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Rhetoric and Repetition

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This second powerpoint on rhetoric focuses on the persuasive power of repetition. Repetition! Repetition!

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today we're going to talk about rhetoric in this time focusing mostly on repetition please take notes in your Lexicon and I'll check them in class Titian is useful because it as emphasis if you hear something over and over again that tells you it's important and it also adds a rhythm particularly to speeches if people You're Something enough they begin to believe it so an example of that is I had my honors entered a calculus teacher made us write I love Oculus at the top of all of our papers so that if we wrote it often enough we would believe that it was true and I do love calculus and then years ago there was this huge controversy about building this mosque at Ground Zero and they kept calling it the mosque at Ground Zero and people can you believe that that was accurate even though it was going to be blocks away from Ground Zero but people heard it so much they believed it was true  before we get into repetition I want to remind you about parallel structure parallel structure isn't about repeating words it's about feeding grammatical structure sometimes but that's not parallel structure that will be smooth other devices we talked about today so an example she was careful to pack her trusty flashlight warm jacket and cuddly bear that doesn't have any repeated words but it has the adjective noun adjective noun it's about the grammatical structure and there's her cuddly bear the first repetition device for wine about is an opera an opera is repetition at the beginning of a clause I have that long definition there it's just pointing out that work or phrases or Clauses can be repeated but it's always at the beginning so it would look something like this the blue letters the blue laws are the ones that repeated words and effects of this is that it provides emphasis again every time we're repeating it's going to have some sort of emphasis at also link good more ideas together and it holds the audience Focus so you'll see how that works and some of these examples so when Winston Churchill was change to inspire Great Britain to keep fighting he says we shall go on to the end we shall fight in France we shall fight on the Seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and grow strengthen the air of we shall and then specifically we shall fight in a few places by repeating that he's emphasizing the tuna see if the British people he's emphasizing their persistence and that they're all working together right because of the pronoun we and then in this example Pat Buchanan he says my Republican party today it is not a conservative party it is soft on globalism but is soft on big government is soft on the Second Amendment it is soft sunlight  so the repetition of it is soft on repeatedly emphasizes his judgment on Republican party and again not only does it emphasized that he thinks that they're being weak but it also by repeating it a Traxxas next attention and they're going to listen for all the different ways that the Republican party is soft  epistrophe is the opposite so it's going to be rough Chan at the end so an example like the green part is there if heated parts I've always this is going to provide emphasis and it's going to link the similar ideas together the same as an opera the one difference is that sometimes because it's at the when's it's going to forcibly presenta conclusion because it's the last word so everything's leading to this so here are some of History examples  famous Ralph Waldo Emerson quote what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us it actually has both in where at and epistrophe but the epistrophe significant because it repeats the us over and over again which emphasizes humanity and human X which works really well with this quote and then we have a quote by Malcolm X I said you're afraid to bleed as long as the white man sent you to Korea he bled he sent you to Germany you bled he sent you to the South Pacific to fight for the Japanese you bled you bleed for white people so in this quote having you end the sentences is suggestive that anytime for white causes African Americans go to war they're the ones suffer and then Malcolm X is calling them on this and saying if you are willing to sacrifice yourself and fight for what causes what he identifying is white causes how much more so should you fight for African-American causes  a panel Lexus IS repetition at the end of the what's a word that occurred at the beginning of it so it's kind of like a bookend it's going to be at both sides of the word both sides of the Clause the beginning at the beginning of the two strongest places in a sentence so it's going to draw attention to the word because it's in the both the powerful spots what time is it uses two foxes with II creating a profound contrast to the first so the first possible set up an idea and then the second because of repetition of that word will ship the words meaning in a really cool way and then that's explaining of course where the repetition is here are some examples from the Bible rejoice in the lord always and again I say rejoice so clearly the emphasis in this quote is that people should be rejoicing in the Lord so by repeating it beginning then it's emphasizing that Walmart always low prices what's so the always at the end is almost like really quick reminder their prices are always low and then I'm this is a quote from Brutus  so I made a dog to match Mark Antony and he says hear me for my cause and be silent you may hear believe me for mine honor and have respect to mine honor that you may believe so he has one class that begins and ends with here and one that begins and ends with belief emphasizing that the people need to listen to him and if they listen to him the consequence will be that they believe that he didn't killing Caesar was right  I need the closest is kind of the opposite of epilepsy the last word of one cause of the beginning of the following clause and it often emphasizes a transitional relationship I feel like you can think of it kind of has a bridge and sometimes it builds to a climax which I'm going to explain in a second if we think about appeal to logos because of the repetition of the word and the create it often gives a sense of that logic or sense of beauty because it's aesthetically pleasing safe here that sounds repeated so turn great Scholars like Yoda here are some examples so this makes it seem like a logical progression so that he senses fear and Luke Skywalker is dangerous because it seems like that's going to directly leave anger then to hate then to suffering and then from the Gladiator The General came a slave the slave who became a gladiator at the gladiator who defied an emperor striking story so notice that adding an article there doesn't take away the Anna the closest and still this is charting a progression I'm so it seems very logical  do not leave this to climb up this is necessarily about repetition but I feel like it's good to cover here because it's often used with Ana to closest and this is the arrangement of words phrases clauses order of importance it feels so it creates a logical and emotional build-up one thing goes on top of the other so that once the audience reaches the top they have there at this really significant points of Discovery and knowledge and they feel it  so examples from The Narrative of the of an American slave nothing has been left undone to Cripple their minds the base their moral stature obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind not using Anna to closest but see how it takes three steps and each and some worse each is kind of a greater bigger and more meaningful stuff although in a sad play so that it filled so that first they're not capable of thinking then their moralities destroyed and then their Humanities just what's the state keep getting higher and higher in telling what slavery has done with an African American people and then I came I saw I conquered from Caesar and that one almost makes it seem as if the last point the climax is a necessary consequence of the first two because he's such a powerful figure chaosmyth is one of the best it's a repetition of words in successive clauses can you reverse your medical order in the second what that means is that the first word of the first Clause are going to be the last words of the second clause Last Words first class first words of the second box and it often produces and unexpected and aesthetically pleasing reversal so this one will really going to get the first class seems to mean something and then it's going to be turned over and we're going to get this profound meaning in the I am satisfied and Daydreams at Sandy step on me just heard jingle tell me another one isn't for found but the reversal changes the meaning right stuck on Band-Aid brand is about loyalty but Band-Aid stuck on me is about the adhesive strength of Band-Aids and then when John F Kennedy says mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind so they are we gets kind of more of a profound reversal the first one is urging us to work to stop something and then when we get to the second clause this huge I'm very important threat that we must deal with and then I'm David Foster Wallace writer wrote I had to I like to use to say good fictions job was to comfort the Disturbed and disturb the comfortable this one is a combination of crassness and polyps Odin which were going to do next but again by reversing it it's covering a lot of ground but it's also changing very much how we view fiction so politan is the repetition of words derived from the same group so like comfort and comfortable and like chaos miss it often turn its profound reversal and it also forces the audience to slow their Pace to account for nuances in meaning they have to think about what the changed what means in each of the different contacted contacts and forms so love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly you desired so irresistible becomes irresistible you desire becomes desire and it forces us to slow down and think about what each word means in each the various uses  and then I'm Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be under let us understand to be loved as to love so the change in form of each of those words asks us to consider what it means for us to weather is rather than just to be loved so it slows us and forces us to reflect on ourselves and then Fight Club the things you own end up owning you and a different form of own in that sentence make us think about what it means to own something kind of the same way I alerted but reflect more on what that means for our life and that's the end of this PowerPoint go out there and use rhetoric well

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