Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe and rhetoric Raymond Chandler's use of rhetoric Sign up for our Email Newsletter FREE weekly newsletter with public speaking tips, techniques, humor, quotes & anecdotes you can use in your very next speech or presentation. Simply place your email address in the box on the left and press 'GO'. "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window." Raymond Chandler is rightly celebrated as one of the USA's most famous and successful authors. In 1940s America, his character Philip Marlowe - the protagonist of such novels and movies as The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely - was the guy all men wanted to be and all women wanted to be with. In fact, the very name 'Marlowe' is almost synonymous with 'private detective'. Robert Mitchum as hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe He only published seven full novels during his life, all of which - except Playback - were made into movies, some several times.

Many people consider Humphrey Bogart to be the quintessential Marlowe, but personally I prefer Robert Mitchum; Marlowe was a big guy and Bogart just doesn't cut it with me - somehow I don't ever imagine Bogart being able to knock me out. You just know Mitchum could, whatever your size. The poet W H Auden once wrote that Chandler's âpowerful but extremely depressing books should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works of artâ and I couldn't agree more. I've known his movies for decades but only read my first Chandler novel last year, after which I immediately downloaded and read his entire repertoire. He could have written the telephone directory or a grocery list and I'd have devoured it. He's renowned as the master of the snappy one-liner, but many people don't realize just how many rhetorical devices and figures of speech he used in his books. If you've never read Chandler I almost envy you, for you've a treat ahead. But in case you don't want to, I've trawled through his books (and it was a pleasure not a penance to do so) and identified some of my favorite rhetorical examples below.

ANALOGY is a kind of extended metaphor or long simile in which a comparison is made between two things in order to develop a line of reasoning. While it is similar to simile, similes are generally more artistic and brief, while an analogy is longer and explains a thought process. "It seemed to me for an instant that there was no sound in the bar, that the sharpies had stopped sharping and the drunk on the stool stopped burbling away and it was just like after the conductor taps on his music stand and raises his arms and holds them poised" (The Long Goodbye) ANADIPLOSIS repeats one or several words that end one clause or sentence and begin another. "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window." (Farewell My Lovely) ANAPHORA repeats the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, or sentences: "Her eyes went down to the paper very, very slowly. Her eyes held on to it. Her hand moved to take it, but his was quicker" (Playback) "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country.

What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." (Farewell MY Lovely) "Common sense says go home and forget it, no money coming in. Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But never is. He's high up in the stands with a hip flask. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up." (Playback) "There was something Mongolian about his face, something south-of-the-border, something Indian, and something darker than that" (Playback) "I was a blank man. I had no face, no meaning, no personality, hardly a name" (The Little Sister) "Thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class.Â From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away" (The High Window) ANTISTROPHE repeats the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.

"The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man" (The Simple Art Of Murder) HYPERBOLE is the deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or effect. It must be clearly intended as an exaggeration, and should be used sparingly to be effective. That is, don't exaggerate everything, but treat hyperbole like an exclamation point, to be used only occasionally. "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window" (Farewell My Lovely) "I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard." (The King In Yellow) "One of the women had enough ice on her to cool the Mojave desert and enough make-up to paint a steam yacht" (Playback) "Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants. . ." (The Big Sleep) "He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus. I bent over and took hold of the room with both hands and spun it.

When I had it nicely spinning I gave it a full swing and hit myself on the back of the head with the floor" (Pearls Are A Nuisance) "The big foreign car drove itself, but I held the wheel for the sake of appearances" (Farewell, My Lovely) "She's a charming middle age lady with a face like a bucket of mud and if she's washed her hair since Coolidge's second term, I'll eat my spare tire, rim and all" (Farewell, My Lovely) "I recall when this town was so quiet dogs slept in the middle of the boulevard and you had to stop your car, if you had a car, and get out and push them out of the way" (Playback) LITOTES is a particular form of understatement, which denies the opposite of the word which otherwise would be used.

"She had a pair of legs - so far as I could determine - that were not painful to look at" (Playback) "It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills" (The Big Sleep) MEIOSIS is a deliberate understatement, i.e. the opposite of HYPERBOLE . "The house itself was not so much. It was smaller than Buckingham Palace, rather gray for California, and probably had fewer windows than the Chrysler Building." (Farewell My Lovely) "He was a big man but not more than six feet five inches tall and not wider than a beer truck" (Farewell My Lovely) "I moved to the door. I wouldn't say she looked exactly wistful, but neither did she look as hard to get as a controlling interest in General Motors" (Playback) METAPHOR is the comparison of two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other. Unlike a SIMILE or ANALOGY , a metaphor asserts that one thing actually is another thing, not just like it.

