of an absolute tyranny over her.” Stanton then used anaphora to overwhelm her audience. “He has never permitted… He has compelled her…” Stanton wants to emphasize that males have had too much control over women and their rights. Her audience would be overwhelmed with all of her points against men. The sentences that anaphora is used in are short to get to the point. The syntax in Stanton used in her speech overwhelmed her audience by using anaphora to make them realize all of the things men were doing
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Many Americans perceive their country differently‚ whether it appears as the land of freedom and liberty‚ or the land of oppression and injustice. In the case of modernistic writer Walt Whitman‚ his poem "I Hear America Singing" expresses America as the land of the hardworking and the humble. He focuses on the idea of the American dream and the specific types of people who are the backbone of this country. On the other hand‚ the view of another modernistic poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ is very different
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“I Have A Dream”‚ is the most famous speech given by an American Legend‚ Martin Luther King Jr. He was born on January 15‚ 1929. He became a Baptist Minister and social activist who fought tremendously for equal rights. King declared‚ “We shall not be judged by the color of our skin‚ but by the content of our character.” Kings famous words inspired black americans to stand up for their civil right through the use of rhetorical appeals‚ and rhetorical devices. Martin Luther King‚ led the Civil Rights
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alliteration‚ anaphora‚ and paradox. Alliteration is the use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. Alliteration is used in the lines “Some say the world will end in fire‚ some say in ice (Frost‚ lines 1 and 2)”‚ and “I hold with those who favor fire (Frost‚ line 4).” Alliteration is used by repetition of "S" in some and say. It is used in the "H" in hold and the "H" sound in “who”. Alliteration is also used in favor fire. Anaphora uses a pronoun
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familiar. • “Four score and seven years ago” is an allusion to the American Revolution. • The purpose of the allusion is to link the image of freedom from the American Revolution to the freedom of all Americans as the purpose of the Civil War. Anaphora and
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to say that she wants a wife. Lesbians were not approved which was one of the reasons that made these piece stand out‚ leading it to become a strong feminist piece. With the use of satire as anaphora‚ she attempts to rid of the stereotypes on women and apply the complex task as absurd. Brady used anaphora throughout her essay to keep her claim in her audience head. She used the words “ I want a wife” and “ my wife” as a repetitions tool to help her audience memories and
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contribute to the effect of the poem. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains many elements‚ each of which enhances the way the poem conveys meaning. The extensive use of alliteration‚ varying metrical patterns‚ internal and external rhyme‚ anaphora‚ caesura‚ enjambment‚ and inversion add to the complexity of the structure and the overall meaning of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” which could be interpreted as love for all living things. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is set up in the
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And there is consonance in the repetition of the s sound in the words “uncertain” and “rustling”. Anaphora‚ epistrophe‚ and symploce: an Anaphora is the repetition of a series of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses. An epistrophe (or epiphora) is the repetition of words at the ends of neighboring clauses. Both forms of repetition help emphasize the contents. Examples of anaphora: It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times‚ it was the age of wisdom‚ it was the age of foolishness
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Commencement for Women’s Rights On May 22‚ 1983‚ Ursula K. Le Guin delivered a commencement speech to the graduating class of Mills College in Oakland‚ California‚ the first women’s college west of the Rocky Mountains (Graveline). Le Guin took an unusual approach to this commencement speech‚ focusing her words on the controversial topic of gender equality. This speech not only empowered the women of her graduating class‚ but also highlighted the extreme differences in the qualities of women compared
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are doing things that are similar to trophy hunting in their own country. He uses an anaphora to appeal to logos when stating‚ “Don’t tell us what to do with out animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles” (Nzou). For this claim‚ the author uses the anaphora to repeat “don’t” to emphasize the fact that Americans should not be criticizing Africans
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