Grammar: Rhetorical Device

Examples of accumulation are found in literary pieces and in daily conversations.

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Spoken by John Cleese in “The Dead Parrot Sketch” from Monty Python.

In the excerpt, Shakespeare has gathered similar words for King Harry. Henry memorizes the name and nobility of the king by mentioning: “Bedford, Exeter, Warwick, Talbot, Salisbury, and Gloucester.”

James Joyce is famous for using this literary device. Here, Joyce has accumulated similar and related words in the form of a list. There are options given between different intellectual careers. These include “snapshot photography, comparative study of religions, superstitious practices”.

Ginzburg has used negation in the given sentences. All four lines are written in accumulated form, and the scattered points are listed together, hence contributing to the vocabulary of the readers.

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Black eyebrows, but one higher that the other.

Oh my god! I’ve left the gas on!

The land of my fathers and my fathers can have it.

“. . . you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love” – Bible, II Peter 1:5–7

Credit to: Anadiplosis

Now I ask you to decide: Given the persecution my client has undergone, does he not deserve to have some justifiable anger?

Credit to: Burton, “Anacoenosis”

When you decide to promote me to manager — when you see more clearly what will benefit this corporation — I will be at your service.

A plaining song, plaine-singing voice requires. – Sidney

And leaves begin to leave the shady tree. – “Mirror for Magistrates”

“Nor ordinance so needfull, but that he would violate, though not with violence.” – “Mother Hubberd’s Tale”

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Did you see the way those blockers defenced on that last play?

Feel bad? Strike up some music and have a good sing.

I friended way too many people last night!

I texted you three times last night.

She emailed him a long, sobbing letter.

He ghosted through the night.

Credit to: Burton, “Anthimeria”

Yes, she does love her flowers. To eat.

Iago: “You would be satisfied?”
Othello: “Would? Nay, I will.” – Shakespeare, Othello, act 3, scene 3, 391–2

Credit to: Burton, “Anthypophora”

“See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” – Deuteronomy 30:15-19

Credit to: Burton, “Antisagoge”

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Diogenes: “If you would learn to live off of lentils, you wouldn’t have to be subservient to the king.”

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” – Shakespeare, Macbeth act 1, scene 1

“Many who are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.” Matthew 20:16

“I am stuck on Band-Aid, and Band-Aid’s stuck on me.” (advertising jingle for Band-Aid bandages)

“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”

“You like it; it likes you.”

“Nice to see you . . . to see you nice.” – Bruce Forsyth’s catchphrase (British TV entertainer)

“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” – David Foster Wallace

“I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.” – Ovid

“For ’tis a question left us yet to prove, whether love lead to fortune, or else fortune love.” Shakespeare’s Hamlet

“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” Shakespeare, Hamlet

Credit to: Nordquist, “Chiasmus”, Chiasmus

“Women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.” – Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006

“Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” – John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy

“By day the frolic, and the dance by night.”

Credit to: Nordquist, “Chiasmus”, Chiasmus

“. . . the figure of death, the regal crown upon his head, his menace of Satan, his advancing to the combat, the outcry at his birth, are circumstances too noble to be be passed over in silence, and extremely suitable to this king of terrours” (Walker, 195).

“To what purpose is the multitudes of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats . . . Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me” (Isa. 1:11, 13.).

You know who is doing you know what with you know who else!

He’s not going out with Jane, and not with Susan. But I’m not allowed to say who he is going out with.

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“I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall — I will do such things — what they are yet, I know not, but they shall be the terrors of the earth!” – Shakespeare, King Lear, act 2

“Much more might be said, but I dare not utter all my minde.” – JG Smith

King Lear is furious with his daughters and breaks down as he cannot declare a punishment hard enough.

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The narrator interrupting the action to provide information or commentary in Homer’s Odyssey.

“O, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

Although Romeo is a living person and is hiding in her yard and listening to her, Juliet thinks she is addressing someone who’s not present.

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If his years as a Marine taught him anything, it’s that caution is the best policy in this sort of situation.

Our expertise in roofing contracting is evidenced not only by our 100 years in the business and our staff of qualified technicians, but in the decades of satisfied customers who have come to expect nothing but the best.

He is a forensics and ballistics expert for the federal government — if anyone’s qualified to determine the murder weapon, it’s him.

