what is yr favourite rhetorical device?

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mine is HYPALLAGE!!

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

but hendiadys is nice and cool

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not literary. I am inable to use rethorical device. I can't see intelligence's Mark. (That probably proves my point. hahah)

― nathalie, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Unable. hah!

― nathalie, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's this thing

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not especially good at prodiorthosis

― dave q, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Litotes.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pardon? *shrug*

― jel --, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Schenectady!

― felicity, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

deictics

― Pulpo, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is "like" first hit on google:

"Much more than the random misfire of a stunted mind, "like" is actually a rhetorical device that demonstrates the speaker's heightened sensibility and offers the listener added levels of color, nuance and meaning."

― jel --, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, you would say that

― Matt, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"the random misfire of a stunted mind" = why wd anyone want more than this?

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i already forgot what hypallage stupid was!!

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ad hominem attacks are OK by me. You cockfarmer.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bathos

― Menelaus Darcy, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish that Schenectady were just a literary device...

― kate, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

thumbscrew

― Tim, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

flatulence

― RickyT, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Crying.

― Jade, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree

― Adele, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't care

― spencer, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm off

― Sandy, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait......Sandy, imagine us off together, on a desert island.........in the sun, holding hands..........listening to Wham.....

― Lee, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who?

― Lynne, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aposiopesis! That's the only one I remember from Latin last semester.

― Maria, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language." -- Landor

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pretentious shit overheard during discussion of film:

"It's so sexual, y'know. They're always smoking cigarettes - the quintessential post-coital signifier."

please kill me.

― Timothy, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish that Schenectady were just a literary device...

Best name for a town ever. But Niskayuna comes close.

Is ego-stroking sarcasm a rhetorical device? That's me!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

who the hell's landor? he sounds cool, like someone in a cartoon that jel wd know all about!!

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Given that I love a bit of drama more than anything else in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE and have stated a MILLION TIMES that I like to exaggerate things, I suppose my fave would have to be hyperbole.

― C J, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

haha is it walter SAVAGE landor? that sounds like THREE ppl in a cool cartoon jel wd know abt (except maybe walter)

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

~~YES!~~

― Sarah, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

as i type this, andy bell and vince clarke are hovering above my head...

Yes, i am writing under Erasure.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know who the hell Landor is, but saying "much the gravest fault in language" isn't bolstering his authority any with me. My least favorite is synecdoche because it allows for some awful marketing-speak i.e. "how may eyeballs did we get last month" ewww

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Shouting. Or possibly zeugma, except that it is a type of mistake. I just like the word, really.

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

parataxis, catachresis, irony

― alext, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"If by good, you really mean crap, then yes, I agree."

― bnw, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always had a soft spot for catechresis. I once dated a girl who had flash cards for rhetorical devices all around her room for a class. Catachresis was on the ceiling.

And anaphora is cool for hip-hop lyrics.

― Jordan, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

swearing

― Josh, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does anyone know the correct rhetorical term for saying you're not going to do something, but then proceeding such that the outcomes of your argument/statement are co-extensive with or unavoidably bound in their implication to the thing you said you weren't going to do?

― ds, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

parataxis, catachresis, irony

I seen what you did there. Watch this:

Oxes' "Oxxxes", Slint's "Spiderland", Beta Band's "Three EPs".

― ^david_h(owie), Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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