"Across the street somebody had delirium tremens in the front yard and a mixed quartet tore what was left of the night into small strips and did what they could to make the strips miserable. While this was going on the exotic brunette didn't move more that one eyelash." (Red Wind) REPLICATION (also called Scesis Onomaton) emphasises something by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements. While it should be used carefully, this deliberate and obvious restatement can be quite effective. Although it can use more than three, it tends to be most effective when used in conjunction with a TRICOLON : "Ok, Marlowe," I said between my teeth. "Youâre a tough guy. Six feet of iron man. One hundred and ninety pounds stripped and with your face washed. Hard muscles and no glass jaw. You can take it" (Farewell My Lovely) "I recall when this town was so quiet dogs slept in the middle of the boulevard and you had to stop your car, if you had a car, and get out and push them out of the way. Sundays it was like you was already buried. Everything shut up as tight as a bank vault.

You couldn't walk down Grand Street and have as much fun as a stiff in a morgue. You couldn't even buy a pack of cigarettes. It was so quiet you could of heard a mouse combin' his whiskers" (Playback) "All right," I yelled. "Iâll go up with you. Just lay off carrying me. Let me walk. Iâm fine. Iâm all grown up. I go to the bathroom and everything. Just donât carry me" (Farewell My Lovely) "'This is a rich town, friend,' he said slowly. 'I've studied it. I've boned up on it. I've talked to guys about it'"(Playback) "You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind and air to you" (The Big Sleep) "I. . . just sat, not smoking, not even thinking. I was a blank man. I had no face, no meaning, no personality, hardly a name. I didn't want to eat. I didn't even want a drink.

I was the page from yesterday's calendar crumpled at the bottom of the waste basket " (The Little Sister) SIMILE is a comparison between two different things that resemble each other, comparing an unfamiliar thing to some familiar thing known to the listener, usually prefaced with the words 'as' or 'like': "The General spoke again, slowly, using his strength as carefully as an out-of-work show-girl uses her last good pair of stockings." (The Big Sleep) "His smile was as stiff as a frozen fish." (The Man Who Liked Dogs) "There were two hundred and eighty steps up to Cabrillo Street.Â They were drifted over with windblown sand and the handrail was as cold and wet as a toad's belly." (Farewell My Lovely) "The walls here are as thin as a hoofer's wallet." (Playback) "I called him from a phone booth. The voice that answered was fat.

It wheezed softly, like the voice of a man who had just won a pie-eating contest." (Trouble Is My Business) "I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split" (The Long Goodbye) "Even on Central Avenue, not the quietist dressed street in the world, he looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel cake" (The Big Sleep) "'Please don't get up,' she said in a voice like the stuff they use to line summer clouds with" (The Long Goodbye) "It jarred me. It was like watching the veneer peel off and leave a tough kid in an alley. Or like hearing an apparently refined woman start expressing herself in four- letter words" (The Lady In The Lake) "She smelled the way the Taj Mahal looks by moonlight" (Little Sister) "Thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class.Â From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away" (The High Window) TRICOLON is the use of words, phrases, examples, or the beginnings or endings of phrases or sentences in threes.

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." (Farewell MY Lovely) "Her eyes went down to the paper very, very slowly. Her eyes held on to it. Her hand moved to take it, but his was quicker" (Playback) âWherever I went, whatever I did, this was what I would come back to. A blank wall in a meaningless room in a meaningless house" (Playback) "The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man" (The Simple Art Of Murder) "I was a blank man. I had no face, no meaning, no personality, hardly a name" (The Little Sister) "'This is a rich town, friend,' he said slowly. 'I've studied it. I've boned up on it.

I've talked to guys about it'"(Playback) "Fun With Rhetorical Devices" by Chris Stewart | The Algonkian Author Salon - A Project Source for Agents and Publishers The Algonkian Author Salon - A Project Source for Agents and Publishers Member Sample Author Salon Blogs and Bits TIME TO WRITE - Tips, Ideas, Inspirations For Writers and Would-be Writers. Jurgen's grab bag! THE REAL WRITER by Christine Stewart ( Last time we talked about two main types of sentences: loose (or running) and periodic. Today I’d like to share some fun types of sentences you can try that have Greek rhetorical devices with tongue twisting names and challenging elements. When trying these out (when writing a sentence, period), things to consider are its length, its rhythm, its balance (if you have a sentence with clauses and phrases, are they balanced or not – equal length? Parallel form – meaning similarly constructed?), and its sound (correspondence of sound between words for example, repetition, alliteration. Pleasing to the ear? Dissonant?). Warning: if using some of these devices as you write slows you down and clogs the flow of writing, wait until the revision process to see how some of these might be employed.