Based on the dozens of archaeological expeditions I’ve made all over the world, I am confident that those potsherds are Mesopotamian in origin.

If my age doesn’t convince you that my opinion matters, at least consider that I am your grandfather and I love you dearly.

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After the Battle of Gettysburg with its horrific losses, Americans needed to believe they were fighting for a higher purpose. Hence Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address making the war a moral quest.

The 2013 film Her deals with issues of isolation, artificial intelligence, and the artificiality of life in a digital world when so many of us are absorbed by our personal technology . . . and the correspondingly higher rates of depression and loneliness in our society.

Published in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 came out when the concept of totalitarianism was being explored. Using the story approach made it easier for people to understand the horrors of a totalitarian system at a time just after World War II and the start of the Cold War.

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“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury: we have not only the fingerprints, the lack of an alibi, a clear motive, and an expressed desire to commit the robbery . . . We also have video of the suspect breaking in. The case could not be more open and shut.”

“More than one hundred peer-reviewed studies have been conducted over the past decade, and none of them suggests that this is an effective treatment for hair loss.”

“History has shown time and again that absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“You don’t need to jump off a bridge to know that it’s a bad idea. Why then would you need to try drugs to know if they’re damaging? That’s plain nonsense.”

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Ads encouraging donations, show small children living in pathetic conditions to evoke pity in people to urge them to donate for the cause.

Referring to Germany as the Fatherland rallied the Germans into supporting World War II.

There are viable theories that violent games encourage violent tendencies in children.

In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters each commit suicide at the sight of the supposedly dead lover, however the audience knows these actions to be rash and unnecessary. Therefore, Shakespeare makes for the emotional appeal for the unnecessary tragedy behind the young characters’ rash interpretations about love and life.

Once upon a time, as a walk through the woods was taking place on the part of Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf’s jump out from behind a tree caused her fright.

Hear me!

I am never wrong.

Can you believe how poorly she dresses? She is so lower class.

I make so much more money than you do. In fact, I just bought my son a new Porsche when he got his driver’s license.

Macduff: “Despair thy charm; / And let the angel whom thou hast served / Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripp’d (Mills, 267).”

It’s Macduff’s confrontation with Macbeth in which he reveals the witches’ third prophecy about Macbeth not being killed by a man born of woman.

“Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief.” – Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 2, Scene ii, Lines 96-98

“Due to the fact that access to internet resources are actually at the present time very easy to access in many places, the vast majority of users seek to have those kinds of devices that are most easy to carry around with them wherever they go” (Blank).

The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus by Athenaeus

“Woman in Science” by John Augustine Zahm

If we put up our prices, then revenue may increase but sales will drop. If we put effort into marketing, then we may well more, but margins will be thinner. Maybe we can combine these, funding marketing through an increase in prices.

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Part of a dialogue between two students with the etymological definition of “smart” being quick-witted intelligence and the social meaning intended as sarcasm.

“‘Don’t worry!’ she told me. ‘Everything will be fine!’”

“Think Small.” – Volkswagen slogan

“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.” – William Hazlitt

Credit to: Nordquist, “Can”

Oh, I’m not that pretty.

I thought you were dead.

We are faced with two choices, neither of which I like.

I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t.

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1. I am here to take note of tenant concerns.
2. Our purpose is to determine the building’s liabilities.
3. I will note those liabilities determined at this point.
4. You are needed to explore these liabilities in depth and note other liabilities.

Shakespeare was notorious for borrowing from Roman writers and history.

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Macbeth’s speech that begins with “Time thou anticipat’st my dread exploits. / The flighty purpose never is o’ertook . . .” is an aside in which the reader learns that Macbeth regrets that he’s about to attack MacDuff but he’ll do it without hesitation, making it clear that Macbeth has lost his moral values.

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Rover howls at the moon for precisely 3.5 seconds every night.

Gene, George, and Geoffrey all hold their forks the same way.

The improvement of wages and working conditions will result in more productive workers.

“Oh, the times! Oh, the morals!”

“Young man!” from the song “YMCA” by the Village People.

