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Rhetorical Terms #3. ? Term. a brief reference to literature, history, the Bible, mythology, popular culture, and so on that readers are expected to recognize . ? Term. a person, event, or object that stands for something more than its literal meaning. ? Term.
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? Term • a brief reference to literature, history, the Bible, mythology, popular culture, and so on that readers are expected to recognize
? Term • a person, event, or object that stands for something more than its literal meaning
? Term • an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined
? Term • deliberate exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect
? Term • the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one or more of the senses
? Term • describing concepts or objects as if they were human
? Term • a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings
? Term • a comparison of two dissimilar things using the words like or as
? Term • deliberate de-emphasis for effect
? Term • a form of comparison that explains an unfamiliar element by comparing it to another that is more familiar
? Term • a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor
? Term • characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship
? Term • imaginative language used to suggest a special meaning or create a special effect
? Term • a word with the same basic meaning as another word
? Term • substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it • Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual.
? Term • comparison that equates two dissimilar things without using the words like or as
? Term • an overused expression
? Term • a question asked for effect and not meant to be answered
? Term • language that points to a discrepancy between two different levels of meaning
? Term • a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite
? • "Senator Obama's call to 'ask not just what our government can do for us, but what we can do for ourselves”
? • "I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth."(Senator Barack Obama, speech at a fund-raiser for Catholic charities, October 16, 2008)
? • "I am to dancing what Roseanne is to singing and Donald Duck to motivational speeches. I am as graceful as a refrigerator falling down a flight of stairs."
? • I’m a modern man, digital and smoke-free;a man for the millennium.A diversified, multi-cultural, post-modern deconstructionist;politically, anatomically and ecologically incorrect.I’ve been uplinked and downloaded,I’ve been inputted and outsourced.I know the upside of downsizing,I know the downside of upgrading.I’m a high-tech low-life.a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art,bi-coastal multi-tasker,and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond. . . . (George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, Hyperion, 2004)
? Term • "I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."(Warren Buffett)
? • "Harrison Ford is like one of those sports cars that advertise acceleration from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in three or four seconds. He can go from slightly broody inaction to ferocious reaction in approximately the same time span. And he handles the tight turns and corkscrew twists of a suspense story without losing his balance or leaving skid marks on the film. But maybe the best and most interesting thing about him is that he doesn't look particularly sleek, quick, or powerful; until something or somebody causes him to gun his engine, he projects the seemly aura of the family sedan."(Richard Schickel, review of Patriot Games in Time magazine)
? • Live and learn.
? • What goes around comes around.
? • "That's the way with these directors: they're always biting the hand that lays the golden egg."(Samuel Goldwyn)
? • Stay the course.
? • "[I]t should be said that nothing objectionable appears in Heartbreak before page 10. But then: 'Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands.”
[John] Donne's "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning." He is comparing two lovers' souls: ? • If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, if th' other do.And though it in the centre sit,Yet, when the other far doth roam,It leans, and hearkens after it,And grows erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to me, who must,Like th' other foot, obliquely run;Thy firmness makes my circle just,And makes me end where I begun.
? • "Now Senator McCain suggests that somehow, you know, I’m green behind the ears, and I’m just spouting off and he’s somber and responsible. Senator McCain--this is a guy who sang 'bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,' who called for the annihilation of North Korea. That I don’t think is an example of speaking softly. This is the person who after we hadn’t even finished Afghanistan where he said--'next up, Baghdad.' So I agree that we have to speak responsibly.”(Senator Barack Obama, U.S. Presidential Debate, October 7, 2008)
? • "Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."(Douglass Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
? • "'He’s gone off his rocker!' shouted one of the fathers, aghast, and the other parents joined in the chorus of frightened shouting.'He’s crazy!' they shouted.'He’s balmy!' 'He’s nutty!' 'He’s screwy!' 'He’s batty!' 'He’s dippy!' 'He’s dotty!' 'He’s daffy!''He’s goofy!' 'He’s beany!' 'He’s buggy!' 'He’s wacky!''He’s loony!' 'No, he is not!' said Grandpa Joe."(Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
? • "I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far."(Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi")
? • "My toaster has never once worked properly in four years. I follow the instructions and push two slices of bread down in the slots, and seconds later they rifle upwards. Once they broke the nose of a woman I loved dearly."(Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates." The New York Times, Aug. 10, 1979)
? • "At the next table a woman stuck her nose in a novel; a college kid pecked at a laptop. Overlaying all this, a soundtrack: choo-k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k-choo-k--the metronomic rhythm of an Amtrak train rolling down the line to California, a sound that called to mind an old camera reel moving frames of images along a linear track, telling a story."(Andy Isaacson, "Riding the Rails," The New York Times, March 8, 2009)
? • "In our kitchen, he would bolt his orange juice (squeezed on one of those ribbed glass sombreros and then poured off through a strainer) and grab a bite of toast (the toaster a simple tin box, a kind of little hut with slit and slanted sides, that rested over a gas burner and browned one side of the bread, in stripes, at a time), and then he would dash, so hurriedly that his necktie flew back over his shoulder, down through our yard, past the grapevines hung with buzzing Japanese-beetle traps, to the yellow brick building, with its tall smokestack and wide playing fields, where he taught."(John Updike, "My Father on the Verge of Disgrace," in Licks of Love: Short Stories and a Sequel, 2000)
? • He gives his harness bells a shake • To ask if there is some mistake. • The only other sound’s the sweep • Of easy wind and downy flake. • Stopping by the woods on a snowey evening • Robert Frost.
? • "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."(Peter Sellers as President MerkinMuffley in Dr. Strangelove, 1964)
? • Commander William T. Riker: Charming woman!Lt. Commander Data: [voice-over] The tone of Commander Riker's voice makes me suspect that he is not serious about finding Ambassador T'Pel charming. My experience suggests that in fact he may mean the exact opposite of what he says. • ("Data's Day," Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1991)
? • "In There's Something About Mary (1998), [when] Ted thinks he's been arrested for picking up a hitchhiker while the audience knows he's being questioned by police about a murder, otherwise innocuous lines he delivers, such as 'I've done it several times before' and 'It's no big deal,' generate laughter."(Paul Gulino, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach. Continuum, 2004)
? • "Between the lower east side tenementsthe sky is a snotty handkerchief."(Marge Piercy, "The Butt of Winter")
? • "Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there."(proverb quoted by Christopher Moltisanti, The Sopranos)
? • "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations."(Faith Baldwin, Face Toward the Spring, 1956)
? • The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings.
? • "The B.L.T. left without paying."(waitress referring to a customer)
? • "Oh, you think you're so special because you get to play Picture Pages up there? Well, my five year old daughter could do that and let me tell you, she's not the brightest bulb in the tanning bed."(Allison Janney as Bren in Juno, 2007)