And then, have fun and take risks. You poets might recognize some of these. Extra points for you! Anaphora – use of the same word to begin a succession of clauses. Thought to add grace, rigor, and amplification. "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." (Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, 1940) Asyndeton – a series of clauses piled up without connectives. "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957) Homeoteleuton – helps achieve a kind of rhythm through use of succession of like ending words. A form of amplification.

"My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands." (Launce in Act II, scene three of The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare) Paralepsis - a strategy to emphasize a point by seeming to pass over it, resolving to avoid mentioning something while doing exactly that. "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," The Canterbury Tales) Prenthesis/Digressio – an interruption of thought which heightens anticipation or scores a point arising from, but not directly relevant to, the subject in hand. Also known as digression, going off topic to explain or expound. "Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton, or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones." (Ray Bradbury) Zeugma – (This is one of my favorites.) When a word modifies two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.

"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Similar to: Syllepsis – (My other favorite!) One word, usually a verb, is understood differently in relation to the two or more other words it modifies. One of my students gave me a great example I still use: “She was pink with sweat and taffeta.” In this case, the word that makes this device possible is pink, pink taffeta, and flushed skin. So there you have an example of it used with an adjective instead of a verb. Paronamasia – Word play, punning. "A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus." (E.B. White, "The Practical Farmer") You can always count on E.B. White. If you haven’t read his essays, you are so missing out. Just one more. I have pages of these and I wish I could share them all with you. I am a total geek about this stuff. I giggle happily to myself when I manage a syllepsis. It’s embarrassing. Tricolon/Triad – a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.

"I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." (Dorothy Parker) "You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe." (The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, 1939) Kenning – Not Greek, Old English, but so fun. Something you must start using in your work from now on. It’s such rich territory and working with it will sharpen your skills with metaphor. The word ‘kenning’ means ‘to know’. A kenning is a figurative expression, usually compound, used in place of a name or noun. I give this assignment out to my students, to use this word, for both poetry and prose classes, and it’s amazing and inspiring to hear what they come up with. Try it. You’ll amaze and inspire yourself! Examples: ‘whale-road’ for ‘sea’. ‘Sea-horse’ for ‘ship.’ See? Reading Beowulf paid off! You are using something you never thought you would. Can’t do the same for algebra I’m afraid. Sorry.

Let’s move on to two sentences you can try: paraprosdokian and the American Sentence. The paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists. Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis. We’ve discussed that above. The trick is not to force it. Don't look like you spent longer than two seconds creating it. Here are some examples of funny paraprosdokian sentences (if they're not your style, write mean or dark or wry ones. Go for it. Make it your own). (By the way, these were forwarded to me in an email so if any of them belong to you, let me know and I'll give you credit!) “Do not argue with an idiot.

He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.” “The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.” “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them “speak. “If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong.” The American Sentence will appeal to both poets and prose writers. It was created by the poet Allen Ginsberg, whose favorite piece of writing advice was, “Condense!” He thought Haiku didn’t quite fit when it came to writing in English in a 5/7/5 syllable lines. That breaking them into this pattern made it an exercise in counting, not feeling. And too arbitrary. His solution, which first appeared in his book Cosmopolitan Greetings, is the American Sentence. One sentence, 17 syllables. That's it. Here are some of Ginsberg's American Sentences: Four skinheads stand in the streetlight rain chatting under an umbrella. 1987 Rainy night on Union square, full moon. Want more poems? Wait till I'm dead. August 8, 1990, 3:30A.M.

The more you practice at the cellular level of writing – words and sentences and the devices that make them sing – the better a writer you’ll be. Eventually, you’ll employ devices like these without even knowing you’re doing it. So when you’re reading your drafts afterward, you have every right to be suitably impressed. You'll also be more beautiful, smarter, make more money, and lose ten pounds. If you give these a try – any of the devices in this post – paste them into the comments. I’d love to see them. What is Anaphora? Anaphora examples and definition Rhetorical devices: Anaphora - definition and examples Sign up for our Email Newsletter FREE weekly newsletter with public speaking tips, techniques, humor, quotes & anecdotes you can use in your very next speech or presentation. Simply place your email address in the box on the left and press 'GO'. What is Anaphora? What is anaphora? What is chiasmus? And what is Antithesis? The answer is that they are all rhetorical devices. What if - by using them - your speeches and presentations and homework assignments became more powerful? What if they had more impact? What if they were more memorable?

