Anacoluthon

Sorry, this is so late.
Anacoluthon- A sudden break in a sentence's grammatical structure.
Example-  “So, then I pulled up to her house — are you still with me here?”

Photographs and memories

Write a Don-Murray-like reflection based on the photograph of your childhood that you brought to class last week (or a photograph you found this weekend.)  In other words, the person you are now should be reflecting upon the person you were then. I'm doing this too....this is my photo.

Synecdoche

Synecdoche: Figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa.


Example: "Give us this day our daily bread." -Matthew 6:11

Antithesis

Antithesis: The juxtaposition of two opposing phrases or ideas next to one another.

Example: "Our genes had to hustle to enable us to survive and thrive in all that chaos called 'civilization.'" -The Darwin Awards: Countdown To Extinction.

AP calculator

Here's the link to the AP calculator that I mentioned.

Epistrophe

Epistrophe:  Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. Also known as epiphora. Opposite of anaphora.

Example:
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

from http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

Polysyndeton

Polysyndeton:the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause. The rhetorical effect is often a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up.


Example: They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked.

Anesis

Anesis: Adding a concluding sentence that diminishes the effect of what has been previously stated.

Example: John was a hard worker and diligent student. He was intent on his work, incredibly focused, and persistent to the extreme, but his dyslexia resulted in poor English grades.

American Dream Source

This website was an important source to me and the one I referred to the most while writing my paper, because it offered both an old world and a new world view of the American Dream.

American Dream Source

This is an interesting article about how materialism and the economic challenges people face today have destroyed the "Americanness" of the American dream. What is today's American dream?

Anamnesis

anamnesis: calling to memory past matters; more specifically, citing a past author from memory (so as to establish the writer's or speaker's credibility.

http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

Examples: We who are religious should think twice before disparaging science, for in many ways their work is a work of great faith. As Albert Einstein once said, "the serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people."

Was it not Socrates who said the unexamined life is not worth living?

Rhetorical review

To facilitate the multiple choice question practice sessions we'll be embarking upon this week, it would be helpful for us to review some of the terms you are expected to know. Each day, I'll be asking someone to post the definition of a  particular rhetorical device with an example. (You will be earning credit for this, so please don't ignore the posting part of the assignment.  Others in the class will earn extra credit by posting comments with more examples of the device from your reading. Let's limit it to three examples/comments after the initial post. 

Here is the rotation to follow:
Monday: Allie; Tuesday: Sean; Wednesday: Gaelyn;
Thursday: Katie; Friday: Anthony; Monday: Lauren

What rhetorical device does my photo of Robin Williams from Dead Poets Society employ? What is its effect?

American Dream Source

This source gives an interesting opinion of how the American Educational System is destroying the American Dream and centers on the argument that "The main product of formal education-- of all kinds-- is dependency, not freedom."

American Dream Assignment for Monday

I'd like you to share one of your online sources from your American Dream research on this blog. I think it would be valuable to your classmates and will give us something to talk about on Monday. You'll have to share it as a post.
First, click on New Post at the top of the blog. The link function will be the fifth icon from the left. (But you probably all know how to do this better than I).

Here's my share: a really interesting article from the Wall Street Journal.

Your American Dream

One thing we really haven't talked much about is your personal (American) dream. (What it means to you). Read the following short article and then respond to the question at the bottom by leaving a comment to this post.

Have a good weekend!

American Dream research

I'd like you to post a comment to this blog entry that sums up what you discovered in your research today. These are the points you should try to address (some if not all).
1. Summarize your major findings.
2. Did you find a source that supports your thesis?
3. Did you find a source that does not support your thesis?
4. Have you changed your thinking about your thesis at all based on your research today?
5. What are your next steps?

#5 Thesis

Ericsson is arguing that it has become culturally permissible to tell lies, so much so that reality is distorted. The thesis statement is "Our acceptance of lies has become a cultural cancer that eventually shrouds and reorders reality until moral garbage becomes as invisible to us as water is to fish", and is located near the end. It is located near the end because she feels that it is important to be introduced to different types of lies, before fulling explaining her position. Oddly, the introduction of lie-types serves not only to inform, but also to persuade and strengthen the thesis, when finally presented.

Changing the assignment ALERT!

Instead of answering all the questions about Why We Lie, I'd like each of you to choose one question from # 1-7 and post a response to the blog. (First come, first choice. Once you've responded to my invitation, you can create posts and publish them to the blog.)

Please make sure that you put the question # in the title of your post so that your classmates will know that question is taken. You can illustrate your post if you wish.

Then, on old-fashioned paper, write a paragraph that addresses question #8.