Sunday, August 21, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Card 6 Epanalepsis
Epanalepsis.
"Repetition of the same word or clause after a short interval. More strictly at the end of a line, phrase, or clause of the same word or words that occurred at the beginning of that line, phrase, or clause"
My take:
I would meet you at the length of my blade, for it is truth that a blade demands a blade.
Card 5 - Assonance
Assonance - Defined as "repetition of similar sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants." In the quote from Shakespeare given, I am not readily identifying this pattern from.
This one I had problems with but I eventually got it after asking for help from Richard Bennett and a cousin by marriage Randal Weiss
"All we do is bald and broad,
Our auld professions all consuming.
we crawled and cleaned the stalls of horse
To bear our salt against the pall"
This one I had problems with but I eventually got it after asking for help from Richard Bennett and a cousin by marriage Randal Weiss
"All we do is bald and broad,
Our auld professions all consuming.
we crawled and cleaned the stalls of horse
To bear our salt against the pall"
Card 4 Antanaclasis
Antanaclasis
"The repition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the second instance."
"The repition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the second instance."
Should you lie with me it will make us both villains.
Card 3 Anaphora
Anaphora
"Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines."
The Lodge is met in Peace
The Lodge is maintained in Harmony
The Lodge meets upon the Level
The Lodge acts upon the Plumb
The Lodge parts upon the Square.
The Lodge is maintained in Harmony
The Lodge meets upon the Level
The Lodge acts upon the Plumb
The Lodge parts upon the Square.
Card 2 Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis: Card 2 of my Rhetoric flash cards.
"The repetition of the last word or phrase from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next."
"The repetition of the last word or phrase from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next."
Every Mason has taken an Obligation
The Obligation we take makes us all Brothers
As Brothers, we will all learn our Obligation
The Obligation we take makes us all Brothers
As Brothers, we will all learn our Obligation
The Beginning (card 1 Alliteration)
Over Memorial Day and old friend Richard Bennett visited me and introduced me to the American Shakespeare Center's "ROADS to Rhetoric Flash cards."
Rhetoric is (as many of my friends and acquaintances know) one of the seven liberal arts. However, other than that, what is Rhetoric?
Well according to Merriam-Webster Rhetoric is "the art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people"
"Being blind and bound, I did not balk to bend or bring myself to bang upon the door."
Rhetoric is (as many of my friends and acquaintances know) one of the seven liberal arts. However, other than that, what is Rhetoric?
Well according to Merriam-Webster Rhetoric is "the art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people"
More poetically, 'Well spoken and well written are both well received.' I heard this many times growing up. I can not say any one source I could ascribe it to, however it is an apt description of Rhetoric.
I started after I obtained a set of the flash cards to work my way through them on Facebook. Posting the word and definition from the card and an original statement or verse as an example. The posting of the first card I accidentally deleted and well it was an easy one.
Alliteration. "Repetition of the letter or sound within nearby words; most often repeated initial consonants."
I really don't remember what I wrote as my example but here is a new one:
I started after I obtained a set of the flash cards to work my way through them on Facebook. Posting the word and definition from the card and an original statement or verse as an example. The posting of the first card I accidentally deleted and well it was an easy one.
Alliteration. "Repetition of the letter or sound within nearby words; most often repeated initial consonants."
I really don't remember what I wrote as my example but here is a new one:
"Being blind and bound, I did not balk to bend or bring myself to bang upon the door."
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God created a world, created it and filled it with light and life.
Life flourished, following its cycle every plant and beast.
Beast roamed lived and died; and the wild was untamed.
Untamed into the world now did God introduce Mankind.
Mankind God made in his own image able to make a world.
A world made by each to fill with whatever they create.
Create a world of life and love and you will love the life therein
Therein lies the danger, there are other things we can create.
Create not a world of bitter hatred, darkness and despair
Despair then of the world of life and love will be your fate.
Fate such as this is not what God has meant for his creation
Creation of a world is the true gift to mankind from God