Daily Archives: Saturday: February 16, 2008

Comic Hyperbaton

Posted on Saturday: February 16, 2008 by Michael Hendry

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this in manuals of rhetoric or lists of figures of speech, but these three sentences all use the same rhetorical trick: Nice we’re having weather, isn’t it? What’s a girl like you doing in … Continue reading →

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A Favorite Passage

Posted on Saturday: February 16, 2008 by Michael Hendry

Randall Jarrell describes a student art exhibit at a fictional women’s college (“Benson”): The students had learned all the new ways to paint something (an old way, to them, was a way not to paint something) but thye had not … Continue reading →

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