“Almighty God! — no, no! They heard! — they suspected! — they knew! — they were making a mockery of my horror! — his I thought, and this I think. But anything was better than this agony! Anything was more tolerable than this derision! I could bear those hypocritical smiles no longer! I felt that I must scream or die! and now — again! — hark! louder! louder! louder! louder! “‘Villains!’ I shrieked, ‘dissemble no more! I admit the deed! — tear up the planks! here, here! — It is the beating of his hideous heart!'” – Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart”

“No! No-no-no-no-no-no! Well, yes.” – The Simpsons episode “Homer The Heretic”

“Oh joy! Rapture!” – the Scarecrow from Frank L. Baum’s Wizard of Oz

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Another and perhaps more important reason is “that paintings convey the dramatic actions of human and divine events represented as an illusion by means of perspective and naturalistic imitation. A knowledge of these events, which are drawn from literature and mythology, is prerequisite to a full understanding of the artist’s representation of them” – Land, 33

The artist Dégas is a visual example of ecphrasis, for he explored modern life and painted images of middle class leisure in the city. He captured strange postures from unusual angles under artificial light. He rejected the academic ideal of the mythical or historical subject, and instead sought his figures in modern situations, such as at the ballet.

It was a black wallet.

She wore red Keds.

It was a white Cadillac.

Credit to: Ecphrasis

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“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

The “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech by John F Kennedy in 1963

“My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” – John F Kennedy

“So the great gift of symbolism, which is the gift of reason, is at the same time the seat of man’s peculiar weakness — the danger of lunacy.” – Thomas Kane, The New Oxford Guide to Writing

“What applies to the sentence also applies to the paragraph.” – Roy Peter Clark, Writing Tools

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life!
Why should a dog, a horse, a rat have life,
And thou no breath at all? Thou’lt come no more,
Never, never, never, never! – Shakespeare, King Lear

“Even” is repeated at the end, making this text notable for the readers and brings an emotional effect within the text.

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“[Frank Curtis] Lynch was a huge man who played tackle for the navy football team. Naturally he acquired the nickname ‘Tiny.'” – Michael Sturma, Death at a Distance: The Loss of the Legendary USS Harder

“There was strength against nimbleness, rage against resolution, fury against virtue, confidence against courage, pride against nobleness; love, in both, breeding mutual hatred, and desire of revenging the injury of his brothers’ slaughter, to Anaxus, being like Philoclea’s captivity to Pyrocles. . . . The Irish greyhound against the English mastiff, the sword-fish against the whale, the rhinoceros against the elephant, might be models, and but models, of this combat.” – Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia

Credit to: Jamieson

Credit to: Burton, “Epanodos”

“With a heave of his chest, Croker rose and came walking — or, rather, limping — toward him.” – Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full

“[A] good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps his course truly.” – Shakespeare, Henry V, act 5, scene 2

“I don’t like the majority of what I do. I shouldn’t say I don’t like it, but I’m not satisfied with almost everything that I do.” – Paul Simon

Credit to: Nordquist, “Using”

“I moved into a monastic four-room floor-through on Seventy-fifth Street. ‘Monastic’ is perhaps misleading here, implying some chic severity; until after I was married and my husband moved some furniture in, there was nothing at all in those four rooms except a cheap double mattress and box springs, ordered by telephone the day I decided to move, and two French garden chairs lent me by a friend who imported them.” – Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That.” Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Credit to: Nordquist, “What”

“So weighty a matter it was to set up the Romane nation.”

“So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.” Acts 19:20

“Of matters approved, an example of Peter saying thus to his Lord: ‘Lo, we have forsaken all and followed thee.'” – Matthew 19:27

Credit to: Epiphonema

Credit to: Diacope; Epistrophe, “Lit Dev”

“If you seeke the victorie take it, and if you list, triumph.” – A. Fraunce

“Because all things [be] taken away, only is left unto me my body and mind. These things, which only are left unto me of many, I grant then to you and to your power.” – R. Sherry

Oh no, oh no, what have you done!

“The horror, the horror” in Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Credit to: Burton, “Epitrope”

The word, “gay”, is meant to be in light spirits, joyful, and merry, not in the homosexual sense (although why “I” has to fixate on only one interpretation, I don’t know).

The term “faith” used by the priest, was in the religious sense of believing in God without sufficient evidence, which is different from having “faith” in your son in which years of good past performance leads to the “faith” you might have in your son.

