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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Figures of speech"”.
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Figures of Speech in English Poetry
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Figures of Speech in English Poetry
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the Letters of Saint Cyprian
… Letters. They are classified under the headings of Metaphor, Metonymy, Personification, Antithesis, Anaphora, Simile, Irony and Litotes. When the Decían persecution which began late In 249 or early in 250 A. D. threatened the Hierarchy of the Church, St. Cyprian resorted to voluntary exile in …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… classical tradition yet the powerful Influence of rhetoric on literature resulted in his use of vivid and picturesque modes of expression. |In the "De Beata Vita" this picturesqueness is attained partly by the use of diminutives, which suggest familiar things; partly by homely words which make …
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Figuring Jesus : the power of rhetorical figures of speech in the Gospel of Luke.
This dissertation examines Luke's use of rhetorical figures of speech on the lips of Jesus as a means of persuading his audience to accept a role-reversing message that challenged the social, religious, economic and political systems in the Roman Empire. A figure of speech is the use of either …
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Sharing of figurative language themes in expert therapy: occurrence and effect on client experiencing and therapeutic bond
The purpose of this study was to examine the use and effect of figurative language discourse in examples of expert therapy. More specifically, one of the main reasons for conducting this study was to describe figurative language discourse, its production, use, and potential effects on the …
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Sentence Patterns in Gerard Manley Hopkins
<p>Rhetoric can be defined as "the use of.. .artifices or devices ...[purposes of] .. .persuasive or otherwise effective communication. It is an essential component of poetry, in which genre, communication of effect takes precedence even over communication of meaning. Rhetoric, of course, …
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ON THE NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE: A THEORY, A METHOD, AND EMPIRICAL STUDY
… as distinct from the traditional “closed” sense of a narrative, which has a beginning, middle, and end. Open narratives are co-constructed, rhythmic processes of selecting events and interpreting them as related instances of an established story-type. Drawing widely on narrative theory from …
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A structuralist reading of selected works by Edgar Allan Poe
… is important for a thorough understanding of the poem because it reinforces the narrator's growing state of insanity and ultimate loss of self. These figures of speech reflect the narrator's unstable state of mind, a state that inevitably leads to a collapse of the self. This instability is …
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The "Aesthetic" of the Blues Aesthetic
This study of the “Blues Aesthetic” both supplements and revises the now-dominant socio-aesthetic paradigm by introducing the perspectives of cognitive aesthetics to African-American vernacular literary criticism. New methods of scansion, informed by literary and linguistic prosody, are developed …
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Style in Bossuet's 1662 Lenten Sermons: A Method of Rhetorical Analysis
"Rhetoricians have often considered the close connection between argumentation and figures of speech. One of the most perceptive accounts of this connection occurs in Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca's New Rhetoric (1958), in which the authors note the inseparability between style and …
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
A historiographic survey of the early history of technical communication may strike as unnecessary, particularly since the earliest history of technical communication begins and ends with the sophists and Aristotle. Though scholars have occasionally referenced archaic literature in their analysis …
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Manipulation of semantics and syntax: the use of emotive language in English and Arabic news reports and editorials with reference to translation
Since language is an important means of communication between human beings, it is held that writers or speakers can affect their readers or hearers by using certain linguistic means. The manipulation of semantics and syntax, namely the use of emotive language, is seen as an affective means resorted …
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Old Testament Spatial Metaphor and Troilus and Criseyde: A Study in Persistence
Some of the most powerful tropes are figures of speech that both mirror and influence the way a culture understands the world. Some of the most formative gender tropes are contained in the Old Testament, particularly in the form of a variety of spatial metaphors. Thousands of years after the …
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Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes
<p>The use of non-standard language on the internet has long been a topic of controversy, as some believe its prevalence indicates carelessness or a lack of intelligence in the (mostly) younger generations who use it. Non-standard language can refer to spelling or grammar that deviates from …
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In search of the literal sense : Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531) and the exegetical tradition on Isaiah.
… explores the hermeneutical diversity of Reformation-era 'literal' exegesis of the prophet Isaiah. Using the 1525 Isaiah commentary of Basel reformer Johannes Oecolampadius as a lens, it compares this work to prior Christian and Jewish commentaries on Isaiah, as well as to the Isaiah …
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Teacher-Student Interaction: The Overlooked Dimension Of Inquiry-Based Professional Development
… the teacher-student interactional dimension of inquiry-based science instruction. In it, microethnographic and grounded theory analyses are conducted in order to assess the impact of a professional development program designed to enhance in-service elementary teachers' interactional views …
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The Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Twelfth-Century Western Europe: the Hebrew and Latin Sources of Herbert of Bosham's Commentary on the Psalms
In this thesis I examine the content of and the sources underlying an unedited Latin commentary on the Psalms, composed c.1190 in Northern France by the AngloNorman Hebraist Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-94). In this commentary Herbert takes Jerome's translation of the Psalms from the Masoretic Bible …
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