Talk:Rhetorical device
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Comment moved from main page by TimmyD 06:22 May 3, 2003 (UTC)
I can't believe that I'm the first one to feel the need to write about this topic, or the majority of the devices I linked to here. Something seems to be wrong.
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Syntax is a very broad topic, not a single device. Michael Hardy 21:35, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I'm not yet ready to delve to deeply into composing articals ( I'm only abit beyond the hunt and peck stage...), but I do like to make ocassional notes about subjects relating to analysis and form... A little googling on the subject of rhetoric will turn up some long lists of terms, figures of speech rather high on the list, which relates mainly to condensing, adding, subtracting or substituting- beginings, middles or ends of- words, phrases sentences etc. Rhetoric differs from pure dilectic largely by it's attempt to Charm the mind. Other aspects include use of rythm, assonce, etc. Music has many devices which can be considered rhetorical, in music one might differentiate between the "conventional" ie scales and arpeggios( the meat of virtuosos), and "figures" ie more ideosyncratic less expected terms and phrases.Both Aristotle and Cicero have written very interesting books on the subject. Forensics are related. wblakesx4.234.84.188
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What I see for this page is a rough breakdown of categories for rhetorical devices, some examples, and a newly created List of rhetorical devices. mxdxcxnx T C 22:53, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- Take a look at Glossary of rhetorical terms. -- Koffieyahoo 06:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