“Was I not born in the realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country? Is not my kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made in this commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard to the same?” – Queen Elizabeth I, response to a Parliamentary delegation

Credit to: Wheeler, “Epiphonema”, Nordquist, “Erotesis”

Richard inquires after John of Gaunt with his “stringless instrument”, a euphemism for “he died” (Burton).

It’s all frankenfood.

You eat this junk?

“I am reluctant to say no, but I suspect I do have a major disagreement with the general orientation of the book, given that its beginning premise sounds opposed to the conclusions of my own recent work. I would be glad to find another person to review it, however, if you do not have others on your list. Please let me know if you’d like me to ask colleagues.” – Alan Sica.

Credit to: Nordquist, “Pejorative”

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“I loved, lord, I loved, I wanted to be loved.” – Racine, Bérénice

Credit to: Burton, “Hendiadys”, Hendiadys

“Well, I says to him, I says. ‘What are you doing?’ Then he looks at me and I think, ‘Duh!'”

I throwed the ball over the fence.

Credit to: Heterosis

No marvell though wisedome complaineth that shee is either wilfully despised, or carelesly neglected, either openly scorned, or secretely abhorred.

In activitie commendable, in a commonwealth profitable, and in warre terrible. (Peacham)

Art thou in povertie? seeke not principality, but rather how to relaeve thy necessitie. (Peacham)

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By using “some by virtue fall” instead of the expected “some fall by virtue”, Shakespeare places the emphasis on “virtue fall”.

Into the box went the homework and onto the playground went the class.

She hit him, and he fell — this only can I report.

Alone he walked on the cold, lonely roads.

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We can win by fighting hard.

She brought me up well and gave birth to my life.

Putting on my shoes and socks.

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When Hell freezes over!

I slept like a rock last night.

These high heels are killing me.

Be careful, it’s a jungle out there.

You’re as light as a feather.

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The arm was cut off.

When someone doesn’t want any contact from a person.

When demanding that someone be silent.

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The Spartans: “If.”

In response to set up a democracy in Sparta, Lycurgus replied: “Begin with your own family.”

When Leonidas was in charge of guarding the narrow mountain pass at Thermopylae with just 7,000 allied Greeks in order to delay the invading Persian army, Xerxes offered to spare his men if they gave up their arms.

Leonidas replied, “Come and take them.”

Credit to: Laconic, “Wikipedia”, Laconic, “Wikiquote”

Let’s go to the john and alleviate the pain.

It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

My sister, who is employed as a nutritionist at the University of Michigan, recommends the daily intake of megadoses of Vitamin C.

Basically, in light of the fact that Congressman Fuenches was totally exhausted by his last campaign, there was an expectation on the part of the voters that he would not reduplicate his effort to achieve office in government again.

Imani David’s Anathema Rhodes, (David).

Credit to: Nordquist, “Meiosis”

You, jerk, get back here and clean that up!

Around here, we call him Dr. Moron.

The matters you have heard were wonderful, and those that you shall hear are no less marvelous.
You have heard very grievous things, but you shall hear more grievous.

I have spoken of his notable enterprises in France, and now I will rehearse his worthy acts done in England.

As I have spoken of his sad adversity and misery, so will I now speak of his happy prosperity.
I have spoken of manners; now it remains that I speak concerning doctrine.

You may think me too long in the threatenings of the law; I will now pass to the sweet promises of the gospel.

Why do I dwell on these things? I shall hasten my speech unto that which is the principal point of the matter in question.

You have heard how he promised, and now I will tell you how he performed.

Highlights the unnatural status of the visit.

I was all afrightened at the thought of that long and lonely walk through the woods.

Credit to: Nordquist, “Effective”, Burton, “Metastasis”

Referring to the purpose of playing as being “. . . to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature.” – Shakespeare, Hamlet

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Meaning that there was never any debate or contention between them.

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That answer is wrong, wrong, wrong!!!

You should’ve seen his face; he was very, very surprised.

Ah, me darlin’, it was a long, long, long time ago . . .

A person without peers may likewise invite destruction.

Credit to: Parabola

The moralizing parts of the Old Testament

Found in Apostolic Fathers as Clement I and the Shepherd of Hermas.

Also used by James and St. Paul in his letters to the Galatians and Ephesians

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Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord how is it that thou, . . . – John 14.22.