You may have heard or read the term, but exactly what is Anaphora? Pronounced ah-NAF-oh-rah, it's from the Greek word anaphero (âI repeat') and is a rhetorical device that deliberately repeats the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases or sentences, just like I did in the opening sentences of this article. It's one of the most commonly used devices and you'll hear anaphora regularly employed by politicians of all political views. The untrained speaker might think it repetitive, but it's meant to be so; it's repetitiveness is what makes it effective. For example, when Abraham Lincoln used anaphora to say, "But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground," (note how this is also a TRICOLON ) his school English teacher would probably have slapped his wrist and said it was grammatically correct to have said, âWe cannot dedicate, consecrate or hallow this ground.â But rhetoric often sacrifices grammatical correctness in the name of effectiveness.

Similarly, the grammatically correct (anaphora-free) version of Winston Churchill's ' Fight Them On The Beaches ' speech would have been: âWe shall fight in France, on the seas and oceans, with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, on the beaches, on the landing grounds, in the fields and in the streets, in the hills... and we will never surrender.â And those words would probably have been forgotten, lost amongst the millions that he uttered in formal speeches over his long and distinguished career. But he asked himself, âWhatâs the point Iâm trying to make here?â And that point (he had four audiences: the British public, the Empire, Hitler and the USA) was that Great BritainÂ - despite being isolated because Germany had overrun virtually all of Europe â wasnât going to surrender. It was going to fight. That was the point he wanted to emphasize. So in line with his own advice - âIf you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.

Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whackâÂ - he said the following instead, using Anaphora: â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 fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrenderâ To best answer the question 'What is Anaphora?' it's easiest to look at some examples: Anaphora in politics: Examples of JFK, Martin Luther King & Barack Obama using Anaphora âWith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the rightâ â Abraham Lincoln 2nd Inaugural Address Dr. Martin Luther King's ' I have a dream ' speech contains what is probably the most famous and oft quoted example of anaphora. He repeats the phrase at the beginning of six successive paragraphs.

âI have a dream that one daythis nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Â I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. Â I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justiceâ â Martin Luther King "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land" â Martin Luther King "And so let freedom ring -- from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring -- from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring -- from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring -- from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring -- from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that. Let freedom ring -- from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring -- from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring -- from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!" - Martin Luther King "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us. Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms, and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations. Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

Let both sides unite to heed, in all corners of the earth, the command of Isaiah--to 'undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free." â JFK, Inaugural Address âWhat we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessnessâ â Robert Kennedy âWe believe in only the government we need, but we insist on all the government we need. We believe in a government characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesnât distort or promise to do what it knows it canât do â¦â¦ We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher orderâ â NY Governor Mario Cumo âEin volk! Ein reich!

Ein FÃ¼hrer!â â Adolf Hitler â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 survivalâ â Winston Churchill "Last night, Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong. Last night, Japanese forces attacked Guam. Last night, Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands. Last night, the Japanese attacked Wake Island" - FDR âThis president can ask us to be patient. This president can tell us it was someone else's fault. This president can tell us that the next four years will get it right. But this president cannot tell us that you're better off today than when he took officeâ â Mitt Romney âFreedom of religion, freedom to speak their mind, freedom to build a life and, yes, freedom to build a business with their own handsâ â Mitt Romney Biblical Anaphora examples: âBlessed are the poor in spirit: for there is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earthâ â Matt. 5:3 On TV: âI want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. I want to explore the world. I want to watch TV in a different time zone. I want to visit strange, exotic malls. Iâm sick of eating hoagies! I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero! I want to LIVE, Marge!â â Homer Simpson (The Simpsons) Anaphora examples in advertising: "Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya, Brylcreem, you'll look so debonair! Brylcreem, the gals'll all pursue ya! Theyâll love to get their fingers in your hair!" â jingle for Brylcreem Shakespeare: "And do you now put on your best attire? / And do you now cull out a holiday? Â / And do you now strew flowers in his way / That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?

Be gone!" â Julius Caesar âThis royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,/ This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, / This other Eden, demi-paradise, / This fortress built by Nature for herself â¦ This Englandâ â Richard III "If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?" - Merchant of Venice Other literature: "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun" - Raymond Chandler (Farewell, My Lovely) âShe was not what you would call refined. She was not what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrotâ â Mark Twain "It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place" - J.D.

Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye) â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 wayâ â Charles Dickens (A tale of Two Cities) "He was goosed last night, he was goosed the night before last, he was goosed today" - Charles Dickens (Hard Times) âNever shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever.

Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Neverâ â Elie Weasel (Night) Movie examples: "And the Germans will not be able to help themselves from imagining the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the Germans will be sickened by us. And the Germans will talk about us. And the Germans will fear us. And when the Germans close their eyes at night, and their subconscious tortures them for the evil theyâve done, it will be thoughts of us that it tortures them with" - Brad Pitt as Lieutenant Aldo Raine ('Inglorious Basterds') "I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face.

I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off" - Policeman (The Big Lebowski) "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" - Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca) "I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize" - Horny teenager (Weird Science) Barack Obama examples of Anaphora: âThat means investments to create new jobs. That means resisting the walls of protectionism that stand in the way of growth. That means a change in our financial system, with new rules to prevent abuse and future crisis. â "For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and travelled across oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and ploughed the hard earth. For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.â âThis is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence - the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny. This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed.â âNow is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave ..... Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws ...... Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work.â How to use Anaphora in presentations or speeches We've answered 'What is Anaphora?' and looked at some well-known examples of its usage. So how can you use it in your own presentations or speeches? It's one of the easiest devices to use. As I always say, write your speech in ânormal' English first and then go over it and see where you can introduce a rhetorical technique. For example, you might have originally written: âA successful year in which we grew sales by 5% and turned the company around.' Whilst grammatically correct, this can easily be made more memorable by breaking it into two sentences and using â A successful year in which â¦' to begin both.

Adding a third sentence to use a TRICOLON, it could now read, âa successful year in which we grew sales by 5% and retained our position as market leader despite fierce competition. A successful year in which we turned the company around and placed it firmly in the black. A successful year in which we generated profits of £7 million and laid the foundations for future growth'. If the original read, 'Back then we were losing Â£25 million per year and there were rumours we were about to be sold' the same approach could easily change it to 'Back then, we were losing Â£25 million per year. Back then, our sales were in decline. And back then, there were rum ours that we were about to be sold.' Let's say you originally wrote, 'They say that they will have knocked us from our number one slot within two years. They plan to do this by undercutting us on price, because they have a lower cost base than ourselves. According to them, independent tests show their widgets are just as good as ours, but 15% cheaper.' This is easily changed to, 'They're saying that they aim to knock us from our number one slot within two years.

They're saying they'll do it by undercutting us, because we are bloated, bureaucratic and burdened with high costs. They're saying that independent tests show their widgets are just as good as ours, but 15% cheaper.' All of these revisions are far more memorable than the original sentences and phrases. So the next time you're giving a presentation, give anaphora a try. And when you're comfortable with it, you can move on to the slightly more difficult ones. Related articles: Rhetorical Situation David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech Free Essays Rhetorical Situation David Foster Wallace Commencement Speech David Foster Wallace: Commencement Speech Commencement speeches are... something every graduate is familiar with. Depending on what level you’re graduating from, the speakers could range from your best friend from Kindergarten, to a Politician or Celebrity. Commencement speeches are supposed to give us a taste of real life, while still inspiring us to be the best we can be. It seems rare that you’ll have a speaker who will break things down to you, and be completely and unabashedly honest, but David...

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“Public symbolic expression” – speech, writing, art, media (television, radio, Internet), performance, music, films, etc … in the public arena 2. “experiences,” “identities,” “public lives” – how we make laws, discuss ourselves (i.e., as Americans, as Euro-American/Af-American, etc... Audience, Discourse analysis, Effect 886 Words | 4 Pages "This is Water"-- Remediating David Foster Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Speech Delivered in twenty-three minutes, David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College... had an audience of a few hundred. However, in the years which followed, the transcription of Wallace's speech became an internet phenomenon, coursing through millions of email boxes and introducing the writer to people unfamiliar with his complex fiction. "Thanks to the enthusiasm" of people who knew nothing about Wallace's work, and the "magic of the cut-and-paste function," Tom Bissell remarks... Capitalism, Commencement speech, David Foster Wallace 457 Words | 2 Pages Obama's Commencement Speech Obama’s Speech Everybody knows how good of a speaker Obama is.

