This brings our single-line challenge to the halfway point! I hope we’ve been floating like a butterfly through these challenges. It’s supposed to be fun, low-pressure, no fear of failure,… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapters 18, 19 and 20: Syllepsis, Isocolon and Enallage →
These four Rhetorical Figures lead into one another neatly, in the entertaining, short, and informative chapters 14 – 17 of our Challenge textbook: The Elements of Eloquence, by Mark Forsyth.… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapters 14, 15, 16 and 17: Hendiadys, Epistrophe, Tricolon and Epizeuxis →
We should be able to handle these 2 chapters in 1 post. Diacope is easy and fun. It’s the mechanical investing of rhetorical figures. Rhetorical Questions, on the other hand,… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapters 12 and 13: Diacope and Rhetorical Questions →
Just when we’d decided to start combining chapters, it turns out our Author, Mark Forsyth, had a similar idea. (The book is Elements of Eloquence. You should check out his… Read more Elements of Eloquence Single Line Challenge, Chapter 11: Hypotaxis, Parataxis, Asyndeton and Polysyndeton →
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