“That what his wit could conceive (and his wit can conceive as far as the limits of reason stretch) was all directed to the setting forth of his friend . . .” JG Smith, 141)

Credit to: Malton

This both diverts attention from the issue at hand (whether Archias was indeed a Roman or whether he should be expelled) and leads effectively back to it: to the extent that Cicero prompts his hearers to value literature, they will be inclined to sympathize with someone who professes literature (and has written positively for the Roman Republic).

Credit to: Burton, “Parecbasis”

“The poorest man in his cottage may bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter it; but the King of England can not enter it. All his power dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement.” – William Pitt

Credit to: Burton, “Paromologia”, Malton, “Paromologia”

“The muddy streets were gay. He strode homeward, conscious of an invisible grace pervading and making light his limbs. In spite of all, he had done it. He had confessed and God had pardoned him . . . It was beautiful to live in grace a life of peace and virtue and forbearance with others . . .” – James Joyce, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man

“An author once offered a manuscript story for publication, which the publisher returned with a letter saying he would accept it if certain changes were made, which he had indicated in the margin. Every one of his marginal memoranda was, ‘Describe the feelings of the parties at this time.’ The author, in a spirit of fun, kept the manuscript by him for some time, and whenever the humor took him he put in a few ‘feelings’. When all was done, the story was accepted and paid for (Johnson, 103-107).”

Something for writers to keep in mind . . .

Credit to: Burton, “Pathopoeia”

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Lightning danced across the sky.

The wind howled in the night.

The toilet sang as its water ran.

Kathy heard the ice cream calling her name.

She’s such a doormat.

The man is built like a tank.

The girl’s a firecracker in bed.

“It’s official. The United States government government is as lawless as the malignant dictatorships we’ve hated in our foreign policy since WWII.” — Tweet by ABFalecbaldwin, HABFoundation, 12 February 2020

It may be possible.

Hear with my own ears.

Cash money.

I saw it with my own eyes.

“Make war upon themselves — brother to brother
Blood to blood, self against self.” – Shakespeare, Richard III

“My lovely one I fain would love thee much, but all my Love is none at all I see.” – Edward Taylor, “Preparatory Meditation 12”

“I know what’s going on. I may be from Ohio, but I’m not from Ohio.” – Heather Graham as Daisy in Bowfinger

“The future is no place to place your better days.” – Dave Matthews, “Cry Freedom”

“If it wasn’t in Vogue, it wasn’t in vogue.” – promotional slogan for Vogue magazine

Credit to: Nordquist, “Ploce”, Wiki, “Ploce”

Swift brings an argument that no one would object against his proposal, then gives a quick argument that objection would be raised as he has stated.

First, the speaker says that if they would look at the matter carefully, they would realize and know the truth. Then he quickly objects to his own argument and asks a question instead.

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News is what somebody, somewhere, wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

He’s a real nowhere man / sitting in his nowhere land / making all his nowhere plans for nobody.” – Beatles, “Nowhere Man”

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Timon tells Flavius that he must have forgotten him like he has forgotten all other men. It can be expanded in a three-set argument as; “I usually do forget as I have forgotten everyone. Therefore, I have forgotten you as well.”

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The hidden premise: smoke causes fire.

The hidden premise: Jack Kennedy was a great man, but you are not.

The hidden premise: All the citizens of US are entitled to due process.

A compressed syllogism, as it implies that “all dogs are canine”.

Credit to: Syllogism, Enthymeme

Credit to: Syllogism

Credit to: Nordquist, “Sorites”

Credit to: Burton, “Synchoresis”

“He always feels hot, I always feel cold. In the summer when it really is hot he does nothing but complain about how he feels. He is irritated if he sees me put a jumper on in the evening.” – Natalia Ginzburg, “He and I”, The Little Virtues

“He speaks several languages well; I do not speak any well. He manages — in his own way — to speak even the languages that he doesn’t know.” – Natalia Ginzburg, “He and I”, The Little Virtues

The contraries include “dye” and “live” in the first two lines, “blisse” and “miserie” in the third line, and “lucre” [gain] and “losse” in the last line.

Credit to: Burton, “Synoeciosis”

“How-heinous-ever it be.” – Shakespeare, Richard II