Tornado Tuesday 9/17
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Tornado Tuesday 9/17 • Identify the rhetorical device and copy the example sentence. • "Sure I am of this , that you have only to endure to conquer." (Winston Churchill, address delivered at the Guildhall, London, Sep. 14, 1914) • What is the purpose of this device, and how does it affect the tone of the speaker?
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Tornado Tuesday 9/17. Identify the rhetorical device and copy the example sentence. " Sure I am of this , that you have only to endure to conquer." (Winston Churchill, address delivered at the Guildhall, London, Sep. 14, 1914) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Tornado Tuesday 9/17
• Identify the rhetorical device and copy the example sentence.
• "Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."(Winston Churchill, address delivered at the Guildhall, London, Sep. 14, 1914)
• What is the purpose of this device, and how does it affect the tone of the speaker?
And the device is…
• Anastrophe- A rhetorical term for the inversion of conventional word order. Adjective: anastrophic.
• Caution! Use sparingly, or you’ll end up sounding like this guy:
• "Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. . . . This one a long time have I watched. . . . Never his mind on where he was."(Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V--The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)
Today’s agenda
• More speeches!
