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Lecture 8: Figures of Speech Paregmenon ; Malapropism ; , Correction

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Repetition Anadiplosis ; Anaphora Antanaclasis Chiasmus ; Correction Cumulation ;

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Repetition Gradation Paregmenon Regression

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Repetition: Anadiplosis The oftener seen, the more I lust, The more I lust, the more I smart (suffer in mind), The more I smart, the more I trust (hope), The more I trust, the heavier heart; The heavy heart breeds mine unrest, Thy absence therefore, I like best. Barnabe Googe: Out of sight, out of mind

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Repetition: Anaphora The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around. Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow! Farewell to the straths and green valleys below! Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods! Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods!

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Repetition: Antanaclasis We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. In thy youth learn some craft, that in thy old age thou mayest get thy living without craft.

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Repetition: Chiasmus He saved others; himself he cannot save. Loves fires heats water, water cools not love. (Shakespeare)

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Repetition: Correction It is a shame, Mr. President, that the noble bulldogs of the administration should be wasting precious time in worrying the rats of the opposition. Rats, did I say? Mice! Mice! most brave, nay, most heroic act!

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Repetition: Cumulation They had a simple aim, a solitary goalthe top! As I stood there, quiet and still, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.

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Repetition: Gradation Villages became towns, towns became cities, and cities grew to a size and with a speed that would have astonished the Founding Fathers. For glances beget ( ) , , ogles , ogles sighs, sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter. (Byron)

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Repetition: Paregmenon A rhetorical device that puts together words of the same root or affixes. Populations increase and decrease relatively not only to one another, but also to natural resources. The best defense is to be offensive. You shouldnt interrupt my interruptions; thats really worse than interrupting. Money often unmakes the men who make it. Man must change in a changing world.

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Paregmenon Paregmenon Don't you boast like a popcorn popper ( ) ? You shouldn't interrupt my interruptions: That's really worse than interrupting.

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Home is home though never so homely. (Proverb, N. Adj.) Aerial and light everything was, new as a morning, fresh and newly-begun. Like a dawn the newness and the bliss , filled in. (D. H. Lawrence; Adj. +Adv. +N. ) Money often unmakes the men who make it. (Proverb, antonym)

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Use , Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. (Shakespeare) Alas, good friend, what profit can you see in hating such a hateless thing as me? (Shelly)

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He looked down and met her eyes. They were darker than darkness, and gave deeper space. (D. H. Lawrence) Man must change in a changing world. Proverb Rejecting Rejection.

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What's done can't be undone. (Proverb) While pensive poets painful vigils keep, sleepless themselves, to give readers sleep. (A. Pope) She was in her own world quiet, secure, unnoticed, un-noticing. (D. H. Lawrence)

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Teach the unforgetful to forget. (D.G. Roteettt) I was prepared to be persecuted for not persecuting... (G. Eliot).... for what says Quinapalus? Better's a witty fool than a foolish wit. (W Shakespeare)

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The shackles , , of an old love straighten'd him. His honor in dishonor stood. And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. (A. Tennyson)

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Repetition: Regression We can make young people grown and grown people young. Britain rules the waves; Mussolini waives the rules. Love is the business of the idle, but idleness (is) of the busy. An original writer is not one who imitates nobody but one whom nobody can imitate.

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Malapropism( , ): definition Ludicrous ( , , ) misuse of words, esp. through confusion caused by resemblance in sound.

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1) , , , . 2) : 18 Richard Sheridon The Rivals Malaprop.

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