In William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act I, scene 2), “Ercles’ vein” is Bottom’s expression for the style of speech he considers appropriate to the character of “Ercles,” i.e., Hercules. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, ...
Rhetoric in types of writing like narrative writing and poetry often relies on linguistic tools likefigurative languageand well-known figures of speech. These tools are known as rhetorical devices. Through a rhetorical device, you can make your argument feel more pressing, make it stick in listener...
” than if he had omitted the date. Similarly, Martin Luther King, Jr. derived symbolic effect in his 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech when referring to the Emancipation Proclamation of “five score years ago,” thereby connecting his message to Abraham Lincoln’s “four score and seven...
I offer it here as an interesting example of the portrayal of women and men’s rhetoric in history. Many elements of the story are taken from a late-Roman text called theAugustan History,and some from other sources.Some facts are disputable and fictional, while others have been confirmed, ...
The particular effectiveness of great oratory was movingly demonstrated in 1963 when the civil-rights leader Martin Luther King delivered his“I have a dream” speech to an audience of 200,000 people in Washington, D.C., and to millions more listening to him on radio and watching him on te...
I have listened to MacArthur’s speech dozens of time. I disagree with everything he says in his speech. Nevertheless, I find myself oddly moved and thinking “Right On! Let’s go in and blast those guys.” I catch myself getting ready to sign up with the Marines and remember that ...
perhaps most famously in Dr. Martin Luther King's"I Have a Dream" speech. Classical scholar George A. Kennedy compares anaphora to "a series of hammer blows in which the repetition of the word both connects and reinforces the successive thoughts" ("New Testament Interpretation Through Rhetorica...
Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourse...
respectively, converts the mantra into a diagram of several forms of creation: the cycle of evolution and involution of the cosmos, the process of sexual union and reproduction, the cycle of in- and out-breaths, and the path of production of speech from inside the body to the outside ...