Chapter 10: pp. 364 #2

Figurative Language (2)
 Figures that interrupt normal word order:
  either/or statements: If reading this sentence is difficult to read, either for its lack in quality or the lack in skills to read, the attempts will determine its ease.

  just-as/so statements:But if having both difficulty reading and it was poorly written, just as in the former sentence the attempts would determine ease, so in this case it would be without ease.

  antithesis:[The above two sentences together make up an antithesis]

  parallel commas: Watching the weather channel, the local forecast, commercials prolonged access to today's temperature, today's precipitation, today's traffic conditions, of which were needed in order to prevent showing up late.

  periodic sentences: Yet even at the greatest of schools, where money is not an issue, some continue to question the validity of their superiority.

  inserting a word or phrase inside a colon or period (interpositio or "parenthesis"): But the continuing necessity of resources available to universities—negatively correlated with the communities SES—is drawing up some interesting variances in productive potential skills obtained.

  hyperbaton (a sudden turn): Coffee, though having more caffeine, is about just as stimulating as carbonated soda.

  appositio: I am, though under consideration for graduating with honors, f***ed.

  apostrophe: I am, mind help me, thoughtless.

  metabasis: Cognition, Perception, Neurologic, Linguistic, and Motivation—five of my favorite Psychological fields—appear to motivate and drive me more than any other option.

  a pair of figures having to do with the use of connecting words between colons:
    asyndeton: I was overwhelmed with tasks, to file my tax return, read, write, pay bills, eat regularly, manage finances, keep a date book, look into graduate schools, take the GRE, obtain letters of recommendation, send off transcripts, work on alternate paths to that of school: entering post-graduation living.

    polysyndeton: To decide is deciphering, throwing, and/or externalizing output to a question, to its variables, to its outcomes, to its limitations, to its indeterminate characteristics, and its output is to think and/or to comply, to put together and/or to adapt, to stumble upon and/or to have provided, to be continued in revision, discussion, inconsideration, but most likely passed over for more precise displays of similar attempts to rationalize in such a way, rather than delve any deeper into the ignorance of one’s own attempts to figure out without resources, yet perhaps attempting such first could prevent those resources bias influence on such attempts, perhaps even taking place numerous time prior to comparing one’s own attempts to each other, to those considered scholarly, and to those coming from new generations, locations, and permissions.

 Figures of Repetition
  1. Demosthenes example: The least important part of rhetoric: Withhold, Withhold, Withhold.

  2. Stein repetition example: On making fun of poetic metaphors: A road is a road is a road.

  synomyny: Call it credit, benefit, reward, or recognition—it might be one.

  puns: He watched the time, and the time watched him. If again you don’t first; succeed, succeed try. You don’t try if first; again, again, succeed.

  exploit accidental resemblance: Obtaining cents for scents and synsacrum is a cinch since one’s sense sent is related to ones sales, their presence, rather than their sense of smell.

  antanaclasis: Pass me the back stage pass to get behind the stage!

  homoioteleuton: I cannot think, while stuck in this sink; it’s hard to find words that work, perhaps it’d help if I had a drink.

  zeugma and its relatives: Based on Cicero, as quoted by Quintilian: Schools contain people, zoos animals, aquariums mammals.

  anaphora or epanaphora: Based on ad Herennium IV xiii 19: From this may come the blame for you. From this will blame ensue. From this no answer thwarts assembly.

  epiphora: From the depths of the dilemma that this example requested was this written, by the lack of a better term to be found was this written, from the little time provided was this written.

  symploke: Over which the two will provide, over which the few will provide, over which the strength will provide, the sense of this sentence relied.

  anadisplosis: You think this statement brings about any more concern than previous connectivity, figure of rhetor? Figure, I say, to the rhetoric, you think this brings concern?

  climax: What comes from the completion of this assignment, if I follow the proper figures, if I answer the question thoroughly, if I get the assignment done, and if it is held to be seen with adequate efforts?

  isocolon or parallelism: This assignment is taking longer lengths than what expected; this attentiveness is having shorter times in what inspected.

  antithesis:
   chiasmus: Support is healthy if the mind can laugh, but the mind’s laughing isn’t always healthy support.

   antimetabole: A side ought to take the blind into perspective; a perspective ought not blindside to take.


Figures of thought (4)
 Figures that enhance ethos:
  use questions to draw attention to important points: You, of position to do so, consider me in leadership recognition and want me to be involved?

  Ask question difficult or impossible to reply: What just happened?

  Ask question to belittle or besmirch: What the f*** were you thinking?

  Ask question to excite pity: What are you saying, you want me to what?

  Ask question to embarrass: Are you responsible for this obscene scene?

