Chocolate for the Mind » rhetoric http://chocoholic.edublogs.org 'Cause thinking tastes good Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:05:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Rhetoric Hide-and-Seek http://chocoholic.edublogs.org/2008/11/29/rhetoric-hide-and-seek/ http://chocoholic.edublogs.org/2008/11/29/rhetoric-hide-and-seek/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:39:24 +0000 chocoholic http://chocoholic.edublogs.org/?p=14 Any child knows how to play the classic game hide-and-seek.  Close your eyes…count to ten…ready or not, here I come!  Finding examples of rhetoric is much like playing hide-and-seek.  Rhetoric is hiding everywhere, and readers are “it” and have to hunt out good examples.  Rhetoric can be found in books, movies, advertisements, and many other texts.  I have managed to seek out some of my own examples.

  1. Antimetabole:  “I am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid’s stuck on me.” (jingle from Band-Aid advertisement)
  2. Oxymoron:  “O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath…” (Juliet in Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet)
  3. Simile:  “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed,” (from the Bible, Matthew 13:31, New King James Version)
  4. Onomatopoiea:  “I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in!” (the big bad wolf in The Three Little Pigs)
  5. Pun:  “Nothing runs like a Deere.” (John Deere slogan)

As you can see, examples of rhetoric can come from a wide variety of sources.  Finding them is really just child’s play.

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