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hometown Chicago, after being elected for president on November 4th, 2012. Chicago is where he in 2008 won his first presidential election. When taking a starting point in the pentagon model, we know that a text (in this case a speech) is always centered around an intention of the writer/speaker and is always dependent on the interrelationship between the topic, the writer, the reader/audience... Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Iraq War 1091 Words | 3 Pages Rhetorical Techniques and Sadat ‘Statement to the Knesset’ Anwar el Sadat, 20 November 1977 1. Read the full transcript of the speech 2. Annotate speech... – noting rhetorical techniques, structural features and values/ memorable ideas 3. Read Stanners notes and add to your understanding of context and rhetorical strategies used 4. Read and complete the following Audience * The Knesset is the Israeli Parliament * The speech was also broadcast live all over the world Context * Born in 1918 in Mit Abul Kom, a...

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at Wellesley High School. In June of 2012, he made a speech at the commencement ceremony for the graduating class of Wellesley High School. On this day, he gave these teenagers a very unexpected reality check. The argument of this speech is that each and every one of them students is pretty much just another statistic in our harsh real world. Throughout this speech, he gives statistics... Appeal to emotion, David McCullough, Graduation 944 Words | 4 Pages Rhetorical Analysis of Reagan Speech Rhetorical Analysis on Ronald Reagan’s “Challenger” Speech While in the Oval Office of the White house, on January 28, 1986,... President Ronald Reagan delivered his speech about The Challenger Disaster. The speech was made just hours after space shuttle “Challenger” exploded during take-off, killing all seven crew members on board. Thousands witnessed this horrifying event live in person and on television. A big factor about this launch, making the explosion an even worse disaster was the fact... George H. W. Bush, Oval Office, President of the United States 1276 Words | 4 Pages Clinton's Speech Rhetorical Analysis Zach Sabo Ms.

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The problem I want to address in the... speech is that whether colleges put too much stock in standardized test scores. It’s an actual exgience because colleges are currently relying a lot on standardized test scores as a base for their applications. 2. The teenage community is the most directly affected by the exigence. 3. Most people do seem to generally agree that the exigence exists because the people all have been attempting to get... College, High school, Psychometrics 536 Words | 2 Pages Rhetorical Analysis: “the Challenger Address” Rhetorical Analysis: “The Challenger Address” The rhetorical situation refers to “a situation in... which people’s understanding can be changed through messages.” (Zarefsky, 12). The rhetorical situation analysis consists of four elements: audience, occasion, speaker and speech, each assessing the quality of speech. In this essay, I will analyze the rhetorical situation of the historical speech “The Challenger Address” delivered by the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Americans... Cold War, Gerald Ford, Iran–Contra affair 710 Words | 3 Pages Terms of Figures of Speech TERMS OF FIGURES OF SPEECH Alliteration 1.

the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group: a. with the same... consonant sound or sound group (consonantal alliteration); b. with a vowel sound which may differ from syllable to syllable (vocalic alliteration) 2. the commencement of one or more words of a word group with the same letter. Allusion a figure of speech consisting of a passing, but significant, reference to a well-known person, place, event, etc. Ambiguity use of words... Figure of speech, Metonymy, Rhetoric 1704 Words | 5 Pages Rhetorical Analysis on Roosevelt's Speech About Pearl Harbor word in this memorable speech tugged on the emotions of the American people. His emotional and passionate appeal about his duty as President... and former commander and chief showed while delivering this speech. In this rhetorical essay I will evaluate his effectiveness in persuading his argument as to why we should declare war on the Japanese Empire. President Roosevelt’s persuasion in his speech succeeds because the context, the different ways it is organized, and the rhetorical appeals it contains. ...

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He recognized the crisis that the country was in and how it affected American citizen as this time. He knew with... African American, Barack Obama, Democratic Party 962 Words | 3 Pages Rhetorical Analysis Stev Jobs Commencemnent Speech ﻿Throughout this speech, Steve Jobs successfully convinces the multicultural graduate population at the Stanford University... Commencement to be preeminent in life and to pursue their passions by relaying three personal stories in a symmetrical structure that enables pathos to be clearly developed. In most of today’s arguments, facts are given to support a claim that is being made by someone; however, in Steve Jobs’ speech, he presents only his personal opinion and a little a bit of history as evidence... Audience, Audience theory, Commencement speech 2703 Words | 9 Pages Great Society Speech Analysis legislation through Congress to establish the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO).In this speech, the purpose Lyndon B. Johnson outlines his... vision and goals for "The Great Society," a massive web of government programs and legislation aimed at societal improvement and progress.

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Question: In Raymond Chandler's comment in the book Farewell My Lovely "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was ..." what figure of speech was he using?
Answer: Anaphora