  Rhetorical question (hypophora): Who, in their right mind, would mind the right?

  Rhetorical question (rasoning by question and answer): I am without compromise. Why? Nothing to compromise was set on the table. Why? No table was present to set things on.

  Anticipation: Some may think never knowing what you are going to get is something of little value. Life can be like a box of chocolates, where you never know what you are going to get. But some people don’t like most of the various things that come inside the chocolate, and find this statement depressing.

  Paralepsis: I will not pretend to know this pretending ethos enhancing figure: with its being misleading, its deceitfulness, its deceptiveness.

  Hesitation or indecision: To have is to hold, but I am not sure that having is present when unsure what holding.

  Correction: After the redundancy of the situation had surfaced—or rather resurfaced, the temperature dropped two degrees lower than the temperature it was prior to being introduced (still eight degrees above suitable living conditions).


 Figures of thought that involve audience:
  Concession: Yeah, I know that that assignment is being turned in late. But, the efforts to complete it were well intended to meet the needs of its request.

  Suspension: You think so? Perhaps you want me to blow the situation out of proportion? I don’t even see any rational proportions present to blow! Is it not worse to concede I hold opposition to something while only suggesting this position may exist if such be the wise?

  contrary opinion: There are none more contrary than those that agree.

  Oxymoron: The honest uncertainty left this figure’s example with a lacking of clarity.

  Parrhesia: You should speak up on the matter at hand, because those you are speaking to have no matter to handle and would like you to join them.
  litotes: We did not know about the validity.


 Figures of thought that arouse emotion:
  Personification: Thinking to oneself, “how does this thing work,” passed the time.

  Enargeia: Typing the fingers on the square keys of the keyboard that was on the desk in front of and below the screen, a pause for a second thought brought about this phrase coming after the comma.

  Irony: Could this assignment have taken any longer?

  Ethopoeia: The baggy eyes, slouched posture, greasy hair, and 5AM shadow (12 hours past 5-o-clock shadow) represented what could stand for the display of this student attempting to complete an assignment.


 Figures of thought borrowed from invention and arrangement:

  reason of contraries: No reason for the something cannot be reason for the other (without lacking reason also).

  Repeat on the sentence level the parts of arrangement suggested for whole discourses: If sick of the ways, then change is requested; if tired of the ways, then a lack of change is suggested.

  Distribution: The teachers role is to teach; the students is to learn from the teachers; the faculties to choose the teachers and support the students adequate learning.

  Accumulation: This exercise here is an accumulation of composition and ornament styles listed in chapter ten of this book.



Tropes (10)
  Onomatopoeia: Figope: a figure and tropes used in the same sentence (i.e., as an onomatopoeia used in irony: could this figope be any lamer?).

  Antonomasia: The King of Pop: Michael Jackson; the fathers of American psychology: Wundt and James

  Metonymy: Illinois is considered the Land of Lincoln

  Periphrasis: Morning has arrived, when the first class of the day begins, sitting in front of the computers.

  Hyperbation: See example in "Figures" above

  Hyperbole: After running to get the automobile, working for a night as a valet parker, my legs felt like jel-lo.

  Synecdoche: “The crowd’s going wild.”—used by radio announcers of sporting events to indicate that those present at the event (the crowd) are cheering and clapping loudly (going wild) due to a good play that has occurred.

  Catachresis: Softly spoken.

  Metaphor: This room is a pig sty (a mess). Put a cork in it (be quiet).
   Simile: These lectures can sometimes be like nitrazepam.

  Allegory: Comparing pp. 364 #2 allegory example to pp. 364 #3, both being my poor excuse for an allegory example requested of #2 and a poor excuse for my attempt at #3:

Excuses ferment from one area to another, as in the procrastination on one assignment as one drowns oneself in another. For example, when one considers one assignment as their primary area of focus, spending all of their time attempting to perfect it, while at the same time neglecting to put any efforts into any other assignment until this one is complete. However, first, one must have an adequate understanding of what this one assignment request to come anywhere close to providing a good quality representation of such. Then into ones being overwhelmed by the fact that the previous example involving the use of metaphor and simile, which were in their own so difficult to represent, now enter stages of larger projections within their own, leaving one overwhelmed with frustration in not being capable of finding anything close to portraying anything close to what is requested here. So, I must give up on this allegory, because the “have to” paper, writing for the west, writing for the web, and data analysis are being also neglected, just as is rhetoric, in my procrastination of lacking clarity. This clarity lack leading to cognitive frustrations of self-involvement in ways that produces little to no productive resolution. So, on to the next question involving revision of something written, I will make it this statement, onto a poor portrayal of what it also requests, as I have run out of time.