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Marlowe's Use of Rhetorical Figures
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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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Milton's cryptic figures.
… Paradise Lost in terms of Milton's use of rhetorical figures, and while several have considered how Milton's Ramist logic text Artis Logicae may inform readings of his poetry and prose, no one yet has shown how rhetorical figures in his epic display crypsis, a mode of writing which …
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Some Major Figures of Speech in the "De Beata Vita” of St. Augustine
… of his young pupils and by the frequent use of rhetorical figures. |The figures of speech in this essay form a vital part in its development and are an aid to a clear understanding of the subject matter proposed. |The purpose of this study is to investigate St, Augustine’s use of the major …
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Not Angry but Angy: The Rhetorical Effects of Non-Standard Language in Memes
… undergoes. They were then matched to existing rhetorical figures, or figures of speech, that have historically been used by authors and orators to create a desired rhetorical effect. These rhetorical figures could include changing the length of a vowel sound, or adding or cutting a syllable. It …
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A musical rhetorical analysis and performance perspective of Franz Berwald's Sinfonie singuliere
… and performers of instrumental music, utilizing rhetorical analysis for performance interpretation. As historical background, this study examines the relationship of Classical rhetoric and musical rhetoric from the time of the Renaissance through the early Classical period of music. The origins …
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Into the abyss : a study of the mise en abyme
… mean: it does this by uncovering the latent rhetorical figures which preceded the name ‘mise en abyme’. Formal readings of the play within the play in Hamlet and the gothic story read in The Fall of the House of Usher are both starting points to relink Gide’s idea to its, more common, …
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Alliteration in Horace
… Is alliteration used in connection with other rhetorical figures such as assonance, rhyme, onomatopoeia, or etymological figure?
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Nike, feminism and rhetoric
… , this study demonstrates that it is through the rhetorical figures of the body and Nike's corporate image that these concerns are addressed, enacted, and articulated. In this way, Nike ads "work" to appeal to the female consumer. This reading of Nike ads merges interests in feminism, theories of …
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Figures of <i>Musica Poetica</i> in the <i>Passacaglias</i> of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S Bach
… century, theorists and composers developed rhetorical devices to establish a link to words. Joachim Burmeister, Christoph Bernhard, and Johann Mattheson all codified musical-rhetorical figures into a practice known as <i>Musica Poetica</i>. Also in the seventeenth century, theorists, such as …
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"My barbarous illustrations" : animal imagery in the poetry of Robert Browning.
… examine how individual animal images function as rhetorical figures in Browning's work. A substantial part of the ensuing discussion also deals with the use to which these images are put and their place in the overall thematic structure of the poems in which they appear. The dissertation, which …
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The Nation as a Communicative Construct: Toward a Theory of Dialogic Nationalism
… By exploring ancient tropes of nation through rhetorical figures such as Isocrates in Ancient Greece and Cicero in the Roman Republic; through Kant, the Enlightenment and modernity; and, through postmodern interpretations, I attempt to reconceptualize the nation as a communicative construct …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
… Building upon and bringing together musical and rhetorical scholarship from both Western and Afrological perspectives, this study lays out a theoretical framework and analytical process for applying the principles and devices of rhetoric to jazz improvisation analysis. Taken from both Western and …
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Film Practices for the Inclusion of the More than Human in the Representation of Cultural Landscapes
… of the world and the use of its images to build rhetorical figures or enhanced experiences. This study explores possible methods that consider the “silent speech” of things in spheres beyond the visual. It looks to determine the feasibility of incorporating and problematizing the world as an …
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Calls to be counted: Rhetorics of aggregation and numerical representation in 20th century American democracy
… Scholarship in political science, history and rhetorical studies tells us that the census and public opinion polling have long been used to tell Americans who they are or to justify political actions in democracy. Scholarship on citizenship suggests that civic rituals and collective civic …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… sounds (or assonance), and word repetition in figures of speech—all elements of the verse that have been previously overlooked by scholars, who have traditionally focused on musical depictions of the text’s semantics. The analysis in chapters 2, 3, and 4 shows that composers used a consistent …
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Interweaving innocence : a rhetorical analysis of Luke's passion narrative.
… issues associated with it with a compositional-rhetorical method. It explores Luke's use of Mark as well as Luke's final product with insights gained through the ancient rhetorical tradition. Several techniques and exercises described in the rhetorical handbooks and progymnasmata—refutation and …
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The Child in Games: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous
… that just as virtual children are used as rhetorical figures to explain and justify the rules, mechanics, and moral systems of a digital game, so too is the figure of ‘the child’ used to routinise and vindicate the rules, workings, and moral systems of Euro-American culture.