Rhetoric
Rhetoric Midterm

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Subject:   Midterm
Name:   Carmela Orsini
Date Posted:   Oct 22, 07 - 7:56 PM
Email:   carmela.orsini@gmail.com
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Website:   http://carmelaorsini.livejournal.com
Message:   Hmm...
I know I'm a day late.

Name five rhetorical terms and demonstrate an example from texts we have studied thus far:

1. APOSTROPHE FROM JOHN DONNE'S "DEATH, BE NOT PROUD" WHEN HE ADDRESSES DEATH.

2. OXYMORON FROM DYLAN THOMAS'S "DO NOT GO GENTLE..." WHEN HE SAYS "BLINDING SIGHT"

3. COMMONPLACE IN VEST'S SPEECH TO THE JURY WHEN HE MAKES THE REFERENCE TO DOGS BEING LOYAL.

4. ASYNDETON IN JOHN ADAM'S LETTER TO ABIGAIL WHEN HE ENDS THE LETTER WITH THE LONG LIST OF OTHER DISCONTENTS.

5. AUXESIS IN WHITE'S "DEATH OF A PIG" WHEN HE DESCRIBES THE HOUSE AS "SHADOWY, PROTECTING, INTIMATE."
   


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