilots. From the animated series Robotech

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"Pamela Yoko Melton"

178) Hypophora

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Christi Healan

182) Simile:

“The bull, gaunt and long-legged, was standing about four feet from her, chewing calmly like an uncouth country suitor” 

From Greenleaf” by Flannery O’Connor

183) Mondegreen:

“I continued to A1A Detroit Avenue”  (for A1A Beachfront Avenue)

From Ice, Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice

“Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche” (for wrapped up like a deuce)

From an old 70’s song
(Though not a critical point, this old 70s song is Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light"; in the hit version--by Manfred Mann's Earth Band--the line does indeed sound like "wrapped up like a douche."  Another mishearing of the line is "cut loose like a goose, like a runner in the night."  And apropos of nothing, some folks believe that the opening of "Help Me Rhonda" by The Beach Boys contains this lyric: "Well since she put me down, there's been owls spewing in my bed" The actual line is "Well since she put me down I’ve been out doin’ in my head."  Oddly, the spewing owls version makes more sense.)
 

184) Personification: (close to being a reverse personification: the human is invested with the qualities of an inanimate object)

“She was a picture of passion”

From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

185)  Paranomasia: (broadly--Carroll himself coined the term for the words he invented in this passage: portmanteau words)

“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogroves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.” 

From Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
 

186) Tapinosis:

“ ‘Leastways his face aint all full of teeth now like it used to be whenever it found anybody looking at it’, he thought viciously”

 
186) Polysyndeton:

“How else have made them fight? Who else but Jacksons and Stuarts and Ashbys and Morgans and Forrests?”  

Both examples from Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

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English 5730 is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist.
Armstrong Atlantic State University
                    
updated 05 March 2005